Themes in of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

thither are many themes in Of mice and work force by John Steinbeck. There is the theme of brotherhood and friendship. Lennie and George against all odds are close friends, brothers in a way. They take fear of distributively other in different ways. George takes care of Lennie and tries to keep him out of trouble which is a very difficult task but one which he takes on nonetheless. Without him Lennie has noone and probably wouldnt last long, regular if he went and lived in a cave. And George does get something from Lennie he gets fellow travellership their friendship is what sets them apart from the other guys that works on bedcoveres. An why? Because because I got you to look after(prenominal) 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 each other. Segregation is alsoin the book. There is the obvious one Crooks the negro stable buck is set apart from the o thers because he is black, he isnt compensate allowed to sleep in the same bunkhouse as the other ranch workers. But others in the story are set apart from the group as a whole. Curleys wife is ignored by everyone, the only woman on the ranch and she has noone to talk to.There is a lot of prejudice towards the two aforementioned characters. otherwise characters whom people feel prejudice against are Lennie, for his disability and Candy, who like his dog is getting old and will soon have outlived his usefulness. Another theme put is the one of innocence. Lennie has the mind of a small child, he is very innocent and naive. He doesnt realise what hes doing most of the time. How can he be guilty of a crime when he hasnt put one anything harmful on purpose? He doesnt know 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 agitated when Crooks implies that somethin g readiness have happened to George in town. Its interesting that he is so loyal to George but that he cant retrieve his Aunt Clara, someone actually related to him by blood and that took care of him for some time. There is a fair amount of violence in the book. any(prenominal) 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 make 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. However 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 talks about their loneliness already in the first chapter, Curleys wife trapped on a ranch with a bunch of men who wont talk to her because they risk getting into trouble with Curley, Crooks who is ca st out by everyone, Candy is alone after they shoot 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 then on George joins the ranks of lonely ranch hands travelling on their own. Except he has cognize 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 apart together. Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin them two guys?