... and George Milton who have just escaped from a farm after Lennie was wrongly accused of rape. Lennie is a mentally deficient, yet submissive man. George on 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 ... neck. He had once done this with a pet mouse he once had. He just pets and pets until he gets too aggressive with it and the animal dies. Curley's Wife finds him in the barn with the dead puppy, and when she allows...

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... in the end the harsh reality of the world makes him realize how truly foolish it is to want such a thing since he would never obtain it. The third Candy an old man who believes that he has outlived his usefullness, because of his old age. This is proved when his dog his only companion is shot dead by ... Carlson. Candy says that he had the ... dog since he was a pup and seems to care as much about him as he does himself. When Carlson says" He's of no good to anybody not even himself." It shows how old Candy really ... is. Then Candy a very poor man is willing to chip in on the dream t...

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... that his family is at his Uncle John's house. There they are planning the long trip to California in search of jobs with high wages, as is promised by the handbills posted all over the Oklahoma landscape California land-owners. It is there that they feel their fiduciary troubles will end. Unfortunately for the Joads, California does anything but solve their problems. Tom's grandparents die en ... Joad realizes that Rose of Sharon is producing milk for her dead child and takes everyone else outside. It is at this point that Rose of Sharon lies next to the dying man and breastfeeds him. S...

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... reinforced, as Crooks didn't get many visitors to his shed, mainly because of his skin colour. Steinbeck uses imagery of Hollywood and the glamour of fame & fortune, and descriptive language, to give the reader an indication of the loneliness of Curley's wife. Imagery is also used to show that she is better of dead than alive on the ranch. Curley's wife uses descriptive language whilst re-telling her story and this ... language creates an image of how lonely Curley's wife actually is on the ranch in the middle of nowhere without ... colour. He doesn't want to have a dream, mainly due t...

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... less important characters. They feel their dreams start to materialise after Candy decides and is allowed to join them. While they discuss the financial aspects of purchasing the land, the rest of the bunkers come in the form of Slim and Carlson along with Curley. There was a disagreement between Slim and Curley and he (Curley ) hadd all this mounted stress and tension that he unloaded onto Lennie for no ... , mourning the death of his puppy which he killed because it tried to bite him, Lennie is approached by Curley's wife. Remembering that George said not to talk to her.. Lennie tries ...

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... in California, a government official accused the person of being a communist. This represents the hate of the communists in the view of the government. In The Grapes of Wrath, the Californians wanted to rid the "dirty" Okies from California because they were afraid of them. They were afraid that the Okies would take their land. Even the California police beat them for no just reason because they wanted the Okies to leave the state. The police, shown as corrupted thugs ... government-funded projects. The dialog between Tom and the camp-leader, suggested that more camps like this should h...

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... bad thing that happened was Lennie killed the mouse, the second, he killed the pup, and the third, he killed Curley's wife. It also builds in the seriousness of the deaths, form the mouse, to Curley's wife. Another theme that Steinbeck presents to us is the dreams of men going awry. An example of this includes the dreams of Lennie, George, and latter Candy of owning their own land. It all seems to be going ... in and get their bunk and work a month, and they quite and go alone. Never seem them give a damn about nobody."" (Steinbeck: 39) All of the other characters see the pair as unusua...

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