Mice and Men Much Like

In "To a Mouse," Burns apologizes to a mouse for destroying its home and everything it has worked so hard for. Though the mouse has prepared for the winter, and "saw the fields laid bare and wasted/and weary winter coming fast/and cozy here, beneath the blast/Sought to dwell/Til crash! The cruel plough past/Out through your cell" (Burns)

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For instance, when Steinbeck accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature, in his acceptance speech he said, "The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing many of our grievious faults and failures, with dreding up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement" (George, 83)

Steinbeck\'s of Mice and Men:

Among other jobs, Steinbeck was a journalist before becoming a well-known novelist. He also spent some time working on ranches in order to better understand the lives of the migrant workers" (Kew)

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However, in the mid 19th century the biggest pull for people to come to California was the desire to participate in the gold rush and to find some immediate wealth for oneself. Much of what influenced Steinbeck's stories were the events in the nation that Steinbeck lived through himself (Meltzer, 73)

Steinbeck\'s of Mice and Men:

He once wrote, 'I want the participation of my reader. I want him to be so involved that it will be his story'" (Schultz, viii)

Steinbeck\'s of Mice and Men:

This stylistic choice is in many ways a complete necessity because "Of Mice and Men explores a lot of fundamental issues that were prevalent during the early years of the twentieth century: discrimination, the roles of women in society, the dangers and consequences of being injured on the job, the unsophisticated judicial system, the lack of opportunity for upward mobility, and the cruel hardships of farm life. Above all, Steinbeck tackles the never-ending universal issue of human rights" (Weisberg)

Steinbeck\'s of Mice and Men:

He was also sensitive about his reputation. Although he continued to write into the 1960s, he felt critics only praised his books from the 1930s" (Williams, 4)

Mice and Men by John

At the opening of the book, he says, "Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know," (Camus 1) and that pretty much sums up his feelings (or lack of) about even the most important and life shattering events

Mice and Men by John

With us it ain't like that. We got a future" (Steinbeck 15)

Mice and Men Isolation in Steinbeck\'s of

We couldn't stop him until it was too late. (Parini) Jay Parini notes that it is the unstoppable craving (or dreaming) that causes the characters to come to harm -- for Curley's wife and Lennie, especially

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