are introduced to George Milton and Lennie Small‚ two men who are scrambling and among the poor. George is small and smart while on the other hand Lennie is huge and mentally slow. George and Lennie’s dream is of their life‚ to live on a farm and be their own bosses with no rules or restrictions unlike they have now working on ranches. They are going from ranch to ranch looking for work trying to make enough money to get to their dream. The only problem with their work is Lennie seems to mess things
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California. One of them‚ Lennie Small whose name does not live up to a person’s expectation; he is big and that’s all he’s got going for him unfortunately. George is small and quick‚ a roving farmworker who takes on a father like role and watches over Lennie. The two are broke and search for work on the farms of Northern California. Being broke is problematic for George and Lennie since they plan to own a farm someday. George is the intelligence behind this plan‚ while Lennie is about as sharp as a
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What is very special about the way Lennie and George are introduced to us by the author Jon Steinbeck‚ is that he doesn’t tell us any character traits of them two‚ but therefore gives us a very detailed image of their physical appearance. The only characteristic or intellectual clue we get from Steinbeck in the physical description of Lennie‚ is his use of a technique called zoomorphism ( describing someone or something with animalistic features ). On page two‚ the part where they are indirectly
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4 10\7\13 Did George need to kill Lennie? The Explanation There are some bad things in the world that we have to take action with; like dangerous dogs or bad people. Those things can be taken care of easily by either killing it or holding it in a secluded place. Now back when the story is being told‚ there weren’t many places to put people in‚ so they were sometimes executed. George had to do this with Lennie in chapter 6. Yet did he do this on purpose? So George killed Lennie because of him getting
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the ways Lennie is presented and developed in Of Mice and Men Although Lennie is among the main characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’‚ he is perhaps the least self-motivated. He experiences no significant changes‚ development‚ or growth throughout the novel and remains exactly as the reader encounters him in the opening pages. Throughout this essay I will be explaining the different aspects of his character. Although Steinbeck’s insistent foreshadowing of these characteristics makes Lennie a rather
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true friendship? George and Lennie had a true friendship in the book Of Mice and Men wrote by John Steinbeck. What length would you go to for someone and what would it take? George and Lennie would be considered true friends. George went over extreme lengths to take care of Lennie and always have his back no matter what the situation was. George always gets Lennie out of terrible situations and always has his back to take the blame. He doesn’t want to see Lennie get hurt. Lennie is a large‚ mentally
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Of mice and men Despite their differences‚ they’re dependent on each other. Lennie is the far by best worker in between George and him he’s also mentally handicapped and also has a desire to pet/ touch soft things(animals). These traits‚ combined with his uncontrollable strength‚ set the stage for disaster. In mice of men the story explains the depth of George and Lennie’s relationship and how they faced many difficulties together‚ also shows all the difficulties that both of them face and how they
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George says that Lennie and himself are different from other men like them because they have each other. Other men are on their own and they have each other to talk to and keep one another company. Such as‚ when George says “With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us...”(p.14) George says this meaning that he cares about Lennie‚ and Lennie cares about him‚ they both look after each other in different ways. They are not just men finding jobs
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characters in Of Mice and Men‚ Lennie can best be remembered by his childish traits. In the beginning of the story‚ when George and Lennie were sitting at the encampment by the river Lennie begged George to tell the story of the rabbits(14). This story was about much more than just rabbits; but Lennie‚ being the manchild he was only cared about the fact that he got to care for and play with the rabbits‚ just like any child would. Later on in the story‚ Curley picked a fight because Lennie was supposedly
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danger. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ two characters‚ George and Lennie‚ are best friends. They travel together‚ and work together. George is faced with a tough decision‚ and of course he would only do what was best for Lennie. Wouldn’t a friend always do what was best for a friend? George killed Lennie out of mercy‚ not murder. George was only meaning to end Lennie’s suffering of his mental condition‚ and his suffering that was to come from the other men. Similar to George and Lennie’s situation
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