“All the characters have dreams; all are doomed to fail” Steinbeck uses Lennie‚ George‚ Curley’s Wife‚ Candy and Crooks to explore dreams each has its similarities as each dream has been presented to be out of the ranch. Then it has its differences as each individual person have a different goal to achieve as they all want to do different things. Lennie’s dream is to tend the rabbits Steinbeck reveals Lennie’s dream to the reader through what he says in the novel. For instance he says “About the
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meant they were never in one place long enough to form any relationships‚ so this was a very lonely existence. Steinbeck shaped the ranch where George Milton and Lennie Small worked in as an isolated and primitive place. Steinbeck uses his personal experience as a ranch worker to describe how the working men at the ranch felt in the novel. George says that "ranch workers are the loneliest people in the world and don’t belong nowhere". Steinbeck also portrays loneliness through characterisation
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of others. Steinbeck depicts these problems through the lives of Crooks‚ Curley’s wife‚ and Candy‚ who are social pariahs on the ranch because of their physical conditions‚ and therefore‚ they live a very sad and lonely life. Firstly‚ Crooks is an African American stable buck who has a crooked back‚ hence the name Crooks. He has the least amount of power on the ranch because of his race. He doesn’t live with the other men and he is not treated well. He says‚ “They say I stink‚ well‚ I tell you‚
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because most of the ranch workers just come and go – they do not care about anyone. After the stock market crashed the Great Depression began‚ therefore the economic and society forces control them and free will seems like an unrealistically fictitious. Back in the early 1930s‚ the society was still affected by Jim Crow laws where the blacks and the whites had separate facilities for socialising and living. Steinbeck illustrates that Crooks was the loneliest man in the ranch because he was black
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When Curley’s wife is first introduced in the novella‚ the audience is presented with her rigid personality. Very soon the reader learns how Curley’s wife is not the least bit respected by anyone on the ranch including her own husband‚ Curley. Candy mentions‚ “‘Curley says he’s keepin’ that hand soft for his wife’ ” (Steinbeck 27). Evidently‚ Curley does not love his wife nor does he respect her because if he did‚ he would not be advertising their personal lives in this manner. As a result‚ Curley’s
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the novel‚ often being looked down upon‚ or talked badly about. She is the only woman on the ranch‚ and who appears consistently throughout the novel. At one point‚ some of the workers are talking about her role in the ranch‚ and what she should and shouldn’t do. “Ranch with a bunch of guys ain’t no place for a girl‚ ‘specially like her.” George is commenting on his opinion of a woman’s place in a ranch and is voicing his disapproval that a woman is there‚ especially a woman who has the same attitude
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The book “Of Mice and Men” is about two men called George and Lennie. They work on a ranch and have a very close relationship but without each other they are lonely. There are other characters in the book who are also lonely this is because of their race‚ age and sex. I think George is lonely because even though he has Lennie he can’t talk to him or have much fun with him because Lennie is always getting himself into trouble‚ which also means they have to travel around a lot so George doesn’t have
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meant they were never in one place long enough to form any relationships‚ so this was a very lonely existence. Steinbeck shaped the ranch where George Milton and Lennie Small worked in as an isolated and primitive place. Steinbeck uses his personal experience as a ranch worker to describe how the working men at the ranch felt in the novel. George says that "ranch workers are the loneliest people in the world and don’t belong nowhere". Steinbeck also portrays loneliness through characterisation
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first and final scene take place in a majestic clearing that will remain untouched by the tragedy that unfolds. This reinforces the theme of loneliness as whatever the humans do Nature remains unaffected. George and Lennie find work on a isolated ranch and join the workers in the bunk house‚ which provides the stage for the story. Despite living and working close to each other there is no camaraderie between the characters that live in the bunk house. Each worker has a bed to himself and "nailed"
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Wall is 5500 miles‚ it can run from east to west side of the US. It is the incredible human creature. Third‚ I am going to tell you about Grand Canyon. It is located in state of Arizona and length of the Grand Canyon is 277 miles with a maximum depth of 6000 feet‚ and maximum wide of 18 miles. Geologists are considering that age of the Grand Canyon is 2 billion years and Colorado river have been
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