Mice of Men

Of Mice of Men By John Steinbeck Krisy Siroky Cont. Reading Period 4 It was the Great Depression and no one could find jobs. Many people traveled west in hopes of finding work. Some people left their farms in the Midwest to go work for someone else on their farm. In the book Of Mice and Men George and Lennie travel together in search of such jobs. George is “small and quick, dark of face, with …

…favorite story. When George tells the story, it also helps to calm the setting. Steinbeck’s reasons for making Lennie developmentally disabled are: to get the climaxes, explain Georges personality and help give the book a charming tone. With out Lennie’s condition there wouldn’t be much if any to the story. It makes one think that the only way this book could have be written is if there was a developmentally disabled person.