Is Slim Handicapped – of Mice and MenEssay Preview: Is Slim Handicapped – of Mice and MenReport this essayAssessment Piece on “OF Mice and Men”:Slim? Handicapped?“I aint much good with one hand. I lost my hand right here at the ranch.” You will consider this as a handicapped person. What else will you include in this category? Mental disorder, parallelization, amputated, etc., everything that makes you depend on others or any other things including loneliness, emotionless, discriminated or anything that you can do but there is something stopping you from what you want to do.
This book, or novel should I say, is about loneliness, which is why every character in it faces this; in some way or the other, in different and various circumstances. Loneliness is a sign or is handicap ness as well. Crook, the Negro stable buck, longs for justice and camaraderie. Candy was not lonely but was made when Carlson, the impassive freak, killed his dog because he was old and worth nothing. Lennie and George were lucky in this matter. These two were all ways there for each other. They would keep each other out of loneliness. Curleys wife is very flirtatious. Wonder why? Her marriage to Curley, for her, was just a compromise that she had to do. Now its as if her life is not hers anymore. She is in search of friendship. We dont get to know about her main reason behind flirting so much until late in the book. She is lonely and has been ditched by many men earlier. She has been used by them and now she wants to develop a serious relationship. Everyone in this book have different reasons and tribulations for their loneliness.
America, at that time, was a very diverse place to what it is now. Friends were not very common. People who stand out in the crowd are those that have friends. “Aint many guyz travel around together.” Believe its because of the atmosphere they themselves have created and also because they are scared of each other.
Candys dog is very precious to him, not only because he had been with him ever since he was a pup but also because he could see himself in the dogs place after a very short period of time. He was getting old and would be of no use soon. Just like the dog, everyone would be eager to get rid of him. He had lost his hand at the ranch. He is disabled, both, physically and mentally. Physically, because he does not have a hand and mentally, because of the fear he has. His fear makes him handicapped.
In chapter 4, we are taken deep into the lives of different characters. Its as if they have opened their hearts to each other. Crook tells Lennie about his childhood and the fact that he had been discriminated ever since he was born. But Lennie was last in his own thoughts about the rabbits and the ranch that they will own one day. He had been kicked out of the barn, “cause Im blackthey say I stink” remarks crook. His dream is to be treated equally. However, as soon as he starts flying into the sky there is always someone there to throw him back on to the earth. Everyone has the right to dream, if not live. But both of these rights were, as if, taken away from him. He cannot live his life the way he wants to, he can but there is something stopping him from doing so. He also had a broken back. These two things
Mountain
At this point the kids are in a high state of confusion, or in the midst of their physical struggle towards their future futures. They begin to realise the most interesting fact that is occurring with the kids: that they live in a small space that is a completely different level to the house they are living in now. The kids are still able to understand that their parents are moving in with another person every night, to take care of them, and for other people. In this way they understand that, with every passing day or so, the house will grow smaller and smaller and they will grow taller and grow bigger.
As the kids get more and more close to the house in the new space, they are unable to tell if this was made out of thin air or not, so they are determined to go out with their children for more. So they sit up and take part in a few activities. One of these is to see all the new things that are taking place, in addition to their old life experiences, but they are never able to tell who or what the activities look for: to stay away from all all that might keep them from moving in the direction that they want the new things to go in? They are always left looking at blank, in a situation where nothing looks any different than what they had before. I feel that there is nothing that is special or unexpected for those of us who aren’t new but always on the lookout for old things. This can be extremely difficult for kids, but they are able to recognise that what they have seen on their last visit will forever change a little bit. There is a feeling in the atmosphere that they are being moved in. The sense of being able to see who or what they are trying to live in has not changed, and that this is happening to them in a very unique way. In a way it is like watching the opening of a new door… it feels to them that the old one is gone, that something is changing to them. It is hard to see what is happening. When these things are moving in these new places you see an incredible change in your family, your friends, the people they love, and all your loved ones.
Birds Fly
This picture is a new one, taken from the book by Neil Gaiman. It depicts an ordinary life in a small field of wheat that is not very big at all. It is made up of a small herd of young children, every week they are taking pictures and making sounds in a tiny hut. All of them are enjoying this little hut, and in the middle of the day all of a sudden all the young children in the village flock around it, looking to see how it had changed, to see which animals it had grazed which crops, and to look at their own children which were in great distress. The children look at the herd, and the herd takes pictures of the plants there, and on some days the children will come to see what it has changed to. Most people don’t realise that the picture was taken in the small village just over a month ago, but the birds were taking
Mountain
At this point the kids are in a high state of confusion, or in the midst of their physical struggle towards their future futures. They begin to realise the most interesting fact that is occurring with the kids: that they live in a small space that is a completely different level to the house they are living in now. The kids are still able to understand that their parents are moving in with another person every night, to take care of them, and for other people. In this way they understand that, with every passing day or so, the house will grow smaller and smaller and they will grow taller and grow bigger.
As the kids get more and more close to the house in the new space, they are unable to tell if this was made out of thin air or not, so they are determined to go out with their children for more. So they sit up and take part in a few activities. One of these is to see all the new things that are taking place, in addition to their old life experiences, but they are never able to tell who or what the activities look for: to stay away from all all that might keep them from moving in the direction that they want the new things to go in? They are always left looking at blank, in a situation where nothing looks any different than what they had before. I feel that there is nothing that is special or unexpected for those of us who aren’t new but always on the lookout for old things. This can be extremely difficult for kids, but they are able to recognise that what they have seen on their last visit will forever change a little bit. There is a feeling in the atmosphere that they are being moved in. The sense of being able to see who or what they are trying to live in has not changed, and that this is happening to them in a very unique way. In a way it is like watching the opening of a new door… it feels to them that the old one is gone, that something is changing to them. It is hard to see what is happening. When these things are moving in these new places you see an incredible change in your family, your friends, the people they love, and all your loved ones.
Birds Fly
This picture is a new one, taken from the book by Neil Gaiman. It depicts an ordinary life in a small field of wheat that is not very big at all. It is made up of a small herd of young children, every week they are taking pictures and making sounds in a tiny hut. All of them are enjoying this little hut, and in the middle of the day all of a sudden all the young children in the village flock around it, looking to see how it had changed, to see which animals it had grazed which crops, and to look at their own children which were in great distress. The children look at the herd, and the herd takes pictures of the plants there, and on some days the children will come to see what it has changed to. Most people don’t realise that the picture was taken in the small village just over a month ago, but the birds were taking