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        <title><![CDATA[The e-notes guide gives lots of guidance on this issue, with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The e-notes guide gives lots of guidance on this issue, with illustrative quotes.
 
It is useful to note that George is very much the leader of the two, despite Lennie’s  size and height advantage. We learn that George has travelled with Lennie for a long time and acts as a guardian for Lennie. Lennie is mentally impaired which was ascertain from his childish actions such as copying George’s movements :
 

“ Lennie pulled his hat down...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What card game does George play in "Of Mice and Men"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What card game does George play in "Of Mice and Men"?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[EXPLAIN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GEORGE AND LENNIE BASED ON CHAPTER ONE....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[EXPLAIN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GEORGE AND LENNIE BASED ON CHAPTER ONE. PROVE WITH QUOTES]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:47:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Since the dream of the ranch represents the place where the men will...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since the dream of the ranch represents the place where the men will have fellowship and respite from conflicts, Lennie's saying "going there now" is ironic; for, Lennie's simple statement has an underlying meaning of which Lennie is unaware: George will soon find him a place of his own where he will have surcease from the worries of working as itinerant worker, surcease from the mundane life with which Lennie has struggled.
And, it is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:10:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[George is discussing their dream of owning a farm for the last time. He...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[George is discussing their dream of owning a farm for the last time. He is using the story to calm Lennie as he has many times before. The irony arises in the fact that George is about to shoot Lennie in the back of the head (which of course Lennie doesn't realise). When Lennie says 'When we gonna do it?' he is referring to getting the farm. George is thinking about the shooting of Lennie. Lennie is encouraging George to get ready to go to the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:46:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is Lennie's statement at the end before George shoots him about...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is Lennie's statement at the end before George shoots him about 'going there now' ironic?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:35:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[when curley was hitting lennie was a conflict in the story the conflict...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/of-mice-and-men/q-and-a/what-plot-what-major-conflits-plot-quot-mice-men-25991</link>
        <description><![CDATA[when curley was hitting lennie was a conflict in the story the conflict was man vs. man]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:14:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm assuming by "bare lamp" you mean someone open, exposed, vulnerable....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm assuming by "bare lamp" you mean someone open, exposed, vulnerable.
Based on this, Crooks would have been vulnerable simply because he was a handicapped black man.  Remember this book took place in the 1930s--pre-Civil rights times.  Blacks were not given the same freedom and dignity as whites.  Crooks' position would never have been secure.  He struggled to be better than the best at this job--something that would have been doubly...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:04:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[how does crooks symbolize a bare lamp]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[how does crooks symbolize a bare lamp]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:34:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Near the beginning of Chapter 3 of the novella, George confides in Slim...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Near the beginning of Chapter 3 of the novella, George confides in Slim about his relationship with Lennie.  Slim had made the comment that it was "funny" that George and Lennie traveled around together because so many migrant workers were solitary figures.  George sees that he can trust Slim and begins to explain to him that while Lennie has done some troublesome things in the past, he does not mean anything by those incidents.  As...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:41:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Of Mice and Men is full of acts of violence.  The shocking aspect of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/of-mice-and-men/q-and-a/how-john-steinbeck-shows-what-violent-life-was-112885</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Of Mice and Men is full of acts of violence.  The shocking aspect of Steinbeck's inclusion of violence in the novel is that the characters are neither shocked nor terribly bothered by it.  George admits that he has "beat the hell outta [Lennie]" and even "socked him over the head with a fence picket."  Carlson tells Candy that he will be glad to shoot Candy's dog for him, "right in the back of the head" so the dog will "never know what...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:26:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does John Steinbeck show the violent lifestyle that ranch hands...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does John Steinbeck show the violent lifestyle that ranch hands lived during the Depression in Of Mice and Men? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:39:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is an example of figurative language in Chapter 3 in Of Mice and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is an example of figurative language in Chapter 3 in Of Mice and Men, and what is its effect on the reader?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:21:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[He does not represent the disabled.  Steinbeck says:

Lennie was not to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[He does not represent the disabled.  Steinbeck says:

Lennie was not to represent insanity at all but the inarticulate and powerful yearning of all men.

He is characterized as a cross between a bear and a giant rabbit in the novel.  Steinbeck's novella is fraught with biological determinism, which is part of his pragmatist beliefs.  According to Steinbeck, pragmatism holds that life should be viewed as it is, not as how it should to be....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:03:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think she says she doesn't like him at all or something like that. If...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think she says she doesn't like him at all or something like that. If you look on the pages before or after she dies, she tells lennie.
hope i helped =]]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:41:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What lesson do you think Steinbeck is trying to send through Lennie and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What lesson do you think Steinbeck is trying to send through Lennie and why?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:35:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There's two kinds of men at the end Of Mice and Men, the strong and the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There's two kinds of men at the end Of Mice and Men, the strong and the weak.  Slim is the strong, and everyone else is weak by comparison.  Curley, though weak, pretends to be strong throughout the novel, and it fails; Lennie mangles his hand.  So, when the weakest one (Lennie) kills another weak one (Curley's wife), the weak Curley becomes strong through numbers; he forms a mob of other weak men to hunt down the weakest; this is how the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 06:07:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What decisions do characters make that impact the ending of the story...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What decisions do characters make that impact the ending of the story (Lennies death).]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's been years since you asked this question, but oh well. The reason...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's been years since you asked this question, but oh well. The reason that she doesn't have a name is because she is presented as a possession of Curley's. There was one point where she says 'They left the weak behind.' She was talking about Crooks, Lennie, and Candy, who were all 'weak' in their respective ways. But there was irony because she wasn't even considered a real person but a possession.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:54:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the story Of Mice and Men you notice that Lenny likes to pet things...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the story Of Mice and Men you notice that Lenny likes to pet things that are soft, and is petting a dead mouse in his pocket while he walks with George to the ranch.  When George takes the mouse from him and throws it away, Lenny starts crying like the eight year old boy his brain tells him he is.
Trying to calm him, George reminds him who the lady was that used to give him mice to pet (which were live then until Lenny killed them by...]]></description>
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