John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men

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A beautiful Californian morning, the sun shone across the dry plains and mountains like a sheet of gold beaming down on the crop of weed. Miles into the distance lie the misty desert like mountains of Klamath and Siskyou to the west and north-west , the sun behind them casting a shadow over the southern landscape. Slightly east of a ranch located in weed where their were hard labourers at work was a magical looking pool, and a king of crystal reflection, a gleaming whiteness shining on the shrubs that lay across it.

There was a calming breeze against the dry old trees brushing the crisp feather like leaves flying like tumbleweed in the wind. A winding road lead of the lush colour of orchards, orange trees, vineyards, peaches and apricots. To the right of the road stood tall a giant orange tree with wild rabbits springing up and down around it, a truly beautiful sight, the vibrant colour in the distance waking you up making you want to run out and meet it.

A local ranch in northern California, north of San Francisco called Weed was the next monotonous stop for George Milton and Lennie Small, these companions were very much the most unlikely pair of characters you could ever come across, George wore simple jeans a dirty old short sleeved shirt and a jacket unbuttoned as always, he was a prominent character, a strong willed and confident man who took control of any situation and never got in trouble, although his size never reflected his social ability and prowess only being a short guy, he was a strong minded individual with a positive attitude to life but was stuck at square one in life working as a ranch worker.

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Where Did George And Lennie Come From

Lennie is the quite opposite of George , Lennie is a slow character who travelled with George and was his working buddy, he relied on George for almost everything, it takes a long time before you can get things into Lennies head, he’s a large man as strong as a bull, much bigger than the average man and 5 times as strong, most of the time Lennie didn’t realise how strong he really is. Lennie was as gentle as a butterfly and a kind man who never means any harm to anybody, Lennie loves animals, especially rabbits, he often asks George to tell him about his favourite dream about living off the ‘fatta lan’ with Lennie tending the rabbits and making a living with their own crops and enjoying life, Lennie loved this story and saw it as his dream and George always told him it because it gave Lennie a buzz and a kick.

Lennie and George were born in Auborn, George knew Lennie from his Aunt Clara, who took Lennie when he was a baby and raised him, but unfortunately she died and George took him under his wing and took him to work the ranches with him, they got used to each other and after a while they grew good friends. Lennie and George work at the desert countryside ranch of weed, working as skinners, grain bag rustlers, cultivator drivers and crop scithers. They both ended up in Weed because it was their next working stop, they had just come from the Shasta ranch which lay east about 30 miles away from Weed, they couldn’t wait to get out of Shasta, they had been miserable there because the weather had been grey and dismal for their whole two week stay and people didn’t find a liking to them well.

Lennie and George were both eager to work at Weed because Lennie had gotten George in trouble with the boss back at Shasta for the simple reason that Lennie was too shy to talk to the man because he didn’t look nice and had a mean look on his face. They arrived in Weed and they stayed in a very old ranch house filled with rugged wooden furniture and simple one cover beds. George dropped his bags down off his shoulders and turned and looked at Lennie and said, ”Well Lennie here we are again”. Lennie glared at George, ‘Wha what do you mean George’ ”I mean were back at another stupid ranch doing the same old stupid job”. George said with a sigh.

Lennie and George were arranging their things when a man walked in, he was a tall standing Negro with broad shoulders and cut arms, he came in to see ‘the new boys’, he said his name was Jackson , he was explaining the life on the ranch to Lennie and George, mostly about how unhappy life is for him at the ranch because no one speaks to him, Jackson took a liking in these two straight away, he talked to them for a while mostly bragging about how hard he works, George was quick to jump in and say, ‘lennie sure is a hard worker too, jus’ give ‘im a pack o’ sacks and he move them all day”. Jackson looked at Lennie up and down and didn’t feel intimidated, he stared at Lennie in the eyes longingly, Lennie caught contact with Jackson and immediately Lennie looked to the floor, Jackson laughed and made his way to the door, the sun pierced into the room like a red carpet, Jackson stopped holding the door open and said, ”There she is”. ”There’s who?