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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The title of the book i am writing about is ‘of mice and men’ and iswritten by John Steinbeck. This book is set in western America in thesub urban areas. The book is set in 1937. The job of farm labouring isa boring one because the men who work there usually travel bythemselves, this is different in George and Lenny’s case because theytravel together everywhere they go. They both have each other forcompany, although Lenny has the capabilities of a child. In the timethe book is written America is in depression, many businesses failedand many men worked for low pay contracts at different ranches acrossAmerica. The American dream is to live in small town or in a suburbanarea where grass and trees simulate the country. This dream home is apermanent seat, not rented but owned. This dream is bound to failbecause everyone wants that dream and it cost a lot of money, most ofthe men working in America with this dream are on low salary so cannever afford the American dream.
George is one of the main characters in the book, he travels fromranch to ranch with Lennie. George gets Lennie out of trouble when hedoes bad things. The dream George has is to live in a small house andhave a few acres of land and live off of the fatter of the land andnot to go to work on the land when they don’t feel like it or theweather is horrible. This dream usual for the time he is living in.This is the type of dream that people have in them days. Georges dreamis that ‘were gonna get the jack together and were gonna have a littlehouse and a couple of acres and some cows and some pigs and we’ll havea big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when itrains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin to work’.