... himself. Lennie likes to think that sometimes he has control over George but that is simply not true. Lennie is incapable of looking after himself and depends on George for everything. "That's not what I meant. You remember where we slep' last night? Down by the river?" "Yeah. I remember. Oh, sure I remember ... of the bunk. "I ain't a southern Negro," he said. "I was born right here in California. My old man had a chicken ranch, "bout ten acres. The white kids come to play with them, and some of them was pretty nice." (102) When he was younger nobody bothered about his colour but ... t...

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... Pearl is a study of man's self destruction through greed. Juana, the faithful wife of Kino, a paltry peasant man, had lived a spiritual life for what had seemed like as long as she could remember. When her son Coyotito fell ill from the bite of a scorpion, she eagerly turned towards the ... it is not like that because they have a future, somebody to talk to; they are working toward getting their own farm with a couple acres of land. Lennie enjoys the idea of having a farm and tending to the rabbits to the extent that he begs George to tell the story ... Crooks also had the dream, and whe...

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• Grade Level: High School