Mice and Men Essay Example
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Many of the characters in Of Mice and Men' have fears write about:- Different kinds of fears The causes and effects of their fear How the writer shows their fear
One of the main fears in Of Mice and Men' is the fear that both George and Lennie have of being alone. George and Lennie both look after each other in different ways to stop them selves from them becoming alone. This is a very nice thing for each of them to do especially because of what their job consisted of: finding work, working, moving on to another ranch. This was a job for very lonely people who usually like to work alone and not really make real friends but George and Lennie are the best of friends. Their relationship is rather odd though because George is a lot brighter than Lennie, who acts like a child and has the mental ability of a child but lenis is very strong. You could say that George looked after Lennie for some company and for protection and Lennie looked after George so that George was protected and so that they would both not become lonely. George is only really looking after Lennie because Lennie's Aunt Clara told him to. But, even so, they are the best of friends and seem to have been for a very long time. We do not know but they could be more than friends even though this is not told. Due to both Lennie and George not wanting to be lonely they move from ranch to ranch together and look after each other. George has to look after most of Lennie's possessions though, due to Lennie not being very smart and having a tendency of losing things all the time. George also has to take the blame with Lennie because if he did not both him and Lennie could get split up, which means they would become lonely, which is what they fear. George at the end of the book though cannot take the blame for what Lennie does, this being killing Curley's wife, an innocent woman. The only thing that George can do, as an act of love, is to kill Lennie when he is
Many of the characters in Of Mice and Men' have fears write about:- Different kinds of fears The causes and effects of their fear How the writer shows their fear
One of the main fears in Of Mice and Men' is the fear that both George and Lennie have of being alone. George and Lennie both look after each other in different ways to stop them selves from them becoming alone. This is a very nice thing for each of them to do especially because of what their job consisted of: finding work, working, moving on to another ranch. This was a job for very lonely people who usually like to work alone and not really make real friends but George and Lennie are the best of friends. Their relationship is rather odd though because George is a lot brighter than Lennie, who acts like a child and has the mental ability of a child but lenis is very strong. You could say that George looked after Lennie for some company and for protection and Lennie looked after George so that George was protected and so that they would both not become lonely. George is only really looking after Lennie because Lennie's Aunt Clara told him to. But, even so, they are the best of friends and seem to have been for a very long time. We do not know but they could be more than friends even though this is not told. Due to both Lennie and George not wanting to be lonely they move from ranch to ranch together and look after each other. George has to look after most of Lennie's possessions though, due to Lennie not being very smart and having a tendency of losing things all the time. George also has to take the blame with Lennie because if he did not both him and Lennie could get split up, which means they would become lonely, which is what they fear. George at the end of the book though cannot take the blame for what Lennie does, this being killing Curley's wife, an innocent woman. The only thing that George can do, as an act of love, is to kill Lennie when he is