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Summary: Josh's Reveiw of "Mice and Men"
Review: I personally think that this book was a very good book. Unlike the Grapes of Wrath John really opened up my eyes with this book. It opened me to realize that we all can't help what mistakes we make. We can only be responsible for the actions we take. When i read this book i realized that the world is full of racial prejudice. Not only the African American race or the White Race but as well as the Impaired or handicapped.That is why i think this was good book. The best one I have read. The only one i have read this year....
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Summary: OF MICE AND MEN
Review: Have you ever read abook where you could relate to the characters? I have and this is why I liked OF MICE ANd MEN by John Stienback. Ialso like this book because it kept my attention. There weren't many chapters so it made it seem like it went faster.I enjoyed this book but theres one part I don't like. Just as the book got good one of the main characters accidently kills another. I wasn't expecting this. This author has a way of describing characters that made me relate to them. This made the story more interesting, so did the climax. I couldn't put the book down and the climax was the best part. this authors descriptive writing kept my attention with a great chapter book.
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Summary: Man's Inhumanity To Man
Review: One of my favorite books I read in high school and later as a teacher. Set in the Depression Era rural South, 2 men, George (smart but not strong) and Lenny (strong but not smart) are searching the countryside for their dream: a little farm that will support them and bring them happiness. They find work as farm hands but encounter prejudice (Lenny is considered a "dummy") and cruelty by a sadistic boss. When Lenny accidentally kills the boss's beautiful wife, George tells the upset Lenny that everything will be ok, to quickly go to their "secret place". The ending is heartbreaking. -- This book can be turned into a wonderful stage play, requiring minimal sets. There is also a vintage movie version which I can recommend. -- After reading "Of Mice And Men" one wonders about WHY people see the need to look down on less fortunate ones, even tormenting them for "not fitting in". In reality it is the bullies who are the misfits. Starved for attention and the need for superiority destroys their human features and makes them more like animals. This book tells us to expell hate from our hearts. I recommend this book to students age 14 and up.
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Summary: Of Mice and Men
Review: Of Mice and Men is a real interesting and triumphant book. The first few pages were really boring and I was on the verge of quiting the book, but after a chapter it started to get really interesting and exciting. This book really paints a picture in your head of loniness. I feel sorry for the fact that everybody can't experience the drama and effort that John Steinbeck had put in this wonderful/compelling book. This is one great book that everybody should experience!!
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Summary: Touching and sad
Review: This book was heart-warming and sad. It is about a man named Lennie who was mentally disabled and always misjudged because of his looks. Ever since he lost his Aunt Clair, who took care of him for most of his life, George, who once told Lennie to jump off a bridge into a river and almost made Lennie drown, took sympathy in Lennie and looked after him to his dying day. Lennie always tried to make George happy and always tried to not disappoint him, but he always messed up and diappointed George. In the story George helps Lennie in his jobs and life. But Lennie never seems to help George to get ahead.
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Summary: A moment to vitiate a Nobel Prize Winner
Review: Steinbeck has been a puffer fish of modern novels. He lacks gravitas and pens the worst endings ever. How mainstream America has come to endorse such a Luddite is beyond my comprehension. (Also America's hugging of John Grisham equally discombobulates me.) I don't know where Steinbeck gets off blasting a dimwit in the back of the head with a pistola. The book was great as far as the character portrayal went, word choice, metaphors, but the ending was jacked. I'm furious to read books such as these. Steinbeck acknowledges a problem with society and so he 'corrects' it. FYI Stein, you can't just kill problems. Lennie is a poor dull-thinking, massive ogre who travels from farm to farm with 'friend' George. They stop at one farm where Curley and his 'soft fist' presides. Curley is a wee man and he picks on Lennie. Lennie counterpoints by shattering Curley hand altogether. The story is entertaining, and going good. Then Lennie gets a little overzealous and kills a woman. Whoops! He had no idea because he is not mentally there. He is a kind man who thinks as a boy and is still trapped in the stage William Blake referred to as Innocence. Steinbeck takes unecessary measures to get Lennie out of the picture and uses George as the tool. I've said it before and I'll say it again: If Steinbeck wrote a proposal for a plan to 'deal with' retards it would be written well but would be substanially devoid of heart and humanity. Nobel Prize or Zombie Lies? Are people actually READING his book? Something seems puffer fish and cursory about his esteemed station in society as a literary great.
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Summary: Why Steinbeck is Neat
Review: The story of Steinbeck's life makes me think that maybe he was lonely like George and Lennie. It seems like he writes from his own emotional experiences. He does such a good job of writing Mice and Men that I think it's a shame if everyone can't appreciate the effort he takes to make us understand that sometimes our best laid plans go astray.
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Summary: One of a kind
Review: The imagery, character development and simplicity of this story create a powerful mental picture of lonliness and the need for everyone to belong. Seeing the movie and watching the play makes one feel responsible for the well being of all who travel the higheways and byways looking for "family". Great book!!!
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Summary: nice story
Review: the book is a very nice story about true friendship. the end is very sadly but it was predictably. steinbeck uses a very simple language, and so it's very easy to read also for foreigners.
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Summary: Of Mice and Men ; Learning Life is Full of Choices
Review: Of Mice and Men is an excellent book showing a true friendship between two men. George is the brains and Lenny the strength, they were an awsome duo. I believe that this book deserves 4 stars, i read it in high school and have read it once more the now that i am older and when u read it a second time you are able to relate to the story. This book teaches important lessons in life; it teaches the reader that there are many decisions in life you have to make and some may be harder then others. The choices you make that might effect your life, like the relationship between Lenny and George, two opposite men but have chosen to travel and live together. Life with a friend that is different from you can become intresting and probably effect your choices. You look at the choices you make in a hole new view, seeing the reality of life through choices. The outcome of this story ends on a choice that George makes that will probably effect his life forever.
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