George And Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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The book Of Mice And Men is about george and lennie two cousins who go through a lot. In the book they end up traveling to so many places. They end up meeting so many new people through the book. They travel a lot because lennie got them kicked out the town of weed.because lennie grabbed some random girls red dress because he liked it. That caused george and lennie to skip town and get out of weed. They didn't know where to go. So they just ran away.

George is one of the main characters. He tends to be the smartest in the book. He has to take care of his cousin lenny. George is the most cautious in the book. George had to shoot lennie because lennie killed curley's wife. George did not want lennie to die due to curley. George did not expect
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He is the biggest man in the book. He already beat up curley. He ended up killing curley's wife on accident. Lennie ended up getting shot by his cousin george. Lennie would have ended up in jail locked up. Lennie is not as smart as everyone else. He doesn't know how to fight to well. He still broke curley's hand. Lennie was obsessed with slims pups. He never wanted to leave their side. Slim had to kick lennie out of the barn and back into the bunkhouse because he was getting to close to the pups. He tried to sneak a pup into the bunkhouse but george caught him and made him put the pup back where it came from. Lennie was just so attached to the pups slim had. Lennie could have drowned if george didn't save him. Their was really nothing wrong lennie could or would do. George even had to to lennie to fight back against …show more content…
He doesn't talk very much. Hes also the most quiet one of the group. He tends to agree with most of the stuff people say. He had to kill four of his pups because the momma dog couldn't take care of that many pups. he ended up keeping the biggest ones. He doesn't know why he did but he did. He keeps his pups in the barn right outside lennie used to play with them. He also has a horse he had to put tar on one of it's hooves. Slim really cared about lennie but he didn't show it to much. He knew lennie wouldn't hurt his pups. He knew lennie was a big man child. Slim knew Lennie wouldn't hurt a fly. Slim is the most admired of the farm that curley even listens to him. Everybody on the farm looks up to him no matter what. Crooks is like slims assistant. Crooks tells slim everything that's going

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