Fraternity of Brotherhood

Kaitlin K.
English 3&4

As I read the book, Of Mice and Men – I could easily recognize the fraternity of brotherhood. It was the most obvious theme in the book. The theme was basically about the unity of men at work, protect each other and kill Lennie at the end.

The unity of men at work, described as men working together. It is basically men doing their work and helping each other. Lennie, on the other hand, helped out a lot because he is rather huge and strong, so he is able to do double the work faster than any other men.

Protecting each other is also something among men – they may want to look like they are ‘the best’ and pick on smaller (or bigger people, in Curley’s case) – but George would protect Lennie from Curley. What really happened was Lennie just simply laughed and it sparked Curley’s anger. Curley just started beating up Lennie but he was able to defend himself and crush Curley’s hand.

The unity to kill Lennie was mainly because Lennie had killed Curley’s wife – which was completely an accident. The people united to kill Lennie but it was too late – George had beat them to the punch. Even though that isn’t exactly a good thing, George just didn’t want to let a stranger (like Curley) shoot him so he did it himself. That was the ending of the story Of Mice and Men.

In closing, maybe the fraternity of brotherhood isn’t always a good thing as of Lennie died in the end. Let’s just say there are both good and bad sides to the whole brotherhood – there is the men working together, protecting each other and of course, killing someone over something tragic.