Justice in Of
Mice and Men
AO1-Respond to text critically,
imaginatively.
AO2-Language,Structure and
Form.
AO4-Historical,Social Content.
What is Justice
 Justice
= The quality of being fair and
reasonable.
However, Justice, in the traditional cowboy
terms, is not easily served.
Events in the novel indicates that incidents
occurred because characters may have
deserved given treatment such as Death of
Curley’s wife.
Chapter 1
Foreshadowing Could be a
way of telling the reader that
Lennie could cause trouble.
“ Well look Lennie if you jus happen to get in trouble
like you always done before, I want you to come right
here and hide in the brush.
“Oh sure . I remember. In Weed”
Makes the reader think
of what incident
happened in weed.
Hiding from Justice, if
trouble occurs also
escaping from
treatment.
Chapter 2
Imperative
George helping to prevent Lennie
to get in trouble.
“Don’t you even take a look at that Bitch... I
seen ‘em poison before ..I never seen no
piece of jail bait worse than her”
“I'm scared I’m gonna tangle that bastard
myself”
Shows the treatment Curley deserves for
the way he treats the ranchers.
Chapter 3
George tells Slim about the incident in
weed. Reference to Chapter 1.
Repetition
“He seen this girl in a red dress…he couldn’t
let go…this girl squawks and squawks …the
guys in weed start a party of lynch Lennie”
Shows the Justice of
Lennie
Chapter 4
The Character of Crooks –
“A mauled copy of the California Civil Code 1905”
Crooks had has the book for a long time.
Mauled connotes something “tattered”
During this time ,African Americans had less rights in
society. Crooks possession was the Californian civil
code which shows he was aware of his rights and
how he is supposed to be treated in the eyes of the
law. This could influence the other ranchers for his
treatment to be just.