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    trying to survive within them. So Steinbeck exaggerates the theme of loneliness from characters mainly such as Curley’s wife ‚Crookes ‚ Old Candy‚ George and Lennie also the Negro man. Therefore Curley’s wife comes as whole as in the novel as it explores the Steinbeck theme of loneliness and isolation. Curley’s wife is a dispensable and Steinbeck explores as she is the centre of the debate that develops the conflicts among ranch workers. As in the book Steinbeck explores George as being astute and

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    How does Steinbeck present the character Crooks in Of Mice and Men? To what extent do you sympathise with him as a character? Steinbeck represents the character‚ Crooks‚ by showing the effects of discrimination. He is referred to as the ‘black’ stable buck and is named Crooks‚ due to the crook in his back‚ which was a result of being kicked in the back by a horse. The character is shown as reasonably literate‚ due to the possession of his books‚ which he uses as compensation to his loneliness. The

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    John Steinbeck’s novella ‘Of Mice and Men’‚ presents many characters in different ways. Steinbeck uses minor characters to showcase different themes‚ a main key theme being loneliness. Steinbeck presents this theme through characters which are defined by colour‚ gender and mental stability. Characters such as Crooks and Curley’s wife would share this theme throughout the novella but yet would stay clear of each other and in no way make contact to make their loneliness vanish. The author chose Crooks

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    How does Steinbeck present and develop the character of Curly’s wife in ‘Of Mice and Men’? 1) In the beginning of “Of Mice and Men” we readers are made to perceive Curly’s wife as a vain‚ trouble making bully who provokes people and intends on bringing their anger out‚ especially Lennie and is incapable of seeing the world from any perspective other than her own. We then realise by the end of the novel that she is only a sweet‚ innocent woman who just wanted to be cherished and wasn’t able to

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    In ’Of Mice and Men’‚ John Steinbeck includes a character‚ Crooks‚ as a stereotype of black people in the Great Depression; proud‚ bitter‚ and very sarcastic. Crooks is also extremely pessimistic and cold-hearted‚ due to the way people had been treating him all his life. Steinbeck portrays many of his characters lonely and isolated. Just as Candy’s age and handicap isolate him‚ and Curley’s wife’s being a female makes her life solitary‚ Crooks’s race is the main reason for his isolation. Because

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    In “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck‚ George makes a rash decision‚ and that decision is shooting Lennie. I think George made the right decision shooting Lennie because Curley would’ve made sure Lennie was tortured‚ and Lennie got to die happy. Also‚ George gets to make sure no one else can get their hands on Lennie‚ causing him to get hurt worse than what already happened. In the first place‚ when Lennie killed Curley’s wife‚ Curley was hell-bent on getting his revenge. Lennie was scared because

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    How does Steinbeck use Foreshadowing and Settings effectively in Of Mice and Men? John Ernst Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men uses a lot of foreshadowing and clever settings effectively‚ which makes his novel a great book. The use of foreshadowing entices the reader and makes you want to read on. The well-described settings make a vivid image of what is actually going on and help us think what it really was like during the 1930’s. Steinbeck uses masses of foreshadowing throughout his book. For instance

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    Lennie and George have a stunning relationship throughout the story.The fact that George could just leave Lennie in Salinas River where he raped the the girl with the red dress‚George could have just let him go to jail where nobody knows why he done that except George his only friend .Lennie Small is huge and lumbering and‚ in many ways‚ the opposite of George Milton. Where George has sharp features and definite lines‚ Lennie is "shapeless." Often he is described in terms of animals. He lumbers like

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    My Trip to the National Steinbeck Center It was a gloomy‚ wintry Tuesday morning‚ and the rain seemed to be striking the ground like a hail of arrows. Unfortunately‚ this was the day my mom and I had decided to visit the National Steinbeck Center‚ a museum in Old Town Salinas dedicated to the Nobel Prize winning American author‚ John Steinbeck. Steinbeck grew up in Salinas‚ and wrote powerful‚ enthralling books‚ such as East of Eden‚ based on his experiences there. He is known for his meaningful

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    Steinbeck creates sympathy in Of Mice and Men. Discuss in relation to one character Of Mice and Men is a novella set on a ranch in the Northern western state of California written by Californian novelist John Steinbeck and then published in the late 1930’s. Set in the time of The Great Depression and The nationwide effective Wall Street Crash the book features characters all around who have depressing lives but focusing in on two paradoxical characters that are always juxtaposed to one another

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