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Of Mice And Men By; John Steinbeck Of mice and men was about two friends named George and Lennie. Two friends that travel together looking for work in the farm areas of California. They are two totally different man yet they are distinct for each other. Lennie is a tall strong man but his a mentally disability and George is a short clean cut sharp key kind of guy. They both take care of each other very well and one couldn’t do with out the other. They are running from a town by the name of weeds because Lennie loves to pet stuff and pets a women’s dress because he thought it was pretty. In result he ripped it and was accused of rape. Lennie love to pet things especially rabbits and him and George have a dream of one day have there own one acre farm with there own crop and Lennie could pet all the rabbits he wanted. Then they moved to Salinas Valley and there dream was close to coming true. It liked the book because it was touching, the characters was amazing and I never in my life read a book in school with so much violence and killing so I thought that was cool. It was also one of the first books that didn’t have that same happy ending like all the other story’s I have read. The violence in this book is so good. Seven things get killed in this book. First the mouse that Lennie kills cause he was petting it to hard. Then a farm hand convinces candy to kill his dog cause his old and he stink. Then Lennie gets a pup and he kills it by petting it to hard. Then Lennie pets curly’s wife to hard she starts to scream and he breaks her neck. Then George kills Lennie because he kills to many things. Then George and Lennie dream of having there own little farm dies along with Lennie. Some of the violence in the novel includes when curly and Lennie get into a tussle and Lennie breaks curly hand. There is also a lot of symbols and motifs in this story. Something that keep popping up in the story that I noticed was how Lennie keep asking George to tell him the story of how there life’s were going be when they get some land and how Lennie was going to tend to the rabbits. The rabbits are a symbol and motif in one. Lennie talks about the rabbits so many times its ridiculous I think the rabbit are a way that Lennie can get away from it all and just be himself. I think Lennie think if he get rabbits and pet them they will not die cause they will love his pet as much as he love petting them. Then the characters in this book are awesome. My favorite character in this book is Lennie. He is so nice at heart its funny. And in away its like his handicap is holding people back from seen it. He always talks about how he tend to rabbits and he loves hearing the story of how him and George are going to get there own from one day and they have there own cattle. But I believe the most powerful character in the story is George the reason I believe this is because he killed the most beloved character in the story which was his best friend. You would have never thought George would do such a thing, like that to Lennie. Lennie3 killed a mouse, a puppy, and curly’s wife but that still didn’t seam to put as much impact on the story as when George shoot Lennie. It was like something you would have never thought in a million years would happen. So that’s why I like this novel “of mice and men” by john Steinbeck. The violence, characters and motifs and symbols all played a amazing role in this good book and I give it two thumbs up.

2020-01-31 03:04