Of Mice and Men

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Summary: A heartfelt book
Review: Of Men and Mice is a story about the dreams and friendship between two men during The Great Depression. George, who is "small and quick," faces many problems trying to keep Lennie, who is a large man with the mind of a young child, out of trouble. George and Lennie share a dream to own land and raise animals. To keep this dream, George does what he can to keep Lennie's strength and obsession with soft things under control. The friendship George and Lennie had was a quality many men could not find at that time with anyone but was something that was needed in their times of loneliness.
Reading this book showed how life was during The Great Depression for those who cared for someone who was mentally challenged and had the responsibility for watching over their well being. It took patience and kindness on George's part to carry on the responsibility of care for Lennie. George had to take Lennie everywhere he went and constantly made decisions on his behalf in the best interest for him. In our days the challenged are taken care of, not only by family members but also by society. One does not have to worry about the responsibility for them as much as George did for Lennie. I can imagine how one's life was affected in those days when the responsibility was all on one.
I enjoyed reading this book because it made me realize the importance of friendship. Many characters in the book went through loneliness and expressed their need to have a companion. My favorite part of the story was anytime Lennie would talk about the rabbits and the reactions of those he told it. Being a big man with the brains of a child made his obsession with the rabbits as well as all soft things humorous as well as sensitive. Though the times in which they lived in were rough and depressing, Lennie brought a bright and funny twist to it that made the reader enjoy his character.
People who have friends and companions will like this book best. It will help them appreciate having someone around to share their good and bad times. In reading this book we feel the sorrow and jealousy of those who needed that friendship and that's something no one wants to experience.

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Summary: "CLASSIC"
Review: "Of Mice and Men" was about two friends George and Lennie, who are the main characters. Both were traveling in southern California looking for work. While traveling they would have quite an adventure. One of the major problems between the two is that Lennie is simple-minded and touching things, like women, and their clothes. Lennie had no control over what he did sometimes. He would do things like tell other people about George and his future plans about buying their own house. Of the two I liked George.
George is very short-tempered. He would yell at Lennie and hit him to make him remember and understand things he would tell Lennie. When they were at the river in the beginning George was scolding Lennie about not drinking water that wasn't running and when in trouble to come back by the river and hide in the bushes. Lennie was no smart man, but he tried to listen to George. I remember I would sometimes yell at my little brother because he would do things he had been told not to, but did anyway, like going outside without asking for permission. My little brother wasn't dumb but just wouldn't listen sometimes. I would yell at him not to be mean, but for his own good. Just like George is to Lennie.
After reading this book I thought it was good. Good because of how the author started and ended George and Lennie at the same place, which was unique. The two friends were in a forest with different types of animals and a river and at the end they came back because Lennie got into big trouble and went to go a hide. The most interesting part was when Curley and Lennie were fighting. At first, Lennie was getting beattened pretty badly and then all of a sudden Lennie let out his anger. Having a child-like mind Lennie was unaware of his powerful strength. The only part I didn't like of the book was of how Lennie talks about rabbits too many times. That is what I would change about the book if I were the author.
Since I like the book I would like others to read it as well. This kind of a book applies to all. It can also teach kids that they can be friends with anyone no matter what kind of a person they are.

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Summary: The Dream
Review: Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck was a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

I reed this book in the 9th grade, and I enjoyed it but now 4 years later I read it again and I understudied it better, maybe because I am more mature, and I understand life better than before.

I recommend this book because of how the two men, George and Lenny lock out for each other, and how good friends they are, but also it is a sad book, it is sad because of the way things tern out. This book has the best ending a book can have, the thing that a person will do for a friend.

I recommend this book to anyone, especially to people that enjoy books that make you think about things through out the whole book, and I also recommended to people that think that life is beautiful, but it can't be all the time.

By, Victor Meza

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Summary: "I'm sorry George"
Review: Of Mice and Men is a story about two travelers that are trying to make their dream come true. The main charters in this book are, George Milton and Lennie Small. Both are the run because of an incident that happened in the town Weed. George and Lennie travel to get work so they can one day save up enough money to buy a piece of land and reach their goal. One thing that Lennie likes to do in this book is to pet soft things. He likes soft animals especially rabbits. Lennie is mentally retarded so he doesn't really know what is right and wrong. Lennie gets himself into lots of trouble throughout this book.

My favorite character in this book is George Milton because he gets Lennie out of trouble. George helps Lennie all the way through their adventure and that is a true friend by your side.

I could relate to George because when it comes to a good friend like he is with Lennie I'm there for my friends. George helps Lennie a lot through this book by sticking up for him and keeping him out of trouble. I have always saved my friends when they were trouble just like George does with Lennie. I help my friends when they need it the most. George helps Lennie when he gets in trouble in the town of Weed. I am just like George in a way because of how good of a friend he is to Lennie and how I am the same with my friends.

This is a great book, but it is sad near the end. You can foresee a lot of things while reading this novel. My favorite part in the book was when Lennie is getting punched in the face by Curly; George then tells Lennie to fight back. Lennie then grabs Curly's hand with one fist and crushes it. The part that I least liked in the book was when Carlson shot Candy's dog to put it out of it's misery because Carlson said the dog smelled. Carlson had no right to shoot Candy's dog even if he did wanted to put it out of it's misery. I would change the part where Lennie got involved with Curly's wife. This is when things leads to trouble.

I would recommend this book to others because it is a great book. This book has everything, drama, action and lots more. I think any type of person would read this novel mostly because of the story, characters and the qualities that it has. Over all this is the best novel that I have read in years and I suggest others should read this book and enjoy.

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Summary: Of Mice and Men is cool!!!
Review: Of Mice and Men is a good book. I don't want to give the book away so I won't say much about it. It is about two men named George and Lennie. Lennie is mentally impared. George looks after him after Lennies aunt died. Lennie gets in trouble and causes them to move to a different town. Other things happen there.
The author of this book is John Steinbeck. He is a great author. He wrote another book about a family in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl ...

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Summary: Classic!
Review: This story is a simple one in many ways. It's about the Depression, class relations, friendship, and how we treat people with disabilities. It has as much relevance today as it did when it first came out. I read it years ago, and I still remember it. As another reviewer mentioned, it says a great deal about the importance of Steinbeck's message that Lenny has been recreated in so many Warner Brothers cartoons -- he's an archetypical character.

I loved how vividly Steinbeck brought the reader back to the Great Depression. He really showed how difficult that time period was, and the way the "American Dream" has been sold to people who will likely never reach it. The relationship between Lenny and George was absolutely wonderful -- I loved that George did try to take care of Lenny, even if I didn't like how he treated him at times. All the characters were full bodied, three dimensional people. The choices Steinbeck had them make seemed sensible. This novel is essentially flawless, and I would reccommend it to anyone over the age of about 12 -- it does have some rather serious themes, so readers who are very young, even if they can read it (its' written in fairly simple language) might find some parts disturbing. If you didn't read this book in high school, read it now -- you'll be glad you did.

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Summary: Of Mice And Men
Review: I like it how john steinbeck picked the characters. George being the smaller individual who had the brains and was a nicer looking guy and Lennie being the very big strong guy with being mentally challenged. george could have went back on his word to lennies aunt and left him to be put in an asylum but he kept his word and took care of lennie and soon became best friends with lots of trusts in each other. Curley's wife now presomed to me as a kind of girl or woman that sleeps around alot a\or thats how she acts when she was first introduced but come time to the end she was just looking for somebody to talk to. Curley was a little different he always wanted to picked a fight with the new people that are bigger than him so he would be known as the head huancho.
this story was well put together as a wrighter for john steinbeck having his life time thirty years or more years between our time life is pretty much the same beside the migratoty workers which there are still some around.

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Summary: Which way did he go, which way did he go?
Review: The themes of man's inhumanity to man, the nature of friendship, and labor vs management all come shining through in this touching classic. A few reviewers worried that the book may be a little tough for children under fourteen to handle; ironically, this is a true testament to this book's enduring impact on American culture. It is too late to worry about really young children "reading" this story, because if they grew up in America watching the Saturday morning cartoons, they have already watched the movie version of OF MICE AND MEN several hundred times. That's right. Warner Brothers cartoons frequently paired a big, strong, dumb character with a little pipsqueek who comically controls him, slaps him around, or takes care of him. The little guy is "the Boss." They got that routine straight from Steinbeck's novel. If you want examples, the most recent one is probably Pinkie and the Brain, but they have done it for years with cats, dogs, wolves, and zoot-suited gangsters. The big ox-like one is almost always stumbling into and accidentally smacking the [heck] out of the little boss in his eagerness to pursue the prey, often Bugs Bunny. "Which way did he go? Which way did he go? The wittle wabbit, I want to hug him and squeeze him, and hug him." "Shaddup!" Slap!

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Summary: A great story about the American dream (an easy read, too)
Review: "Of Mice and Men," which I recently read for school, is a moving story about the "American dream" that took hold of so many people during the depression era. George and Lennie, the protagonists, are scouring California for jobs, so they can save up to buy a piece of land for themselves.

Lennie, who is retarded, is a character that gives the impression of complete innocence. He is huge, but, ironically, his only hobby is petting soft, pretty things. He does what George tells him to do, goes wherever George tells him to, and takes all of George's abuse in stride. Lennie is completely optimistic, thinking about the dream farm all the time. George is Lennie's caretaker, a sort of brother figure. He yells at Lennie but truly cares for him and feels compelled to take care of him, a belief shattered in the end.

Of Mice and Men is a truly great story, full of symbolism and with a compelling, perfect plot.

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Summary: The Destiny of the Migrant M S/WI
Review: The novel Of Mice and Men by john Steinbeck is a unique book. The book is about two friends, their dreams and solidarity of others.George and Lennie are two main characters and two amiable friends. Also they look after each other, but George can't guard Lennie because Lennie has a mind of young child, so he get into trible very oftan. As migrant workers they run to accomplished thir dreams. The friendship of Lennie and George and solidarity of others is the main theme in this book. I like the book because it has such a good lesson to learn, and the language that has an effect that touched the heart. I will absolutely recomend the book because as I menntioned about that Lennie gets into trible very oftan, so to protect him George has to make big decision for Lennie. So to find outhow he protects his friend, to learn about friendship, and how solidarity effects others lives, you must read the book Of Mice and Men.