Themes in of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

There atomic number 18 many themes in Of mice and work force by John Steinbeck. There is the theme of brformer(a)hood and friendship. Lennie and George against all(a) odds are close friends, brothers in a way. They take care of all(prenominal) other in different ways. George takes care of Lennie and tries to keep him out of care which is a very difficult task but atomic number 53 which he takes on nonetheless. Without him Lennie has noone and probably wouldnt last long, even if he went and lived in a cave. And George does get something from Lennie he gets companyship their friendship is what sets them apart from the other guys that works on facing pageses. An why? Because because I got you to prospect afterwards me, and you got me to look after you, and thats why. Without their friendship there would be no book. You get to read a lot about how George and Lennie interact with separately other. Segregation is alsoin the book. There is the obvious one Crooks the lightlessnes s stable buck is set apart from the others because he is black, he isnt even allowed to sleep in the same bunkhouse as the other scatter workers. But others in the fable are set apart from the base as a whole. Curleys wife is ignored by everyone, the wholly woman on the ranch and she has noone to gurgle to.There is a lot of loss towards the two aforementioned characters. Other characters whom people feel prejudice against are Lennie, for his disability and candy, who like his dog is getting old and will shortly have outlived his usefulness. Another theme present is the one of innocence. Lennie has the mind of a small child, he is very innocent and naive. He doesnt name what hes doing most of the time. How can he be unlawful of a crime when he hasnt done anything harmful on purpose? He doesnt realise his own strength. He doesnt know much at all. One thing he does know is that George looks out for him and he is very loyal towards him.In the outsiders chapter he gets very ag itated when Crooks implies that something might have happened to George in town. Its raise that he is so loyal to George but that he cant remember his Aunt Clara, someone actually related to him by parentage and that took care of him for some time. There is a fair amount of military group in the book. Some of it is intentional, Curley trying to pick a fight with Lennie, the ranch hands going after Lennie at the end of the novel all intent on causing pain 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. stock-still 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 duologue about their loneliness already in the first chapter, Curleys wife pin down 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 rack 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 best for Lennie at the time but from indeed on George joins the ranks of lonely ranch hands travelling on their own. however 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 watching George and Slim walk away together. Now what the hell ya ponder is eatin them two guys?