Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Des souris et des hommes by John Steinbeck, Rébecca Dautremer

10 reviews

pikkumarja's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

2.25

Kirjan pituuteen nähden (noin 140 sivua) lukemiseen meni tuskaisen kauan. Tämä ei ollut minulle, enkä ihan suoraan sanottuna ymmärrä klassikkoasemaa, koska kirja kuvaa ihmisyyttä niin vastenmielisellä tavalla, ettei samaistumispintaa ihmisyyteen edes ole näin lukijalla. Toisaalta saattaa olla, että ihmisille, jotka eivät tiedä mitään vammaisuudesta, kirja uppoaisi paremmin. Ja ehkä sellaisille henkilöille, joille riittää yksi nainen kirjan hahmokaartissa ja ei haittaa, vaikka n-sana mainitaan aika monta kertaa.

Ei tämä siis kyllä ihan umpisurkea ollut ja onpahan nyt luettu.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Ableism, Murder, and Racism

Moderate: Misogyny, Abandonment, and Animal cruelty

yzer2468's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, and Gun violence

Moderate: Deportation and Abandonment

kirsten1999's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Abandonment

eilif_has_no_gender's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Ignoring the ableism, racism, and sexism the book is still bad. It was so boring. I had to stop several times when reading it because it was so boring. I also don't like George.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Gaslighting, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, and Animal death

Minor: Sexual assault and Abandonment

_snow_bird_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I absolutely freakin’ love this book! Read it for the first time as a Junior in high school, then used it for a literary criticism paper for one of my literature classes in college. Seriously one of my favorite American Classics.

It gives a really good insight to life of the working class (specifically, migrant farmers) in the United States during the Great Depression, and keeps to the general disheartened mood of those who were negatively effected by the depression. It also touches on developmental disabilities and how those with such disabilities were treated.

Beware: there are references of animal and character deaths in this book - both of which are graphic-ish

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Animal death

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Abandonment

presleyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Racism, Racial slurs, and Sexism

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

Minor: Grief

_gabi_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Infidelity, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, Racism, Abandonment, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, and Gun violence

ashley_1206's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

3⭐️
honestly i liked the theme and lennie&george’s relationship 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery

ruby_gordon's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Slavery, Violence, Gore, Abandonment, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Racial slurs

grayscale08's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Minor: Abandonment and Alcohol

This book, I think, approaches racism and sexism from a critical point of view. The sole Black character tries explaining racism to the white characters and we see the unfair treatment of him by Curley and his wife. The only woman who plays a role in the story is named “Curley’s wife,” but we see throughout the story that she has her own identity. Steinbeck definitely wasn’t as conscious of racial and gender biases as I would hope, but he approaches discrimination in a way that highlights the hypocrisies of it.