Of Mice and Men

The book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, would be a great novel to use for the free response essay prompt that revolves around the conflict between a character and society. The novel revolves around the lives of two men: Lennie Small, a mentally challenged and super strong man and George Milton, the brains, who looks after Lennie. Lennie is constantly getting in trouble because of his handicap and George is always there to get him out of harms way. This book can relate to the prompt because society cannot understand Lennie's condition and they are always jumping to the conclusion that he intentionally is out to cause harm, when he does not know any better. Thus meeting the criteria of the prompt and making it usuable for the free response essay.