... Men are friendship and isolation, hope and futility. Through George and Lennie's friendship, the hope to achieve their dream is kept alive. George, little and clever, feels Lennie has been given into his keeping. Simpleminded and gentle Lennie possesses great physical strength and becomes unwittingly destructive when startled. Although ... need, they cannot feed another hand. However, he agrees to put Gitano up for this night only in the little room in the bunkhouse. Jody asks Gitano, "Did you come out of the big mountains back there?" Gitano replies, "No, I worked down in Salinas Valley....

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... the fire. " When I think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts. I never get no peace." He is also comes across as a loud man because he is always speaking for himself and Lennie. 'The boss licked his pencil. "What's your name?" "George Milton." "And what's yours?" George said, "His name's ... him to block out the world, which in turn makes him lonely. Crooks is a bitter, indignant, angry and ultimately frustrated by his helplessness as a black man in a racist culture. Wise and observant, Crooks listens to Lennie's talk of his dream of the farm. Although he's tempted by Ca...

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... 29). Throughout the book Candy keeps to himself, away from others, because he's rejected by others, just like Crooks and Curly's Wife. Candy, a sweet old man, is also discriminated against.  Many people were discriminated in the novel "Of Mice and Men": Crooks, Curly's Wife and Candy, all for different reasons. In spite of ... and for this reason should not be prosecuted for Lennie's death.  Lennie was a great danger to himself and others. He was a very large, strong man who did not mean to harm anyone but didn't realize when his great strength began to harm others. Because of his simp...

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... . Suddenly, Kino senses an evil presence. He rises, reaching for the knife under his shirt, and moves toward the doorway as Juana tries restrain him. Suddenly, a man attacks Kino, they begin to fight. Juana puts the baby down on the floor, grabs a stone from the fireplace, and runs out to help her beloved. But ... ran over to Kino. She reached Kino knowing that life would never be the same. The old life was gone forever. It wasn't Kino who attacked the man. The stranger attacked him, Kino had just killed him in self defense. There was no other choice, if Kino had done nothing, the strange...

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... he wouldn't want to create trouble for George on purpose and intentionally, Only that he is careless and much to strong for his own good and to little thinking cause him to get into unwanted trouble. Lennie to dreams on having his own place but in a more childish way, he just wants to tend ... the better. He wouldn't mind being a little bigger in size and he would appreciate not chasing his wife all over the ranch. Curley couldn't avoid his terrible character by picking on Lennie. Like always Lennie did not do it on purpose. Lennie was guilty of being a big man, and Curley saw this as an ...

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... , which attracts the farm workers. She had full rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her finger-nails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. I think that all of this shows that she spends a lot of time on her own and that she doesn't go out much ... of emotions but when she dies all that goes away from her. And she is left happy and trouble-free. Curley Curley is described as a small man. his hands closed into fists his glance was at once calculating and pugnacious Curley lashed his body around Curley is a born fighter v/s everything about him con...

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