Discussing the theme of lonliness in

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GCSE English                Miss Heath

The novel “of mice and men” written by john Steinbeck is based on the theme of loneliness, and because the novel is about migrant workers, who are lonely because they travel alone from place to place with not a soul in the world but George and Lennie have each other, but even though they have each other they are lonely because they are two totally different people who just happen to travel together.

Migrant workers became migrant workers because the rich lost their money when the stock market fell and the money became worthless, so the people went from place to place looking for work on ranches for about fifty bucks a month. The life of a migrant worker was terrible because they had to work hard for very little money. John Steinbeck chooses to use the characters he has chosen because they are lonely in one way or another.

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The setting is lonely because it is very quiet and calm and peaceful. The novel is set in Soledad. John Steinbeck chose this setting for the novel because it is in the middle of no-where so that it is hard to find and fits in with the whole theme of loneliness.

Crooks is lonely because he is black and he was jacked in the back and nobody on the ranch wants to be with him because the other migrant workers won’t let him into the bunkhouse to play cards with the others, because of his skin colour. Crooks ...

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