Analysis Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

The book, Of Mice and men is Fiction and was published in 1937.This book is by John Steinbeck he wrote twenty five books, including sixteen novel, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. He was born in Salinas Valley, California, February 27, 1902. He was the third child of Olive Hamilton, former school teacher, and John Ernst Steinbeck, manager of Sperry Flour mill. He had two older sisters and one younger sister. When he turned four he was given a pony this was the inspiration for his later series of stories the red pony. He went to Stanford University in 1919, he attended college off and on for the next 6 years, and he left Stanford in 1925 without receiving a degree. (National Steinbeck Center) In the late 1930s

Threw out the story when they share this dream some of the people at the ranch ask if their dream comes true if they could come live with them and help contribute to the dream.
When they arrive at the ranch, George fears how the boss will react to Lennie being mentally ill. In the 30 there is a law called Sterilization. Sterilization is to get rid of or institutionalize the “feeble-minded, insane, criminalities, epileptic, inebriate, diseased, blind, deaf, deformed, and dependent." (Criminal Law and Law Enforcement in 1930s) George Lies, telling the boss that they travel together because they are cousins and that a horse kicked Lennie in the head when he was a child which is why he is mentally slow. The boss believes him and hires them to work on his ranch. (Of Mice and

The first instance of this was when Lennie was petting the dead mouse in his pocket, the time they were run out of Weed for the incident involving a girl in a red dress when we were told this we under stood that Lennie could not control his strength when he is started or scared, another instance of this is when Lennie killed his puppy, by this time of the story you could piece together the Lennie was going to accidently kill someone. When Candy’s dog was put down he regretted that he didn’t kill his old dog himself which foreshadows George’s decision to shoot Lennie. (Of Mice and