Soledad, California

themselves and to hire other people rather than being hired themselves. This dream if becomes reality will create an amount of freedom the majority of America will have never experienced. It will demolish bullying and discrimination occurring on the Soledad ranch. George

Of Mice and Men In the beginning of the story, two men named George Milton and Lennie Small are trying to make their way to a small ranch in Salinas Valley, California. George is the leader of their two man tribe, despite Lennie’s intimidating size. George is filled with determination and confidence while Lennie is a simple man with a big heart. Up north, they had recently been run out of a town called Weed on account of Lennie. First of all, Lennie is not very smart, and becomes frightened

Of Mice and Men: Burdens of Responsibility "OF MICE AND MEN IS A NOVEL WHICH EXPLORES THE BURDENS OF RESPONSIBILITY AS MUCH AS ITS REWARDS." By evaluating the novel of mice and men carefully I have found that every character in the novel has a facet of life that consists of burdens and responsibilities. The characters in the novel basically have three options in which they can live their lives. They can knuckle down, work hard, keep a positive frame of mind and try earnestly to improve their standard

In the Salinas River Valley, after the Great Depression, there were a large number of unemployed workers seeking jobs. In the fiction novel "Of Mice and Men," by John Steinbeck, Lennie Small is among one of those men. Lennie and his friend George both have just received jobs on a ranch as farm workers. What brings the two together is their dream to someday own their own land. Lennie has a lot of character and personality traits that define him. One trait that he has is he is very forgetful. Another

happening to his lifelong friend. He had to do something to protect the integrity of his friend. He decided that he will kill Lennie himself, and protect him from the lynch mob. The scene in the novel goes full circle. It began, in Soledad and ends in Soledad. George and the lynch mob search a wooded area for Lennie. George knows where Lennie is hiding. He goes ahead of the men to meet Lennie, because he has another plan in mind. George finds Lennie sitting on the riverbank and kills him before

Soledad. Not only is this the name of the town in which the ranch is located on, but it means solitude; the state or situation of being alone. Two main themes proposed In Of Mice and Men written by George Steinbeck are social discrimination and isolation. Setting new standards, George and Lennie make quite the aberrant pair considering they travel together and pay no mind to the ideas of discrimination. You see, most ranch hands wouldn’t travel together. George claims "I seen the guys that go around

however, dreams can help ease that depression, even for just a little bit. The novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck demonstrated how the American dream became corrupted. Of Mice and Men talks about two migrant workers who end up at a ranch in Soledad, California. George and Lennie meet a man, Crooks, and a woman, Curley’s wife, who have dreams that fail to come true. The American dream demonstrates how nothing will become more than a dream proved by George and Lennie, Crooks and Curley’s wife, but still

One of the most astounding books Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, took place in one of the darkest time period in American History, the Great Depression. The setting of the book took place in a small country town in Soledad California, near the Salinas River. This book introduces the two main characters, George Milton, and Lennie Small with real life struggles of being migrant farm workers for a ranch. The story opens up with one of the many conflicts that George and Lennie will face throughout

novel Of Mice and Men follows the journey of two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, who struggle through the navigation of working on a ranch in California and fulfilling their dreams together during a time of financial depression. The novel begins with George and Lennie traveling through the California wilderness to get to a new ranch just south of Soledad where they are going to begin new work. They had to leave their previous jobs in a town called Weed because Lennie had caused trouble with a girl

true, in his early books (for example of Mice and Men) is about poor farmworker in California during the great depression. Steinbeck was born I Salinas himself and he knew these people and worked with them for a long time, which gave him an understanding of how it was working during this time and knowing how lonely it could be. The story takes mainly place on a ranch in Soledad, not far from Salinas, California during the great depression. In the novel there are two men, George Milton, a small