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    blood‚ they shared a cherished brotherly bond. Stuck together like siamese twins‚ the companions travel the lands looking for work until Lennie’s unfortunate luck forces them to flee. Steinbeck divulges information about their relationship through key conversations and narrates their characteristics. In addition‚ Steinbeck describes the character’s relationship in multitudinous ways‚ some of which include through the detailed descriptions of their actions. As can be seen on page four of chapter one

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    In the book Of Mice and Men‚ the single women that appeared in the book resented herself as an object. The statement "Women today are more often treated by men as equals rather than objects" can be true or false. A man that goes to "Gentleman ’s Cubs every night is a different man that studies at Harvard Law School. A striper is going to be a different person than a CEO of a successful business. It’s all about how you present yourself. In Of Mice and Men‚ Curley ’s wife presents herself in a seductive

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    Of mice and men Examine the relationship between Curley and his wife All the female characters used by Steinbeck are either‚ prostitutes‚ a carer or a victim. Their marriage is bizarre because they have only been married for 2 weeks and they don’t like each other. We can tell this because they are never together in the book also she flirts with other men because she is lonely all of the time and Curley goes to the cat house. Curley wears gloves full of Vaseline on his right hand because he is

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    manipulating people. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck some characters‚ when given the opportunity exercise their power over others to manipulate them. The characters that use their power to manipulate other characters is Crooks‚ Carlson and Curley’s wife. Each character in Of Mice and Men have some type of power‚ some are not as noticeable as Crooks’s power to manipulate others. Crooks is not a character the book tells a lot about but it does show the reader what kind of person he

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    "In a dark time‚ the eye begins to see‚..." Personally‚ I agree fully with Roethke’s statement. Roethke’s ideology is found in both "Night" by Elie Wiesel and "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. In both novels the protagonists are faced with obstacles which seem impossible to overcome‚ however once they reach "rock bottom" they realize how they shall over come their situation. In "Night" by Elie Wiesel‚ the main character‚ Eliezer was faced with a conflict that changed his life and the lives everyone

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    and misfit character as she got so many different sides to her‚ as sometimes the reader feels sympathetic and unsympathetic about her. John Steinbeck’s novel of Mice and Men is an example of how the reader’s perception of a character can change without the character actually changing. Steinbeck uses many different techniques to present Curley’s wife such as colour imagery‚ appearance‚ metaphors and similes in the early stages of the novel. The effect of these techniques is that the reader creates

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    Loneliness is a basic part of human life. Every one becomes lonely ones in a while but in Steinbeck’s novella “Of Mice and Men”‚ he illustrates the loneliness of ranch life and shows how people are driven to try finding friendship in order to escape from loneliness. He uses names and words such as a town near the ranch called “Soledad”. He makes it clear that all the men on the ranch are lonely‚ with particular people lonelier than others. I think all the people living in the ranch are lonely. This

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    Notes on Of Mice and Men‚ the Great Depression‚ and the American Dream THE AMERICAN DREAM American Dream: the idea that by working hard‚ every person‚ regardless of race‚ religion‚ social class‚ etc‚ can lead a happy‚ successful life; the idea that ANYONE can come from “nothing” and become “something” What seem to be the necessary elements of the American Dream? The concept of the American Dream became popular during the Great Depression and it remains a part of our culture today Examples

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    What do you think Steinbeck says about the theme of friendship in Of Mice and Men? Of Mice and Men describes the life of a man and his best friend who has the mentality of a child. Their friendship is very strong and this is surprising‚ “it jus’ seems kinda funny a cuckoo like him and a smart little guy like you travelin’ together”‚ and this is due to the other characters in the book being implied as very lonely. Every time George and Lennie obtain a job‚ Lennie gets in trouble and they are

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    Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men” was set during the Great Depression‚ and the story portrays a man named Lennie with a disorder that people during that time did not understand‚ so they treated him as if he were mentally impaired. Today‚ Speech-Language pathologists recognize Lennie as being autistic. “Of Mice and Men” portrays the characteristics of autism and how people who were ignorant of the true disorder crudely handled the situation. This story shows readers how much progress the field

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