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Reader reviewed by Vanessa

George and Lennie are two guys who travel together. They are good friends but are very different. Lennie is forgetful, having to repeat things three times to remember them. He likes to pet things: mice, puppies, and other soft surfaces. Hes a little slow mentally but is a great worked cultivating land in ranches. Lennie is also always finding way into trouble, of course unintentionally and without meaning much harm. George is always taking care of Lennie and getting him out of trouble. Together they get to a new ranch in Soledad after finding trouble in Weed. In this new ranch they meet the workers, the bosss son Curley, and his flirtatious wife. Ultimately what George and Lennie want is their own promised land, a place to call their own and to do what they want on it. This becomes a hard feat due to Lennies getting into trouble a lot and forgetting what George taught him.

Of Mice and Men is a tale which begins low-paced and a little on the boring side until things start getting into place. Lennie and George are magnificent characters, John Steinbeck depicts very well what I think of a migrant workers around the 1930s. Lennie is my favorite character due to the fact that he is always trying his best not to get into any trouble. However, he is illiterate and this is a hard thing to do. He always turns to George to help him and George is always there. The ending is a string of all the events that went throughout the book and it is a very phenomenal ending at that. This is a book I wont forget because of the impact it has at the near-end and end. This book will cause happiness, sadness, a little laughter at Lennies naiveness, closure, and a feeling of all of these at the same time. Please go out to read this book& it is short, well-told, and a definite thumbs-up.