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Color Orange In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
Have you ever wondered what the color orange represents? Have you ever wondered what color best reflects you?(Transition) The color orange best represents Of Mice and Men by showing anger, happiness, and passion. These traits were mostly displayed with George and Lennie speaking their ideas and opinions out loud. Lennie never thought before he did something and George would always over think what he was about to do.
In the book Of Mice and Men anger was shown a lot through George and Curly. This was demonstrated when George was angry that Lennie could not remember things that he was told minutes before. For instance, “The little man jerked down the brim of his hat and scowled over at Lennie. So you forgot that awready, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I? Jesus Christ, you're a crazy bastard!" "I forgot," Lennie said softly. (Steinbeck 42) Throughout the book this happened many times when George was unhappy with Lennie and how he acted. Many times George would react in a disrespectful manner being mean to Lennie calling him names. Happiness was shown in the book many times when a time went right and everything worked as planned. George felt happy when Lennie was doing well and Lennie felt the
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Candy was also very excited to be part of the American Dream that Lennie and George had planned out. Candy had the money to help out the future and definitely was going to pull his weight. Specifically when George was hyping the American dream to Lennie. “When we get the coupla acres I can let you tend the rabbits all right. ‘Specially if you remember what I told you. Lennie choked with pride. I can remember, he said” (Steinbeck 47) This made Lennie passionate in what he did later and Lennie developed a drive and had more

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