novel overflowing with friendship‚ colorful characters‚ vivid detail and yet a tragic storyline. George and Lennie are two guys that travel the country looking for work during the depression era. Given that Lennie is "not quite right"‚ George must be accountable for Lennie’s actions and take care of him. Throughout several sequence of events‚ George gives himself up to care for Lennie and his needs. Although the two do have a dream to buy a farm‚ George doesn’t achieve it for reasons that may
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reasons. For example‚ Lennie would just keep making the same mistakes and keep ruining their chances of obtaining their dream. Curly also told George to follow and didn’t allow George to go find Lennie to help him. Also‚ Lennie’s jail experience wouldn’t be a good one. George‚ also‚ doesn’t murder Lennie with hate. These are some of the reasons that George’s murder couldn’t have been avoided. To further explain‚ George’s actions couldn’t have been changed due to the fact that Lennie would just do it
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matter what or when. At first‚ this rare relationship seems to prove that George doesn’t like Lennie and views him as a burden. It’s not until Lennie says he will hide in a cave that people will notice that George does like Lennie. Which might explain why he is so hurt shooting him at the end of the book. He has lost his only true friend. Although it seems as if George does everything for Lennie‚ Lennie enhances George’s life too by being so optimistic and not letting George forget about their dream
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you see Curley’s wife is a tramp and she uses her body to get attention from the men on the ranch. At the beginning of the story‚ George and Lennie meet Curley’s wife at the bunk house; both have their own impression about her. Then the next two times she is involved in the story‚ Lennie gets to spend time with her in Crook’s room and in the barn. After Lennie and George get settled in form their long trip to the ranch they both meet Candy. Candy tells the men‚ "well-she got the eye." I think that
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was the bond that kept George Milton and Lennie Small together. When the story begins‚ Lennie and George were being chased out of Weed because Lennie grabbed a girl wearing a red dress he wanted to touch. “Well‚ he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bastard like he is‚ he wants to touch ever’thing he likes…So he reaches out to feel this dress an’ the girl lets out a squawk.”(Steinbeck 41). This first mistake of Lennie’s affects both George and Lennie also setting them further back from reaching
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depressed. Lennie and George are two men who go to work on a ranch. They encounter many complications. Crooks one of the ranchers wanted to be equal to the others. Candy is a poor old swamper who is depressed of friends and Curley’s wife wants to be a film star but can’t‚ so they all suffer and therefore dream and are lonely. George Milton is a lonely dreamer who has a friend named Lennie Small who is very immature and George is an outcast between the ranchers. The company of Lennie makes George
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when George and Lennie have left a ranch in weed. They are now camping out near the Salinas River. We find out that George is a slim and intelligent person but Lennie is a big strong and described as an opposite of George. Lennie goes to drink water from the pool’s edge and drinks like a hungry animal‚ George cautions him‚ telling him the water may not be very good. However‚ Lennie ignores his advice. The two men are on their way to get a temporary job‚ George also warns Lennie not to say anything
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effective they are. George and Lennie are men who travel around working at ranches. George is the small‚ quick-witted one‚ and Lennie is the big‚ slow‚ dumb and extremely strong one. They have a dream‚ to have a little place all to themselves‚ without anyone bothering them. Their dreams are shattered though‚ when Lennie‚ who doesn’t know his own strength‚ gets in trouble. The book starts with Lennie and George travelling towards the ranch‚ after the incident with Lennie and the girl in the red dress
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George takes care of his friend Lennie who has difficulties understanding the rules of the world we live in. Through the story there are many ups and downs mostly involving Lennie‚ who is trying to see through the eyes of George and to do and be as George is. For this reason George is constantly trying to think of what is best for Lennie. Through all of this they face even more dangers and still try to find a way to raise money for a farm to call their own. George and Lennie show how the dangers we face
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From the first mention of the dream where Lennie asks George to tell him about their future together‚ to get "a flat a land" and how Lennie will "tend the rabbits"‚ to Lennie’s last words; "let’s do it now‚ I wanna get that place now". George rarely gets excited‚ in fact it seems to be that he only mentions the dream to make Lennie happy‚ or to comfort him. Lennie’s constant attention to the dream means he is rarely thinking of anything
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