Have you ever had a goal that you dreamt about it. That was the case for George and Lennie in John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice And Men. All that George and Lennie wanted was a farm, they saved up close to 400 dollars with candys help. Everything was going as planned when Lennie did something that would change their lives forever. Lennie was a man with a child's brain. Lennie had the strength as a bull, Lennie can put up a four hundred pound bale. Lennie wasn't very smart he was told repeatedly that if he kept playing with the puppies the way he was he would end up killing it and sure enough he did. When conflict was between Curley and Lennie Culey was beating up on Lennie and he didn't know what to do until George told Lennie it was ok to fight back, Lennie broke Curley's hand and he didn't mess with Lennie after that. The stunt that was the dumbest by Lennie was when Curley's was visiting Lennie in the barn she told Lennie to feel her hair and Lennie freaked out and shaked her and broke her neck, Lennie tried to hid her body under the mound of hay in the barn, when her body was found Lennie was long gone. Lennie was an innocent man with unbelievable strength that he couldn't control. …show more content…
George was the one who came up with the idea of the dream farm and he would be the one to make the dream into reality. George was a middle age farm man very caring for Lennie and very intelligent. If George didn't watch after Lennie he could go and do better things with his life but yet he still stays behind to help with Lennie. George wasn't a very big or strong man but he knew how to make the best out of every situation. I believe that the dream farm meant the most to George than to the rest of the
George raises the gun and steadies it... BOOM! He brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie's head. George made a hard decision at the end of the book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Lennie and George are really close friends. George is smart and very aggressive, and Lennie is big and strong, but has a mind of a child. First, Lennie and George arrive at the ranch in Soledad, California during the Great Depression. Lennie keeps getting into trouble, which risks their job, so George has to clean up the mess. Finally, George has to make a decision on how to give Lennie a life he deserves, or letting him suffer. Lennie and George are like brothers and they would do whatever it takes to make eachother happy. Throughout the story,
George and Lennie have a very interesting relationship. George acts as a parent to Lennie all of the time. George exhibits many qualities as a parent such as protecting Lennie, instructing him, and loving him. Lennie is unable to make basic decisions in everyday life.
In the book,”of mice and men by john steinbeck” he shows a very special relationship with two different kind of people. His message i believe is that Sometimes you have to do things you don't want yo but it's necessary
Lennie is ridicule by most, those like Crooks, Curley, and Curley’s Wife all mocke him calling him nuts. Even George is described as having at one point ridiculed him by playing jokes on him: “I used to have a hell of a lot of fun with ‘im. Used on ‘im ‘cause he was too dumb to take care of ’imself. But he was too dumb even to know he had a joke played on him. Steinbeck shows that in this time period if you were mentally ill you might’ve as well been
George greatly enjoyed sharing his dream with Lennie, and Lennie greatly enjoyed being a part of it. George told Lennie about all he wanted in the farm, like, a vegetable patch, a rabbit hutch, and chickens. He also said that when it rains they will blow off the work and have a fire in the stove and listen to the rain hitting the roof. Even if Lennie did irritate George, George still needed him in order to survive in this
George is the second main character and one of the protagonist after Lennie in Of Mice and Men. When Lennie gets into trouble, He always helps him find a solution or get away, though Lennie’s size combined with his mental handicap caused problems frequently. He is also a planner, telling Lennie where he should go if there is trouble on the ranch. To make the dream which is owing a ten-acre farm becomes a reality, He’s competent to work hard. Unlike the other ranch hands that squander their money on women and drink, George refuses to spend a dime in vain, saving everything to make the dream happen. He wants to buy the farm so that he and Lennie can live there, free from problems and constraints
The setting takes place during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl George and Lennie are both migrant works who depend on farm work for money. George and Lennie's relationship is different than any other relationship two men have because George is smart and Lennie has a mental disability and is a regular burden on George, but they both are always complementing each other, George and Lennie are friends. There is no family relation between these two men. George takes care of Lennie because he is mentally handicapped and he feels a social responsibility to help him. However, in many ways Lennie takes care of George as well. They lost jobs because Lennie can't control his strength and he is always bothering George about his strength, but George
The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck depicts the american dream by telling a story of two friends named Lennie and George who share a dream of having their own farm. Lennie is a more sensitive character who doesn’t have much of a brain and George is a very independent and strong character. In the text Steinbeck was successful at making Lennie sympathetic because he shows with different events in the book how Lennie reacts to them based on his character traits.
In a book called of Mice and Men there are two characters involved with the book. There names are George and Lennie. Lennie is a very big man that is very strong but is very slow in his thinking. George is a very smart person, but is way smaller than Lennie. George’s and Lennie’s goal that they are trying to achieve in the book, is that they want to own a farm in which is called a “Dream farm”.
“Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck. It takes place in the 1900s sometime around the Great Depression era. Two men, Lennie and George are looking for work as farm-hands. Lennie has some mental disabilities and is large/strong. George on the other hand, has a sharp mind, but he is not as strong as Lennie.
In the beginning of the story, George and Lennie are walking and it becomes apparent that Lennie is very forgetful and almost like a child. As shown in the first few pages when George says to Lennie “[...]spen’ all my time tellin’ you things and then you forget ‘em[…]” (Steinbeck 4). This quote is showing how forgetful Lennie is and how George will continue to tell him things over and over, so he won’t get into any trouble. And again showing Lennie’s helplessness when Curley and Lennie are fighting, “Lennie’s hands remained at his sides; he was too frightened to defend
The dream farm symbolises the American Dream that Lennie and George yearn to achieve. The dream that both protagonists, George and Lennie want is to have their own piece of land, where they can grow their own crops. This dream is so desperately wanted because of the freedom given to the owners of the ranch. Background character, Candy also latches onto the vision of owning a few acres of land."They fell into a silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true." At this point, Candy had realised that his money could make his dreams come true, as well as George and Lennie's. It seemed that money was the difference between a dream and a plan, but to Lennie on some level, it all seemed like a story.Therefore Steinbeck's use of symbolism of the dream farm is explored through the idea of the American
It has been said that “Hopes and dreams help people to survive, even if they can never become real.” In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, his characters, Lennie and George, have dreams that help them look forward to the future. They have rough lives with no home to call their own and they wander from job to job. Their dream is to someday own their own farm. Talking about it keeps them going as if it’s real already. The constant reference to the goal to own a farm is what makes them get up in the morning. The dream bonds their relationship and makes them hopeful and committed to each other by giving them the strength to survive.
The author John Steinbeck presents the relationship between the two characters, George and Lennie in different ways as they are both different characters and have different personalities. He presents it like a parent and child relationship, with George being the parent and Lennie the child.
In of mice and men is two men seeking work in harsh times and seeking the American Dream. The protagonists of the story are Lennie and George and they are motivated to find and achieve the American Dream. They will achieve this by working hard. To achieve the American dream, George and Lennie would have to work harder than ever to achieve their dreams.