Values In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Value is placed based on the usefulness. Value is never inherit, all value comes from humans, to place value based on how useful it is to value, never because something is just “better” Here is a scenario, a criminal breaks into your house, and steals your favorite, say, oh I don't know, pet cat. Would you value this random criminal as the same as the police trying to solve your problem? Chances are, you wouldn't, but had you never known who stole your stuff but met the person who did, they just won't tell you, you would probably value them as just another human and might never think of sending them to jail. On the macro scale, the rise of Donald Trump and the “alt-right” also shows that people are willing to value people less for being different, and also because it solves a lot of their problems to simply hate another group. Hating another group allows for saying that all the world's problems arise from this group, and removing them would solve the problems in the world. (Or at least, america's problems.) aka the easy solution? We like to
The text goes, “” (pg )In this scene, John Steinbeck is trying to show that the only reason why Curley, a person who has power over lennie, hates him is that lennie is a big person. That is the only reason, as he knows nothing about lennie. This happens, as it’s beneficial for Curley to dislike big people since he feels insecure about being worse than someone else, so he attacks people who are physically stronger in order to appear stronger than others. This also appears when the character, Candy, an old swamper says, “They’ll can me purty soon. Jus’ as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunkhouses they’ll put me on the county.”, showing that he fears irrelevancy. Candy knows that the moment he stops being useful to the people he works for, he will be kicked out and have to fend for himself, effectively being