Of Mice and Men begins with two migrant workers named Lennie Small and George Milton, who are trying to survive by looking for a job at the ranch. Lennie faces social justice since he commits errors due to his mental illness and does not receive consequences as other employees would. George learns to tolerate Lennie at every moment from acting like a child to becoming a criminal, and lastly, another employee named Candy faces equal despair from others along with his pet dog. Along their journey they meet new people with many different perspectives or lifestyles together, but at the end to realize they lose the one they have always been close too. Steinbeck is trying to show the reader about social justice, tolerance, and equality for many workers or people in general go through many problems they cannot help but go through during work. For example, getting treated equally with no harm, although you have a certain disability, ability to have high levels of stress and not break out, or even having to get treated equally with love or despair. Tolerance is how the author teaches us how George creates a friendship with Lennie symbolizing an eternal friendship with lots of tolerance due to Lennie's mental condition. Throughout the time, George learned to calm his levels of stress towards Lennie since he has to understand he is not capable of doing certain things as others. In the book it tells us, “An’ why? Because… because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you. And thats why” (14). Steinbeck's viewpoint in tolerance is how Lennie wants to be there for George and expects the same thing in return, but George has to tolerate all of Lennie's actions no matter how minor or big they are. The writer uses symbolism as a close bond they have formed to the point the George becomes a brother figure towards Lennie. Lennie Small gives the interpretation of social justice in Steinbeck's book Of Mice and Men Since Lennie has different treatment compared to the other employees also using imagery for us to view all of
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In the same way, everyone on the ranch understands Lennie's difficulties with working with one another and learning the ability to control his actions with his anger and love for soft things and have social justice for only him. The novel describes to us, “George yelled again, ‘I said get him.’ Curley’s fist was swinging when Lennie reached for it. The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's big hand. George ran down the room. ‘Leggo of him, Lennie. Let go’” (62). In other words the author's outlook on social justice is Lennie gets treated like everyone else but with no consequences or even secrets to keep cover. The writer also tells us, “Slim went on. ‘I think you got your han’ caught in a machine. If you don’t tell nobody what happened, we ain’t going to’”(63). basically he uses imagery for the audience to focus on Lennie's performance of violence and how many of the workers are able to cover up for him since Lennie does not know his own strength as someone normal would in the
In the same way, everyone on the ranch understands Lennie's difficulties with working with one another and learning the ability to control his actions with his anger and love for soft things and have social justice for only him. The novel describes to us, “George yelled again, ‘I said get him.’ Curley’s fist was swinging when Lennie reached for it. The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's big hand. George ran down the room. ‘Leggo of him, Lennie. Let go’” (62). In other words the author's outlook on social justice is Lennie gets treated like everyone else but with no consequences or even secrets to keep cover. The writer also tells us, “Slim went on. ‘I think you got your han’ caught in a machine. If you don’t tell nobody what happened, we ain’t going to’”(63). basically he uses imagery for the audience to focus on Lennie's performance of violence and how many of the workers are able to cover up for him since Lennie does not know his own strength as someone normal would in the