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Of mice And Men

Author; John Steinbeck, publisher; new Longman litterature

Year of publication ; 1937 and number of pages 156.

The novel is a tale of the friendship between two migrant George and Lennie. hey work on ranches, they do not have any family, and they are very lonely, but they have each other. They also have one big dream, a small ranch of their own.

The story starts when George and Lennie rest in a clearing by the river, on their way to a nearby ranch where they expect to sign on for temporary work. The time is in the harsh depression years of 1930’’in Salinas, Northern California. They have just left their previous job in a hurry because the larger of the two men, Lennie was accused of attemted rape.

Lennie is a giant of a man, but he has the mind of a young child. He often gets into trouble, but never because of meanness. He Is often misunderstood.

Georg is short of stature. He has for some reason taken on the responsibility, of looking after Lennie.

There, resting by the river, George asks Lennie to familiarise himself with the location of the clearing by the river where they are resting. George tells Lennie to return to this spot if he gets in serious trouble again.

The next day they arrive at the ranch, and they go to the bunk-house ( the house where the workes live) where they meet most of the other main charaters in the story.

Carlson is one of the established workers. He keeps a Luger pistol under his bed.

Slim is the ranch owners number one worker. He is the foreman. He is very much liked and respected by the other workers and he is also friendly towards George and Lennie.

Candy discovers the dead woman and informs George about it. George tells Candy that the other men might think he was part of the killing, so he tells Candy that he will go to the bunk house and wait there until Candy have told the other men about the dead woman . Then he would come along and pretend he never saw her.

Then Candy informs the rest of the men about the dead. Curley is furious, and decides to seek revenge, organising a man hunt to get Lennie and kill him. At this time George is back and joins the hunt. At this time in the novel, Steinbeck is not telling us why George asks Candy to let him go to the bunk-hose before the other discovers the dead body. But at the end of the story, we discover that George went to the bunk house to steal Carlson’s Luger pistol.

George is now part of the hunt for Lennie. He is afraid what the other men will do to Lennie, so when he meets up with Lennie at the clearing by the river where he had instructed Lennie to go in the event of any trouble, he shoots him in the back of the head. When the other men arrive at the clearing by the river, George tell them that Lennie stole the gun, he took it away from him, and then shot him. It is not said, but George killed Lennie because he loved him. He would not let the other men lynch him.

I liked this book very much and I will reccomend it for my friends. It`s allmenn short story and easiley read, but the language is very much ”slang”. The story is both sad and nice, the friendship between George and Lennie is very special and Steinbeck describes it veru well. The story is sad because of the outcome of the story. They had so many dreams that were not fullfilled.

 

 

Of Mice and Men: Comparing the Movie and the Book

 

The movie of Of Mice and Men had many differences while still giving the same message that the book was portrayed to have. One of the major differences was that Candy never came into the room when Lennie and Crooks were talking to each other. This was major because Crooks never found out that the plan was true about the little house. In the book after he heard Candy talk about it he wanted to get in on the deal.

The characters in the novel and the movie had many differences. In the book George was shown to hate Curley with a passion. In the movie George didn't seem to like Curley too much but he definitely didn't hate him like in the book. In the movie Curley's wife seemed to be attracted to Lennie and enjoyed his presence because he was nice. In the book she talked to him only because she was amused by Lennie's stupidity.

 

I felt that the movie was wonderful and I loved it as much as I loved the book. I would give the movie a 10 because it was so great. The only parts that I didn't like were in the end it didn't make me as sad as the book made me feel. I felt so into the dream the Lennie and George shared that I was sad when it was destroyed.