Of mice and Men (Book Portfollio)

Of mice and Men By: John Stienbeck

Of Mice And Men By: John Steinbeck. This book’s plot would be two people George and Lennie who are migrant workers (people who move all over the place to find work, randomly stay in one work area for an overly long period of time) as well as best friends. They head to a job in California at a farm, Lennie has a mild case of a mental disability and is big, George is smaller and is Lennie’s best friend through out this novel. Lennie likes to feel soft things for example mice and silk stuff like that. There is a couple of other stable hands including a the boss’s son, everyone is fairly nice though not the boss’s son Curley. Curley is also married to a flirtatious wife as well. Towards the very end of the book Curley’s wife asks Lennie if he wanted to feel her hair and he said yes, then he grabbed it to hard and she screamed. Lennie trying to silence her grabbed a hold of her head and accidentally broke her neck, she died. Curley then ran down to his meeting place and later showed up was George, George not seeming angry at Lennie and telling Lennie to look over at the bunny’s then he shot him right in the head, because the other people of the farm were coming to shoot Lennie, George said that Lennie had shot himself.
Some of the main characters would be George, George is small and cares for Lennie he also dreams about his farm that he would like to have with Lennie and often Fantasizes about it through out the book, he also talks a lot about how much better his life would be without Lennie though he really does care for him. Another main character would be Lennie, Lennie is a larger person he has a mental disability so therefore he depends on George, Lennie loves to pet soft things, small animals, dresses, hair ect. Also the character Curley plays a big role in Of mice and Men, Curley is the boss’s son and wears high healed shoes to tell himself away from the other stable hands, he is married to a wife that loves to flirt, he also is mean-spirited, and aggressive. Some of the supporting characters would be Candy (an old man, stable hand, only has 1 hand and, also gets into the land idea with George and Lennie, also he has an OLD dog), Crooks (black stable hand, Bitter though proud, he is also fond of Lennie), Slim (old mule driver who bothers Candy about putting his dog down).
The theme of this book would be to describe Migrant workers in the historical concept and would be friendship between the two men in the literary concept. Migrant workers were a huge part of the U.S.A. in the early 1900’s. Men would live their lives on day to day basis not knowing what was going to happen the next day or what they were going to eat they were totally oblivious to the fact of settling down and living a stable life. The men would normally be kicked out of their jobs for criminal reasons if it was misunderstood they would just vanish. Friendships like the one that George and Lennie share were not as common back then, people were usually looking out for themselves and maybe family, only because it was hard to support people by yourself. Unlike today how we have homeless shelters and companies that are more then willing to help for certain homeless causes. People just did not have the money or resources back then.
To conclude this book was very well written, I enjoyed this author a lot. His audience would probably be young adult to adult because of the vulgar language used within this novel. I thought he displayed his plot, theme, and reasoning very well. I would defiantly recommend this book to someone just looking for some pleasurable reading.