OF MICE AND MEN INDEX 1. Heading ____________ 2. Plot & Topics ________ 3. Structure ___________ 4. Character Analysis ________ 5. Space and time __________ 6. Analysis of expression ________ 7. Personal Rating __________ Epigraph The author of this novel is John Steinbeck was born in Salinas. A small rural California. His grandparents helped him to help write several books. Wrote in 1937 "Of Mice and Men" by the myth of the American dream. The place where the action
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Malik Bishop Essay/Book Report Of Mice & Men The novel begins near the Salinas River‚ south of Soledad in the California valley. The Gabilan Mountains rise up on one side and drop to valleys on the other. The river and its banks are alive with animals and plants. A path leads to the banks of the river‚ and the two main characters‚ George Milton and Lennie Small‚ follow this path to the river. While George is small with sharp features‚ Lennie is a big man with rounded features. He drags
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Depression people left behind their homes‚ friends and family‚ in search for work. As more people moved‚ the sense of social togetherness decayed and societies at large became disconnected and disillusioned. This is evident in‚ “a few miles of Soledad‚” where Soledad derives from the Spanish word for solitude or loneliness. Immediately‚ Steinbeck
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Men everyone has a predator; loneliness‚ isolation‚ and low self-esteem make them vulnerable to predators. All of the characters want a friend‚ they long for a relationship. One like the relationship George and Lennie have. The book starts off in Soledad‚ George and Lennie are escaping from weed‚ they plan to go to a ranch for work. This ranch has all kinds of neat characters‚ but three that present the most loneliness are: Curley’s Wife‚ Crooks‚ and Candy. With their loneliness they become isolated
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Chapter Summaries Of Mice and Men – Notes 1. Two friends‚ George Milton and Lennie Small‚ are on their way to a new job at an agricultural ranch. They are job hunting in Soledad after being thrown out of Weed when Lennie mistakenly was accused of attempted rape of a female character‚ although he only likes to pet nice things like mice. During the 1st chapter George and Lennie bicker and argue and play on each other’s emotions. At the brush‚ as the 2 characters are so different‚ they bicker
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south of Soledad in the fallen world of the Salinas Valley‚ which Steinbeck places "east of Eden" the Promised Land is only a painful and illusory dream. This land is populated by "sons of Cain"‚ men doomed to walk alone. One of the major themes that comes from this is loneliness‚ or fear of apartness. One of the themes of Of Mice and Men is that men fear loneliness‚ that they need someone to be with and to talk to who will offer understanding and companionship. Soledad is a Spanish
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gonna have a little house and a couple of acres...(p. 14).’ " " ’...we’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens (p. 14).’ " Allusions All page numbers refer to the Penguin Books edition‚ 1993. "A few miles south of Soledad‚ the Salinas River drops in close to the
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Of Mice and Men Characters: George George Milton. A migrant worker who travels from farm to farm with his mentally impaired friend Lennie during the Depression. Lennie Lennie Small. A gigantic‚ mentally disabled man‚ Lennie is simplistic and docile. Candy An old‚ crippled man who has lost his hand‚ Candy is the swamper at the ranch. He remains attached to his aging dog‚ who has become so weak and sickly that it depends entirely on Candy to survive. Curley The son of the ranch owner‚ Curley
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younger‚ although they had always “been friends” (George would pick on Lennie for being mentally challenged). Because of Lennies disabilities‚ he is always getting himself and George in a lot of trouble‚ which is once again why they are on the move to Soledad for work on the ranch. This is because on their previous ranch (Weed)‚ Lennie was accused of raping a girl‚ when really his soft spot for soft things caused him to grasp to a girls red dress. Also due to Lennies misfortunes‚ George feels obligated
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Curley would have found Lennie before George did‚ most likely he would have hurt‚ tortured‚ or even killed Lennie‚ because in Chapter 5 of Of Mice and Men‚ Curley tells Carlson to shoot Lennie in the guts as soon as he sees him‚ tells Whit to go to Soledad and get the deputy sheriff‚ and tells George to join the search party for Lennie. So either way‚ if Lennie were found by Curly‚ it would have probably been a much worse way to die‚ rather than being shot by George. I do not believe that what George
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