Book Review Of Mice and Men

Book Review I think that overall, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck was a good book and it was very interesting. George is one of the main characters and he travels every where with this mentally challenged boy named Lennie. Lennie is very big, isn’t very smart, and a strong very good worker and George is small, very smart, and an average worker. They had a job in a town called Weed, but Lennie gets in trouble there so they were forced to leave and look for new jobs. They end up going to a ranch where there are many workers. I would recommend this book to eighth graders because I feel that it would be too hard for younger students to understand. I also think this book would have more meaning to kids in the eighth grade. In my opinion, this book started off kind of boring because it didn't hold my interest but once I got towards the middle, it got very good. My favorite part of the book is when George, Lennie, and Candy make a plan to get the land that they have always dreamed of having. They were also very motivated and focused on the dream and really nothing else. George had the chance to go to a whore house and when he got there, he decided to only have a drink so that he could save up hid money for the little piece of land. This part seemed like a part where every one was happy and nothing bad was running through their minds. This is the only book that has ever made me cry and trust me it is hard for me to start crying. George ended up killing Lennie because Lennie killed a woman and he would have got hung but George was smart and did not want Lennie to die that painful death. Instead, George was going to shoot him in the back of the neck so that Lennie would die instantly with out feeling a thing. This part of the book really makes you want to be mad at George for doing that and it makes you wonder why they couldn’t just run away again like they did from Weed. It also makes you want to be mad at Lennie for being so dumb and not just letting go of the woman that he killed when she started to scream. I was able to make a big connection to this book and The Lord of the Flies because in Mice of Men, there is a time where Lennie goes crazy and starts talking to a rabbit and the rabbit is telling him all of the bad things that he has done. This reminded me of the part of The Lord of the Flies when Simon goes crazy and starts talking to the pig and the pig is actually the evil side of Simon. I thought that this was important because it showed that when people go crazy, they begin to see all of the bad things that they have done in their life. In conclusion, I felt that this was a very good and surprising book. It will defiantly take you through an emotional roller coaster because you go from being happy to sad to disappointed and so on. I feel that if you are into very dramatic books then you should certainly read Of Mice and Men.