Many mental handicapped people are now a day treated extremely well. Back then they did not really know how to treat people that were slower than most. Before they were treated like lower class people almost like black people. If they were admitted to a hospital they would be tested on like they were animals. This kind of stuff would never fly anymore.
This novel has not changed my idea of mental handicapped people, in fact it has reinforce what I think. Everybody deserves to be treated fairly no matter what. Even a handicapped person can not be held completely responsible for what he or she does they should still have a little bit of responsibility.
The author tries to paint mental handicapped people as incapable as being able to take care of themselves. Granted he made Lennie was made a very likeable person but made him not very useful unless working or he is hurting something or one. Not all mental handicaps are as saver as what the author makes him seem. I don’t feel that the author truly thinks that handicapped people are all like this but he is being accurate to what it was like back then.
Mark I couldn’t agree more with your opinions mentally handicapped people today are treated extremely well. In the book however it shows that Lennie is not treated that well because back then society did not know what caused it and how they could help him so slow people were looked down upon and not treated properly. They show almost a resentment in the book for Lennie at times I felt however when they got Lennie out in the fields they couldn’t be more excited that they were on their team working because he worked so much harder than everyone else he was phenomenal. Another point I read from another post was Lennie was just a child in an adults body I don’t know if you have thought of it like that or not but that was one thing I read that was like oh yeah Lennie is just a really big kid that doesn’t know his own strength. Ight well very good points sir, see you in class.
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