In the novel "Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck the author thought his characters, settings, and events describes the difficulty that people experienced in life in the west during the great deppresion.1 The Great depression affected the whole world during the 1930s. ... Of mice and men is based in Soledad, California this novel deals with migrant laborers during the Great Depression, it focuses on to main characters, George Milton and Lennie Smalls.4 Clinging to each other's loneliness. ... Lennie drops in on Crooks.8 Crooks who philosophizes about companionship. ... Crooks tells him t...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Of Mice and Men If you have read the novel 'Of Mice and Men' and are anything like me, then the novel will have held you captivated. ... Through the book, the reader is being told about the mice that Lennie killed, by petting them too hard. ... Crooks wants a close friend and resents seeing George and Lennie together. ... Crooks says this because he wants Lennie to feel how he feels; lonely. Crooks is like Lennie, because they are both outcasts. ...

• Word Count: 2390
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

That was the kind of friendship George Milton and Lennie Small had in the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. ... Throughout the book, George and Lennie's quintessence of friendship motivates a lot of the characters: it makes Candy and Crooks want to join up with them on their plan to own their own land; it shows Slim a rather pure way of living life with other people; Crooks realizes that he does not have to despise "white people"; and Curley's wife realizes how unhappy her marriage is with her husband when she talks to Lennie about his dream with George. ...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School