Of Mice and Men Lit Themes
- Created by: Splash Heslin
- Created on: 12-10-15 15:19
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- OMAM Lit Themes
- The Great Depression
- Economic down turn 1929-39, after stock market crash.
- 13-15 million American's unemployed
- Soup kitchens, bread lines, homeless
- Banks failed
- Migrant farmers-> Golden California for land
- Not as good as promised
- Ranch hands
- Travell from job to job
- Lonley
- Racism
- Klu Klux Klan
- Lynching
- Violence
- Abuse
- Intimidation
- Hatred
- Crooks
- Stable buck
- "Just a ****** saying it'
- Lonely- isolated
- Segregation
- Public spaces
- Transport
- Education
- Towns
- Inter- marriage illegal in some states
- Public spaces
- White men dominated
- Intimated black people
- Better jobs/ wages
- Klu Klux Klan
- The American Dream
- "An' live offa the fatta the lan'"
- The poor ranch hands wish to e their own bosses, and have stability in their lives.
- Curley's Wife= movie star
- George+ Lennie= ranch/ rabbits
- Crooks+ Candy= G+L ranch
- Impossibiltie of the American ream
- Role of Women
- Many unemplyed
- Frowned upon to a have a job that a man should do
- Bad paying jobs- not as much as men
- Factories
- Women expected to look after the home
- Limited education
- Male dominated world
- Curley's Wife
- Many unemplyed
- Handicaps
- Candy
- Lost hand
- $250 compensation
- Unusual + kept his job.
- Still not good
- Unusual + kept his job.
- Lennie
- Mentally
- Picked on by Curley
- Threatened by Crooks
- Taken away from families-> institutions
- Mental disabilities not treated with respect
- Taken away from families-> institutions
- Discrimination
- Candy
- The Great Depression
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