Have you ever had the kind of friend that always forgave you for the largest outcomes, no matter how bad the repercussions were? ... This story takes place in Soledad, California in the mid 1900s where it was hard to live on your own; where everybody fell into a trance of owning their own land and being free from the rest of the world. That dream is what drove George and Lennie to work on someone else's farm in order to get the money to buy that big ol' piece of land. ... In the book, Slim asks George about his background with Lennie and throughout George going into detail about i...

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They believe the land is beautiful and the jobs are ample, but this is not entirely true. The land may be nice and there may be a few jobs, but not as much as much as is manifested by migrants on their way out west. ... Frodo and Sam, the two main characters, are in a bad way. They have seen bad times, many of them. ... In scouting, I may be doing something bad, like pulling a practical joke, and get in trouble. ...

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John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath produces a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude by means of the good and bad. ... Not only were ties strengthened between the family, but were formed with folks along the way to the "promised land." ... The migrants were pushed off of their land by the banks, or monsters, of the Midwest, and became enemies of each family affected. ... Once past the desert lands, the families found themselves in an abundant land of peaches and cotton, California. ... Through the friendships and foes formed, and the various conditions through which the Joad...

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Most of the time these dreams are harmless but other times, what seems normal and doable turns bad and can hinder not only themselves but also others in the process. George from Of Mice And Men was a poor, traveling farmer who's only goal in life was to live in his own land and have a successful agricultural business. ... Lenny would do whatever he was told if it meant having rabbits and living on George's' land with him. ... Lenny's ignorance leads him to trouble just as much as his dreams of rabbits and land. ...

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The tractors (cats) that plow over the farmers' land and the actual animal are used a few times in the novel to represent the merciless banks. ... The good, fresh grapes that they dream of soon turn into bad, rotten grapes of wrath and bitterness since their journey turns into more of an obstacle course full of deaths and saddness. ... In the novel, banks send tractors, called cats, to destroy homes of the faremers who cannot afford to live on the land any longer. ... The real animal may also be a representation of how hard it is for the farmers to leave the land they have worked so hard ...

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This was called the Dust Bowl, in where farmers were not able to produce any more crops due to the dust that occupied the land. ... The drought was bad and hard to deal with but the dust was worse and even harder to deal with since there were so many around them. ... Nobody had any money and the farmers did not have land. The dust filled up all of the land and ruined the previous harvests. ... Farmers had no land to farm and people died of illnesses. ...

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George got the land all picked out, too "(76). ... " (87) Curley's wife makes you hate her and feel bad for her at the same time. ... They just think she's bad because she's a woman and that's prejudice. ... The antagonist in the novel is the rest of the world, or, probably to be more accurate, bad luck. ...

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They plan to start work the next day at the Spreckel Ranch.5 They earned $2.50 to $3.00 a day, plus food and very basic accommodations.6 During the 1930's there was very bad unemployment in the U.S. ... Lennie claims that he will soon own a piece of land. ... He is afraid that it will prevent his chances of buying land with George and Lennie. ... Lennie hung on his every word even when he repeated the story about the land and the farm. ... Even after the murder of Curley's wife, Candy still things that land and the farm with George and Lennie will be in the future. ...

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The large amount of production on their farms and poor managed land created an environmental disaster when mixed with a drought. ... Muley Graves, a neighbor, explains to him that all the tenant farmers have been evicted from their land. ... The bad farming conditions ruined their crops, and therefore, they did not have enough money to withhold their land. ... The Joads lost their farmland due to poor land conditions and a drought. ...

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A closer view unveils an empty, dried up well, an emaciated cat limping past the caved in porch, a tree with "leaves tattered and scraggly as a molting chicken", a stack of rotting untouched lumber and cracked, jagged window panes reflecting the desolate land abroad. ... The Joad family prepares for the difficult journey across the country to the "promised" land where ignorance leads the Joad family to search for the American dream in the long lost land of California. ...

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You know children are naive and silly, how they think nothing bad could ever happen and that everyone lives forever? ... In "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold he advances the statement we all need someone to love us, but the world is not like that instead it, "lies before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain"(Arnold, ln 31-34). ... George's lack of experience with the world and with the bad things that happen in life have disappeared. ...

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A combination of drought, improper crop rotation, and dust storms were the major causes of the "Dust Bowl" because all the land was ruined and all the crops were ruined. Unable to produce crops, the farmers were forced off their land by banks that foreclosed on their loans. ... The Joads were one of the families that were forced off there land; this is the reason they headed west to California. ... This book did not get a favorable reception in California because it showed the real way people were treated and it made the people of California look bad. ... Rose of Sharon saved the life of...

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In "Of mice and men," many of the characters are itinerant workers; they travel alone and have a very lonely existence. They compete against each other for leader ship and respect. Each worker has a dream for the future, which is impossible to achieve. "Every damn one of" em's got a little piece of ...

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George would like to buy a small ranch and live with Lennie off "the fat of the land." He has allsorts of ideas about what he would use the land for. ... George would want to work on the land for just six or seven hours a day and sell his produce. ... Curley's wife is married to Curley who is "a nasty, bad-tempered and angry little man." ...

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But they dream of saving up enough money to someday get a place of their own where they "won't have to answer to no one" and "live off the land". ... BAD POINT IN THE BOOK The bad point in the book is Georges personality that gives the book a tragic and sad ending. ...

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The latter novel, however, a mystical story of self-sacrifice, is one of Steinbeck's strongest statements about the relationship between people and the land. ... My quotation from the book The Pearl All things are in gods hands In my understanding all things good or bad , Happen to a variaty of people for all kinds of reasons. ...

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The Joad family was one of the families forced off their land. ... Steinbeck does a great job of showing how goodness prevails and doing the right thing is never a bad decision, even if it does not turn out the way we want it to. ...

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John Steinbeck is an author that most people are familiar with. In almost every high school across America, one of his books is on a required reading list that students are supposed to read. But who is the man behind the stories? What was it like for his when he was a kid and why did he write what ...

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Of course, the tenants feel bad about this, however when it comes to losing money, there's suddenly no issue with threatening another man's life. ... Steinbeck openly advocates Marxist proletarian revolt in response to unjust economic conditions, which, he goes on to explain, are directly caused by capitalism: "The tractors which throw men out of work, the belt lines which carry loads, the machines which produce, all were increased; and more and more families scampered on the highways, looking for crumbs from the great holdings, lusting after the land beside the roads.... And wh...

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Intro: Loneliness is a disease. It eats away at people slowly, gradually tearing them limb from limb. It is a virus that send some people insane, some turn senile, it sorts the strong characters from the weak and it can devastate lives. In the book "of Mice and Men" I am going to look at 3 differen...

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