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The Relationship Between John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Soledad, California during the great depression. On a sunny nice afternoon George and Lennie walked down the road to find a new job, Lennie held onto a dead mouse, gently, creepily petting it. After arriving to their new bunkbed in the new ranch job. They decided to start working for Curley’s dad’s, the boss, in order to earn up enough money to get their own piece of land, where lennie constantly begs to tend the rabbits. Lennie is mentally despaired, he tags along with George since he won't survive on his own, Lennie has a monomania with petting soft objects, because of this he causes trouble for George. As a consequence Lennie was raided out for supposed rape, when really he only held onto the woman's dress. This then caused
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He laughed delightedly” (14). In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men the author develops two main characters by the names of George Milton and Lennie Small, these characters share an unbreakable bond. Of Mice and Men takes place in the Salinas Valley, during the Great Depression, George and Lennie are on quest for job opportunities. George and Lennie end up getting a job on a ranch, where they meet many crucial characters. Lennie struggles with mental disabilities, making him slow and clueless, Lennie causes many small issues on the ranch which eventually lead to his death.

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I think that throughout chapter five, both Lennie and Curley's wife feel regret through their actions, or their emotions. I think that Lennie feel regret on chapter five because of the fact that he just killed his pup, only friend, who he will no be able to pet the rabbit anymore if George saw what he did to the pup by accidentally. This quote“Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard” (85) showed that since Lennie kills the pup that Slim gave him while he was playing too roughly with the puppy.

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Lennie Small is a mentally-challenged man who behaves very childish and doesn't comprehend his physical strength. He frequently gets himself into misfortune and counts on George Milton, practically his family member, to get him out of it. After Lennie ran into some trouble in Weed, the two fled to Soledad where there was an employment opportunity on a ranch. In the novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, Lennie encounters more trouble in Soledad and George ended up shooting him to liberate Lennie from his inevitable fate. George’s conduct of murdering Lennie can be seen as both justifiable and unethical.

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In Of Mice and Men there are a lot of times that show that Lennie really likes touching soft things. These times also show that he usually hurts everything he pets without trying to. Around the beginning of the book George told Lennie, That mouse isn’t fresh Lennie, and besides you broke it petting it. You can see that Lennie isn’t mean because he didn’t know he hurt the mouse. Another example of Lennie hurting something that he pets is the puppy he got, but this time was different because Lennie actually realized what happened.

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fiction " of mice and men". the story was talking about the relationship and the feeling's change surround george and lennie although at least the happen of some serious things cause george has to kill lennie. i still believe, there're a great friendship between lennie and george. to begin with, analysis all of the chapter of the book. As george's friend, lennie always is honest, pocile, and helpful to george.

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Ryder shannon Mrs. Familiar English CTP 8 March 2023 Of Mice And Men Essay Lennie and George are the two main characters in John Steinbeck Of Mice And Men. This book takes place during the Great Depression in the 1930’s with two men named George and Lennie who chase their dream of their own farm. On the way to chase their dreams they faced some adversity and Lennie made some bad choices and put Lennie and George in jeopardy. It is an ongoing thing for Lennie to put them in situations that George has to fix every time. George took care of most of the problems but Lennie killed Curley's wife, which led to George killing him, so he didn't suffer.

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In the 1930s, a large amount of the United States population had some type of mental disability. The Colorado Territorial Prison, also used as a facility for the mentally ill, held approximately 1,000 people at one time (Abbot). During that time period, they started to experiment with treatments for those patients, including Lobotomy, which consisted of drilling a hole into one’s head and remove a section of their brains. They also used other types of deadly therapy to try and help patients. In the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the setting takes place in the 1930s, and one of the main points in this book include how people were treated.

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Does the story end the way you expected it to? As I was finishing each chapter, I was predicting what the next chapter would be about, my predictions weren't so similar to the book. Although some ideas were not so different but not so alike. In chapter 2, when Curley was snapping at Lennie, I thought Lennie was done for, since Curley was the boss's son. But it wasn't like that, Lennie stayed with his job.

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Lennie was mentally handicapped and he was not sure of what he had done when he accidentally killed Curley’s wife. This was much like the situation in Weed that was referred to in the beginning of the book. George had told about the time that Lennie had wanted to feel a dress that a woman was wearing. Lennie grabbed the dress and she started screaming. Lennie, out of fear, held on.

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As from chapter one, it was evident that Lennie was a big man with a child-like heart, brain and attitude, he was not an independent man, while George was quite the opposite-a short but averagely intelligent who could live on his own(independent). Due to Lennie’s attitude and behaviour, it will not be wrong to say that the relationship between Lennie and George was that like father and son. It is also obvious that they were in a symbiotic kind of relationship in which Lennie benefited the most out of in the sense that he got taken care of by George while George got only the benefit of

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In the story Mice and Men it took place in California on their plantation during the Great Depression. George which was an intelligent but uneducated man and Lennie which was a little slow are in Soledad on their way to find new jobs in California. They want to settle down on a farm and have dreams of settling down on their own piece of land. Lennie's part of the dream is to tend rabbits because he loves touching soft animals. although he always kills them.

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Lennie is the central character in the novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinback who demonstrates the difficulties both Lennie, and George faced in the great depression period, and the hardships many of the characters faced throughout this story purporting to represent a state of loneliness and alienation during the difficult time. The plot follows the intricate friendship between George Milton, and Lennie Small as they begin working on a ranch in Central California within the novel, many conflictual scenarios take place unintendedly and Lennie is always the one who gets involved. Despite the fact he doesn’t intentionally want to cause harm, he isn’t aware of the strength he holds so he ends up causing lots of friction between the rest

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Of MICE AND MEN is an incredible book showing a dream two men had. Lennie and George work off each other, they are companions in their life dream. With a friendship there always comes complications that grow down the line. George pretty much had to watch over Lennie and his handicapped mental state, making sure he did not get into trouble or kill any thing on accident. No one understood their friendship, but George needed Lennie’s companionship.

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No one had suspected the ending of the story and some were surprised by the death of Lennie. Some were even shocked by the person who killed Lennie, George. The novel Of Mice and Men has many tragic and heart-breaking events. The worst one had to be at the very end, the death of Lennie Small. The one and only George Milton killed Lennie with a bullet right through the back of his neck.

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