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Summary: A strong statement..
Review: A powerful and poignant story. Steinbeck haunts his readers with the murderous innocence of the simple mind which finds it difficult to survive in this world. The age old debate of the fitness of survival is revisited and '..you have to do it at times..George' leaves the readers with a pathos and helpless anger against such a strong judgement. And..the heart beats to dream Lenny's dreams of tending the rabbits in their farm..someday.
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Summary: A wonderful Tale!
Review: This book is a tragic tale of two farm laborers who wander around to own a land of their own. They both are an unlikely pair. George is a short and smart man. Lennie is an enormous man with a childish mind. They both are very different yet they have formed a family. They ran away from their hometown to escape the law and started to work on a ranch in the Salians valley but trouble awaits them every corner. This is a great book for the ages of thirteen or over. If you love adventure and fun then you should read this book!
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Summary: A jam packed book. One to read, definately!
Review: Mice and men was a strange book at the start. The language was very interesting and cleverly described. The fact that I'm only 13 years of age makes it quite a challanging book for me. As we got into it, it was brilliant. I loved the way Steinbeck showed that George & Lennies life was a game of chance, by George always play cards. When you play cards you don't know if your going to get a bad hand or a good one. This reflects the issues in both George and Lennnie's life. It got quite emotional when Carlson insisted on killing Candy's dog. I suppose that if I had a ill dog , I'm sure I'd want to put it out of it's misery. The end though was fantastic. Curley was beating Lennie, so George told Lennie to get him, and Lennie grabbed hold of Curley's had and crushed it with his enormous amount of strengh. This was really a great, but personally I think that It is aimed for elder readers.
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Summary: Jam is Poo on Mice & Men
Review: I read this book at school and to begin with I found it rather boring. Although later on, I found it extermely exciting and quite sad aswell. Some of the language was hard to understand and I only recommened this book to a more mature reader. I think the characters are realy interesting and remind me about real people. If you are confident, when it comes to reading, this is a fantastic book.
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Summary: A Long Journey
Review: Of Mice and Men is the story of two men working together. The first man, Lennie, was really tall with big hands and feet, but he is off in the head. The second man, George, was short and kinda of grouch; he was the more intelligent one. The two men stay togeher because when Lennie's Auntie died George promed to take care of him. Lennis is always getting into trouble for petting things and killng them. One day they got ran out of town and from there on they are always on the move. I really like the novel but I don't think in should of ended like it did. Lennie was my favorite charachter because he kept me laughing. I would recommnd this novel for people who like adventure. I would give this book three stars because it is pretty good.
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Summary: I Loved This Book
Review: This is an icredible novel. The story was slow-paced, but filled with action. The characters- George, Lenny, Curly, Curly's wife, and so one- were interesting and there was even an element of suspense. The book ends with a very emotional scene that may anger or sadden you. Either way, John Steinbeck created a literary masterpiece.
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Summary: Of mice and men
Review: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck was written about a young man who had mental problems and struggled through life. The scene of the book was in the country, were Lennie, the main charecter, looked for jobs with his friend George to make money and fufil there dreams. George would look after Lennie and keep him out of trouble. People weren't to social with lennie because of his mental disorder, they thought he was stupid, and caused troubles. It was a struggle for Lennie to get by and stay out of trouble, and ended up in a tragic ending. I recomend this book to any one who likes to read. This book made me want to give any one a chance and dont judge a book by its cover.
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Summary: American Beauty: a modern day 'Of Mice and Men'?
Review: Not much more can be said about John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men',that hasn't already been said. The book portrays the classic struggle to achieve the American Dream, and while watching 'American Beauty' I found numerous parallels to 'Of Mice and Men'. The main characters in both of these works struggle with the status quo, and end up dying because they are unable to conform. 'American Beauty', in my opinion, is a modern day 'Of Mice and Men', showing the confusion and strife of middle class, white-collar life, instead of the struggle of the lower class, blue collar life portrayed in Steinbeck's novel. The industrialization and growth of the middle class since the baby-boomers of the 50's has brought our country towards a more suburban life. However, we constantly thrive to be more than we actually are, as reflected in American Beauty. A family tries to live at a higher than possible standard, and ends up falling apart. While Steinbeck's novel reflects the opposite, the underpriveleged class trying to live at a simple level, both works are the same story, told at different times and with different circumstances. The two works present us with a common theme: the limits of society. As hard as it is to accept, there are some things which we just cannot achieve.
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Summary: A Bantamweight word user. A Heavyweight storyteller.
Review: This is old school writing, writing from before the days of the bloated bestsellers. When writers wrote books instead of Hollywood enticements for screenplays. Lenny carries forth on the strength of a dream, a dream whose destruction is wrought by his own physical strength. George is something of a Depression era Jesus; giving hope and life to Lenny and later, destroying that life; performing an act of sacrifice and love by taking Lenny's suffering upon himself and setting Lenny free. Steinbeck tells a story without employing a "cast of thousands," without relying upon exotic locations and eccentric characters for denouement, without gratuitous violence, prolific profanity and sizzling sex scenes. Steinbeck gives you character. Character driven by Hunger and Hope (George and Lenny), character personifying meanness (Curly) and Loneliness (Curly's wife). Steinbeck wrote a simple story that is character driven and plot maintained and scarcely over one hundred pages long. A knockout.
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Summary: Review for Of Mice and Men
Review: Of Mice an Men is a great novel. It sends you back in time to the Great Depression era of the 1930's. It is a good book for middle school students. The reason I gave this book four stars is because of the profane languange used in the book. Except for the language, this book is a great book to read.
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