Almelund Analysis

In the beginning chapter, Steinbeck present the idea of loneliness and men who work on ranches living temporary lives. As they were walking along the trail, it is depicted as “a path beaten by hard boys coming down from the ranches” (18). The men who work on the farm have had temporal, isolated and solitary lives. It suggests that the isolated and nomadic lives are inevitable. The journey of the George

In the novella Poachers , Tom Franklin describes the life of three brothers who have distinct life.   These individuals are despised  by the certain residents who categorize them savages.  Normally, in life the majority of adolescent possesses a family and a stable house..  Nevertheless,  the Gates brothers were not privileged  having a family that can take care of them.  They became orphans at an early age comparing to other juveniles.  Throughout the sequence of the narrative, many other characters have been involved in formidable situations.  The author of

One night, Santa Clause was delivering gifts at an orphanage. One of the toddlers at the orphanage wakes up and climbs out of his crib. “BANG” he fell on the ground and started to crawl towards Santa Clause gift sack. Buddy starts his journey once he got into Santa’s gift sack. Santa did not realize that a toddler snuck into his gift sack. Santa arrives back to The North Pole, and the elves and him hear something moving in the sack. A second later a baby crawls out of the gift sack. Santa and the elves were in shock when they saw the baby. The baby’s name is on the baby’s

Solidifying the theme of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the protagonist George expresses his significant loneliness despite a strong kinship with his friend Lennie, “’I ain’t got no people… I seen the guys that go around the ranches alone. That ain’t no good’” (41). Published in 1937, amidst the horrific turmoil of the Great Depression, Steinbeck’s novella struck a sensitive chord with readers. Set in the heart of California’s Central Valley, this story follows two men, George and Lennie, as they run from old shadows to a new farm for work. Clinging to the distant dream of owning their own piece of land, the men imagine life outside their present difficulties. Illustrating that life is varied by emotional complexities beyond black and white, George’s longing for companionship and family seep through in conversations with his new co-worker Slim. Despite Lennie’s sheer physical strength, his mental abilities are limited to that of a naïve, innocent, and very young boy; the result is a relationship akin to an uncle and nephew. Lennie, with primal-like behaviors and a gold-fish memory, struggles to adhere to George’s words of wisdom. In the end, tragedy strikes them both as George is forced to kill Lennie due to an accident with the son of the landowner’s wife – a woman who looks for trouble at the onset. Consequently, George’s state of loneliness is bequeathed to a new level as he begins to imagine life without Lennie in tow.

In a society of people all in the same situations how can someone feel so alone. When lives fall apart and people have nothing to hold on to people need each other most, yet are pushed so far from others. The novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, follows the storyline of two men who are displaced farm workers during the Great Depression; they travel around and stick by each other’s sides no matter the circumstance. After many jobs they end up on a farm,the farm they hope will be their last stop. The time spent on the farm is filled with blooming friendships and careless quarrels, yet with an abundance of characters and entertainment- many people on the farm feel alone and out of place. Characters such as Crooks and Curley’s wife often come to mind when the subject of loneliness is brought up. Throughout the book using characters such as Crooks and Curley's wife, John Steinbeck demonstrates that humans are immensely impacted by separation from society and it will change the way that people will act and show themselves to others.

When his father died, Owen Brown’s family suffered. Without any help, the family’s crops failed that year, and they were forced to sell their cattle. The family tried to maintain their farm, but the fierce winter the next year made things even more difficult; most of their remaining

“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place . . .With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.” (Steinbeck 13-14)

‘..Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world they got no family they don’t belong no place.’ This is what many felt during the ‘great depression’ in the 1930’s. John Steinbeck gives us the sense that many felt lonely ‘they got no family they don’t belong no place. The main theme of this novel is alienation; the three characters, Curley’s wife, candy, and crooks are all alienated, and felt it by another person at some point. They all have dreams... it’s the American dream... but not all dreams come true...

wants to take control over the farm. His mother told him no and John took it

Life in the Iron Mills is a tragic yet poignant story of the effects of a man’s socioeconomic status. Although set in the nineteenth century, the story is all too familiar. The short story begins with a reflective narrator begging the audience to read the story with an open mind not tainted by the ideals of high society (Davis). The narrator suggests the story be read from the perspective of the protagonist, Hugh Wolfe, a lowly puddler at the iron mill (Davis). Hugh works long, hard hours at the mill for little to no pay in attempts to provide not only for himself but also for his cousin, Deborah, and a young girl, Janey (Davis). In Hugh’s spare time at the mill, he carves sculptures out of korl (Davis). Hugh leads a typical life of a working class citizen.

The first topic of this essay is loneliness, and the readers need to figure out how this first topic is a portion of this answer. For starters, loneliness has been a state of mind, when a person starts to feel abandoned by a friend that the farmer recognizes. In this story scenario, it occurs when the

John was keeping the promise he made to himself years ago when he was but a child, the promise of never sending his children into the mines to work because he knew how it felt to have his dreams taken, how it felt to work in the mines shoveling coal. To him coal mining offered no future, it only took years from hard working people who had nowhere else to turn or knew of nothing else.

In Wendell Berry’s “Making it home,” he uses the contrast in the character’s identity to demonstrate a change. Berry accomplishes this by characterizing Art’s three stages of life; the soldier, the man and the farmer.

What if I was to tell you that the jolly, friendly, and innocent wonderworker that is Santa Claus that we all know and love, didn't always make the ‘nice list?’ Siefker bridges the gap between truth and fiction by embedding the notion that Santa Claus has taken on some strange identities over the past hundreds of years- each varying in name, personality, and drapery. In a daunting and unruly thesis, Siefker unfolds the evolution of Santa Claus and exploited his time as Robin Goodfellow; who is sometimes referred to as Puck, the Pagan fairy of mischief (Wright). However irrational this truth may seem, it is noted that Santa Claus is derived from an accumulation of tales, the earliest of which begin in year 260 AD with the birth of Saint Nicholas

Claus but all the elves and reindeer run outside to try and help Santa off the ground from the fall. While they all try to help him, Webb says "Rudolph's nose blinks like a sad ambulance light," which compares the light of Rudolph's nose to the light from an ambulance. While transitioning from Santa's side of the poem, Webb moves to an 8 years old's perspective, who still believes in Santa but in lines 24-26, the young boy talks to his mother he tells her "stupid kids at school say Santa is a big fake." The mother is caring and loving and sits with him on their purple-flowered couch and takes his hand into her own; the boy's mother knows then that she would have to tell her son that what the other kids told him was true.