of mice and men

Bassam Alkabsh

Period 1 English

10/14/10

                                                      Of Mice & Men.

In the story of mice and men it has a lot of interesting conflict going. The genre of the story is fiction. It is noticeable that the story is fiction because it has a lot of extreme conflicts that are very unreal. The reason that this story is called of mice and men, is because it looks like a man with a mouse's brain. The thing that makes this story interesting is that it has this very good description that pulls you into the story.

            The central conflict in the store of mice and men it's mostly about character vs. society. Lennie is always going against society because no one he meets likes him because he always makes a bad impression and people don't like bright people. Here is a quote from the story.

         Pg 11 “ Lennie knelt and looked over the fire at the angry George. And Lennie’s face was drawn with terror. “An' whatta I got.” George went on furiously. “ I got you!” You can't keep a job and you lose me ever' job I get. Just keep me shovin' all over the country all the time.”

This issue with Lennie will never stop because they will continue to lose there jobs and Lennie will never mature. Thanks to his lake of knowledge and his mental retardation it's kind of impossible for him to change his dumb irritating ways.

        Lennie would never change and even if he said he would he would end up apologizing and say he forgot. Lennie is clearly not smart at all, he acts like he is a little boy with a big imagination. Lennie never meant to do things on purpose it's just that he has a way of doing things and when he gets scared he does those stupid things. Here is another example of what Lennie would do to piss people off.

      Pg 41 “ Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bastard like he is, he wants to touch ever' thing he likes. Just wants to feel it. So he reaches out to feel this red dress an' and the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on ' cause that's the only thing he could think to do.”

Lennie is a terrified person because he doesn't feel right when he isn't around George. The only thing that George could do while he is present in a time were Lennie is in trouble and needs Lennie to let go of something.

         The quote keeps going on and on about the stuff that Lennie does to get them both kicked out. Half way during the quote George seems to get a little mad at Lennie because Lennie is truly the source where all of George's problems come from. George always says that with the money he makes every month he could go to the cat house or get really drunk and he keeps repeating it as if he really does want that. The only thing that Lennie ever thinks about is rabbits he always asks questions to George saying.

          Pg 57 “An' rabbits George.”

No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.”

“Damn right, I could,” said Lennie. “ God damn right I could.”

Talk about obsession of rabbits, that's all he talks about. The things that Lennie likes are shiny things or living furry animals. So when he gets a hold of them, he will not let go or if it's living he will end up killing the pour thing.

       Curly has it out for Lennie because Lennie crushed Curly's arm and killed Curly's wife. It sounds like he is a mad man, but he is not at all he didn’t mean to do any of it. The only time that Lennie meant to hurt any one was when George told him to. The thing that happened with Curly's wife was no one's fault but hers. If she wasn’t such a hoe bag, scaring Lennie until the point were he wouldn't let go of her hair. She kept struggling and told him nicely she wouldn't have caused her own neck to brake.

It's sad to see a man lose all of his brain's because he got hit by a horse on the head. Just for that little accident, he has the whole world looking at him as if every one wants him dead. Speaking of the dead, Lennie also killed a girl at the ranch they staying at. He saw Curly's wife in the rabbit house and he decided to touch her hair. When she told Lennie to let go he gets scared so he holds on, just like what he did in Weed. Any way he keeps holding on because there is no one to stop him, the girl gets really scared and tries to run off but next thing you know her neck is snapped and he dies. Causing Lennie to run off into the mountains were George told him to go just in case he gets into any trouble. So in the end George does what he has to do. He tells the story of him and Lennie living in a little house and turns Lennie to his back away from him self and aims the gun behind his head and pulls the trigger.