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A Comparison Of John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice And Men'
the whole story was about these two farmers called Benny and Lenny and these two farmers are always saying that they are lonely and that nobody loves them and they will never find someone who will care about them and they live in a bunker and the bunker is all beat up like the walls are brought down and the floors are unpainted and they talk about a dog that is old and they want to kill him because he is all old and not good to use and so the reason they want to shoot him is because he is all old and h can barley walk and take care of it self and they want kill him but they dont want to because they fell bad for him and had the dog for so long since it was a pup ans it work around the farm and the guy who is goimg to kill him stoped by the

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