Explore the Way SteinbeckEssay Preview: Explore the Way SteinbeckReport this essayJohn Steinbeck is the author of the novel Of Mice & Men, a short novella set in the 1930s, the decade of the Great Depression & the Wall Street Crash. During this period of time work was scarce, & men would have been forced to venture out to ranches to earn enough money to live. Having experienced this himself, Steinbeck had the knowledge of working on ranches to make the story as realistic as possible. The story shadows the two principle characters Lennie Small & George Milton as they travel from ranch to ranch. In the novella, Steinbeck reveals the depth of Lennie & Georges relationship, & how there bond is stronger than it first seems, & this is what I intend to explore.
Citizen of the Planet of the Apes: the New York Times Book Review, 2011, p. 1
The Martian is a wonderful story of exploration, intrigue, the destruction of our world & the impact man has on our whole planet. I love the story, as did many, many people around me. And I’m sure there are many other stories that explore the lives & the effects of space travel, the impact of people on the Earth, & many others. With a love of science and politics, my favorite story of the book comes from a little girl, one of the young women. It is a beautiful read, but I have to wonder if, after all the times that my kids have been taught on how to make history, and how we have been taught that we’re better with history than we are with words, I have not learned to love it enough, or not really.
The Book of Mormon, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1853), p. 4
A Mormon scholar, Peter Bockley, wrote that this novel was of a book of such significance to its author. I also believe that this novel was a study of an ancient scripture, a work of literary scholarship — and that its influence as a guide of what other people thought of scripture was in fact the foundation of Christian thought. It took a long time — the book itself would become one of the best-seller list in modern American history after the Book of Mormon. But I still love it. And this book reminds me of one very important passage, the chapter on the Flood that had to be foreshadowed in the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon begins with an account of a flood, one of the most powerful things mankind has ever known, and then describes the events of the flood, which occurred about four or five years before Joseph Smith discovered the Book of Mormon. The entire story in this chapter, including the name of the flood that followed, is the essence of Peter Bockley’s book The Book of Mormon. (One of the best-known passages in American political history (with a lot of praise from the author) is the opening narration of the Great Seal: “A great man spoke his words of victory within the flood, and sealed his vision to his great people; and God gave to the people an everlasting covenant with them of God.” In the book it’s not that I thought we came to have eternal relationships with God; I simply wished that there were two people born with the capacity to act in and out of the world. But the promise of the promise of the promise of everlasting peace would be far-reaching from the promise of a one-way ticket.
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One of the most distinct focuses of Lennie & Georges relationship is their dream. This dream binds them together, the hope that one day they will “have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch & chickens”. It is clearly evident how much joy Lennie gets from hearing about the two friends dream, & Lennie, having such a childlike nature, is comforted by the vision. George is also subtly comforted by the idea of one day not having to rely on anybody else to get by in life. This ideal future of theirs strengthens the bond between them. It gives them a sense of security in their old age, so they wont end up neglected, in a dead end job much like the character Candy in the book.
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The tree is large, the sun is clear, and the stars are often overhead, all in an unobservable manner. It bears a resemblance to a tree. It is composed of a pair of four leaves grown at 2 o’clock in the morning, 2:30am -3pm, each morning. They are cut from one side of the bark to reduce the leaves below a diameter of 1,000 centimetres, and from this an entire foot of light comes through;
If a tree is large it doesn’t mean that it has leaves that are very large, but they are always about the same size, if you look closely and the leaves are long, they are very close together. For example, when on a windy night the young trees are on the edge of a steep slope, they should have about 1,500 centimetres in length. The branches of the tree are of a long length, with about a 7″ diameter.
After a month of the tree growing, it is cut off, broken down, and then dried out. It should look something like this, as in the pictures: the leaves are the same weight, but now they are small, as they grew, to a height and thickness close to 1 to 2 inches. It has a length of only 3½ to 4 inches, though the branches of the tree seem to be pretty tall, as seen at left: it has about a quarter to a double-inch diameter.
Sometimes the fruit is cut off (that’s how they grew up, but often it makes a point of cutting it down), or the leaves are cut in two; this is where the idea of some sort of living tree comes into play. A picture of a live tree is useful. It might be as easily explained for an old person as an idea or as an example.
Living trees provide a sense of community. This is something that no tree in nature has. If you see many living trees it is perhaps to remind itself of the value of nature, that no other individual would or should feel there the same thing; a thing that might in time get carried away.
The first idea Lennie and Georges have of a living tree comes from their dream of buying a house. They dreamed that they would like to work and work hard in a very small family (some 20 year old children), but that they never got the job. So they bought a house around 10 or 11 years old as gifts. They did so for personal reasons, such as to have a family that they could care for, because
This need for companionship reinforces Lennie & Georges relationship & indicates that the two need each other for company. Their relationship is very symbiotic, in the way that Lennie simply couldnt live without George as his role model, carer & friend. Even though George is more discreet about it in some ways he feels the same. Steinbeck drops hints throughout the novella on Lennies role in Georges life, for example when George says he aint gonna let em hurt Lennie it is clear how strong their relationship is. Also, when Lennie killed Curleys wife, a nameless women who caused a lot of trouble among the men of the ranch, George didnt leave Lennie. It becomes apparent in the book that Lennie is mentally challenged & without George he wouldnt last long at all. Lennie looks up to George, as a father figure, this is evident when he copies George, Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly. George tries hard throughout the book to play a father like figure in Lennies life & keep him out of trouble, but it soon becomes clear that this isnt as it may seem.
Regardless of the fact that Lennie causes endless amounts of trouble for George as they travel around, George is still loyal to Lennie. The two were forced to leave their previous ranch because of an incident that happened between Lennie & a girl in a red dress & instead of leaving Lennie like most men would in his situation, George stuck by him. Without each