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Summary: Of Mice and Men
Review: i absolutely LOVED this book. i was assigned to read it for a school report, and i must admit, when i first recieved the assignment i thought it was going to be a very boring book. However, as i was reading it, i grew to love it. I began to feel as if i knew the characters personally. I began to feel their triumphs and their tragedies, their hardships and their accomplishments. The two main characters, George and Lennie, are best friends and travel together. Lennie is mentally challenged and relies on George for everything. George openly accepts this responsibility and in turn relies on Lennie for someone to talk to. Lennie and George could be seen as the two parts of one man. George is the mind; Lennie is the body. Neither can exist apart; to kill either half is to kill the whole. I was so engrossed in the book and the characters' lives that by the time that i reached the suprising, dramatic last few pages of the book, i was crying. The last few pages are very sad and show how much they really care for each other. In a final act of love, George does something for Lennie that truly shows how much he cares for him. I will never forget this book, and it has left me with a lasting message about friendship and love. Thank you for reading this review, and I hope that I have encouraged you to read this book.
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Summary: Trevor
Review: I did not enjoy reading this book. It was really slow and wasn't that enjoyable, I was forced to read this book because of homework. I do however believe that he did recreate the 1930's very well, his characters however where a little outrageous, they weren't believable. There was george always angry or suspicious. Then Slim as smooth as butter, to smooth he had really no emotions. The Stable Buck was to menacing, he was upset by Lennie's dream them planted all of these bad thoughts into Lennie's head. Candy didn't have a will of his own, he could be talked into anything. Carlson was the only believable person, he had emotions, but tried to hide them like a ranch hand would. This book isn't that good of a book, it was a little to out there for me. It does teach us a little about the hardships migrant worker may have but it was much else. I didn't think this book pertained to any social issues. I can completly justify them banning this book and I might of even gone far enough to say that this book is a menace to society.
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Summary: Cody, part 1
Review: I did not like this book. On a scale of 1 to 5, I'd give it a 2. The only good part was the end.
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Summary: Amy
Review: I enjoyed reading the book Of Mice and Men. I really liked the book except the bad words involved in the book. The conditions of the migrant workers was very harsh. This is why I am writing this review. Candy realizes that he should have beem the one to of shot his dog that he every sense he was a puppy. He tells alot about each character. That is why his way of developing the character is so that you really understanding. What the reader is writing about and why he choose those characters for the book. He teaches that the worked on the farm.
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Summary: Mice or Men
Review: I had this book to read for a project in school. and i think it is a good book which teaches alot to young adults. it teaches so much
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Summary: of Mice and Men Review
Review: I had this book to read for a project in school. and i think it is a good book which teaches alot to young adults. it teaches so much about the great depression age. the main charters are Geogre and Lennie. they travel together to survive the great depression age.The Lesson it teaches is that we the people should all be theated equaly.Something else I might add is steinbeck did a Good Job recreating the 1930's. He also had in-depth detail about the charters. and they where real. The Social Issues it has racsim and animal abuse and many more.I would reccomend you read this book.
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Summary: adam
Review: I had to read this book for a school assignment.I thought it was an ok book. I do not know what it was like in the 1930's so I do not know how well he recreated that era. I know that then most people were not that really schooled, so they had bad grammer so that part of it was right.
I think that Steinbeck really did a good job creating the characters.I think he got deep when he was creating the book. I think that he took along time to think of the character. The reason why I think that This book is a good Book for yound adults is because it teaches the types of discrimination there is in the world. The types of social issues it has in it are raceism, and discrimination on the handicapt.
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Summary: Lael
Review: I think that John Steinbeck did a pretty good job of representing the 1930's in Of Mice and Men. A few reasons why I think that he did a good job is: he made the characters dialect sound like it would if we were in the 1930's. Also,in the book there was the poor or the rich, and there was some discrimination in the book as well. They had to buy tickets to work on the farms for certain times. Lastly it showed that retarted people weren't to be put to work or trusted, but in a mental institute. Steinbeck developed the character really well because there will always be some kind understandin people, some rude, some quite, and also some pushy people. There attitudes where also beleivable. I think that this novel shows that people like Lennie in the book shouldn't be given alot of chances because somebody will just end up hurt of dead. It also shows that not everybody's depest desire/dream will come to be there reality.
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Summary: Of Mice and Men
Review: I think this book is great, and I would reccamend this book for anyone who likes to read.
I think Steinbeck recreated the California migrant worker conditions very well. He explains the living conditions really well and about the bunkers and were they live. He also gives little hints taht they are very isolated and away from people. Some other reasons you notice is he puts slang when they talk and what they talk about. Back in th day when there was a lot of segregation they talk racist.
Steinbeck really made characters in this book really noticable, and he also describes them really well. He tells most of there names, what there job is on the ranch. He basically tells what kind of person they are. The charcters are really beleivable because of how they act. It seems so true because you think , that is how you could be when you are not exposed to alot of people and how they just could not care about things.
I would thinnk this book is great to teach my age kids. It may teach them a certain kind of lesson and make them think. I also think it would teach them to be mature and serious about the kinds of thing they talk about. This book also talks about some social issues such as racism, assisted suicide, and animal rights . I think these issues would also teach the young readers about how different life used to be in the past then and how much it changed.
LORI
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Summary: Of Mice and Men
Review: I thought this book was good. I liked how he made the people talk with a western accent, but some things that they said I couldn't really understand. I liked the way Steinbeck created the chartacters and their personality traits. He made them all different and they all had their own personality, and it sounded like this was a true story. I think he did a good job explaining the plot, and it was cool because I could actually imagine being in that area that he was talking about. Steinbeck also did a good job explaining the time period. In the 1930's people would usually be walking around from ranch to ranch to find good jobs. This novel is a good book to read for young aduls because it makes your imagination really flow, and it teaches a lot of stuff like, people with mental illnesses need special help, and treat others the way you want to be treated. There is one social issue that I am familiar with in this book, and it is racism. Racism takes place in the book when the black guy (Crooks) is not allowed to play poker with the other guys because he is black. Now I understand a little more about the past and what it was like, and the way I learned it was in a fun way.
Thanks for reading this!
Lisa
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