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The term "morals'' is a debated word. It seems like everyone and everything—from the German philosopher Nietzsche to the '90s movie Election—has a perspective on what morals does and does not...
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A hook is the introductory idea at the beginning of your essay. Its purpose is to “hook” the readers of your essay, so they will want to read more. Some options for your hook are a historical fact,...
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We can see George and particularly Lennie, because of his mental handicap, as outsiders. However, the argument that they are not outsiders goes as follows. Though their friendship is atypical, they...
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Chapter 1 It is evening near the Salinas River, just south of Soledad. Rabbits sit like statues in the sand. The tracks of raccoons, dogs, and deer cover the landscape. Among the willow trees, a...
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If you look carefully at what happens in the novel, you can see quite clearly that the American Dream is not for everyone. Think about the ending, for example, when George shoots Lennie to save him...
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After Carlson kills Candy's dog, he overhears Lennie to Crooks about his dream with George to have a farm of their own. Candy mentions how he fears being fired because he only has one good arm. He...
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Gathered in the bunkhouse in Chapter 3 of Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men, the men play cards and talk; that is, all but Carlson who looks down at Candy's old dog. After a while, he tells...
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In “Of Mice and Men,” Steinbeck explores a number of different themes or big ideas. For your essay, you will need to decide on a theme to discuss, find evidence of that theme in the text, and then...
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Steinbeck's description of the barn in Chapter 5 is significant for several reasons. First, Chapter 4 is also set in the barn, but it occurs at night in Crook's small room. The author's...
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The first step is to do research on life as a transient farm worker during the Great Depression. You will find many sources for this topic, including the two listed in the supplement here. You will...
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Of Mice and Men is told in third-person omniscient style. This means the narrator can see the actions of all the characters, rather than being limited to only a few. By contrast, a third-person...
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In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, the author uses the literary device of foreshadowing in at least two ways to assist the reader with expectations about coming events in the story. He...
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The particular setting of Of Mice and Men is appropriate to the novel because it tells the story of men who are itinerant workers in Depression-era America. Their wandering in search of work is an...
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The diction, vocabulary, dialect, sentence structure, and style in the novel enhance the portrayal that Steinbeck intends of two migrant workers in the Dust Bowl era. For instance, when George and...
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In chapter 2 of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men we find George and Lennie at the bunkhouse of the farm, having just met Candy, who guides them through the place. The first conflict we encounter in...
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Of Mice and Men tells the story of two men, George and Lennie, who dream of one day owning their own piece of land. George and Lennie are representative of itinerant workers during the Great...
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The reader is encouraged to feel pity for Lennie because he does not have the intelligence to understand the ways of the world. He is kind and placid, but at the same time he doesn't realize his...
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I would argue that there isn't much to be improved upon in John Steinbeck's classic novel. After all, it didn't become one of America's classic novels for nothing. Similarly, it would not have been...
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Discrimination of various kinds is much in evidence in Of Mice and Men. Depression-era America was a time when people were openly discriminated against on account of their race, disability, or...
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For much of the time that we know him, I do not think that Crooks does have an American dream. I think he has had it squeezed out of him by racism. However, once he talks some to Lennie and Candy,...
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The ranch bunkhouse is a symbol of the cold reality of the social and economic system George and Lennie are trapped within. It is a place with few amenities, symbolizing the lowly status of the...
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George does not want Lennie to talk to anyone at their new place of employment because George knows that Lennie is mentally challenged (decelerated), and everyone will notice just by hearing the...
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The Salinas River is mentioned in Chapter 1 and then again in Chapter 6 of the novel. This is the place that George tells Lennie to run to if he gets into trouble. In Chapter 6, after the...
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In chapter 4, Lennie and Candy enter Crooks's room and have a discussion about one day owning their own homestead. Crooks responds by telling Candy, "You guys is just kiddin' yourself. You'll talk...
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Lennie and Crooks have an interesting relationship because they do not adhere to societal norms. Because Crooks is the only black man on the ranch, he has his own living quarters. He has a good...
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George and Lennie are like family. They are companions. George had promised Lennie's aunt that he would take care of Lennie. George is true to his word. George claims that the two of them would be...
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In the figure of Lennie, who has severe learning difficulties, Crooks senses a rare opportunity to taunt the white man and get away with it. Segregated from the rest of the ranch-hands and shut...
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In Chapter one, as the two men are traveling, George discovers that Lennie has been petting a dead mouse in his hand. He takes the mouse and throws it away. He scolds Lennie and reminds him why...
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If you are looking for physical features of the ranch, it is obvious throughout the entire reading of the text that there at least exists a home for the boss and his family, a bunkhouse for the...
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When George tells Curley that he and Lennie travel together, Curley responds with the sardonic comment, "Oh, so it's that way". Like his father, Curley is suspicious of George's motives,...
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In chapter 2, Candy is an old swamper missing a hand, which he lost during a farm accident. He is a relatively kind old man and immediately befriends George and Lennie when he initially meets them....
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This is one: "Seen the new kid yet?" he asked. "What kid?" George asked. "Why, Curley's new wife." "Yeah, I seen her." "Well, ain't she a looloo?" "I ain't seen that much of her," said George....
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Of Mice and Men is set during the Great Depression, when life was difficult for many people. Steinbeck chose, in this novella, to focus on a group of people who were especially struggling to stay...
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Foreshadowing, which involves clues and hints that suggest what will happen later in the plot, often uses weather or light and dark imagery to set the tone for future occurrences. Here are examples...
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John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, begins and ends at the edge of the Salinas River. In the opening of the novel, George and Lennie are resting by the river banks. George is discussing with...
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This is a good question. There are three places in the book that mention Curley's marriage. In chapter two, there are two small reference. First, the guys say that Curley has gotten more arrogant...
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George spends most of the play either speaking for Lennie or defending him to others. An obvious example is the repeated dream of living in a house together and raising rabbits (Act I, Scene 1)....
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Lennie and George have a unique friendship in John Steinbeck's celebrated novella Of Mice and Men. Although Lennie is mentally handicapped and has serious communication deficits, he is an extremely...
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I can see the potential for a political implications of Lennie crushing Curley's hand. The power of the powerlessness could be seen as part of the meaning in this scene. Yet, I think that the...
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A group of the ranch hands have been left behind, deserted by the others who are out enjoying themselves a bit. In this chapter, we see Lennie, who is socially at a disadvantage because of his...
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George kills Lennie by shooting him in the back of the head to save him from a more painful death at the hands of Curley, who has vowed to make him suffer for the death of his wife. George loves...
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The main thing that Curley's wife reveals about herself in chapter 5 is that she has dreams of becoming a movie star and is totally ignorant about acting or about the movie business. All she knows...
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Crooks is an older man whose body is literally bent to the left; he is a "cripple," in Steinbeck's words. He lives by himself in his own bunk in the harness room with a few spartan possessions, and...
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Friendship and commitment are at the heart of this story and are shown most clearly through the relationship between Lennie and George. Through these two characters, Steinbeck presents his central...
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In the first chapter the narrator says that Lennie "walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws." In the next paragraph, Lennie drinks (from the green pool) "with long...
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Lennie has a debate with an imaginary rabbit before George kills him. In this debate the rabbit poses all of the reasons for George to "beat the hell" out of Lennie with a stick. The rabbit also...
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Both George and Lennie are migratory workers seeking employment in the Great Depression, and like so many they have no home, together they encourage one another with their dream of owning a...
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One of the ways this is accomplished is by creating characters for whom the setting creates a conflict. Consider Curly's wife as she appears at the bunk house: She had full, rouged lips and...
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Given that you did not specify what type of quotes were needed, the following will include short explanations of what is meant to be understood by Curley when he spoke (in Steinbeck's novel Of Mice...
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Steinbeck depicts the ranch in Soledad as a hostile microcosm of the bleak environment of America during the Depression. Only the strongest survive, and the lives of weak individuals are constantly...
