{"id":4355,"date":"2019-12-05T04:11:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T04:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeworkjoy.com\/infographics\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2022-09-15T00:10:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T07:10:52","slug":"of-mice-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeworkjoy.com\/infographics\/of-mice-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Mice and Men | A Tragedy by John Steinbeck"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>\u201cMaybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h2><strong>About the Author\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>John Steinbeck<\/h2>\n<p><strong>John Steinbeck<\/strong> is a famous American writer born and brought in Salinas Valley, California. His birthplace has influenced his writings in all possible ways because of its immigrant history.\u00a0 The Grapes of Wrath is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel published in 1939. Alongside this, he wrote almost sixteen novels, non-fiction books, and several short stories. His other famous works include Cannery Row, Pearl, East of Eden, etc.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About the Novel<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Of Mice and Men<\/strong> by John Steinbeck was published in 1937 and is considered his first notable<br \/>\nachievement as an author.\u00a0Of Mice and Men\u00a0focuses on the lives of\u00a0George Milton\u00a0and\u00a0Lennie Small, the<br \/>\nfriends who are working towards a shared dream of owning their own piece of land during the Great<br \/>\nDepression.\u00a0Of Mice and Men\u00a0explores themes of human interaction, dependence, and the damaging<br \/>\neffects of isolation.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Genre:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Tragedy<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tone: <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Sad, Helpless, and Tragic<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Type: <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Novella<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Year of publication: <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1937<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Major themes of the novels\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Isolation and Loneliness<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The book Of Mice and Men conveys the reality of human existence. Throughout the book, almost all the<br \/>\ncharacters feel sad and oppressed.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Fraternity<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The novel portrays the theme of strong fraternal relations between the characters George and Lennie.<br \/>\nThe men stand together as brothers do. But, their bonds loosen due to the tragic event in the end.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The American Dream<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Each character in the novel possesses a dream of achieving something within this life. Their desire for<br \/>\nuntainted happiness makes their goals American.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Fall of the characters<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The characters in the novel consider their world as fatal and flawed. The opening scene of the novel<br \/>\nopens like the Garden of Eden. The characters experience a fall like Adam. Like him, they surpass their<br \/>\nline of control and suffer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMaybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.\u201d About the Author\u00a0 John Steinbeck John Steinbeck is a famous American writer born and brought in Salinas Valley, California. His birthplace has influenced his writings in all possible ways because of its immigrant history.\u00a0 The Grapes of Wrath is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[127],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Of Mice and Men | A Tragedy by John Steinbeck<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Of Mice and Men is a tragic novel written by John Steinbeck. 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