Lennie is carelessly talking with the ranch owner’s wife about the future ranch that he and George are going to own. Lennie and the wife have a disagreement about the animals that are going to be roaming on Lennie and George’s future farm so he starts getting physical and breaks her neck which eventually kills her. Once the farm owner finds out‚ he is so devastated to the point that he shoots Lennie. Lennie is the character of foolishness and immaturity while the ranch owner represents violence and power
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- Of Mice and Men – Chapter 2 questions 1. George and Lennie arrived at the ranch at ten o’clock in the morning local time due to there night in the wilderness. 2. Candy is the old handyman‚ aging and left with only one hand as the result of an accident‚ worries that the boss will soon declare him useless and demand that he leave the ranch. Of course‚ life on the ranch—especially Candy’s dog‚ once an impressive sheep herder but now toothless‚ foul-smelling‚ and brittle with age—supports
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find that the writer has manipulated our feelings as the novel progresses. These feelings are those that are towards Curley’s wife. When Curley’s wife is introduced into the novel we find that she has been depicted by not only the reader but the ranch workers that are in the book as purely a distraction towards the men. Steinbeck never tells the reader her name; this means that we keep the idea that she isn’t seen as a person to the men‚ but more like a disturbance to their work. By Steinbeck not
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Honors English II Quarterly Outside Reading Opening Sequence: In the beginning of Of Mice and Men it describes the Salinas River and a small wooded area around it. The setting is described as peaceful and calming versus how the ending plays out. Later it tells of two men walking down to the river‚ whose names we learn are George and Lennie. It is important to the development of the story that they stop here because George mentions to Lennie that if he were to ever get into any trouble to come back
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Steinbeck’s Novella Of Mice and Men‚ the ranch hands all have dreams that they hope will come true. Unfortunately dreams are one of those things that you can only hope will come true. Lennie‚ one of the major characters in Of Mice and Men that has hopes and dreams of his own that keep him motivated. When George talks about the dream ranch Lennie gets really excited about it even though he has heard it a thousand times. Lennie finds that having the “dream ranch” repeated to him‚ soothes his mind and
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and Men by John Steinbeck. The characters Crooks‚ Candy‚ and Curley’s wife all live in a constant struggle against loneliness. On the ranch‚ they are either isolated from the other ranchers or from people who they are similar to. This loneliness affects how Crooks‚ Candy‚ and Curley’s wife live their everyday lives. Crooks is one of the loneliest people on the ranch. He is an African American stable buck who sleeps in his own room away from the bunkhouse. First‚ he tries to seclude himself from the
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Published in 1937‚ it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small‚ two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California. Two migrant field workers in California during the Great Depression—George Milton‚ an intelligent and cynical man‚ and Lennie Small‚ an ironically-named man of large stature and immense strength but limited mental abilities—come to a ranch near Soledad southeast of Salinas‚ California to "work up a stake." They hope to one day attain their
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like a bear. His giant arms hang like pendulums at his side. * Both men are dressed in denim trousers‚ denim coats with brass buttons‚ black hats‚ and blankets‚ which are wrapped around round their necks. * George talks about going to the ranch and tells Lennie not to talk to anyone * George yells at Lennie for petting the dead mouse in his pocket and then reminds Lennie that whenever he pets things‚ it seems to get both of them in trouble‚ as it did on their last job when he tried petting
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agley [often go wrong] and leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy!’. The poem tells us that the best things always go wrong and leave you with nothing but grief and pain‚ this relates to the novel well because the best dream of having a ranch went wrong and left George lonely and crooks back to where he was being lonely. In the novel Steinbeck has created many characters to follow a dream of having a better life and future‚ but none of their dreams come true‚ all are shattered when things
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animals inhabit ranch lands. According to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association‚ “In the eastern and central United States‚ wildlife is almost entirely reliant on ranch‚ farm‚ and other private lands for habitat.” While “in the west‚ biodiversity of species depends greatly on ranch diversity”. Many Florida ranchers plant food plots that give a food source to turkeys‚ deer‚ dove‚ sand hill cranes and hogs. The animals are also attracted to the wooden areas and swamp like lands on the ranch. According
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