... to nobody but Curley. Else he get mad. How'd you not like to talk to anybody? " (87) Curley's wife makes you hate her and feel bad for her at the same time. If everyone knew how she felt maybe she wouldn't feel the way she does. Curley's wife's loneliness and her dirty ways ... aloud to talk to anyone because everybody thinks she's a tart. They don't even know what she's like and they judge her with no evidence. They just think she's bad because she's a woman and that's prejudice. Clearly Curly's wife is a victim of discrimination.  The man discriminated by his age is Candy; he's got a ...

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... , a neighbor. Through him they find out that the Joads went to Uncle John's house because they were driven off the land by a "cat", or a tractor that basically pushs broke farmers and their families off their land. That night they decide to stay, but soon after a police car comes looking for trespassers, and they run to a ... cave to stay the night. Tom is not too fond of this idea, having to hide from cops because they are trespassing on their own land, so he sleeps in the wide open space, just outside the cave. The next day Tom, Jim, and Muley all decide to go to Uncle John's, which .....

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Have you ever had the kind of friend that always forgave you for the largest outcomes, no matter how bad the repercussions were? How about the one who holds you back, yet you still stay with them every step of the way? That was the kind of ... the world. That dream is what drove George and Lennie to work on someone else's farm in order to get the money to buy that big ol' piece of land. No matter what George did to Lennie, George was always forgiven by Lennie and even praised sometimes. As well as George always sticking around with Lennie even when ... In the book, Slim asks George about hi...

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... tractor, plow and mule for the farming. My grandma remembered during harvest season that some Mexican families would come and live in three small houses on the land. The Mexicans would help her father harvest the fields. She said until she was old enough to go to school she would help her mother pick up ... 29, 1939. My grandpa left a jovial, carefree person and returned from was very different. He was always sick and depressed. At night he would have bad dreams of war and the sound of thunder terrified him. During World War II my grandma had my mother's two brothers, Wellman was born ...

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... occurred were blizzards, dust storms consisting of hot dry, wind and complete crop failure. In 1932 it was the year when grasshoppers plagued the land. In 1933 the effects of drought and grasshoppers were the main factors which contributed to the downfall of the Prairie provinces in the first few ... had to cut Russian Thistle to feed the starving cattle since there were no crops. As situations got worse, some settlers started to leave the land. In 1935 R.B. Bennett and his government introduced the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation to help out people who were experiencing tremendous hardship...

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... depression even worse. This was called the Dust Bowl, in where farmers were not able to produce any more crops due to the dust that occupied the land. The effects of the Dust Bowl were farmers becoming in debt and being prone to diseases. As a result of this, the government decided to help the ... prices were much lower than the product was worth " so low that it was often more expensive to raise a crop or cattle than to let the land die idle. " As prices go down, farmers were not making any more money. Farming became difficult for the farmers because they needed money to produce and kee...

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... will own their own farm together. The American dream or the yeomen farmer's dream is to have a plot of land to call their own. George and Lennie dream and talk often about how one day they will have a little piece of land together and that they will be able to "live off the fatta the lan"." Lennie's dream within their dream ... good. This dream of how their future will be, pushes them to keep trying to make their dream of becoming self-employed farm owners a reality. This dream; however, takes a bad turn because of a girl who is married to Curley, the farm owner's son. Curley's wife tak...

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... the next day at the Spreckel Ranch.5 They earned $2.50 to $3.00 a day, plus food and very basic accommodations.6 During the 1930's there was very bad unemployment in the U.S. In the morning they reach the ranch. Curley (their boss) was expecting them the night before. Curley picks a fight with Lennie. Also ... Crooks makes Lennie realize his own isolation and tells him he would be nothing without George. Lennie claims that he will soon own a piece of land. Crooks tells him that his dream will never come true. Sunday afternoon while the rest of the men on the ranch play horseshoes, Lennie...

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... and pathetic fallacy to make the weather, scene and story fit together. For instance when Rhoda and Gertrude are travelling to see Conjurer Trendle Rhoda is apprehensive and thinks something bad is going to happen. The weather echoes this where "Thick clouds made the atmosphere dark the wind howled dismally" One of the most obvious comparisons between the two stories is ... ambitions. "Of Mice and Men" shows Lenny and George trying to live out the typical American dream with Lenny wanting to tend rabbits and George "live of the fatta the land". In "The Withered Arm" Gertrude wants to be ...

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... Mice and Men is about two best friends, George and Lennie roaming around the county side looking for work, with one goal in mind. The goal of owning their own land and working for themselves. But things don't go as planed for George and Lennie, and in the scheme of things going wrong John Steinbeck brings forth many themes pertaining to ... is George ran away with Lennie, Lennie would have ended up hurting or killing someone else by accident. Another metaphor that pertains to Lennie's situation is that bad things always come in three. The first bad thing that happened was Lennie killed ...

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... In California, they worked as farm hands on various farms. Lenny has mild mental retardation and George is his protector. Together, the friends dream of having land of their own which was very rare during these times. The boys find a farm and are hired to work. The ranch where they begin to work has ... many interesting characters. They met a man named Candy who is older and has more experience in life. They later tell him of their plan to buy land and he joins the two in hopes of finding new opportunities. They have to deal with the boss's son, Curley, and his flirtatious wife. Curley ...

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... Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado were experiencing an even bigger problem. The large amount of production on their farms and poor managed land created an environmental disaster when mixed with a drought. Millions of tons of dry top soil were being blown into the air. This region became known ... the house to find that it is empty. Muley Graves, a neighbor, explains to him that all the tenant farmers have been evicted from their land. Most of the families are moving to California, on the rumor that they can find work there. When Tom finally meets up with the rest ... Uni...

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EFFECTS OF THE DROUGHT One of the most serious and severe things that made the depression as bad as it was the drought. During the 1930s, the weather did not co-operate and caused many problems for Canada overall. The many blizzards and severe winters froze many cattle ... severe dust storms that destroyed the crops. Adding to this, grasshoppers were also a major problem because they ate many of the crops that did grow and destroyed the land. This picture shows how the land was green and developed in the 1920's (left), but how it was dead, unproductive and full of dust in the 1930's (right)....

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... has dreams and ambitions that they try desperately to attain. Most of the time these dreams are harmless but other times, what seems normal and doable turns bad and can hinder not only themselves but also others in the process. George from Of Mice And Men was a poor, traveling farmer who's only goal ... in life was to live in his own land and have a successful agricultural business. In trying to make his dream come true he hurt a lot of feelings, Lenny's especially, he ruined other peoples reputations, ... for George. Unfortunately George took advantage of it sometimes. Lenny would do w...

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... the people around him are. This is apparent in the first chapter when he forgets about what has happened in Weed. " An" you ain't gonna do no bad things like you done in Weed, neither." "Like I done in Weed?" (24) This quote tells us about Lennie's short-term memory loss, which leads him ... to forget everything that happened in weed. Lennie like George has a dream to own there own land and be there own bosses. Lennie would tend to the rabbits whilst George looked after the technical side. This very dream shows both their weaknesses, as they both ... . Even in desperate times Lennie wil...

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... to take care of his friend Lenny because he has a mental disability. Lenny is extremely tall and is incredibly strong. Everyday George and Lenny dream about owning there own land. They are saving all their money so that one day their dream can come true. When the novel starts Lenny and George get a job on a ranch. When they ... . Candy becomes very close friends with Lenny and George. He donates his life savings to them because he wants to live with them some day when they own their own land. Also on the ranch they meet Curley and Curley's wife. Curley doesn't like George or Lenny. Curle...

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... he was going or even why he was leaving. It just seemed the thing to do. Between 1929 and 1941, 4,000,000 Americans desperate for food and lodging roamed the land. Of this number, 250,000 were teenagers who rode the rails and grew up fast in speeding boxcars, living in hobo jungles, begging on the streets and running from the ... would become poor within months. When you find out that James was going to Harvard then the depression hit and his goals were shattered, you can't help but feel really bad for him. San Jule had no idea what it was like to being poor until the depression because...

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... Great Depression affected countries around the world, but few were impacted as severely as Canada (Mooney, E. 2006). The living conditions of many Canadians had deteriorated. Situations occurred that made the bad economic times worse. In 1929 the stock market collapsed, businesses went bankrupt, workers lost their jobs, and trade between provinces and countries had severely declined. As well, prairie farmers in ... contributed to complete crop failure on prairie farms and caused devastation to farmers. As situations got worse, some farmers stayed behind on their farms but many started t...

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... the late 1930's. These few years brought many difficulties to the people who lived through them. Many jobs would be lost due to this tragedy. What was once called the land of dreams, turned into a nightmare. Many workers who had jobs in the big city would lose them and move out in the crop fields and become farmers mostly. Some people ... retain moisture and nutrients and began to erode. Since so many people moved into the farmlands and become migrant workers, the original farmers became very poor due to loss of land and crops. So they would move out into California and hope to find wor...

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... if he was elected he would refuse to abide by many terms in the treaty, such as the reparations, military restrictions, and the land which was "stolen" away from Germany. He knew that people in Germany felt bad from the depression, and so the majority of the population blamed their problems on the treaty, this caused many to turn towards Hitler, because ... of December 7, 1941 a flight of planes approached the United States base at Pearl Harbor. United States servicemen were told these planes were friendly United States planes coming from California to land, but they were wrong. The pla...

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... resources that they already had to open new markets to the world. This would allow a flow of income for their nation. Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald says to open up the land and to give of the country rights upon the soil to provide more industry which will in turn lead to more marketing. Macdonald also wanted to provide temporary work for ... , but this seemed to be an excluded choice because of the immigration policies of the other countries. The second choice was to advance into world markets but this was also a bad choice because of tariff barriers and the commercial treaties. So th...

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... the other hand is a smaller man but he is the one who takes care of the both of them and gets things done. Lennie has a dream to have a patch of land with a vegetable garden and a rabbit hutch. He wants to be in charge of the rabbits. George has an obsession with soft things and he loves to pet them. This is ... , he should return to the brush near the river and wait for George to find him. The trouble starts when Lennie and George get a job on a ranch. They start out bad with the boss of the ranch and his son Curly. Curly is a smaller man than Lennie and hates anyone bigger than he due ...

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You know children are naive and silly, how they think nothing bad could ever happen and that everyone lives forever? Then one day, there pet goldfish dies, their house gets robbed, and their parents divorce thus learning how cruel the world is. ... Beach" by Matthew Arnold he advances the statement we all need someone to love us, but the world is not like that instead it, "lies before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain"(Arnold, ln 31-34). In ... . Steinbeck suggests George has s...

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... and survive. But they dream of saving up enough money to someday get a place of their own where they "won't have to answer to no one" and "live off the land". CLIMAX AND RESOLUTION FROM THE CONFLICTS Man against Man: This clearly fits how George feels about Lennie and how he struggles between being a good friend and his own selfishness. At ... they know anybody else in the entire world. They share their hard times and the good, their victories and their defeats, but most importantly they share a common dream. BAD POINT IN THE BOOK The bad point in the book is Georges personality that gi...

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... gunfire erupted. Three days later another gunfire occurred. That was common in Henry Horner. They were gangs such as Vice Lords and Disciples; they would always fight for turf or land. One of the kids Calvin Robinson, known as bird leg was a good friend of Lafettye. As he grew he got involved with the vice lords, and was shot by disciples ... members. Lafettye felt bad about that, but he felt more about when the cops killed Craig Davis. He couldn't understand why, when he created peace in Henry Horner. That's probably the biggest thing the ... ...

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