Mice And Men
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The novel mice and men is set in the state of California in a place called Soledad which is sunny and warm all year round. The book is based on the lives of two ranch hands that travel from one ranch to another because one of them constantly gets into trouble; one of the men is named George who is a small and quick witted individual and he is Lennies sole carer. Lennie on the other hand is a large mentally ill person he is very slow and is to strong for his own good he relies on George to care for him.
At the end of the novel George has to kill lennie because of recent events, the events that led up this were that lennie accidentally killed Curleys wife when he broke her neck to keep her from screaming. The author hints in certain places that something like this is going to happen like when candy says “I should of shot my own dog ” this made George think about what if lennie did do something so bad that he would have to kill him.
Life for ranch workers during the depression was not a good one it was full of hardships and strife. It entailed moving from ranch to ranch, mostly on a weekly basis. The money was crap but it was the only way they could feed themselves. The event that led to this was the Wall Street crash this happened on the 4th of October 1929 during this all the banks and savings firms went bust leaving everyone with
money in them poor. Also in this time one third of Americans were unemployed even though they were broke they could not claim benefits from the government to pay for food and rent.
George and lennie get to the ranch by getting a bus part of the way and then they had to walk the rest of the way as the bus driver could not be bothered to stop at the ranch gates. People with learning difficulties were treated like they were unwanted in the world they were treated like outcast the only people that were treated worse then them were black people.