I found the beautiful sculpture of Helen of Troy, but i also wanted to add a poem I found of her http://allpoetry.com/The-Face-That-Launch%27d-A-Thousand-Ships , I just really thought it captured how much the men and Paris loved Helen and how she affected them.
This cool piece of pottery is showing the judgement of Paris. It has Athena, Hera, Aphrodite, and Paris himself picking who to give the apple to.
This picture shows the Trojan horse inside the walls of Troy. It shows everyone gathering around it, I suppose its because its a "offering to the gods".
“ The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp strong features. Every part of him was defined: small, strong hand, slender arms, a thin and bony nose” (2).
George Milton is one of the two main characters in Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men a novel written by John Steinbeck, portrays George as a smart man who is loyal to the people he cares for. George is accompanied by Lennie Small his best friend. George has taken the role of caretaker for Lennie. His primary purpose is to protect Lennie. George struggles with having patience with Lennie hower with deep analysis it shows that George loves Lennie like a brother, yet he has to kill him.
George finds struggles in having patience with Lennie. With Lennie being mentally handicapped it can cause him to be a bit oblivious to some things. One night Lennie got on George’s nerves and George blew. He said “ ‘Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. God a’mighty if i was alone i could live so easy. I could get a job an’ work an’ no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month cam i could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever i want.” (11) and also “ An’ whatta I got” ,“ I got you!”.
But despite his impatience with Lennie, its obvious George loves Lennie. Its not necessarily shown through his words, but its definitely there in his actions. He has kept Lennie around. Even when he complains about how his life would be easier without him, he can’t bring himself to leave him. Most men working in ranches are bitter lonely men who spend their free time at cat houses and drinking. But not George and Lennie, as George says “We got a future. We got someone to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ in our jacks jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jails they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.” then Lennie chimed in, “ But not us! An’ why? Because… because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and thats why.” Not to mention in the very beginning of the book George is warning Lennie not to drink so much water so he won’t get sick. Careful readers will be able to see that George in fact loves Lennie. Its because George loves Lennie and would do anything for him, that he kills him. George loved Lennie too much to allow him to suffer. He knew that if he didn’t kill Lennie himself that Lennie would have an even worse fate. He could be beat to death, bleed to death, or they would send him to an insane asylum. So George took it upon himself to to kill Lennie, fast and painless. He recites their american dream to keep Lennie calm and oblivious, and in the middle of it he shoots him. Lennie dies and so does their american dream alongside him. Some readers may question if life would have been easier for George without Lennie. But the thing is, that if George never had Lennie as a part of his life, his life would’ve been nothing special. Without Lennie, George would have never dreamed, never had hope, he wouldn’t have had someone to lean on. He would have been just another bitter lonely man who went to cat houses and spent his days drinking. But Lennie was part of his life, and George is just George- someone who struggles with patience, and cared for Lennie so much that he killed him to spare him misery.
George and Lennie’s dream to own a ranch of their own together is such a major theme in Of Mice and Men. George telling their dream to Lennie in form of a story, and Lennie trying to memorize it becomes a special ritual between the two. Its the goal, to save up enough money and buy their ranch to live their dream.
Most characters in Of Mice and Men have had dreams sometime in their lives. Curley’s wife dreamed of being an actress, Crooks wants to join Lennie and George at their farm, and Candy wants to own his own couple of acres. Their dreams realistic or not, encourage them to have hope, to keep going to get to somewhere better.
The novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, was published in the year 1937. It was written in the great depression era and it tells of some of the hardships people like George and Lennie faced during the time period.
The novel begins with two men named Lennie Small and George Milton travelling by foot to a nearby ranch after being left by their ride, on the search for new jobs. Lennie Small is a large man who happens to be mentally handicapped, so George the other half of the pair has to be the one who makes all the important decisions, takes charge, and leads the way. They eventually get the jobs they went to the ranch for and meet some co-workers on their way out of the boss’ office, Candy a old man who later becomes a friend of George and Lennie, and Curley, the bosses son with a temper problem. Then they later meet Curley’s wife, the supposed flirtatious wife. George warns Lennie to stay away from her, and says to him that she is trouble. George and Lennie are assigned to work with Slim, George later ends up referring to Slim as a friend who he can confide in. Curley picks a fight with Lennie after accusing Slim of talking to his wife and rejecting his apology, resulting in a broken arm caused by Lennie.
Candy overhears about George and Lennie’s conversation about their plans of owning their own piece of land. Candy offers to contribute his savings to purchase the land and ask to join them. They accept his offer.Another afternoon Lennie is searching for his puppy and enters Crook’s room to search for it. Candy then later enters searching for Lennie. Then Curley’s wife comes in and laters threatens Crook with a false rape accusement.
Later on in the day Lennie is alone in the barn with his dead puppy upset about his recent passing. Curley’s wife tries to create conversation with him, she offers to let him pet her hair. She then starts to panic when his strong hands begin to hurt her. She begins to yell, Lennie covers her mouth saying she’ll get him in trouble. In the process of doing that he snaps her neck. He leaves the ranch to the bush by the river George told him to go if he ever got into trouble. When the ranch realizes the Curley’s wife is dead they automatically know it was Lennie and go out to search for him, planning to kill him for his actions. George finds Lennie first, he then kills his best friend out of mercy. The ranch praises George when they find him. But only Slim gets why George shot Lennie.
The novel overall was really great. It had a great plot and kept readers attention. People who have read John Steinbeck’s other work such as The Grapes of Wrath, will most likely enjoy this novel too. Or if they enjoy authors such as Jonathan Franzen, Tennesse Williams, or Theodore Dreiser then they will more than likely enjoy this book.