Devoir de Philosophie

Résumé en anglais of mine and men

Publié le 12/04/2011

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In 1937 John Steinbeck publishes Of Mice and Men, a novel which will be published in French translation in 1949 under the title Of Mice and Men. Two characters in this story, play an essential role: George Milton and Lennie Small, two friends from Auburn, as their wandering on roads in California leads to the ranch where the action takes place, George, \"small and bright \"feels responsible for Lennie\" a huge man, face to inform \"that he must constantly\" bail out \"Lennie, with great physical strength, can not control his power, but it is especially intellectually deficient, it is \"silly\", \"dive\" as Curley's wife. Its great fun, very childish, is to cherish what is soft to the touch. Without memory, he never ceases to imitate George [7]. To protect against the lynching which seems promised, will eventually kill Lennie By The son of the owner of the ranch, Curley. Lennie opposes immediately he wanted physical strength, he is always jealous and provocative despite his performance as a boxer, he does not really take that Lennie. Curley's wife is the only character not to be appointed, not having a proper name, by circumlocution, \"She spends her time making eyes at everyone,\" says White, \"to say what she n'peut not leave men\" \"What trail and [his] eyes wide apart, heavily disguised 'only female in this world of men, she is easily provocative, in the light, Lennie \"smile of admiration.\" Invited to stroke her hair \"fine and silky,\" Lennie, frightened by cries she pushes him unwittingly break the vertebrae of the neck to prevent her from screaming. The men of the ranch, The men of the ranch, Candy, old and infirm (no right hand); Slim, RORO (p.75), respected for his \"authority\", his \"dignity\" Carlson (p.77) that do not support the smell of old candy's dog. and kill him with a bullet in the neck, with George used to kill Lennie [9] White, a young farm worker; Crooks, the groom black and infirm are witnesses to the unfolding drama are all alone, with their habits, their expectations modestly kept secret. Lennie and George probably also, like to differentiate themselves from those men \"who work on ranches, are no longer alone in the world. They have no family. They have no home. They go to a ranch, they make a little money, and then they go into town and they spend it all ... and no sooner finished, there they wade to another ranch. They have no future before them. \"George and Lennie, however, like to imagine a future:\" We, we have a future. We have someone to talk to, \"like a nursery rhyme, Lennie repeats,\" because ... because I, you have to take care of me and you, you got me to take care of you , and that's why. \" All the action takes place around a ranch \"a few miles south of Soledad, California (Chapters I and VI), then in barracks that house the ranch where men (Chapters II and III), upholstery (IV), and in the stable (V). The action begins on a Thursday, \"the evening of a hot day, when George and Lennie arrive on the banks of the Salinas, she ends the following Sunday late afternoon, when George runs his friend Lennie

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