Themes in of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

There atomic number 18 some(prenominal) ascendants in Of mice and manpower by bath Steinbeck. There is the proposition of br oppositehood and friendship. Lennie and George against further odds are close friends, brothers in a way. They take bring off of individu each(prenominal)y other in different ways. George takes guardianship of Lennie and tries to keep him break through of anguish which is a very difficult task solely one which he takes on nonetheless. Without him Lennie has noone and credibly wouldnt remainder long, all the same if he went and lived in a cave. And George does get something from Lennie he gets companionship their friendship is what sets them away from the other guys that works on pastees. An why? Because because I got you to look laterwards me, and you got me to look aft(prenominal) you, and thats why. Without their friendship at that place would be no book. You get to exact a lot near how George and Lennie interact with each other. Segre gation is alsoin the book. There is the obvious one Crooks the black stable buck is set apart(predicate) from the others because he is black, he isnt even allowed to sleep in the same bunkhouse as the other ranch workers. But others in the news report are set apart from the group as a whole. Curleys wife is ignored by everyone, the only if woman on the ranch and she has noone to piffle to.There is a lot of prejudice towards the two aforementioned characters. Other characters whom people tactile property prejudice against are Lennie, for his disability and glaze over, who alike his firedog is getting old and bequeath soon halt outlived his usefulness. Another theme present is the one of innocence. Lennie has the mind of a small child, he is very exonerated and naive. He doesnt realise what hes doing near of the time. How can he be guilty of a annoyance when he hasnt get dressede anything libellous on purpose? He doesnt know his own strength. He doesnt know much at al l. i thing he does know is that George looks out for him and he is very incorruptible towards him.In the foreigners chapter he gets very foment when Crooks implies that something might have happened to George in town. Its interesting that he is so loyal to George but that he cant remember his Aunt Clara, someone very related to him by blood and that took care of him for some time. There is a clean amount of violence in the book. any(prenominal) of it is intentional, Curley trying to pick a raise up with Lennie, the ranch turn over going after Lennie at the end of the novel all intent on causing disorder and/or killing him. The one who causes the most pain and most death though is Lennie but he barely realises it.He shatters Curleys hand, kills all the animals he acquires and also Curleys wife. However loneliness is definitely the biggest theme in the book because everyone in the story suffers from it. The farm hands going from ranch to ranch by themselves George talks abou t their loneliness already in the firstly chapter, Curleys wife trapped on a ranch with a bunch of men who wont talk to her because they risk getting into trouble with Curley, Crooks who is cast out by everyone, Candy is alone after they shoot his dog who was the only constant companion in his life. All these characters admit that they are lonely.The only people that arent alone are George and Lennie so it is quite sad that he has to shoot Lennie, which might be the exceed for Lennie at the time but from then on George joins the ranks of lonely ranch hands travelling on their own. Except he has known companionship so he will always know what hes missing the other guys have never had anyone they were that close to so they dont understand his pain after he shots Lennie. This is obvious in the last sentence uttered by Carlson reflexion George and Slim walk away together. now what the hell ya suppose is eatin them two guys?