englisch of mince and men

-migrant worker

-protect and cares for lennie

-dreams of owning a farm someday

-taking care of his life first and ultimatly also his deat

-the leader of the mule team

-everyone respect him

-helps lenny when he gets in trouble with curley

-he understand lenny and george situation

-he alone realize at the end of the novel the reason for georges decisio

- sometimes called the swamper

-lost his hand in a ranch accident

-afraid that he wil be fired when he can no longer do his chores

-he convices george to let him join their dream because he can bring the necessary money

- he own a old dog that will become a symbol of Lennie befor the novels end

-the black stable worker

-cares for the horses

- a symbol of racial injustice

- isolated from the other

insensitive ranch owner who shoots Candys do

-mean little guy

-son of the ranch owner

-picks fights with bigger guys

-recently married and extreamly jealous

-only character who is given no name

- she is unsympathetically portrayed as a female tease until the final scene, in which the reader hears about her earlier dream

the narrator is allknowing and describes in the 3.Person

- he knows the feelings and thoungs and is not tied to one person

-sometimes he commets the scene with his own thought

Exposition

Rising action

Climax

Peripeteia (turning point)

Falling action

Catastroph

The stylistic device of tragic irony is mainly used in dramas. The story is constructed in such a way that the audience can already guess in advance that something bad will happen to a character. However, the character in question is not yet aware of this.

for example the confict beetwen curleys wife and lenni

candys dog: he was a strong and usefull dog, but when he gots older he became weak so he gets killed. he stand for the hard selection during the great depression

the death of the dog can also be interpreted as a forwarning of Lennies death. Both are perecived as a load by diffrent people

loneliness: the motiv of loneliness is taken up by the name of the city soledad

george describes early that the life of a worker are lonely

Dreams: the character of the books have dreams. curley wife want to be a filmstar und want to find the true love. the other workers want to get a own farm in the future.Everybody feels like they are trapped in the wrong  life But the focus is on the dream of george and lenny

death: the death mouse/ candys dog/ lennie kills the puppie and curleys wife/ george kills lenny at the end

powerlessness: lenny's body is strong but emotionally weak so he is powerless against challanges

george is powerless against the dumbness of his friend 

all the characters are financial powerles

Striving for the American dream:

lennys and georges dream is to own a farm and a piece of land so they can work for themself, but as the story progress the dream gets further away. they get into more and more trouble and in the end they have to give up the dream

Friendship:

Lennie knows he can trust george and george will always watch out for lennie and protect him. He also did it in the last scene because he knows when the other men get lennie he will have a terrible fate. till the end george is on lenny site and after the death he gives up the drea

born 1902

-died 1968

-one of the most famoust author in 20.century

-wrote many novels, short stories, novellas and screenplays

-worked as a journalist in 2.World War

-won the Pulitzer price in 1940

-won the nobelprice for literatur in 1962