Comparison Between John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Once upon a time a naive man named Bob was accumulating a bunch of candy. He was stupid enough to adorn his gingerbread house with candy. The ruinous mice ate all his candy. The disconsolate man set out to get back his candy and kill the mice. He blundered around until he stumbled to a river, so Bob decided that this was a good place to rest for the night. The next day the sleep deprived man was captured by the mice. He woke up face to face with a odious mouse. Bob struggled indignantly against the rough hemp rope. The mice rasped and drowned on and on about mice being superior to all other animals, meanwhile Bob slowly untied the rope that bound him. Suddenly he was free moving slowly he grabbed a stick. When the mouse turned his back on him

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