A Lonely Road
Willow Tagesen
February 25, 2014
Mrs. Reimler, 6th Hour
A Lonely Road Loneliness is a basic part of human life. Everyone becomes lonely once in a while but in Steinbeck's novel
Of Mice and Men
, he illustrates the loneliness of ranch life in the early
1930's and shows how people are driven to try and find friendship in order to escape from loneliness. Steinbeck creates a lonely and blue atmosphere at many times in the book. He uses names and words such as the town near the ranch called "Soledad", which means loneliness and the card game "Solitaire" Which means by oneself. He makes it clear that all the men on the ranch are lonely, with particular people lonelier than others. In the opening chapter,
Steinbeck introduces the idea of loneliness and men who work on ranches living temporary lives, with no aim in life. Steinbeck uses the setting to convey these ideas. As they were walking along the path, it is described as " a path beaten by hard boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungleup near water" This creates a setting and shows how men who work on the ranch have had temporary, isolated and lonely lives. He also writes "an ashpile made by many fires". This shows that many men must have walked through this road to enter a lonely and miserable life, moving from ranch to ranch finding useless work.
I think all the people living in the ranch are lonely. There are particular people in the ranch who have lonelier lives than others. The loneliest person on the ranch has to be
Crooks, who suffers from extreme loneliness because he is black and he is living in a ranch
and the surrounding area which is very racist. He lives by himself, because the other men do not like him. He does not take part in any of the social activities in the ranch and is left out completely. He is so lonely that he turns to books, which soon becomes boring and
February 25, 2014
Mrs. Reimler, 6th Hour
A Lonely Road Loneliness is a basic part of human life. Everyone becomes lonely once in a while but in Steinbeck's novel
Of Mice and Men
, he illustrates the loneliness of ranch life in the early
1930's and shows how people are driven to try and find friendship in order to escape from loneliness. Steinbeck creates a lonely and blue atmosphere at many times in the book. He uses names and words such as the town near the ranch called "Soledad", which means loneliness and the card game "Solitaire" Which means by oneself. He makes it clear that all the men on the ranch are lonely, with particular people lonelier than others. In the opening chapter,
Steinbeck introduces the idea of loneliness and men who work on ranches living temporary lives, with no aim in life. Steinbeck uses the setting to convey these ideas. As they were walking along the path, it is described as " a path beaten by hard boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungleup near water" This creates a setting and shows how men who work on the ranch have had temporary, isolated and lonely lives. He also writes "an ashpile made by many fires". This shows that many men must have walked through this road to enter a lonely and miserable life, moving from ranch to ranch finding useless work.
I think all the people living in the ranch are lonely. There are particular people in the ranch who have lonelier lives than others. The loneliest person on the ranch has to be
Crooks, who suffers from extreme loneliness because he is black and he is living in a ranch
and the surrounding area which is very racist. He lives by himself, because the other men do not like him. He does not take part in any of the social activities in the ranch and is left out completely. He is so lonely that he turns to books, which soon becomes boring and