Comparing John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
The title of the book that I am doing my report on is Of Mice and Men. The author of this realistic fictional novel is John Steinbeck. The Penguin Group published it. Of Mice and Men was published in 1937 and has 107 pages. This story is about two friends, one of which is mentally impaired traveling to different states trying to make a living to accomplish their dreams. I believe that the author wanted to inform us about how hard economic times were back during the Great Depression.
George Milton and Lennie Smalls are the two most important characters in this book. George is a small, yet very smart individual, whereas Lennie is a very large and mentally impaired individual. George and Lennie are two lifelong friends that have stuck together …show more content…
throughout the years. George always looks after Lennie and tries to keep him out of trouble. George and Lennie had to travel from state to state in search of work in order to make a living because Lennie is always causing trouble although he don't mean to. George always fled with Lennie to keep him safe.
The two men shared the same dream that one day they would earn enough money to buy their own farm and be able to live off of the fat of the land. Lennie's biggest hope was to be able to tend to the rabbit's that one day they would own. Lennie loved when George would tell him a story about how their lives will be someday. Unfortunately, Lennie's strength always gets the best of him. He likes to pet soft things, but everything that he touches he kills accidentally. The two men are going to work on a ranch near the Salinas river close to a town called Soledad. George tells Lennie that if he ever gets himself into troubl at the ranch to go and hide in the brush next to the river, and he will come for him. While at the ranch Lennie is in the barn talking to the boss' son's wife and she tells him to feel her hair since he like soft things. Lennie starts to feel her hair and he likes how soft it is, so he starts petting and petting it harder and harder until she becomes scared. She asked him to stop but he didn't. Lennie kept on and she let out a scream, he got scared and covered her mouth and nose and told her to be quite that George was going to get mad at him. He kept petting some more and she lets out
more screams, this caused him to panic even more and he tells her once again to be quite, but this time he shook her quite hard, and broke her neck resulting in her death. Lennie realized that he had killed her and snuck off to the place that George had told him to go if he ever got into any trouble. There he awaited Georges arrival. Everyone on the ranch found out that Lennie had killed the boss' son's wife, and gathered together to search for Lennie to kill him for what he had done. George didn't want anyone else to hurt his lifelong friend so he hurried to the spot where Lennie was waiting for him and he decided that it would be best for him to kill Lennie himself to save him from enduring pain and suffering from the others, because nobody else would have mercy on him for his mental illness.
George Milton and Lennie Smalls are the two most important characters in this book. George is a small, yet very smart individual, whereas Lennie is a very large and mentally impaired individual. George and Lennie are two lifelong friends that have stuck together …show more content…
throughout the years. George always looks after Lennie and tries to keep him out of trouble. George and Lennie had to travel from state to state in search of work in order to make a living because Lennie is always causing trouble although he don't mean to. George always fled with Lennie to keep him safe.
The two men shared the same dream that one day they would earn enough money to buy their own farm and be able to live off of the fat of the land. Lennie's biggest hope was to be able to tend to the rabbit's that one day they would own. Lennie loved when George would tell him a story about how their lives will be someday. Unfortunately, Lennie's strength always gets the best of him. He likes to pet soft things, but everything that he touches he kills accidentally. The two men are going to work on a ranch near the Salinas river close to a town called Soledad. George tells Lennie that if he ever gets himself into troubl at the ranch to go and hide in the brush next to the river, and he will come for him. While at the ranch Lennie is in the barn talking to the boss' son's wife and she tells him to feel her hair since he like soft things. Lennie starts to feel her hair and he likes how soft it is, so he starts petting and petting it harder and harder until she becomes scared. She asked him to stop but he didn't. Lennie kept on and she let out a scream, he got scared and covered her mouth and nose and told her to be quite that George was going to get mad at him. He kept petting some more and she lets out
more screams, this caused him to panic even more and he tells her once again to be quite, but this time he shook her quite hard, and broke her neck resulting in her death. Lennie realized that he had killed her and snuck off to the place that George had told him to go if he ever got into any trouble. There he awaited Georges arrival. Everyone on the ranch found out that Lennie had killed the boss' son's wife, and gathered together to search for Lennie to kill him for what he had done. George didn't want anyone else to hurt his lifelong friend so he hurried to the spot where Lennie was waiting for him and he decided that it would be best for him to kill Lennie himself to save him from enduring pain and suffering from the others, because nobody else would have mercy on him for his mental illness.