Of Mice And Men
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, was a disturbing tale of friendship, and animosity and immoral 
nature of the human race.  Along the Salinas River and underneath the Gablian 
Mountains of California during the Great Depression of the 1930’s this novel takes place.   
A famous writer by the name of John Steinbeck, who was also ....          
Middle of paper
....  is eating them?" thus the book ends on a harsh, cruel note, topped off by 
the lack of understanding and compassion of an extraordinarily immoral and cruel man.  
Whatever Steinbeck’s intent for writing such a jarring ending, he leaves the reader with a 
powerful sense of the world’s immorality.
 
     In this book there were several characters, but only a few had significant roles.  I 
would have to say Lennie is the protagonist of the book even though George is an 
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