This a mouse. In the book it symbolized how strong Lennie was. He was so strong that he could just barely pet it and it would die. he didn't know his own strength. "And she stopped giving em to ya. You always killed em. (Steinbeck 9)" Lennie thought it was harmless and that sometimes it was the mouse's fault for dying.
This is like the dream farm Lennie and George talked about. It has cattle and crops and fruit. "well it's ten acres, got a little windmill. Got a little shack on it, and a chicken run. Got a kitchen, orchard, cherries, apples, peaches, cots, nuts, got a few berries. They's a place for alfalfa and planty fo water to flood it...(Steinbeck 57)" I feel like they wouldn't have been successful if Curley's wife still didn't interveen because Lennie would've messed up somewhere else.
This is another book from the Great Depression. It talks of a girl telling about her life through the 1930s. She lives on a farm and goes through dust storms daily. She's a 14 year old girl and describes her winters and summers. Her dad is a wheat farmer and works hard what is left of the farm and her mom cleans the house of endless dust from the storms. It talks about how they struggle to make the best of their situation during this time.
This is the bunkhouse. "The bunkhouse was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted...Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking...Near one wall there was a black cast-iron stove...In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with playing cards..." (Steinbeck 17). It wasn't very big and probably not very clean but those were the working conditions back then.
Ths is a picture of Adam and Eve. They ate from the tree that the Lord commanded them not to and sinned. Culey's wife and Eve are alike because they both prevented people from their paradise. Eve, prevented Adam and her and everyone to come from an easy sinless life. Curley's wife prevented Lennie and George from their little piece of paradise they were gonna get.
This rabbit like represents the pureness of Lennie and that all he wants is to tend to there rabbits, but that's all he focuses on. " How I get to tend the rabbits. (Steinbeck 14)" He only worries about if he does something wrong he doesn't get to tend rabbits, nothing else like bigger consequences like jail.
This is a dog. This symbolizes authority, like when Carlson shot Candy's dog, Carlson had authority over the dog. "This ol' dog jus' suffers hisself all the time. (Steinbeck 45)" It also says the dog stinks and has no use anymore because he's old. Carlson had authority over the dog saying if he died or not.
I think the theme of the book was The American Dream. They were working so hard to get their own land, provide for theirselves. "well it's ten acres, got a little windmill. Got a little shack on it, and a chicken run. Got a kitchen, orchard, cherries, apples, peaches, cots, nuts, got a few berries. They's a place for alfalfa and planty fo water to flood it...(Steinbeck 57)" They talked about everything they could have and how it was actually possible to get it.
This is a picture of the Great Depression. Even war verterans and family men couldn't get a job. Lennie and George are like migrant workers that run around trying to get a job. "You remember about us going into Murray and Ready's, and they give us work cards and bus tickets? (Steinbeck 5)" Lennie and George had to get cards to go work on a ranch and they had to leave their home to find work just like in the Great Depression. They had to leave their homes for work and support the family.
This is Curley's wife that never is named. "Well-- she got the eye. (Steinbeck 28)" She hits on the other men that work there because she feels alone. She's married to Curley and he always neglect to see her or notice her. She knows that he goes and cheats on her and she feels so alone. She dresses nice to impress and no ones supposed to talk to her.
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This is Slim. "A tall man stood in the doorway. He held a crushed Stetson hat under his arm while he combed his long, black, damp hair straight back.......He moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftmen. He was a jerkline skinner, the prince of the ranch..." (Steinbeck 33)" He had confidnece and everyone respected him. He was calm and patient and always listened to everyones opinions.
This is Curley. ";a thin young man with a brown face, with brown eyes and a head of tightly curled hair. He wore a work glove on his left hand, and, like the boss, he wore high-heeled boots. (Steinbeck 25)" He's full of himself and sizes everyone up to make them scared of him. He's the boss' son too. He thinks he's tough.
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