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Summary: Really good book
Review: I had to read my mice and men in 8th grade. So it would be easier, I got the book on tape. It was easier indeed. Of mice of men is one of the best books that i have ever read. I think that it is great the relationship between Lennie and George. And how the other's character just fit into the book. I would totally recomend this book to ANYONE
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Summary: "of mice and men"
Review: "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck is a very interesting story where two men with different personalities live their lives in a form of a "family". George and Lennie are the main characters of this story, between them exists a good balance because George is the one who posesses the intelligece and Lennie is the one who posesses the strength. George always tries to keep Lennie away from problems but can not guard lennie from the things that Lennie likes."Of Mice and Men" is a really good book so I`m going to give it 3 stars because from there you can learn and be excited at the same time .I think that you are never going to expect what is going to happen there, so try to read the book and then you will see that my recomendation is good
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Summary: Of Mice and Men - Book Review
Review: A few miles south of soledad, the salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs dep and green. There were two guys names George and Lennie who were walking on the path. They both were dressed in denim trousers and denim coats with brass buttons. Both were black, shapless hats. Lennie was a strong man and has a young child's mind, while George is small, and has a boney nose. They were going to soledad to work and live on the ranch. When they get enough money they will live-off-the-fatta the lan'.
I like this book a lot, because it has a lot of adventures, and a lot of excitement in the book. I will recommend this book to the world, becuase I think they will like it a lot, and they will share it with everybody they know about it uniqueness of writing and emotion John Steinbeck put into this. I give the book 5 stars because this book is so good that I don't want to let it go.
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Summary: Of Mice and Men - Book Review
Review: A few miles osuth of soledad, the salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs dep and green. There were two guys names George and Lennie who were walking on the path. They both were dressed in denim trousers and denim coats with brass buttons. Both were black, shapless hats. Lennie was a strong man and has a young child's mind, while George is small, and has a boney nose. They were going to soledad to work and live on the ranch. When they get enough money they will live-off-the-fatta the lan'.
I like this book a lot, because it has a lot of adventures, and a lot of excitement in the book. I will recommend this book to the world, becuase I think they will like it a lot, and they will share it with everybody they know about it uniqueness of writing and emotion John Steinbeck put into this. I give the book 5 stars because this book is so good that I don't want to let it go.
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Summary: Of Mice and Men
Review: Of Mice and Men published in l937, is the tenth book written by John Steinbeck. Even though the book only covers a three-day span, it portrays the full spectrum of human emotions including physical pain, tenderness, friendship, pity, and jealousy. Steinbeck's sensitivity for the common man is evident in this work and the others produced during the 1930's. It has been claimed by many that this period saw Steinbeck's greatest works. The social injustices of the 1930's are depicted in Of Mice and Men. His political concerns for equality and happiness for society is a major theme in this novel and his concern for the poor and below average is also evident.
The protagonists, George Milton and Lennie Smalls, are laborers looking for work on a small farm in Salinas Valley, California. Lennie, the bigger of the two, is mentally slow and this seems to always get him in trouble. George stays with Lennie to take care of him after his Aunt Clara died. They both had big dreams of owning a ranch. This is another one of Steinbeck's major themes, the search for the American Dream. However, for Lennie and George the American Dream, to buy the ranch and "live off the fatta the land," is not achieved because of their limitations.
Slim, Curley, Curley's wife, Candy, and Crooks, the antagonists, work at the farm along with George and Lennie. This is where many conflicts happen, such as the fight between Lennie and Curley. The final conflict between George and Lennie at the river brings to reality the importance of friendship and the desperation of loneliness.
This novel is also famous because it depicts Steinbeck's well-known style of writing, which includes such literary devices as symbolism, irony, metaphors, parallelism, alliteration, and repetition. In the opening paragraph by repeating such words as, "with the..." the author easily moves from one repetition to another. Some of his descriptive sentences, like where he describes "The path through the willows," have a rhythmic quality that adds poetic meaning to this novel. Another device Steinbeck uses is the simile. His phrase "the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray sculptured stones" is a striking example.
I really enjoyed reading Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. Its down to earth humor shows compassion in a time where there was none. I really liked his characters and how they are developed in the story. They are believable and bring out the appropriate emotions in the reader. Steinbeck's use of simple plot, natural dialogue, and natural setting, makes this an easy and enjoyable book to read. This timeless classic is a book that I would recommend to anyone, for it is a story that withstands many readings by many generations.
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Summary: Fantastic Book
Review: John Steinbeck has long been among my favorite American authors. I have read "The Grapes of Wrath" and "In Dubious Battle," not to mention of course the book above, "Of Mice and Men." This last book, quite a short work, explores a brief period in the lives of two vagrant workers, looking for jobs in California. As the readers soon find, their home, the "land of the free," is not a paradise of simple people seeking even a decent wage to live by. "Of Mice and Men" illuminates the fundamentally brutal nature of American society during the despression, and the effects of this society on every day people, rich or poor. All of my friends in high school, even those who rarely read, loved this book. Anyone who reads this book is a different person afterwards, and I urge you to read it yourself.
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Summary: Of Mice and Men Book Review
Review: Of Mice and Men is a book that draws you into a world many people have yet to experience. This book takes place in the 1930's in southern California on a ranch where migrant workers
travel to in order to harvest wheat and then move on. George and Lennie are two of these workers and travel to ranches as a team. George takes care of Lennie and looks after him because Lennie suffers from mental disorders. They become best friends even though George believes life would be easier without Lennie. Tough choices have to be made in order to keep everyone safe and George has to decide what a true friend would do in circumstances no one would want to face. The story talks of unreachable dreams and aspirations, something we can all relate to. The ending of the story has a surprise twist to it that will make you think and cause you to reevaluate what a
true friend is.
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Summary: An Easy Classic
Review: Aside from its stature as a classic of American literature and a masterwork of one of the 20th century's most significant writers, there is a reason why OF MICE AND MEN is an ubiquitous part of high school literature courses. This novella follows the structure of Fiction Writing 101 perfectly: Characters are introduced in broad strokes and allowed to fill in their personalities on their own. There a completeness of scene, so much so that the story reads almost more like a play, with no action in any of the chapters taking place outside of the setting where the chapter began. (In one instance, the characters run off set, but the narrator leaves the reader's "camera" on an unpopulated stage while he describes voices and shouting outside.) Most of all, the story follows the perfect three-act structure so neatly that, in a 100-page copy, the characters are all introduced by about page 33, and the turning point happens almost precisely on page sixty-seven. But if the mechanics of Steinbeck's storytelling make this perfect for eighth grade teachers looking to fill out a lesson plan, it's his story that has put it high on the list of Books Everyone Should Read. All of the characters are given a fair chance to be sympathetic. (Only one, the violent, jealous, bullying Curley fails to accomplish that, but he fails on his own terms, not because the author needs a cardboard heavy.) The most memorable, however, is Lennie, the hulking, gentle-natured behemoth with the mind of a child, a victim swept along towards his tragic end by ironic twists of fate he could never possibly hope to understand. With characters this richly layered and one of the easiest storytelling styles Steinbeck would ever have, particularly in comparison to such later, more impressionistic masterpieces as THE GRAPES OF WRATH and EAST OF EDEN, it's not hard to see why OF MICE AND MEN is one of the rare examples of a novel written very much about its time that has nonetheless proven to be timeless.
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Summary: Suprisingly good!
Review: I HATED The Grapes of Wrath, so I thought that Of Mice and Men would just be another boring, overdescriptive Steinbeck book, but it wasn't! The plot was intruiging and the characters really drew me in and it wasn't over descriptive to the point of annoyance the The Grapes of Wrath. I thought that I hated John Steinbeck's writing style, but I guess it's just the style he used for The Grapes of Wrath because Of Mice and Men is not at all the same. It is 100 times better!!!!
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Summary: The book that made me an avid reader
Review: 602 reviews of this book have been written to day, with an average rating of 4.5 stars! What more needs to be said? The story and popularity of this book are of course well known, so I will briefly tell you my Of Mice and Men story: I was in grade eleven (but taking grade ten English), hated school, had loser "friends" who I studdornly refused to disassociate with despite the fact that I knew deep down they would ruin me, when we had to do a reading assignment for English class. Not wanting to be bothered by it all, I chose the shortest one that I could find: Of Mice and Men. My teacher tried to get me to read a longer book--why then was Of Mice and Men on the list then???--but I refused. Well, I read the book and loved it, loved it so much that I have been an avid reader ever since.
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