Justin Sullivan
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Realistic Fiction
Just Right
Just Finished

 

 

1.      I was very surprised at the ending of the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. When Lennie kills Curley’s wife he knew I knew he was going to be punished but I would have never guessed that Lennie would get killed especially by George. After Lennie killed the puppy he becomes panicked and tried to hide the puppy right as he puts the dead dog down Curley’s wife appears in the door way she sees the dog and pretends not to notice. She starts to talk to Lennie and Lennie brings up the rabbits and how he likes soft things. Curley’s wife admits that her hair is soft and that Lennie could touch it if he liked. Lennie agrees and starts to stroke her hair and with each stroke he gets harder and harder. Soon Curley’s wife feels nervous and asks him to stop Lennie does not and she starts to scream. Scared that George might hear Lennie covers her mouth.  She starts to struggle and Lennie with his inhuman strength breaks her neck. He covers her up with hay and runs into the woods. When George hears that Curley’s wife was killed he immediately expects Lennie he knows that Curley will hunt down Lennie and kill him so he grabs Carlson’s Luger and finds Lennie. He talks to Lennie about the farm and when Lennie is happy and content he shoots him in the head.

 

2.      I think that Of Men and Men was a very well written book. Some parts were a little slow but I liked the whole concept of the book. The ending of the book was depressing yet it had a lot of meaning. I liked how they had a lot of great foreshadowing in the book. I also liked how the author made the characters so realistic he even included the accents in the book.

 

3.      I thought that the overall theme of this book was loyalty. In many situations there were examples of loyalty when Crooks was taunting Lennie and telling him that George was going to leave him and that George was hurt Lennie had to rely on his loyalty in George. Also George was very loyal to Lennie even though Lennie slowed George down in many ways he never really considered leaving him.

 

4.      My least favorite character was by far Curley. Curley was an insecure, hotheaded, selfish man. He knew that Lennie was disabled yet he decided to pick a fight with him. He was very insecure when Lennie smiled he punched him in the face. He did this with everyone on the farm. No one liked him and he was very mean to his companions. He also took a lot of things the wrong way like when Lennie smiled. That is why Curley is my least favorite character.

 

5.      My favorite character was George. I liked how he was king to everyone on the farm also I liked how he stuck with Lennie through out the novel. I liked how he had a dream and how he stuck with it unlike others. He got along with every body and showed respect for others to. When ever Lennie asked for something he tried his hardest to accompilish that like getting rabbits. He always talked to Lennie about the rabbits brought joy to him.

6.   Like I said before I was surprised with the ending. I expected them to go live happily on the farm with the rabbits but no George shot Lennie. It was very different from what I thought was going to happen. It was a way better ending then I thought and it left the reader with something to think about.