Of Mice and Men - the two main characters are George Milton and Lennie Small.

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In the book Of Mice and Men the two main characters are George Milton and Lennie Small. They first met when lennie was still young, and when lennie was left orphaned when his Aunt Clara died. Lennie’s aunt Clara decided to leave lennie in the care of George Milton a good and intelligent man. The reason for Lennie being left in the care of George is because lennie was young, dumb-minded and was unable to look after himself. Both George and lennie become migrant workers working from farm to farm and then began an unusual friendship of the time. The main story line in the book is the dream of lennie and George buying their own farm. This is because they are fed up with “busting their humps” for someone else to reap the money and they are both just fed up with running from town to town. Their dream starts to become a reality when George reveals he knows of a couple whom are selling their farm for $600, and thus begins their journey to raise the money. As the reader gets into the story it becomes apparent that George and Lennie are the complete opposites of each other but still need each other as much as the other. George is a sharp cynical, intelligent man to lennie who is slow, child-like in happiness and stupid. To an outsider this must have seemed extremely strange. In the 1930’s it was very unusual for migrant workers to travel together and it must have seemed twice as strange to an outsider looking at what can only be described as an odd couple. During the book this did not go unnoticed as slim said ‘ Funny how you an’ him string along together’ and when George retorted ‘
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Whats funny about it’ Slim answered “Oh I Dunno . Hardly none of the guys ever travel together. Never seem to give a damn about nobody it jus seem kinda funny a cuckoo like him and a smart little guy like you travelling together” During the book whenever George or Lennie talked about buying the farm their little dream started with “Guy’s like us got no fambly. They make a little stake an’ then they blow it in. They ain’t got nobody on the Worl’ that gives a hoot in hell about’ em. To which lennie would reply “but not ...

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