Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Today I will be talking about how the author John Steinbeck has conveyed the central ideas of prejudice and persecution in the book “Of Mice and Men.” The book is set in the time of “The American Dream” and is about 2 men, George and Lennie. George is small and quite intelligent while Lennie is large and unintelligent as he is mentally handicapped. In the novel, George and Lennie travel from different ranches to work to save up their money to chase their dreams of living on a farm by themselves. Although, there are many tragedies in the novel due to the fact that the story is set in a disinterested world with disinterested people which makes it difficult for people’s dreams to come true. There are many examples of this such as racism, sexism and ageism. There are many characters in the novel that are victims of prejudice and persecution such as Crooks, a black man, Curley’s wife, a woman who is referred to without a name, but referred to as the wife of a man named Curley, and Candy, an old frail man that is seemed as useless due to his age. This image here is a good symbolic representation of the themes in the novel, prejudice and persecution as it shows that even though everyone in the picture looks different, they are still all the same on the inside and they are still people. Back to the novel, Crooks is a highly targeted victim of prejudice and persecution as he is black and regarded as low in society. “Well, you keep your place then, Nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny,” This quote uses forceful language to show how people feel towards black people and racism in general, and the fact that white people have power over the black people. “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.” This quote uses a metaphor by comparing being “lonely” and “sick” and uses emotion to show isolation due to the fac