Lennie and George constantly wandered from town to town in search of jobs. ... When George finally secured a job of some sort, Lennie would invariably do something to make them lose their jobs. ... After that incident, George and Lennie simply left town and got another job. ... The setting of the book Of Mice and Men made the book more enjoyable. The book's setting of the late 1930's was a much simpler time, and made the book more fun to read. ...

• Word Count: 525
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The book tells a story about the Joad's, the main family in the book, struggle during these tough times. ... They find a job picking peaches for five cents a crate. ... The Joads then leave there and go get another job picking cotton. ... I would recommend this book to everyone. ... I did however think that Steinbeck did a very good job at blending them into the book. ...

• Word Count: 988
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The film had the ability to really get the audience to know how the characters acted toward one another and how they acted on the job, mostly focusing on George and Lennie. ... The book did not present in detail a perfect picture of the characters. ... The film gives you a different picture in your mind than what the book delivers to you. ... Lennie's character is revealed very similarly in the book as well as the film. ... The man who plays Lennie in the film does a great job showing the expressions on Lennie's face when he is talking to George and when he is petting the puppy. ...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

It is a sad ending, but it suits the book very well. This book really gives a great example of how life was during the great depression. Men traveled aimlessly from job to job with only the clothes on their backs. ... One of the themes in this book is friendship, or brotherhood. ... The other characters in the book are just working for themselves, and always wandering from place to place, hoping to find somewhere they belong. ...

• Word Count: 622
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Now through the rest of the book, Ma is the head of the family. ... When he is first introduced in the book, Casey is a lost soul searching for his purpose. ... He can't find a steady job, and he can't provide for his family. By the end of the book he seems tired, wore out, and hopeless. ... In conclusion, The Grapes of Wrath did an excellent job in showing how people, when forced to do things and live in different environments, can change; some for the better, and some for the worse. ...

• Word Count: 554
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

We see later in the book that this is a routine. Lennie takes a shine to Curley's wife, which could be a potential threat to their jobs. ... I think Curley's wife is the loneliest character in the book. ... Firstly, we find she has been rejected from a job. " I never got that letter." ... Through out the book we see many sides to Curley's wife. ...

• Word Count: 804
• Approx Pages: 3
• 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. ... "You can't keep a job and you lose me ever' job I get...His anger left him suddenly." This part of the second paragraph on page 11 of the book shows that George knows how troublesome Lennie is, but doesn't leave him alone like Lennie wants him to do. ... In the book, Slim asks George about his background with Lennie and throughout George going into detail about it, he reveals a story of him bullying Lennie before he felt bad about it: "Used to p...

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

Eventually, he meets another main character in this book, Jim Casy, who is a former preacher who seems to value the importance of human contact as something quite holy. ... There they are planning the long trip to California in search of jobs with high wages, as is promised by the handbills posted all over the Oklahoma landscape California land-owners. ... In the interim, Tom's family moves to a cotton-picking job which is nearby. ... It is interesting to point out that even though he tried to make the story as real as possible, it seems like he had less strict standards in regards to ...

• Word Count: 700
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

John Steinbeck, The author of the novel "Of Mice and Men", set the book during the Wall Street crash, where thousands of people lost or didn't know how much money they had. ... They have been chased out of their previous job because of Lennie's confusion. We meet George and Lennie as they are travelling to their new job. ... , Candy says this as though he is afraid of losing his job or afraid of getting beaten. ...

• Word Count: 310
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The book makes you decide, should I be realistic or should I try and make my dreams come true? ... His first three books were financial failures and he worked at various kinds of jobs to survive, including fruit picking. ... I found the writing style of this book to be really slack and basic. The English in this book was elementary, very easy to understand and follow. ... Throughout the book he wrote and spelled words as if they would have been said them. ...

• Word Count: 584
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Fear is only one of the many characteristics used by John Steinbeck in this book. ... In the book's exposition, Nazi's take over a small country-type town. ... Transcendentalism is shone in many of the townspeople and Lieutenant Tonder, a round character whose feelings get in the way of his job. ... "The military, the political pattern I work in has certain tendencies and practices which are invariable...the military mind and pattern is an inability to see beyond the killing which is it's job." ... He also uses extreme ocular imagery while describing the atmosphere so you...

• Word Count: 913
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This book involves a lot of difficult conflicts to deal with. ... George and Lennie are two men just looking for a job. ... This is why they are looking for more work, they had got run out of their last job because of Lennie. ... This story of George and Lennie is truly touching and that's why I believe so many people would enjoy this book. ...

• Word Count: 830
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the book of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, a story about two workingmen named Lennie and George, who overcome many hindrances together. ... He will be able to maintain a steady job, have enough money at the end of each month to go into town for whiskey. ... The book made you feel some type of way with the character Lennie, feel so much sympathy for him but murder is still a crime. ...

• Word Count: 571
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Early in the book, George sets the lonely mood by stating, "Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world." ... Candy says," I won't have no place to go, an" I can't get no more jobs." ... At the beginning of the book when she is introduced she seemed like just a flirt, but as the book progresses she is revealed as just a girl that wants to find someone to talk to. ... It seems a little awkward what George chooses to stay with Lennie because Lennie causes George many problems and gets them fired from jobs. ...

• Word Count: 1086
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the author reveals many aspects about George and Lennie's personalities and their friendship. ... In the book, there are many instances proving that George cared about Lennie. ... Since the death of Lennie's Aunt Clara, George also took it upon himself to take responsibility of him and his special needs by finding him jobs, feeding him, and making sure he is safe. Furthermore, George knew that he would have to pay close attention to Lennie to protect him from danger and proved that he had throughout the book. ... One of the largest examp...

• Word Count: 999
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His old age and disabilities cause him to become a useless hand on the farm, not being able to handle almost all of the jobs. ... The only thing that allows him to keep with this farm is his sweeping job and his faithful, old, blind dog. ... Early in the book, the lonely mood is expressed by the statement, 'Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.' ...

• Word Count: 740
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two migrant workers who move around to find job opportunities during the Great Depression in California. ... Candy's Dog's death at the beginning of the book foreshadows Lennie death at the end. ...

• Word Count: 627
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This book was unsuccessful. ... While John was always writing, Carol worked many different jobs in order to support the couple. ... This book became an instant success and was immediately a best seller. ... This novel earned him a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. ...

• Word Count: 954
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps a passionate love for the English language opened to me from this one book"" (Reef 15). ... Unfortunately, many of these incoming workers did not find a job in the field. ... Of Mice and Men was banned from many schools and libraries during this time, and is still one of today's most frequently banned books due to the violence, offensive language, racism, and sexism found in the book (Chervokas and Watson). ... Steinbeck also worked together in Rickett's science lab and in 1940 they went to the Sea of Cortez together on an expedition to collect specimens for their book, The S...

• Word Count: 1015
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

George and Lennie becomes very close to Candy thorough the book. ... Chapter three, Lennie and George's secret of why they left their previous jobs. ... She is considered one of the dangerous examples in the book. ... Steinbeck's novel is book about misfits in society. ...

• Word Count: 1088
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During the story Lennie always seems to get in trouble causing himself and George to lose their jobs and to be chased out of town. ... In the book other people quote on George and Lennie as being friends they say things like it is weird that you don't see people usually walking together. ... For while the dream of the farm perishes, the theme of commitment achieves its strongest statement in the book's conclusion (4). ...

• Word Count: 1171
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Friendship in Of Mice and Men Friendship, something everyone on the planet needs at one time or another in life. Without friendship, people cannot grow, learn to except differences and learn that not everything is just about them. Friendship is a friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or be...

• Word Count: 836
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The characters in the book stay in a bunkhouse, but a black man called Crooks is left out because of his race. ... George and Lennie are constantly talking about owning their own land, but it is unlikely to happen because of lack of money and jobs. ...

• Word Count: 702
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

John Steinbeck's father owned much of the farm land in the Salinas Valley, where John worked fruit picking, and doing odd jobs to earn some extra money when he was a young man in the 1920's and 1930's. ... "The countryside described at the beginning of the book, and the ranch itself, would have been very familiar to John Steinbeck."... John Steinbeck does an excellent job of relating his personal experiences in the Great Depression to bring a true existence to the characters in his novel, Of Mice and Men. ...

• Word Count: 929
• Approx Pages: 4

These people putting their jobs on hold really shows the amount of sacrifice and respect they have for this country. ... This book truly shaped the understanding of the war by showing just how much emotion plays on a soldier in battle. ...

• Word Count: 992
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School