1. John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
... that. The dialect never varies, just as the story never runs uphill (Doren)." George and Lennie, the journeying workers who came to the ranch one day with a dream of purchasing the small farm they will own as soon as they get the money together, like to think their new job will last at least long enough to get the money; but the ... 125,000 itinerant men travelled along a route from Minnesota west to Washington State (Moss 35). Several of the migrant workers traveled by rail in the empty boxcars that were later used to transport grain (Moss 35). "At the turn of the century, the men were...
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