... one who is capable of seeing George's tragic loss when George is forced to kill Lennie to save him from the mob. George kills a part of himself, the part that was his dream. When George shoots Lennie, he is not destroying only the shared dream. He is also destroying the thing that makes him ... to express the inevitable defeat and futility of all men's plans. A dream of independence usually remains a dream, and when it becomes a real plan, the plan is defeated. Chapter one, "The Gift," introduces all the main characters: the ranch hand, Billy Buck; the little boy, Jody; Jody's father, Car...

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• Grade Level: High School

... He even tries to explain this himself. He cant tell if he's dreamed something or not and he doesnt know how to behave around other guys. In chapter 4 Crooks gets the chance to be horrible to some one else. He turns on Lennie and starts to be really nasty to him suggesting George wont come ... Curley's wife was killed essentially by loneliness v/s it was that that made her talk to the farm workers and Lennie this lead to her death. Loneliness is a part of human nature whether we like it not, as with everything, there are winners and there are losers. John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice And Men'...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 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 clearing, Lennie follows in the same manner. Lennie wants to be just ... 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 a massive part in the book because without it Lennie would be in jail or would have been hung and George would be travelling aroun...

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... title and the book as a whole once read. The title originally came from this song, which was written during the Civil War in 1861 when Julia and her husband became part of the U.S. sanitary commission. They inspected the conditions in the Prisoner of War camps, including Union Camps. While visiting one, a soldier asked her to write a song for the war effort ... there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage"(Steinbeck 238). Before this quote, the chapter talks about how men are throwing out good food...

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• Grade Level: High School