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In the book George kills Lennie since Lennie had killed Curleys wife. He is saving him by doing this since the punishments would be worse if he gets caught or if Curley gets hands on him. This created loneliness to George due to the fact that Lennie was his only friend. This is related to the American Dream because most people attempting to achieve their goals of this dream didn't have many friends and shows how important everyone is in life to help you achieve your goal to live the American Dream life.

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this picture is when George kills Lennie. As you can see, Lennie is looking off into the distance imagining bunnies and mouses, completely not aware of the fact that his life is about to end.

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In the book the author shows how most ranchers live a harsh life of longs hours of working and not earning a lot of money. Since they were working alone and living off the land this created a sense of loneliness throughout most farmers in the book. This is related to the American Dream because most people worked long hours for unfair pay, while having bad working conditions. The visual shows how there is no happiness with the workers and they live their life as a way to just get by and not live their real dreams that they believe in.

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Everyone who has lived on the farms lived their life alone. They do not get out in their life since it revolves around the farm this created a sense of loneliness for everyone working on the farms alone in the book. This is related to the American Dream because it shows how most people who would work hard did not have much of a social life. This created a outbreak of loneliness due to the fact that most of the people living during the American Dream  worked on a farm which did not call for a socially oriented life

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In Of Mice and men the character Lennie's personality is like a child. He does not mean to get George in trouble but he doesn't think as well as others, although he shows great loyalty to him. This shows his loneliness with the inability to interact with people from his knowledge. This holds him back to the interactions with all people and creates him not having friends. This is related to the American Dream due to the lack of knowledge and social skills of people during this time creating loneliness throughout the country of this time period.

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Of Mice and Men is a classic novel that was written by John Steinbeck. John Steinbeck is an accomplished person who wrote multiple novels, won the Nobel Prize, and attended Stanford University. Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, is a novel that is commonly read and studied in most high schools in America. It is a novel that your english class will most likely read and probably be tested on. My first semester of English IA was challenging and rigorous, but I persevered and got an A. I scored a 95% on my Of Mice and Men test. Of Mice and Men is an amazing book that has a variety of characters with a heart crushing ending that is predictable, but still has a huge impact on the reader. I would like to give a summary of Of Mice and Men with the hope that it will help you feel prepared as you start to read this novel in your english class. Without further adieu, on with the Of Mice and Men synopsis!

The novel takes place during the 1930s around the Salinas Valley and near Soledad in California. In the beginning of the book, two migrant farm workers stop at a forest area with a river. George and Lennie are on their way to a new ranch to work. The last ranch they worked at they had to leave. George and Lennie used to work on a ranch earlier, but Lennie saw a woman wearing a nice dress. Lennie wanted to touch the woman's dress, not the woman. Lennie is cognitively disabled and likes to pet soft things. He does not want to harm the women, he just wants to feel her dress. He feels her dress and she screams. She claims that she was raped and the guys on the ranch go to lynch Lennie. George and Lennie hide in an irrigation ditch and then leave. At the forest, George finds something Lennie is hiding in his pocket. George asks him to give what he has in his pocket. It was a dead mouse. Lennie gives in to George and he throws it away. Lennie remembers his Aunt Clara who used to give him mice, but he would keep killing them. George and Lennie sit by a fire eating cans of beans and talking. George complains how easy his life would be without Lennie. Lennie hearing this says he could run away and live in a cave. And Lennie asks George to tell about the rabbits. George then gives his speech. He talks about how him and Lennie are different from other guys. George and Lennie are different because they have each other while most ranch workers are lonely and don't have anybody who cares about them. George and Lennie also have a dream of owning a ranch with rabbits. Lennie is excited about the dream because he is excited about tending the rabbits. George tells Lennie that if he gets into any kind of trouble to return to this forest spot and hide in a brush. George also tells Lennie that when they meet the boss of the ranch, not to say a single word.

George and Lennie arrive at the ranch and meet the boss. George starts talking to the boss. The job George and Lennie will be doing is called bucking barley. Bucking barley is a labor-intensive job that involves carrying large bags of grain to a truck. George complements Lennie saying he is as strong as a bull. Lennie disobeys the order of not say a word by repeating, "strong as a bull," to himself. The boss finds it suspicious that George is going through so much trouble for Lennie to get him the job too. The boss gets suspicious of this, but George tells a lie saying that Lennie is his cousin. When the boss leaves, George starts talking to Candy, an old swamper at the ranch who has only one hand. Then a young man named Curley enters the bunkhouse looking for his father. He is the son of the boss of the ranch. Curley asks George and Lennie questions and acts like a huge jerk. When he leaves, later on a prepossessing woman enters the bunkhouse. She makes an attempt to make conversation, but George does not want to have any conversations with her. Lennie just stares at her. She then leaves. Slim and Carlson enter. Slim is one of the most respected guys on the ranch. He is a jerkline skinner (driver of a mule team), natural-born leader, and skilled at his job. Slim has a few puppies his dog gave birth to. Lennie later on gets a puppy from Slim.

After a certain amount of time in the book, George and Slim are inside the bunkhouse playing cards. George talks about a variety of things to Slim. George first thanks Slim for the puppy that he gave to Lennie. George then tells that him and Lennie were both born in Auburn. When Lennie's Aunt Clara died, he just came along with George working and he got used to him. Then George tells about the time he once played a prank on Lennie. George told Lennie to jump into the Sacramento River. He jumped in and almost drowned, but George pulls him up. Lennie was still nice to him and forgot that he was the one who told Lennie to jump (this event is very important because it shows Lennie's extreme obedience towards George). George also tells that when people are alone and don't have anybody, they get mean. Most people on the ranch are alone. This was during the Great Depression. George also tells about why they stopped working on Weed, the last ranch they worked at. This was the same ranch where Lennie touched a woman's dress. Lennie enters the bunkhouse trying to sneak his new puppy in. George catches him and makes him return it to its mother laying on the nest. Slim sees that Lennie is just like a kid. Another worker named Carlson walks into the bunkhouse. Candy walks in too with his old dog. Carlson complains about how much Candy's dog smells. Carlson tries to convince Candy to let him shoot his dog. The dog is incredibly old. Then another worker named Whit walks in. He has a magazine with a letter on the back. Slim shows that the letter was written by William Tenner, a man who used to work on this ranch. The nickname of William was Bill Tenner. Carlson continues talking about shooting the dog. Candy finally gives in, and Carlson takes the dog out with his gun to shoot him. Candy just lays on his bed. The Stable Buck or Crooks, a black man, enters the bunkhouse. He tells Slim that he asked him to warm up tar for the mule's foot. And that Lennie is messing around with the puppies. Slim leaves to put tar on the mule's foot. Later on, Curley comes in and asks where his wife and Slim are. George says that Slim is in the barn. Curley hurries to the barn. Whit expects to see a fight. Whit and Carlson leave. Lennie asks George how long is it going to be until they get that ranch. George says he does not know and they still need to get the money together. George tells about a place he found that they could get. George starts to describe the place. It is a ten acre place with a shack, a chicken run, a kitchen, an orchard with cherries, apples, peaches, apricots, nuts, and a few berries. There is a place for alfalfa and plenty of water. The place also has a pig pen. Candy hears them and asks if they know of a place like that. George is first defensive about telling Candy anything. Candy has $350 total that he can contribute. Candy is not much use to the ranch because he only has one hand, so he wants to go on the ranch with George and Lennie for security. George starts to believe that they might actually reach this dream that they have. Candy says that he should have shot his own dog, not let a stranger do it. George instructs them not to tell anyone about their dream. Curley burst in again into the bunkhouse with Whit, Carlson, and Slim. Everyone, especially Slim, is upset with Curley because he suspected Slim of being with his wife. Lennie is still smiling because he is still thinking about his future place that him, George, and Candy will live on. Curley gets furious because he thinks Lennie is laughing at him. Curley starts attacking Lennie. Lennie catches Curley's hand, and unintentionally crushes it. Curley's hand is totally broken. George asks if they are going to get fired. Slim tells Curley to not try to get them fired or the truth about how his hand got busted will come out. And he will be mocked. Slim tells Curley to say he got his hand caught in a machine.

The next part of the story takes place in Crook's "room,". Crooks is a black man with a crooked spine. His "room," is really just the barn. Not the bunkhouse. Crooks has the light of his room on. Lennie sees his light and goes into Crook's room. Everyone, including George, are at a brothel that is runned by a woman named Susy. Except Candy. Lennie tells Crooks about the rabbits and the little place. He does not follow the order George gave him. Crooks then talks about the ranch his father used to have and his childhood. Crooks starts supposing what would happen to Lennie if George did not come back to the ranch because he was hurt or killed. This makes Lennie worried, defensive, and aggressive. Crooks calms Lennie down. Crooks talks a little about his loneliness. Crooks is black, so he does not get companionship and respect other farmers get. He is the lowest ranked person in the farm's heiracy. Lennie talks about the place he is gonna have and Crooks says that everyone tries to get a piece of land, but they all fail. Candy comes in and starts talking about the rabbits. Crooks is pessimistic and finds the idea of Lennie and Candy gettin land ridiculous. Candy says they have the money and got the placed picked out. Crooks tries to join them by offering to do them odd jobs on the future ranch. Curley's wife comes in and tries to talk to them. She calls Lennie, Crooks, and Candy the "weak ones,". Curley's wife starts asking about what happened to Curley's hand. Later on Crooks stands up to Curley's wife and tells her she has no right to be in his room. Curley's wife snaps at him and says she could get him strung up a tree so fast. Curley's wife leaves.

Lennie is then in the barn with his new puppy that he killed. Curley's wife comes in and starts to engage Lennie. Lennie at first tries to avoid her because of orders he got from George, but then he tells her he likes to pet soft things. Curley's wife tells about she could have been a movie star. She met a guy at a dance palace who said she was a natural and he could put her in the movies. It did not work out and she ended up marrying Curley. Curley's wife craves attention, so she lets Lennie stroke her hair. Lennie strokes too hard and she gets angry.

Lennie grabs on to her hair and accidentally breaks her neck. Lennie runs off to the forest spot. Candy sees Curley's Wife's body. He gets George and they both know Lennie killed her. Candy asks if they can still get that place, but George says he thinks he already knew they could never do it. A mob of workers and Curley go out to kill Lennie. Carlson can't find his pistol and thinks Lennie stole it.

At the Salinas river, which is the same place George and Lennie spent the night, Lennie is there. He had hallucinations of his Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit saying hurtful stuff to him. George comes. Lennie asks George to tell him about how they are different from other guys. George talks while he is behind Lennie who is looking at the river. George told Lennie to look at the river. George talks about their dream and George shoots Lennie in the back of the head with Carlson's pistol. The mob of workers come and saw George shot Lennie. Slim said he had to do it and helps up George to get a drink. Carlson and Curley are confused why George and Slim are upset.

I will be going over Of Mice and Men characters the next post. The Of Mice and Men text is a great novel that is worth understanding not just for your class, but also to learn the elements of good storytelling.

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Of Mice and Men is a classic novel that was written by John Steinbeck. John Steinbeck is an accomplished person who wrote multiple novels, won the Nobel Prize, and attended Stanford University. Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, is a novel that is commonly read and studied in most high schools in America.

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Loneliness is a feeling of social disconnectedness in which a person wishs that he or she had better social relationships.

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The word Soledad means to be alone in greek. This is related to the book because it is silently telling you that the town in the book of mice and men is the town of loneliness. This helps the reader understand the theme because its the town of the ranch and most of the people lived a life of being by themselves. This relates to the American Dream because people trying to accomplish their dream had to do it by their self and work hard to accomplish this goal, but were alone doing this to live the life of an American Dream.