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In Mice of Men there were literary analysis use to describe problems,how things looked. Such as personification ,simile and hyperbole and many more. Steinback uses a lot of describing words to explain ,he will spent about a whole page explaining one thing. Just how he explains George “The first man was small and quick ,dark of face ,with restless eyes and sharp strong features”(Steinback 2). He use describing words and simile to explain how George's face looks and how it is shaped.Steinbeck does this throughout the book to give a more impacting feeling on people and it makes the book emotional using words to make you feel that you're in the book and experiencing it .

This one quote i really like about their dreams
Someday—we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and—""An’ live off the fatta the lan’," Lennie shouted. "An’ haverabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. Tell about that George."Why’n’t you do it yourself? You know all of it."No…you tell it. It ain’t the same if I tell it. Go on…George. How I get to tend the rabbits."Well," said George, "we’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin’ to work, and we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof—Nuts!"(Steinback 119-120). I love this qoute because it shows how much Lennie loves George and how much he loves the story.Also how george is gonna be there to help him get there one way or another.

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