John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a novel with many different themes. Whether it be isolation, weakness, or violence. One theme that stays throughout the entire novel is the importance and danger of friendship. Friendships are an important aspect in everyday society. There are cliques and groups everywhere you turn. A group of teenagers with their faces glued to their phone screens, or a gathering of mothers talking amongst themselves. Everyday, friendships are made and broken. The novel starts…
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An amazingly touching story of male friendship during the Depression Era is told throughout John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men. There are two participants in this friendship: George Milton and Lennie Small. Some details and motives concerning this friend ship are: the basic functions of the friendship, the reason that George and Lennie are so close, and the responsibility George feels towards Lennie. Almost immediately in the story, George is trying to be a kind of guiding hand or protector…
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What is friendship? What does it look like? You can find friendship in the novella “Of Mice and Men”. It’s a story of two friends who go through many struggles and through it all they still managed to stay together. I believe these guys were great friends because George, the caretaker, and Lennie, the special and childlike friend, were helping each other through some harsh times. They were chased out of the city of Weed for a misunderstanding so George took Lennie to hide. They found a new job and…
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“True friendship multiplies the good in life, and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... To find one real friend in a lifetime, to keep them is a fortune.”-Baltasar Gracian. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men the importance of friendship plays a key role throughout the book. The main protagonists, Lennie and George have a mutual bond that keeps them together, no matter what happens to them. Lennie has made many decisions over the…
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Justify: I believe that friendship is the number one ranked idea because I get a strong feeling of friendship between George and Lennie. They have been through so much together and they both share a dream of starting a ranch. They go through so many jobs to try and obtain this goal. Even though Lennie messes up all the time and loses their jobs for them, they still stick together and find a new place where they can go and work at. Yeah George gets mad at Lennie in the beginning of the story, but…
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Friendship is a relationship between friends. You can either have good friends or bad friends. In “Of Mice and Men” the theme “friendship” is portrayed between the main characters, George and Lennie. George is skinny and has the brains of the two, Lennie is very big and is the one that can do the most work. I believe that George is a good friend to Lennie in “Of Mice and Men” for various reasons. One of the ways George shows he’s a good friend to Lennie is that he tries to protect Lennie from people…
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make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick”’ (Steinbeck 80). This honest statement is from the book of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Throughout this book, both Lennie and George, two migrant workers that travel together in the 1930s, learn the true meaning of friendship through troublesome circumstances. As this quote acknowledged, a person’s lifestyle and health is influenced through the everyday experiences of the people that cross…
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Of Mice and Men What would you do if you had to kill your best friend? John Steinbeck describes a world where the American Dream will never be accomplished. Steinbeck paints a depressing portrait of America in the 1930s. Steinbeck reveals the struggle of the Great Depression. Of mice and Men by John Steinbeck tells a story of a fake friendship. George and Lennie do not have a true friendship because if they did george shouldn't have shot lennie. Also, George and Lennie don't have a true friendship…
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There are many different types of friendships between many different types of people. But, they all come down to whether you’re a good or bad friend. A good friend is with you through the good and the bad times and is always going to support you. A bad friend might get you in trouble or might make you do the wrong thing. Bad friends may also use you. In the story Of Mice and Men , by John Steinbeck, the two main characters George and Lennie have an interesting friendship. George is a smart and confident…
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Control Assessment ‘Of Mice and Men’ Of Mice and Men is a short novel written by the author John Steinbeck, in which he explores the themes of friendship and loneliness. Following the lives of the 1930s ranch workers, and the hope of achieving the ‘American Dream’ and how events can conspire against the realization of ones dreams. For, Steinbeck’s characters, the dream of land represents independence and honour, George and Lennie symbolize…
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