Just read it, it is a good book and reads very well.Can someone describe to me what the book ';Of Mice and Men'; is all about?
';Of Mice and Men'; is a very good book that you shouldn't be cheating yourself out of reading. You seem very lazy to me, and I am not going to do your homework for you.
Good luck and may God bless you.
Two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression – George Milton, small, intelligent and cynical, but caring, and Lennie Small, a huge, but mentally limited man – come to a ranch in Soledad, California to ';work up a stake';. They are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed (this is not the Weed, California of Siskiyou County, California, but a different town on the Salinas river, near Soledad). There, the immensely strong, but childlike Lennie has been run out of town along with George because Lennie, who loves to stroke soft things, tried to stroke a girl's dress, and she thought he was trying to rape her. Once they are out of town and into safety, they hope one day to carry on with fulfilling their shared dream of finally settling down on their own piece of land. Lennie's part of the dream, about which he never tires of being told, is merely to have soft rabbits on the farm, which he can pet.
At the ranch, the dream for a brief moment becomes startlingly possible. Candy, the aged, one-handed swamper, offers to put in his few hundred dollars with Lennie and George so that they can buy the house and land by the end of the month. Then, the dream crashes down as the limited but volatile Lennie accidentally kills the young and attractive wife of Curley, the son of the ranch owner, while trying to stroke her hair. A lynch mob quickly gathers, with Curley at the lead. George, now realizing he is doomed to a life of loneliness and despair like the rest of the migrant workers, and wanting to spare Lennie a slow, painful death at the hands of the vengeful and violent Curley, shoots Lennie in the back of the head before the mob can find him. But the shot comes while Lennie is distracted, childlike, by one last retelling of the dream. Lennie's dream can be interpreted as critiquing the false hopes of the American Dream.
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Even though it is such a depressing book at the end, it is a fantastic novel. It sucksthat Lennie had to die because he is mentally retarted, but innocent. The man has the mind of a child, and nobody understands that but his best friend and partner. Rather than let him die at the ends of that sick twisted little scrap known as Curley, he has to end Lennie's life on his own. While Lennie is caught in the middle of his own dream, his friend is forced to shoot him down in a twisted sense of protection. :(
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[edit] Themes
The key theme of the novel comes directly from the very poem from which the novel derives its title, Robert Burns: To a Mouse In the poem a mouse builds his home in an open field, planning for a future. Then one day a man appears and plows the very field the mouse now resides in, destroying the mouse’s home. The mouse’s hard work is now all for naught, and the man feels guilty for having destroyed the future of the mouse. Yet still, Burns calls the mouse blessed for not looking into or guessing the future, and fearing it, as humans must do.
Like Burns, Steinbeck’s work shows that every plan is fragile, and can often “go awry,” due to forces beyond our control. All of Steinbeck's characters have dreams, which they share in sequences which are depicted in being spoken aloud to other characters (reminding us that the novel is written in play-style). In the beginning of the novel we see that George and Lennie’s dreams may come true, especially with the meeting of Candy who can adequately contribute financially. However, we foresee also the pitfalls in their way: Lennie’s innocence (his inability to see or fear possibilities in the future parallels that of the mouse in Burns), Curley’s aggression towards Lennie, and the need of Curley’s wife to tell her dreams to someone when Curley cannot be bothered, which will end up exposing her to the danger of Lennie as she attempts to talk to him.] Inevitably, George and Lennie are unable to contend with these forces and Lennie is destroyed, while George is again made homeless. The cynical Crooks comes closest to the novel's final despair: “Nobody never gets to heaven and nobody never gets no land.”
Nearly every person in the novel has some type of severe physical or mental disability, and is suffering from the inability to form long-term family relationships in the context of a full community. Candy is the only character who cares for people other than himself, but is essentially passive and cannot even save his dog. The novel was rare, at the time it was written, for the attention it gave the poor and lower class, and especially the attention paid to the migrant workers of Southern California. Steinbeck's treatment of mental handicap is also rare for a novel of the time (other mentally challenged characters are also found in later Steinbeck novels).
Just read it! It's SOOOOOOOOO good! Plus, wtf! It's so short!
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its an awesome book.. you should read it.. and thers a movie on it also.. !!! which is also very good..
Written by John Steinbeck.
You need to read this yourself, also you should not stop, with this one, you should read the rest of the books that this author
has written!!!
';Of Mice and Men'; is a short novel by John Steinbeck. The two main characters are George and Lennie.
Both are poorer ranch workers. The novel is typical of Steinbeck as sympathetic to the underdog and and in this case shows just because men have to work very hard and live poorly, they are NOT crude.
George is intelligent, savvy, and Lennie is a very large strong man, but really a simple child mentally. George protects and guides Lennie around. Lennie is so slow he could not make it on his own. Basically George helps Lennie just out of the goodness of his heart. Occsasionally, because Lennie is such a fool George may play a joke on him, but that is the exception.
The story centers around the ranch where the two work. A son of the owner, Curly is really a bad person and picks a fight with Lennie to try and appear tough. Curly is a short person, who has a macho problem because of it. When Curly hurts Lennie, George tells him he can defend himself. The powerful Lennie grabs Curly's hand and grabs and squeezes it, badly crushing it. George, Lennie get along well with the other workers, such as Slim. Curly was clearly in the wrong. So all agree to say Curly hurt his hand in a machine.
Lennie and George had a dream of a rabbit farm. Lennie loves to hear George tell about it. One of the ranch hands has the money to pitch in for it, and this dream became a remote possibility.
Fatal trouble started when Curly's wife started talking with Lennie. George warned Lennie not to talk to her, because Curly was so jealous. The wife was really a loose woman. In talking with Lennie, she gets Lennie to start touching her dress, then she got scared and started hollering. Lennie then killed her, trying to shut her up.
Lennie fled, but Curly got his shotgun and with help was going to kill Lennie. George sees that Lennie is going to die an ugly death. So he talks to Lennie and then shoots him by surprise, so never knew what hit him; never fell in the hands of the mob.
An earlier incident related to the incident. An old man had a terribly sick old dog. He could not bear to shoot the dog, to put it out of its misery. Another ranch hand then shot the old broken down dog. After it happened the owner, he regretted not doing it himself.
The theme of this novel is simple. The dialogue is good and it moves fast. In comparison to ';The Grapes of Wrath,'; I think Steinbeck puts these workers in a different class. The Okies in ';The Grapes of Wrath'; were common and uncouth. But on the ranch we see workers, such as the old man, Slim, and others who live hardly, but are moral. They are offended by Curly's loose wife, and have character. They dislike Curly not because he is the boss' son, but basically, because he does not have character and treats people meanly. Slim and the old man can easily adjust to Lennie's very low intelligent, and do look down on him or try to take advantage of him.
There are some other details in the book, but that is the main story and meaning to me.
Good book, try reading it.
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