Loneliness in Of Mice and Men At one point in everyone's life they will experience the feeling of being alone and this feeling of loneliness can cause anger, depression and melancholy. In this novel Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck examines the theme of loneliness. ... Three isolated individuals in Of Mice and Men are Candy, the old swamper, Curley's wife, the only female on the ranch, and Crooks, the stable buck and only African American on the premises. ... He feels that she is untrustworthy around the other men on the ranch. The men even refer to her as a "tart" because...

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In his book, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck realistically portrays the hardships of life and how people unnecessarily suffered during those years because of that cruel and unjust treatment. Of Mice and Men goes even deeper into the issue and illustrates prejudice in more ways than just skin color. ... In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows how people are unjustly treated by others simply because they are different by either their race or social class. ... Because of this cruelty that most of the characters in Of Mice and Men suffer, life becomes meaningless for them. ...

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Of Mice and Men In terms of emotional stability, there is only one thing in life that is needs and that is friends. ... In the novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck makes a descriptive theme of loneliness as it affects many characters on the ranch. ...

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The theme of loneliness runs deep through the fabrication of the novel, Of Mice and Men tying a majority of the characters together both male and female. ... They do not however, set out to hurt him intentionally, but the usage of the term "nigger" tells us the reader that black men, like Crooks, were constantly degraded both verbally and physically by whites. ... Crooks owns a copy of the California civil code suggesting that he knows his rights even though he probably is not treated the way men are supposed to be treated in the book. ... Curley fails to satisfy his wife's attention crav...

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In "Of Mice and Men", the one character that really stands out as being truly lonely is Crooks, the old black stable hand. ... He is forced to sleep in the stable with the animals, and isn't included in any of the men's leisure activities. When the other men go to town and only Lennie and Crooks stay behind, Lennie goes into Crooks room to talk to him. ...

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Within the limited pages of the story Of Mice And Men, one is impacted by the tremendous amount of loneliness Crooks feels and how he behaves because of his loneliness and what he does to overcome it For example, Crooks is a stable buck, on a farm, which is surrounded by white people that are racist. ...

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This book generally is about all of the migrant workers, all with their own dreams. The main characters George and Lennie go from farm to farm, trying to work up a stake and save enough to buy their own farm. The other characters in the book are also all lonely in their own way. Crooks is black and ...

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Outsiders All of the people in "Of mice and men" are outsiders in there own right, they have all been disallowed, or to a certain extent not wanted to have certain rights because of things such a sex, race and different disabilities. ... For example the white supremacy group the KKK, would go around and lynch (hang) black men for looking at a white woman (this would get turned into that he had raped her). ... A woman is different to a man in the way they live and want to be respected, there feelings can be easily hurt and the men do not seen to understand or care. ... Because he is cripp...

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To Kill A Mocking BirdTo Kill A Mockingbird "Classic," a term one uses to describe many things, such as a defining moment or an object such as a book. When used in this context, such as describing a book, it persuades the reader to examine the novel further to discover what makes this piece of liter...

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• Grade Level: High School