What Lennie and George have going for them, though — what separates them from the other people they encounter and what makes the reader willing to take the journey with them — is that they have each other.
As Lennie often says to George, "I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you …. When John Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature, his acceptance speech avowed that "… the writer is delegated to declare and celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat — for courage, compassion, and love.
Previous Book Summary. Next Character List. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. The book is great because, not only the great use of description, but the characters because Steinbeck shows how children are, in some cases, better people than adults in the way that they do not judge people because they do not see people or things from that point of view an example being childlike Lennie who has a mental disability though they didn't know that at the time the book is based.
The great thing about that is that it shows some of the other characters' feelings about the situations they are being put in and shows how Steinbeck feels about racism and sexism. Yet another good thing about this book is that it is not long and does not drag on like other great books as The Great Gatsby and To Kill A Mockingbird which is great for readers who do not like to read long books and get bored when reading long books.
This shows the greatness of the book because it shows how the book packs that all in racism, sexism, the Depression, etc yet in so little time. She held a press conference on the liner Berengaria, explaining she was here to have her jaw reset. Ciano had been loyal to the fascist cause since its inception, having taking part in the march on Rome in The members of the Dalton Gang stage an unsuccessful train robbery near Alila, California—an inauspicious beginning to their careers as serious criminals.
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