Of Mice And Men: Lennie And George
Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is the story of two
simple farm hands, Lennie Small, who incidentally, really isn't very small, and
his better half, George Milton, on their quest to have "a place of their own,"
with plenty of furry bunnies, of course. Sound strange? Read on to get clued
in.
The book opens along the banks of the Salinas River a few miles south of
Soledad, California. Everything is calm and beautiful, and nature is alive.
The trees are green and fresh, lizards are skittering along, rabbits sit on the
sand. There are no people in the scene. Suddenly, the calm is broken. Trouble
is in the air. Animals begin to scatter. Two men have arrived on the ...
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rare,
because most farm workers rarely have companions, but George and Lennie have
been together ever since Lennie's Aunt had passed away, and Lennie began to
follow George around everywhere.
Instead of hurrying to the farm that night, they stop by a stream to
camp in the open, and they'll arrive at work the next morning. Why? Well,
Lennie isn't very bright. George didn't want him to blow the job opportunity.
The logic between waiting until morning until going to work was, that way, all
the other farm hands would be out working, thus they'd have a better chance of
getting the job, since Lennie wouldn't have to confront to many people, which
can easily make him "confused."
During that evening, George had to take a dead mouse away from Lennie, who
had been hoarding it because he liked to pet it. George tried to teach
simpleminded Lennie that you don't pet dead things, but Lennie had a hard time
remembering.
George is aware that Lennie has difficulty remembering things, ...
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owned should be killed or not, because it smelled so
terrible. After much argument, Candy agrees to let Carlson, another farm hand,
kill the old dog. After making sure that the dog had his head turned, Carlson
shot him. Candy later regrets letting someone else shoot his own dog like that,
and wishes he would have put him out of his misery himself. This is
foreshadowing an event that takes place with Lennie and George later in the
book…
Later that night, after the old dog had been killed, Candy realized that
he to would soon be old and unwanted like the dog was, so, wanting to have
companions, he decided to join Lennie and George in their dream of having their
own place, where they ...
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