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What Makes George And Lennie Different From Other Ranch Laborers
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1: According to George, what makes George and Lennie different from other ranch laborers? Support your answer with evidence from the text. What makes George and Lennie different from other ranch laborers is that Lennie has George to look after him and George has Lennie to look after him (Steinbeck 14). They also have a dream to look forward to, unlike the other ranch laborers who “got nothing to look ahead to” (Steinbeck 14).

2: In the first chapter, the narrator describes George and Lennie as opposites. Besides their physical differences, what are some other ways in which they appear to be opposites? Support your answer with evidence from the text. George and Lennie are opposites in many ways for example, when “George
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