Mr. Druery
ENG4U
Monday, December 5th
<<Of mice and men>>---Life in the depression
The Great Depression Was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s, a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment. <<Of mice and men>> takes place in Great Depression of the United States. Everybody needs to rely on something to live, either on spirit and body, like Lennie and George. When you lose the person you relied on, if the person gives you material support, you will lose the ability to survive; if the person gives you confidence, love, and hope that makes you have the courage to walk through the difficult life, but he has been taken away so easily, you will be fallen to the marsh of despair and loneliness, and never get a day to see light again. People are not trust other people. Both Lennie and George are one of them. …show more content…
He likes to touch soft things around him but always brings harassment to them, he was so easy to get afraid and bathed his face in tears. He was just a child, but god gave him the strength that he cannot control, gave him duty that a child cannot handled. Everything around Lennie was so difficult, he cannot understood why he and George need to go around the whole country to find a job, he cannot understood why George was always get mad on him but never say that he going to leave him. Lennie cannot be independent, so he chose to rely on George, or actually, he must rely on George to survive in the dark age they live, the age of high-unemployment and