Of Mice and Men brief revision
- Created by: EloiseRN
- Created on: 17-05-16 19:47
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- Of Mice and Men
- Themes
- Prejudice
- Racism
- Crooks
- Sexism
- Curley's wife
- Ageism
- Candy
- Racism
- Loneliness
- All the migrant farm workers
- Dreams
- All the migrant farm workers, George and Lennie especially, and Curley's wife (to be in 'the pictures')
- violence
- Curley and Lennie
- Power
- Strength/weakness
- Curley has a lot of strength, as he is a fighter
- Lennie has strength however is weakened by his child-like mind
- The boss, Curley and Slim
- Strength/weakness
- Prejudice
- Characters
- Lennie
- George
- The boss
- Candy
- Crooks
- Curley
- Curley's wife
- Carlson
- Slim
- Aunt Clara
- Context
- Published in 1937
- Set in Soledad, which means 'lonely'
- Great depression- 1929
- Due to Wall street crash
- 'American Dream' everyone had- to own a land of their own
- Men left their families, travelled for work, nothing was permanent, they were known as 'migrant farm workers'
- Themes
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