INDEX
1. Heading ____________
2. Plot & Topics ________
3. Structure ___________
4. Character Analysis ________
5. Space and time __________
6. Analysis of expression ________
7. Personal Rating __________
Epigraph
The author of this novel is John Steinbeck was born in Salinas. A small rural California. His grandparents helped him to help write several books. Wrote in 1937 "Of Mice and Men" by the myth of the American dream. The place where the action takes place is the same place where the work, so it is a real space. Lennie's story represents a real man. Do not kill a woman in the book, but the foreman of the ranch where the author worked. But not die but he got into a madhouse. He stuck a pitchfork in the stomach because he angered to learn that the boss had fired his companion.
So the work is real, in a space too real.
The book wants to tell what was happening at the time, the myth of the American dream all worked hard to earn farm wages, and thereby save and buy themselves a farm, but all failed because when given the salary is spent on the feasts and drinks. And they were all alone. The difference in this work is that it wants to capture the lives of two at that time they have each other.
George and Lennie want to get to have his farm. George is someone normal if not for Lennie serious as others, and Lennie is deficient. Their bond of friendship and common ideal encourage them and give them meaning to their lives, and this distinguishes them from other workers, living in isolation and loneliness.
The publisher of this book is Vicens Vives, consists of 25 pages that differ the introduction, the story and work proposals.
The story is composed of seven chapters.
2. ARGUMENT AND ISSUES
The story is about two ranch hands. They have the American dream, which at that time all and none had succeeded. Lennie and George are unlike the others, because they have each other, and not as others who have