Of Mice and Men

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Summary: Of Mice & Men: Beaten From the Start
Review: Life was hard and times were no joke in the economically blighted cities and wind-blasted rural areas that marked a Depression era America. Whatever joy most Americans grasped for seemed to be just beyond their collective reaches. In OF MICE AND MEN John Steinbeck portrays a people who are just as blighted as the land on which they trod. Lennie Small and George Milton are two migrants who are forced to wander the midwest in search of the American Dream, which, to them, meant a place of their own. Each recognizes that this dream will, in all likelihood, remain just that, an evanescent will-o-the-wisp that leaves them with little else but to talk about it. Many times in the novel, the huge but retarded Lennie asks George, a smallish but bright thinker, to rhapsodize about their future. To George, their American Dream is a place where no one can throw them out. To Lennie, it is a place where he can raise rabbits. And it is not only Lennie and George who reach out for the unobtainable. It is arguable that nearly everyone else has their own competing dreams, with the same chance of success as Lennie and George have--none at all. The ranch hands where Lennie and George find roustabout jobs are the hopeless in search of the unobtainable. Candy is a one-armed elderly worker who seeks security for his old age. Crooks is a proud black worker who searches for racial equality in an age that did not know the term. Curley is a nastily pugnacious man who spends most of the scenes in which he appears in a hopeless and helpless Holy Grail search for his wife who spends an equal amount of time staying out of his way. And then there is Curley's wife, who is so bereft of identity that Steinbeck chooses not even to give her a name. She wanders the book like a meandering Eve, seeking only to disrupt the ordered lives of the men around her. In her search for meaning to her life, she collides with a corresponding search by Lennie for meaning in his. When she places Lennie's unthinking paws on her hair and dress, Lennie panics and unthinkingly stifles her, setting off a chain of events that forces George to play with Lennie's dream of a rabbit warren as a tearfully tragic prelude to ending that dream. In OF MICE AND MEN, Steinbeck catches not only the gritty edginess of political and emotional instability that then was ripping apart the social fabric of a pre-World War II America, he was also telling a timeless tale that suggests that for dreams to transform to reality, those dreamers had better leave the world of dreams long enough to weigh the balance of cost versus benefit. For Lennie, for Curley's wife, the price was way too high.

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Summary: A touching tale
Review: This my favorite work by Steinbeck. The writing is some of the most eloquent and beautiful writing ever. The story is deeply moving, and the ending is painful and hard to swallow. I refuse to give away the plot of this book. It's barely over 100 pages. Just read it. This is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever come across. Steinbeck is an amazing writer. He paints a vivid slice of Americana that will leave you floored. A book everyone should read at some point.

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Summary: Of Mice and Men
Review: The story of mice and men is a very interesting one. Once you start to read the book it isn't understandable because of the slang, but, as you read on it gets harder to put down. You think you know what's about to happen but it turns out the opposite.
The only problem I think was all the foul language. I wouldn't recommend this book to young readers.
The story setting was in the 1930's, around the depression years. The book is about two poor men looking for work,totally opposite characters. One was smart,and small built, while the other was big,strong and mentally handicapped.
The Author writes about how the mentally handicapped were treated in those days (1930's)and also how ignorant people were.
I don't see much difference in our society. We sure can use some improvement.
The writer accomplishes his point he was trying to get across,but, I did not like the slang, I didn't understand some of it. I had to read a few sentences twice before I got a sense of what he was trying to say.
Overall I rate this book a 7 out of 10(10=very good). I give it this rate because it is suspensful,has Irony and the ending isn't what you suspect. What lowers the rating is the jargon and cursing.

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Summary: HILARIOUS!
Review: This book was absolutely hilarious, by far the funniest book i've ever read! It's a barrel of laughs with a new surprise around every corner! I don't like to give away the end of books, but I just can't help myself! The part when they fly to Paris, and that crazy stuardess! I know, I know, i laughed my fanny off! If you're looking for laughs, this is definately it! Enjoy!

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Summary: dont read this book!
Review: My english teacher read this book outloud to us. It was the worst thing ever. I feel asleep every day he read it because it was so boring! It seemed like it took forever to finish so dont read this book unless you want somthing really, really boring!

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Summary: Of Mice and Men
Review: After reading the novel of Mice and Men, i gave the book four stars because it is a very interesting. This book always kept me entertained. In my opnion the whole book was the climax because therof the novel. George and Lennie are two great characters that protrayed a great friendship. Although Lennie was slow, you got a sense of how protective George was of him. There jounray across the country to find there dreams by getting a house together, thought would have come true but was tragically ended.

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Summary: Of mice and men
Review: ive just finished reading this book and like many others was forced to read it to answer year 11 course work, although i was pleasently surprised. A book full of dreams even in a sad discrimative world. This book shows a very unusual couple Lennie and George working and living together to make their simply dreams come true, until life comes along in its interfering way.
The best and most moving thing ive ever read with a true and powerful message true to us all. Not to be missed.

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Summary: Very good book
Review: This book is a good one. When I first read it it was about a six on my scale of 1-10. But now I have started to realize that it is more of an eight. maybee nine. This book goes so much deeper than one can imagine, and when you think about it it really is a shock. A shock of how much the american dream has changed, and how friendship can be destroyed. This book does make you think of society and the hopes of reaching goals, it challenges and disturbes you as you read it (actually as you think of it). But overall this book is powerful and it plays on your emotions quite weel, so it is definately a good choice of reading.

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Summary: The reality
Review: In this book, Steinbeck bring us to a true world of how guys search for their home and dream.The story cotains love and a careing man. It tells the love that two men can feel for each other. He wrote a great story about guys in America, which he describe as of mice and men.The two main characters George and Lennie. George had no family and no friends, but he traveled along with a guy called Lennie all the time. Lennie was a dump, stronge man, he follows what George orders.He is just like a big baby, and he made troubles.They went to work in a range, inside the range they meet other workers. George told them his dream is to buy a piece fo land in S'pose and settle down. He promised Lennie that he would stay with him and let him to pet rabbits. The S'pose is the dreamland of every men.It is a quiet and peace place.From the book ,the rabbits told us how childish Lennie was, and why he made a bigger trouble. In between the story there is a coloured man named Crook,the story has shown how he was comletely isolated and brutal.He try to discourage Lennie by telling him George will not come back for him.There is another man Curley who dislikes Lennie, the son of the boss of the range.He was little, so he dislikes Lennie as Lennie is big and stronge.Lennie make another big trouble, he killed Curley's wife. Lennie did not mean to , he did not want George to be mad at him ,so he tried to ask that girl not to yell.As he is too stronge , he killed the woman. Lennie went to the brush, as he was told by George that whenever he made a trouble , he should hide in the brush near the river and wait for him.Lennie do stuggle of weather he should hide and stay with George. At last he went to the brush, George told him he was not mad at him ,and they will go to S'pose. Howerver, George killed Lennie, he was tired to a responsibility of Lennie, so haven is the place for Lennie.
I would recommand this book because the writer had a great work in writing Lennie.He clearly let us know how innoncent men were, sometimes they were small as mice. Also, he has good understanding of George. The contradiction George face. The story tell us how every men has a dream. They want a little bit of land, not much, just something that was his own. Also,the peoblems that they may come with in attending their dream. I think Lennie did noting wrong , he was loyality to George.For George i think he has no choice, he has to kill him. I can feel how sad George was when he killed Lennie. The story was touching when Lennie saw George in the brush, and George told him he will take care of him forever.It can show Lennie was right to wait George. I like the story because it tells me the truth side of human Nature! There is racism,innocent, contradiction and love. 524 words

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Summary: Great story
Review: A classic, terrific story, I would recommend it to anyone!