release from suffering. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck set during the Great Depression‚ Lennie is mentally disabled and has George a good friend to watch over him. George and Lennie are migrant workers and time after time Lennie is making mistakes which are making their life harder and harder because Lennie forgets many things so he can never learn from his mistakes. At their last job Lennie does not realize his own strength and murders Curly a migrant worker’s wife in a barn on the ranch
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them for who they are and what they have done in the past. Lennie and George both have done many things in the past‚ and yet they are still close. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ they display exactly that. Although Lennie and George tend to fight quite often‚ struggling through hardships along the way‚ they are always there for each other no matter what; they manage to maintain a very special relationship. Throughout the book‚ Lennie does some outrageous things that put George over the edge
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February 25‚ 1937. The action of the novel occurs over the course of three days. Steinbeck created the novel’s two main characters‚ George Milton and Lennie Small‚ to portray victims of forces beyond their control.
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consequences of Lennie’s decisions. After Lennie makes several bad decisions‚ George is forced to make his own decision to shoot Lennie in the back of the head. The relationship that Steinbeck builds between the two men‚ based on whom they are throughout the story‚ helps the reader justify that George’s reason for killing Lennie was the right thing to do. George is a strong and caring person‚ and he shows this through all of the sacrifices he has made for Lennie. He is kind to others and knows what he
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Within the novel George Miltion had taken Lennie Small under his wing when Lennie’s grandmother had passed away. Lennie is a schizophrenic which means he mentally challenged. In result of that he can not control his emotions nor does he have much understanding of his strength‚ and he has very few social skills. George had become Lennie’s full time care taker‚ up until the day he died. They had it rough since every job George had ever got them. Lennie managed to mess it up somehow and get them fired
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leader of the pair‚ George and Lennie. He is “small and quick‚ dark of face” and is identified as a worker‚ because of the clothes he wears and possessions he carries‚ for example‚ his “tight blanket roll” and his hard wearing “denim” clothes. George is normally seen as being angry most of the time due to his “restless eyes and sharp‚ strong features” but this also makes him seem handsome and clever. If there was a mirror character in this novel‚ it would be Lennie‚ he is the complete opposite of
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friends. George and Lennie have traveled together for quite some time. George is a small‚ lean‚ quick-witted man who travels with‚ and cares for Lennie. Lennie is a large‚ clumsy‚ childlike migrant worker. George is a true friend to Lennie because he constantly has Lennie’s
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Aunt Clara died‚ Lennie just come along with me out workin’. Got kinda used to each other after a little while." Analysis George describes his friendship with Lennie in no abstract terms and with no justifications. To George‚ he and Lennie just got used to each other‚ naturally‚ but it’s pretty remarkable that two guys are so close in a world full of guys that don’t get close to anybody. Though George doesn’t tell Slim he necessarily sees it that way‚ George’s speech to Lennie about why they’re
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surprising events in the ending. From the very beginning we can predict what will happen to the two main characters: Lennie and George. It is used to hint at future events concerning Lennie’s death. First‚ Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to hint at Curley’s wife’s’ death and that Lennie killed her through the mouse’s death early in the novel‚ and the dog’s death mere pages before. Lennie had killed the mouse as he had the puppy. He was killing and killing bigger and bigger things. His Aunt Clara had known
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lashing out at Leinne he has his hand crushed by him. Candy: An older ranch hand‚ who happens to have one hand. Fearing that his age is making him useless‚ he seizes on George’s description of the farm he and Lennie will have‚ offering his life’s savings if he can join George and Lennie in owning the land. He has a very old dog‚ which is shot. Slim: A "jerkline skinner‚" the main driver of a mule team and the "prince of the ranch". Slim is greatly respected by many of the characters and is the
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