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Detail
The most ingenues relationship in John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men is the parallel between the landscape description in the first chapter and the characters introduced later. Steinbeck says, "the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green". This description seems to do the job for the Salinas River and George, a man working hard to keep a slower friend,Lennie, alive, he "runs close" to Lennie. The picture for Gibilan Mountains is very similar to Lennie. "Slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan mountains". Mountains, massive yet seemingly stupid mounds of rock, are similar to Lennie, both being strong yet stupid. "Under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp" parallels to the workers at the ranch. They are thick in numbers and lie underneath the boss, who parallels to the the trees. Curly,the boss's sun, weds "a tart", the workers beat him down behind his back. Curly is "a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway". Curly's Wife, her name is not mentioned, is called "a tart", which means she is very flirtatious. She is also described, "the limb is worn smooth by men who have sat on it". Even though Steinbeck's way of adumbrating his future characters is hard to pick up on, it is a very clever way of foreshadowing.
Point of View
The third-person objective point of view shows the painful lives the men on the ranch lived.
"Crooks sat on his bunk... in one hand he held a bottle of liniment.. he rubbed his spine."Crooks, living a harder life because he was black, rubbed his spine because he was kicked by a mule, he feels pain often."Lennie and Carlson came in together.. Lennie crept to his bunk and sat down, trying not to attract attention."Lennie's biggest worry is George, which is not a big deal. He mainly does his work then wonders around the ranch, petting the "pups". The third person objective point of view differentiates the lives of the men.
Tone
The tone words empathetic and tough explain the moods and feelings Steinbeck is trying to convey in Of Mice and Men.Epethetic feelings are strongly felt because of Lennie's speech and actions. He says "I'd find things, George. I don't need no nice food with ketchup. I'd lay out in the sun and nobody'd hurt me. an' if I foun' a mouse, I could keep it.". When reading this, feelings of sorrow arise for Lennie, the reader wants to help and encourage him. Not only do George and Lennie bring up empethitic feelings but tough ones too. George tells Lennie, "Guys like us, that work on ranches , are the loneliest gus in the world.", that night that ate canned beans for dinner. Canned beans are not the best dinner in the world, but they have no choice. Life was definatly though for them.

The Giver Book Review

The Giver by Lois Lowery mesmerized me by telling a world empty of decisions and choice. Citizens in this community not only lack freedom but the knowledge that freedom exists giving the government total control of the citizens bodies and more importantly their minds. But what happens when someone gains memories of both the good and bad of freedom? Will he choose a land of freedom but full pain or one full of painless emptiness.
Everything is decided for you, and you don't realize that. Pain pills are given if you fall off your bicycle, which is given when you become a nine. When you start to feel strong emotions, pills are given for that too. Everyone is made the same. All is born near the same time, all is killed at the same age. Yet no one realizes that the old is killed and that they will share the same fate. No one but the Giver and Jonas realize truth and have memories of freedom and the price of freedom. The Giver was given these memories from the one before him, and he was given the memories from the the one before him. Jonas is the next in line. The giver gives each valuable memory, one by one. He puts his hands on Jonas's back. Jonas seems to have magically departed to a new place, the Giver's memory. Jonas soon learns true happiness, and true pain. He learns that the old are really being murdered, he learns to stop taking the pills that suppress his emotion. But how far will Jonas go for freedom? Is freedom worth the thing the Giver called "war". Will he want to escape and even if he wanted to, how?
The Giver has captured an epic choice: a free but painful society vs a controlled, choice less but painless world. Read this incredible book.