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Of Mice And Men


takes place in the late 1930's and the early 1940's. The
exact location of the book is in a place south of Soledad on a ranch in the
Salinas Valley which is in California. You can imagine that during this time
there wasn't much to do. In fact Soledad, the place where the story is
located, means a lonely place and loneliness in Spanish. I could imagine
very blandly dressed people with probably dirty clothes, probably average
clothes like jeans and a shirt. Where this book takes place is in a region of
the United States where there aren't many cities nor many people. You could
expect while reading this book that it will be a very sad book, not
adventurous, not action packed, just a small ...

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the walls were
whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls
were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three
showing their burlap ticking." So far we get the idea that the bunkhouse was
not the most beautiful place to live in, one of the only forms of entertainment
in the bunkhouse was playing cards. Steinbeck described this setting with
images of light and darkness next to each other. As Steinbeck said outside
there is "evening brightness" and inside there is "dusk". When Steinbeck
says that inside there is dusk, it's almost like a foreshadow of what's going to
happen in the future. Most likely something bad will happen and it does.
The situation during this scene involves mostly Curly and Lennie in
which they get into a fist fight. This fight starts off because of Curly's
jealousy. This was a very violent scene of jealousy and the innocence of
Lennie and how much he relies on George. Most of this Chapter was in the
...

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Curly punches the huge man Lennie continuously until
Lennie draws blood. Lennie is of course bewildered about the whole thing
because he doesn't know what to do. So naturally he turns to George and
asks what he should do. And instead of George and the other guys breaking
up the fight, the continually let Curly beat Lennie up. So George tells Lennie
to fight back, but Lennie has never fought before so he does the only he
could do, he grabs Curly's hand and flops Curly around until it is crushed.
Lennie would not let go of Curly's hand until George told him to. Finally
George told him to let go and Lennie went from the Incredible Hulk to that
innocent little boy again. Curly was ...

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