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    true friendship? George and Lennie had a true friendship in the book Of Mice and Men wrote by John Steinbeck. What length would you go to for someone and what would it take? George and Lennie would be considered true friends. George went over extreme lengths to take care of Lennie and always have his back no matter what the situation was. George always gets Lennie out of terrible situations and always has his back to take the blame. He doesn’t want to see Lennie get hurt. Lennie is a large‚ mentally

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    John Steinbeck‚ Lennie and Crooks experience discrimination‚ Lennie experiences discrimination because of foolish‚ Crook experiences discrimination because he is black; they all have deformity‚ Lennie is a mentally disabled man and Crooks have rheumatism. First‚ Lennie and Crooks experience discrimination because of foolish and racial discrimination. For example‚ in chapters‚George told him lots of time that there should be Lennie hand in‚ but Lennie still can’t remember. so Lennie is foolish and

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    Once again Lennie and I were on the run because he touches a girl soft dress and we got run out of the town. We got away and we got work cards to work at the ranch. But on our way we took a bus then the driver put us off at the wrong place so we had to talk walk ten miles .but on our way I decided to stop at the Salinas river and spend the night. we made a fire eat some beans and went to sleep for the night. The next morning we woke up on our way to the ranch Lennie and I had a talk about if he

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    character. This pair of companionship‚ George and Lennie is very different from each other‚ nothing alike‚ no matter talking about their figures‚ personality‚ IQ‚ etc‚ except that they both carry the same American dream as they spend their hard days traveling together and working in the ranch. Lennie is portrayed as being childlike. He looks up on George as a parental figure: "Lennie ’s lips quivered and tears started in his eyes." Lennie seek reassurance from George like a child does from their parents

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    In chapter one‚ Steinbeck introduces us to George and Lennie. They are migrant workers who travel to work on a ranch in Soledad‚ California. The odd duo are trying to survive and save up some money during the 1930’s Great Depression. In chapter two‚ George and Lennie are introduced to the Swamper‚ Curley‚ Boss‚ Slim‚ Carlson‚ and Curley’s wife. Swamper’s real mane is Candy and only has one hand. As George and Lennie learn more about them‚ they notice that Curley is good at boxing and his wife is

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    they’re experiencing pain‚ no one to tell their troubles and problems to‚ no one to share happiness with‚ no one to care for. They have no one to care for them. George and Lennie share a bond so strong that when one is destroyed‚ the other inevitably is as well. Steinbeck often stresses how ranchers are loners‚ and George and Lennie are the only ones who travel in pairs. They seem to be two halves of the same person‚ and they know how special together they truly are. "Guys like us‚ that work on

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    How does Steinbeck present the relationship between George and Lennie in this chapter? The author John Steinbeck presents the relationship between the two characters‚ George and Lennie in different ways as they are both different characters and have different personalities. He presents it like a parent and child relationship‚ with George being the parent and Lennie the child. As soon as the reader is introduced to George and Lennie Steinbeck tells us that‚ “They had walked in single

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    George and Lennie have a great friendship because they each care for each other and watch out for each other like George told Lennie if he gets in trouble to come to a certain spot and he will meet him there "if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before‚ i want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush." So what’s that is saying is that he has his back even if he gets in trouble and Lennie said "I got you to look after me‚ and you got me to look after you‚" They also talk about

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    The killing of Candy’s dog was related to when George killed Lennie in several ways. First of all‚ both the dog and Lennie were weak‚ and killed as soon as they became useless to the society. Also‚ the dog was Candy’s friend‚ and Lennie was George’s friend. In both cases‚ Slim viewed the deaths as mercy killings. The last similarity was that both Candy and George felt lonely after the death of their companions. The difference was that Carlson killed the dog for selfish reasons‚ while George killed

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    The Killings Plot is defined as‚ "the authors arrangement of incidents in a story it is the organizing principle that controls the controls the order of events (Meyer‚64)." The element of plot is heavily relied on in the short story‚ "The Killings" by Andre Dubus. The plot which is completely made inside the imagination of an author (Meyer‚64)‚ gives the audience important insight to people‚ places‚ and events in the story (Meyer‚64) . "The Killings" provides a somewhat conventional plot

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