Of Mice and Men

This short novel was written by the Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck. There are two main characters; they are both the opposite from each other. George Milton and Lennie Small. Lennie is incredibly strong, he is quite simple and he has a learning difficulty. Nevertheless he is well coordinated and is capable of doing manual jobs. He is sort of a child in a man's body. He is dependent and he likes to pet animals.  George on the other hand, is small and very clever, he's the one in charge, and he organizes and reassures him about the future.  The story begins when they're walking to jobs in the ranch, Lennie constantly forgets things and he keeps on asking George where they're going. Lennie then finds a dead mouse on his pocket and wants to pet it, but he isn't able to keep it. Later on, they get into get a small discussion since Lennie goes to find the mouse. The next day they arrive at the ranch, where they already they didn’t make a good impression because they were late. Different things happen to them throughout the days, with Carlson and Slim (two other workers there) and Curley and his wife. George and Lennie dream on having their own farm someday with animals for Lennie  to pet. Some people at the ranch want to go with them too. Throughout the story there are ups and downs, times when everyone gets along and times when they fight. Unfortunately one day Lennie has to run away since he broke Curley's wife neck. Everyone is looking for him.

I found this short novel quite interesting. At first it seemed a bit odd and I think it was because of that, that I wanted to keep reading it, because I wanted to see what this was going to lead into. I would recommend it more for adults than for teenagers since the topic might not seem very interesting to them. At first, I was a bit unsure myself about the topic, but in the end I did end up reading it.