... since of hopelessness. This is evident from start to finish in the novel. The theme is kept strong by having all the characters wanting to have hope for something or a dream of some kind. The story had a feeling of hope as well as a terrible feeling that something terrible was going to happen and that it ... that injury by getting his hand stuff in one of the machines in the farm. This incident almost cause George and Lennie there dream and it serves as a reminder that it doesn't really have to be them looking for trouble but trouble may come looking for them. Crook brings a since of ho...

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... on skin color, but also on age and gender. A book that shows this is John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, a story about two friends, that have a dream to live on there own farm, Lenny and George, who go to a farm where they see discrimination first hand. The victims of discrimination in this novel are: ... time, and, for most of the novel, they're never separated. in addition, both of them share the same dream of their own farm, and both of them work hard to have that dream fulfilled. at the same time, they are also dependent on each other, since Lenny depends on George to keep ... who pr...

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... by commentators in Of Mice and Men are friendship and isolation, hope and futility. Through George and Lennie's friendship, the hope to achieve their dream is kept alive. George, little and clever, feels Lennie has been given into his keeping. Simpleminded and gentle Lennie possesses great physical strength and ... they get frightened. Lennie cannot help breaking small helpless creatures' necks for shaking them too hard, just as George can not let go of his dream. Lennie tries to be gentle with puppies, mice, and other soft things, but always forgets and accidently kills them by squeezi...

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... behave and act like him. He's brought Lennie up like this because that is the only way George knows and all George's personality and characteristics have rubbed off on Lennie. This is shown in the first chapter when we first meet the characters. As George comes down the pathway into the ... . He loves him like a father because George has brought him up and taught him the ways of the world. He feels brotherly towards him because they have been together so long that they feel like they are related. As a friend, George provides the support a friend would bring, like secrecy. Secrecy plays ...

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... he beats her. Also, he visits brothels and this makes her feel inadequate. For Curley's wife Curley was second choice and he acts like it. She does have several dreams of a better life. When men promise her careers in acting and film she believes them but I think that they just wanted her to sleep with ... born fighter v/s everything about him confirms that. He is like this because he feels inferior mainly because he is the boss's son and he needs to have a lot of power over the ranch workers. But Curley feels threatened by big workers like Lennie so he beats them up to keep his reputa...

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• Grade Level: High School