of mice and men

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The character of “Lennie” is described as "the way a bear drags his paws". This gives the idea of Lennie being large. George is described as "small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp strong features", which draws contrast with Lennie, demonstrating that where Lennie is simple and slow, George is more mentally able and has a leading position. As through the book, animal imagery is used, regarding the relationship between Lennie and George. This is important, because the relationship is important with the things that are happening around them, and gives reasons for many of the twists in the plot linked to these two characters. Their relationship is a ‘father and son’ relationship with George as the father.

John Steinbeck uses the different type of atmosphere and the different ideas to describe places in the book “Of Mice and Men”. This showed at the start of Chapter one which talks about the valley and countryside. Also, at the start of Chapter two which is the bunkhouse and inside the ranch. In chapter one starting paragraph he uses nice colours to describe warm setting. For example following quote shows that “the Salinas River drops in close to the hill side bank and runs deep green.” .He uses colour green to describe the colour of Salinas river, The last Chapter returns to the river and mountains. This was the exact spot where the story started, giving a kind of symmetry to the structure of the story.       

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 Lennie is very forgetful. Lennie thinks he has lost his work card but George has it.  The fact that he cannot even look after his own work card suggests that he is quite forgetful and simple minded. Also, Lennie does not learn from experience when he is “pettin mice” he pets them too hard and they always end up being dead. And George says “you always kill’em”. The reader gets this idea that Lennie does not learn which could prove to be quite dangerous in future particularly if another incident like the one in ‘Weed’ happens again. In Weed Lennie ...

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