Of Mice and Men is a novel published in 1937 and like East of Eden is one of the most amazing books by Steinbeck.
It is a story about life, friendship, dreams, own place in the world, bad and good things, extreme emotions, hard decisions.
Of Mice and Men is a story about two friends - George and Lennie - who are so different from themselves, who have dreams and plans, who want find ''their home'' and just be happy. George is an intelligent but uneducated man, who loves his friend like a brother. Lennie is quite different than George - he is a man of large stature and great strength but limited mental abilities, who absolute trusts his friend. Both of them have the same dream - they want to settle on an own piece of land, where they will have rabbits, which are Lennie's dream because he likes everything what's soft and he wants to take care of them and touch them almost all the time. Lennie likes when his best friend, George, is telling him about their future and their own farm where they'll be happy.
We meet them when they're fleeing from their previous employment because of Lennie's love to fluffy things, and this trip is the beginning of the end their big dream.
On the new ranch they are finding a job, they'll get to know new, interesting people, especially Candy who wants to give them money and go with them to their own farm, live there and help them. also we can find there Crooks - the black stable-hand - man, who's isolated from the other men because of the color of his skin, and who's proud, bitter, and cynical.
Everthing is ending in the moment when Lennie accidentally kills his puppy while strokinglittle dog, and then after the conversation with Curley's wife [a young, pretty woman, who is mistrusted by her husband] and after her yells that he must stop touching her hair, he, frightened, unintentionally breaks her neck. and after that, George must decide what to do - kill his best friend and save him or wait and let kill him through other. Sitting right next to Lennie and telling him about their future, he's shooting him in the back of the head, so that his death is painless and quick. After that only Slim, realizes that George killed Lennie, his friend, out of love, and he took him discreetly from body of his friend, Lennie.
We meet them when they're fleeing from their previous employment because of Lennie's love to fluffy things, and this trip is the beginning of the end their big dream.
On the new ranch they are finding a job, they'll get to know new, interesting people, especially Candy who wants to give them money and go with them to their own farm, live there and help them. also we can find there Crooks - the black stable-hand - man, who's isolated from the other men because of the color of his skin, and who's proud, bitter, and cynical.
Everthing is ending in the moment when Lennie accidentally kills his puppy while strokinglittle dog, and then after the conversation with Curley's wife [a young, pretty woman, who is mistrusted by her husband] and after her yells that he must stop touching her hair, he, frightened, unintentionally breaks her neck. and after that, George must decide what to do - kill his best friend and save him or wait and let kill him through other. Sitting right next to Lennie and telling him about their future, he's shooting him in the back of the head, so that his death is painless and quick. After that only Slim, realizes that George killed Lennie, his friend, out of love, and he took him discreetly from body of his friend, Lennie.
Why you should read it
The book gives you extreme emotions, surprise, reflection, and answer for question: what the real friendship is?. Of Mice and Men is about love, dreams, and about own guilts, freedom and self-respect.
What
would I do, if I was George or Candy? What would I do, if I had to kill my
friend? - we have to find own answers to these questions.
Things to look out for
Relations between people: George and Lennie, Curley and his wife, Curley and his workers, Crooks and other workers, Candy and his dog.
