Of Mice And Men

The day was dark and dreary. There were two men talking, having a peaceful conversation by the river. Birds were flying above the skies calling out a cry of sadness. The short man was telling a story of a beautiful dream. The dream consisted of a dream that they would have some day: rabbits and a farm and “living’ off the fatta the land”. The big man smiled and looked at the mountains listening and dreaming of that fantasy. He knew it was going to come true some day. Then, all of a sudden, the short man pulls out a gun and shoots his best friend in the back of the head. What kind of violence do schools want to teach their students? By just showing the mere part of shooting a person, it also spreads the notion of doing the same action. After this horrendous incident, the men took the short man out to drink beer. Is this a cause of celebration? These contents should be protected from exposing to teenagers. Of Mice and Men also shows overuse of offensive language and ethnic segregation. Therefore, Of Mice and Men should be banned.

A part of this book dedicates a chapter to show the stereotypical situation in the 1930s. Crooks is the main part of this chapter of the book and it shows how he reacts when a white man comes into the room and other situations. This book may show some stereotypical situation in the south as educational, but it may expose and offend a certain group of people. Furthermore, when naÐ"Їve read this book, they may not be capable of knowing how to react to this book and call discriminating names to their fellow peers. School districts need to realize that some, if not most of the students reading this would have their ethnic background offended in some way.

Another part of the book shows the theme of friendship as a very positive idea. This includes George and Lennie, who are the best of friends and come to work together on the ranch. However, it doesn't end so happily when George ends up shooting and killing Lennie Even though this book has some optimistic values of friendship, it also ends up destructive and can give abnormal ideas to unexposed teens. These ideas can sometimes be harmful, especially coming from a novel.

The degradation of woman sets the tone of inequality. Curley's wife symbolizes the dream of equal rights for women. In the story, she is the loneliest person on the ranch. Because she has no one to socialize with, she usually dresses provocatively or questions the whereabouts of Curley to get some attention. Even then, the men on the ranch do not listen to her and call her and call her a "tart" and "jail-bait" while also saying that she's always giving the "eye". To top that, even Curley, her own husband, does not regard her and goes out to cat houses or whore houses with the other men the ranch. While trying to speak to the men at one time, Curley's wife exclaims, "Think I don't know where they all went? Even Curley. I know where the y'all went" (77) She is telling the men that she knows that Curley goes to the cathouses and leaves her behind. Furthermore, her dream of being an actress never gets accomplished because she claims "her mother stole her letter" Myriads of young women in the 1930s dream was to be a film star but it was often only a scam to take advantage of young woman.

As the book progresses, violence becomes a typical activity among the characters. This violence digs deep into the story and people end up hurting each other without receiving consequences from their actions. For example, Lennie kills the puppy and Curley's wife and then George kills Lennie. It seems like an interminable pattern of destructive murdering. Furthermore, this book is prone to be violent as Curley starts hitting Lennie so hard that his nose starts bleedinq. This book was very clearly set in the 1930s because Curley beats up people and was not being arrested for it. Moreover, when George kite Lennie, he does not receive any punishment for his crime. Shooting a gun into a man, innocent or not is certainly a crime. On the Of Mice and