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OMAM - Religion + Mental Disability
Mental Disability :red_flag:
Animal Imagery
'Terrier who didn't want to bring a ball back to its master'
Terrier - dog bred to kill vermin
Lennie kills the mice
Socially inferior / unaware
Monster without
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Eugenics theme
Candy's dog is shot because it is blind and old.
George is aware of the discrimination towards people with mental disabilities.
George lies to the boss saying that Lennie was kicked in the head as a child. He is aware that it is more social acceptable than developmental delay or autism.
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21st century ideas
It justifies the reason for Georges actions
Conditions for those during the 1930s were unpleasant
Childlike Imagery
'I like to pet nice things'
'Jus' like a big baby.'
naivety
Mentally disabled are unable to survive in Great Depression due to harsh conditions and society beliefs
Steinbecks intention - to contradict society expectations?
Belief that those who had mental disabilities were treated like children: 'as the novella progresses, the comparisons to animals are increasingly sinister, rendering [Lennie] not just animalistic, but also savage’
'ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits now'
After killing Curley's Wife
Focused on rabbits even after murdering Curley's Wife
childlike priorities
Religion
Setting - Eden-like opening
Adam and Eve - The fall of Mankind due to Adam and Eve
'the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.' "lizard... rabbits... 'coons... dogs... deers"
Status
Depending on which church you go, shows your faith
Failure to sustain the aspect of giving that takes place on church sundays
lost of faith
looking for a job, no time for church
Church membership declined during the Great Depression
Blame god for their financial problems
During the Great Depression, some religious groups organised soup kitchens
Church Supported those struggling with Great Depression
Soup Kitchens for those unable to have food
Religious institutions help people get jobs
John Milton wrote the Epic Paradise Lost - it is a tale of the biblical story of the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan
Links to OMAM where the social and economical world in which its character in which characters live is fundamentally flawed.
The novella opens by an Eden-like pool that that is presented as a natural paradise, but the people only come and visit and share the the resources amongst themselves.
People believed that the land they admired can soon be theirs and influences their future actions
The purity of the world (in the novella) opening scene proves to be unsustainable as the story continues. The influence of mankind changes the course of nature, leading to disasters.