How does the setting of Mice and Men influence the book's thematic development?

Of mice and men is set in the town of soledad, meaning lonely in spanish. Light is also an important factor in the book. Light is often seen as hope, so there are several times Curleys wife blocks off light, for example in "the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off", while near the end of the book steinbeck writes that "the light climbed out of the valley", symbolising the end to Lennie and George's dreams.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.