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Of Mice And Men Reading Log Analysis
Samantha Ayala
English 2

Reading Log : Of Mice and Men

CHAPTER ONE

Chapter one starts off with introducing two men, George Milton and Lennie Small. George Milton is usually the one to look out for Lennie because Lennie is know as “retarded”.Lennie Small is a huge man with resembling a bear by the way he walks and acts. Both George and Lennie are walking along a path near a pool of water towards a ranch where they can both find temporary work for the both of them. Lennie, without thinking, decides to drop the the floor near the water and start drinking. George then tries to warn Lennie that the water is probably not clean and unsanitary to be drinking. Which shows how Lennie does not really think before he does something. The reason of why they are headed towards this ranch that is because Lennie felt a girls skirt innocently thinking it was soft and both Lennie and George were chased out of town. Lennie has always loved to touch soft things which explains why he was petting a dead mouse in his pocket as they were walking down the path towards the ranch.later that day, George and Lennie finally settle down for the night and Lennie then asks George to repeat his dream of the future ranch that Him and Lennie would have together.

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Lennie also thinks about how he wont be able to tend to the rabbits anymore and knows he messed up. George explains to Lennie that he isn’t mad at him and tells him to look across the river. George starts telling him “the story” and gets the gun ready. George makes it clear that he is not mad at Lennie and explains that the place where he is going is nice and out of trouble. George then pulls the trigger and shoots Lennie in the back of the neck, Lennie falls to the ground. The rest of the crew hears the gunshot and runs over finding Lennie on the ground with George next to

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