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7th Lewis , of mice and men by john steinbeck (Characters (George : small …
7th Lewis , of mice and men by john steinbeck
SETTING
during the great depression in southern california in soled on a west / barley / ranch farm
Characters
George : small , smart , with sharp features . he looks after lennie and are best friend
lenni : large lumbering simpleton who is very strong and loves to pet soft things
curley : boss son , little guy , curler hair , only guy with a wife , wearing a glove full of vaseline , picks a fight with lennie
curlers's wife : young , purty , the only young woman , on the ranch , not very nice , married curley for his money
slim : prince of the ranch role model ageless , handsome , compliant , confident , smart , listens , more then talks but when he does , he commands authority and respect.
carlson : a ranch hand who shoots candy dog and is generally kind of a jerk
croocks : only black guy on the ranch , crippled , and a broken back , has to sleep in a separate room lonely
candy : a swamper , old guy missing a hand , he has , an old sheep dog , for a pet , we can tell that he longs for company and he wants to feel comfortable .
Summary
Summary
Section 1
4.lennie almost went out into the woods on his own but george would not let him
george promised lenin that he would get him a rabbit so the he would have something to play with instead of a dead rat
they had to sleep outside in the cold woods with just leaves and a fire
lennie had a rat the he really liked but it was dead so george made him throw it away
6.the tried to get a ride from someone going down the street but they did not pick the up so george got up set
7.george is getting frustrated because they cannot find a ride
8.they started talking about a farm with colorful animals
lennie only ate his beans with ketchup
Section 2 Summary
the meet cannot and he shows them around the ranch and the bunk house
the boss came in and is mad they were late to work
7.Speak of bad things, Curley's wife enters the bunkhouse, "looking" for "Curley." Uh-huh.
5.George gives Lennie another piece of fatherly advice: avoid Curley like the plague—unless Curley actually touches him, in which case, kick his butt.
8.He and George snark at each other a little, but no one whips out any roundhouse punches. Not yet, at least.
George and Lennie arrive at the new ranch.
In the bunkhouse, they meet an old guy named Candy. His name seems especially inappropriate since he is missing a hand, has bristly white whiskers, and an ancient dog that stinks.
Unlike most other characters in the book, Curley's wife has no name, unless you consider "tramp," "loo loo," and "jail-bait" to be names. In that case, this lady's got lots of names.
Section 3 :
4.george confesses about what happened in weed
5.carlsom comes in and wants to shoot candy dog , cause it stinks ,slim agrees that the dog is no good itself carleton shoots the dog in the back of the head
lennie tried to bring the pups in the barn to prove he's not honest all the time
6.crooks comes in to get slim out of the barn , curlers comes in looking fr his wife and thinks that she might be out in the barn with slim
George and slim talk about how lennie aint mean , not too smart either , but def not mean
george , lennie and candy are left in the bunkhouse , where they talk about the dream ranch , acandy hears about it and wants to throw the money in on buying it for the first time ranch is a possibility
1.slim had drown some puppies , but one of the ones that was left he gives one too lennie now lennie wants to spend all his time in the barn .
curlers comes into th bunk house with everyone following and they laughing at him he ashes out at him and starts beating him lennie is smiling and happy about the rabbits , because he thinks lennie is laughing at him too , lennie grabs curlers hand and crushes is , george is worried they will get fired and slim said if that curley won't say anything , none else won't either
section 4
1.lennie is in the barn playing with his pup , when he he sees crooks light on and decides to visit
crooks tells lennie that since he isn't wanted in the bunk house that none of them is wanted is his room
3.corooks gives lennie a hard time and tortures him about maybe george got hurt and won't come back
lennie hulks out on crooks , crooks tell lennie that maybe he can understand then what might be like to be alone
candy comes in and tells crooks and lennie the he got the farm money all figure out and they can go sooner
6.curley wife comes in and wants to know what happened to curley hand . they lie to her and she gets mad when they tell he to leave
curley wife threatens to have crooks lynches and that theres nothing the other guy can do about it .
crooks tell them all too leave his room and he appears to give up on the idea of the dream farm
section 5
4.lennie tells her that he likes her to pet nice things and she offers him to touch her hair
5.lennie tells her he likes to put nice things and she offers to let him touch her hair , lennie gets carried away , and snaps her neck when she screams
3.she says that she could have been in the movie and been famous and had nice close (this one seems to be the most important )
candy comes in the barn and finds the body , and goes and gets george , says go an gets like you wasn't their that goes to the bunk house while candy calls for help
she tells him her story of how she met curley and theat she married him because she wanted to get anyway from her mother
lennie is in the barn with the pup he killed when curlers wife comes in all the other guys are playing horse shoes
curlers wife tells of how she met curley and that she marries and all the hands come into the barn and curley says it was lennie .
all the hand comes into the barn and she says that she could have been in the movie and been famed and had nice clothes
summary section 6
a grain rabbit comes ouand tells lennie that he no good and the he never going to be ables to take care of any habits
lennie hallucinates his aunt clara who tells him he's been selfish that george has been so good to him and he's only caused trouble
4 .the rabits also says that george is going to leave him
1.lennie went to hide int he brush where the story started
george shows up and lennie is so happy the george to tel him him were their going next
7.george says he dosent know , and lennie asks to tell him about their dream farm
george tells lennie to look across the river while he tells a story george is all chocked up and can hardly talk and almost can't bring him self to shoot lennie
just as the men are about to arrive george shots lennie , the men locks up outta self defense and carls can't understand why george and slim are sad
Themes
Cruelty of life
Friendship or lack there of
disempowerment
loneliness