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Injustice In Of Mice And Men

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While humanity keeps on changing and improving due to humans being able to learn and grow, is it really progression or just an endless loop with lots of hatred and a little bit of forgiveness? Humankind throughout history appear to make similar actions of showing injustice to those that are different so the minority faces hardships, unfairness, and cruelty. Why does this occur when there is one element that joins all of us together? In one form or another, we face some sort of injustice. Forms of injustice can be as formal as political or economic injustice or more personal like injustice being gender-based, racial, or religious. In Sing, Unburied, Sing, and Of Mice and Men, Pop and George’s actions and reaction towards the characters who experience …show more content…

For example, when a unjust crime forces Pop in entering Parchemen for a crime that was unjustly made, he describes how “I knew what that was to be made a animal [but when Richie came] I found myself… worrying about him… [and at times] I tried to help him. Tried to break his line when he was hoeing, dig a little deeper in his grooves. Reach over and clean his plants better when we was harvesting...And for a while, a few months, it worked. I was able to save him, kept him from getting beat” (69,75). Pop’s response to the social injustice that Richie faces depicts his selflessness towards those in need even though he, himself experienced the same cruelty of the discrimination. His actions and reactions to the racism that he and Richie suffered illustrates that any person can make a difference in an individual’s life through small and simple ways of providing aid. One smile, one act of service can create a bond that last a lifetime. As a result of Richie escaping from Parchmen, Pop knew that the guards would tortue Richie until he dies so Pop answers Richie’s question of going home by responding “Yes, Richie. I'm a take you home… And then I took the shank I kept in my boot and I punched it one time into his neck [and] held him till the blood stopped spurting. Him looking at me, mouth open. A child. Tears and snot

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