Of Mice And Men Essay 2015 
Discuss how a novel you have read reveals the imperfections of its society.
Introduction
1. Introduce the topic of your essay: novels and themes
2. Thesis statement: has the novel used conventions to communicate the themes or not?
3. Introduce the main ideas of the novel the essay is exploring.
4. List the techniques and conventions the essay will discuss.
5. Summarise your personal response to the overall topic presented in the novel.
You can judge a society by its treatment of the old, the weak, the helpless and the needy. Through the narrative conventions of foreshadowing and characterisation, John Steinbeck, in his novel Of Mice And Men, published in 1937, is able to effectively reveal the imperfections of America’s capitalist society during the Great Depression. Steinbeck’s reveals rural American society in California to be racist, sexist against women, neglectful of the disabled and a world without hope blinkered by the corruption of the American dream. The novel follows two men, George Stilton, a small farm worker and Lennie Small, a huge, naïve slow-learner who find seasonal employment on a ranch in the aftermath of the Great Depression, in the hope they may pursue their dream of one day owning their own farm. On the ranch, they meet characters such as Crooks, a lonely, black man, ostracized by society purely because of the colour of his skin, Curley’s wife, who ironically despises Crooks but is a woman whose identity has been taken from her by her husband and Candy, an old man with one hand, who, because of his physical disability and age, is of little worth to the ranch.
TEEAL
1. Topic sentence. Introduce an idea that is communicated in the novel and supports your thesis statement.
2. Explain this main idea.
3. Analyse the conventions and techniques the author uses to communicate the idea, using evidence from the novel. Where possible incorporate the quotes into the analysis.
4. Conclude your paragraph by linking back to the novel.
Through the
Introduction
1. Introduce the topic of your essay: novels and themes
2. Thesis statement: has the novel used conventions to communicate the themes or not?
3. Introduce the main ideas of the novel the essay is exploring.
4. List the techniques and conventions the essay will discuss.
5. Summarise your personal response to the overall topic presented in the novel.
You can judge a society by its treatment of the old, the weak, the helpless and the needy. Through the narrative conventions of foreshadowing and characterisation, John Steinbeck, in his novel Of Mice And Men, published in 1937, is able to effectively reveal the imperfections of America’s capitalist society during the Great Depression. Steinbeck’s reveals rural American society in California to be racist, sexist against women, neglectful of the disabled and a world without hope blinkered by the corruption of the American dream. The novel follows two men, George Stilton, a small farm worker and Lennie Small, a huge, naïve slow-learner who find seasonal employment on a ranch in the aftermath of the Great Depression, in the hope they may pursue their dream of one day owning their own farm. On the ranch, they meet characters such as Crooks, a lonely, black man, ostracized by society purely because of the colour of his skin, Curley’s wife, who ironically despises Crooks but is a woman whose identity has been taken from her by her husband and Candy, an old man with one hand, who, because of his physical disability and age, is of little worth to the ranch.
TEEAL
1. Topic sentence. Introduce an idea that is communicated in the novel and supports your thesis statement.
2. Explain this main idea.
3. Analyse the conventions and techniques the author uses to communicate the idea, using evidence from the novel. Where possible incorporate the quotes into the analysis.
4. Conclude your paragraph by linking back to the novel.
Through the