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and Men
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“I gotta think about that. We was
always gonna do it by
ourselves.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Character
George Milton
Concepts
thinking ᐧ isolation ᐧ sharing
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“But you get used to goin’
around with a guy an’ you can’t
get rid of him.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Character
George Milton
Concepts
friendship ᐧ companionship
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“George said wonderingly,
‘S’pose they was a carnival or a
circus come to town, or a ball
game, . . . We’d just go to her . . .
We wouldn’t ask nobody if we
could. Jus’ say, ‘We’ll go to her,’
an’ we would. Jus’ milk the cow
and sling some grain to the
chickens an’ go to her.‘”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Character
George Milton
Concepts
life ᐧ freedom ᐧ control
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“And it’d be our own, an’ nobody
could can us. . . . An’ if a fren’
come along, why we’d have an
extra bunk, an’ we’d say, ‘Why
don’t you spen’ the night?′ An’ . .
. he would.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Concepts
friendship ᐧ control
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“But you jus’ tell an’ try to get
this guy canned and we’ll tell
ever’body, an’ then will you get
the laugh.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book Character
Of Mice and Men Slim
Concept
revenge
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“For two bits I’d shove out of
here. If we can get jus’ a few
dollars in the poke we’ll shove
off and go up the American
River and pan gold. We can
make maybe a couple of dollars
a day there, and we might hit a
pocket.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Character
George Milton
Concepts
dreams ᐧ wishing
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“O.K.,” said George. “An’ you ain’t
gonna do no bad things like you
done in Weed, neither.”
Lennie looked puzzled. “Like I
done in Weed?”
“Oh, so ya forgot that too, did
ya? Well, I ain’t gonna remind
ya, fear ya do it again.”
A light of understanding broke
on Lennie’s face.
“They run us outa Weed,” he
exploded triumphantly.
“Run us out, hell,” said George
disgustedly. “We run. They was
lookin’ for us, but they didn’t
catch us.”
Lennie giggled happily. “I didn’t
forget that, you bet.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Characters
Lennie Small ᐧ George Milton
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“Lennie—if you jus’ happen to
get in trouble like you always
done before, I want you to come
right here an’ hide in the brush…
Hide in the brush till I come for
you.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Characters
Lennie Small ᐧ George Milton
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“It ain’t so funny, him an’ me
goin’ aroun’ together,” George
said at last. “Him and me was
both born in Auburn. I knowed
his Aunt Clara. She took him
when he was a baby and raised
him up. When his Aunt Clara
died, Lennie just come along
with me out workin’. Got kinda
used to each other after a little
while.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Characters
Lennie Small ᐧ George Milton
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“I got you to look after me, and
you got me to look after you,
and that’s why.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Character
Lennie Small
Concepts
friendship ᐧ caring
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“As happens sometimes, a
moment settled and hovered
and remained for much more
than a moment. And sound
stopped and movement
stopped for much, much more
than a moment.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Concepts
peace ᐧ calm ᐧ quiet
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“Guy don’t need no sense to be
a nice fella. Seems to me
sometimes it jus’ works the
other way around. Take a real
smart guy and he ain’t hardly
ever a nice fella.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book Character
Of Mice and Men Slim
Concepts
kindness ᐧ intelligence
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“His ear heard more than was
said to him, and his slow speech
had overtones not of thought,
but of understanding beyond
thought.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book Character
Of Mice and Men Slim
Concepts
understanding ᐧ talking ᐧ
listening
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“We could live offa the fatta the
lan’.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Character
Lennie Small
Concepts
dreams ᐧ hoping
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“It ain’t no lie. We’re gonna do it.
Gonna get a little place an’ live
on the fatta the lan’.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Character
Lennie Small
Concepts
dreams ᐧ hoping
16 Share
“You never oughta drink water
when it ain’t runnin’.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Character Concept
George Milton advice
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“They fell into a silence. They
looked at one another, amazed.
This thing they had never really
believed in was coming true.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Concepts
dreams ᐧ hoping ᐧ reality
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“We got a future.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book
Of Mice and Men
Character
George Milton
Concepts
hoping ᐧ future
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“A guy sets alone out here at
night, maybe readin’ books or
thinkin’ or stuff like that.”
Author
John Steinbeck
Book Character
Of Mice and Men Crooks
Concepts
reading ᐧ night ᐧ thinking ᐧ
alone
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“Lennie, who had been
watching, imitated George
exactly. He pushed himself back,
drew up his knees, embraced
them, looked over to George to
see whether he had it just right.”
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