John Steinback’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ Essay

John Steinbacks Of Mice and Men is a tale of two travelling exploiters in the harsh depression years of thirties America. Steinback uses a Cyclical Structure upon goal the book I noticed umteen similarities between the scratch and extend chapter.The first similarity was the location. In Chapter One Steinback mentions a deserted place near a non-flowing pond, and then introduces both Lennie and George, the same happens in the last chapter but this quantify Lennie is but having run away from the paste. Lennie is shown to the readers as simple-minded and so Steinback uses this to an advantage His grand confederate dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool drank with long gulps, snorting into the piddle homogeneous a horse Lennie dipped his undivided head under, hat and all, and then he sat up on the posit and his hat dripped down on his regretful coat and ran down his back Lennie dabble his big paw in the piddle and wigg led his fingers so the water arose in midget splashes rings widened across the pool to the other(a) side and came back again, Lennie watched them go. cypher George. Look what I done. Steinback mentions the drinking of the pool water later in Chapter Six.The second similarity that I noticed was of the dream that Lennie and George sh ard. rightful(prenominal) resembling a little child, Lennie likes the apprehension process of their dream and asks for it to be repeated on numerous occasions. The most significant times are mentioned in the book at the beginning where they both feel that they are able to achieve the dream and at the end, just before George shoots Lennie.Lennie has this problem where at one time he holds onto to something he cant let go. In Chapter One George and Lennie are running away from a spread head in Weed, due to Lennie holding onto a girls red silk dress, as he felt the silk, the girl popular opinion that she was going to be sexually assaulted and so panicked. She ran off to tell the other ranch workers giving George and Lennie time to run off. In the Last Chapter Lennie runs from the Soledad ranch to the brush demesne because he killed Curleys wife.Having to set up with Lennies large(p) behavior, George feels pressurized and so says that he could live a lot disclose with protrude Lennie Why, I could stay in a cat house all night. I could eat all place I want, hotel or any place, and order any damn thing I could mobilize of. This is all mentioned in Chapter One and in the last chapter Georges feelings are equal by Lennies hallucination in the form of aunt Clara And then from out of Lennies head there came a little fat old woman. She wore wide bulls-eye glasses and she wore a huge gingham apron with pockets, and she was starched and clean. She stood in front of Lennie and put her hands on her hips, and frowned disapprovingly at him.And when she spoke, it was in Lennies voice. I tol you an tol you, I tol you Min George because hes such(prenominal) a nice fella an cracking to you But you dont never take no administer. You do faulty things. You never give a thought to George, hes been doin nice things for you alla time. When he got a piece a pie you unceasingly got half or moren half All the time he coulda had such a good time if it wasnt for you. He woulda took his pay an brocaded hell in a whorehouse, and he coulda set in a poolroom an play snooker. But he got to take care of you.Knowing that he has done something bad this time, Lennie reflects back the entire sayings that him and George said before going to work on the ranch in Soledad. From the catsup argument Lennie threatens to leave George and climb up into the mountains, yet again in the last chapter he threatens to go off into the caves to Aunt Clara.Steinbacks use of language describing the water glide and the heron gives the reader a very(prenominal) secretive message If your not paying attention something bad may happen, and just like the watersnake being caught by the heron, the watersnake represents Lennie and the heron represents George.