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

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Slim and George

To begin with, Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck. The was published in 1973. It is a banned book because it has racism, violence and usage of bad language. It tells the story of the migrant workers during the Great Depression in the United States. It also, tells the story of the two protagonist characters are George Milton and Lennie Small. There were other characters too like Curley, Slim, crooks, Candy, Carlson and Curley’s Wife. Curley was the son of the boss. And his wife was never named and only woman on the ranch, the ranch worker thinks Slim is a prince of the ranch even though he is not, Cany is a old and disable person, Crook is a named as crooks back and he was the worker on the ranch, lastly Carlson is a person that he sees everything right Vs. wrong. George is quick and he takes care for Lennie. Lennie is weak, forgetful and cannot do anything by himself. Through the
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So, when Curley started punching Lennie, but Lennie do not fight back. George thinks Lennie should fight back, “George cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled, “Get ‘im, Lennie!””(79). To clarify, George told Lennie to fight back to curley and do not hit by him. It also means george stood up for lennie and do not want that his friend should get punches without any reason from Curley. Furthermore, When Lennie killed Curley’s Wife and hid into the bushes near river, the angry guys on the ranch were looking for Lennie. George said, “I’ll come. But listen, Curley. The poor bastard’s nuts. Don’t shoot ‘im. He di’n’t know what he was doing’” (121). For instance, Curley and other guys on the ranch does not know what they will do to lennie because of the angerness for killing curley’s wife. It also represent that george does not want that they torture Lennie and they kills him with the

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