Thoughts about the writer.

A poem about a character named Slim from the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.

A Problematic aspect of the American Dream and appropriations thereof, is that it is a fluid concept and means different things to different people.

A poem inspired by Norman Rockwell’s painting entitled “The Problem We all Live With”. It is believed that John Steinbeck’s description inspired Rockwell to do this painting:

Four big marshals got out of each car and from somewhere in the automobiles they extracted the littlest Negro girl you ever saw, dressed in starchy white, with new white shoes….Her face and little legs were very black against the white….The little girl did not look back at the howling crowd but from the side the whites of her eyes showed like those of a frightened fawn. The men turned her around like a doll and then the strange procession moved up the broad walk toward the school, and the child was even a mite because the men were so big.

For the story behind the painting, check out:
www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/007693.html.

Working for sometimes 10c/hour or less and living in squalor next to their own feces the temptation would often be to rebel but this would be met with murder, plain and simple, since they could be easily replaced with another, and this would help bond the other slaves into being more compliant in the future.

This is a scene from “Of Mice and Men” that I rewrote in my own words in third person omniscient point of view.

This is a short story that is written in the style of John Steinbeck, author of “Of Mice and Men”.