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31 of the best book
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and Men

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“I gotta think about that. We was

always gonna do it by
ourselves.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Character

George Milton

Concepts

thinking ᐧ isolation ᐧ sharing

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“But you get used to goin’

around with a guy an’ you can’t
get rid of him.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Character

George Milton

Concepts

friendship ᐧ companionship

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“George said wonderingly,

‘S’pose they was a carnival or a
circus come to town, or a ball
game, . . . We’d just go to her . . .
We wouldn’t ask nobody if we
could. Jus’ say, ‘We’ll go to her,’
an’ we would. Jus’ milk the cow
and sling some grain to the
chickens an’ go to her.‘”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Character

George Milton

Concepts

life ᐧ freedom ᐧ control

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“And it’d be our own, an’ nobody

could can us. . . . An’ if a fren’
come along, why we’d have an
extra bunk, an’ we’d say, ‘Why
don’t you spen’ the night?′ An’ . .
. he would.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Concepts

friendship ᐧ control

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“But you jus’ tell an’ try to get

this guy canned and we’ll tell
ever’body, an’ then will you get
the laugh.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book Character

Of Mice and Men Slim

Concept

revenge

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“For two bits I’d shove out of

here. If we can get jus’ a few
dollars in the poke we’ll shove
off and go up the American
River and pan gold. We can
make maybe a couple of dollars
a day there, and we might hit a
pocket.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Character

George Milton

Concepts

dreams ᐧ wishing

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“O.K.,” said George. “An’ you ain’t

gonna do no bad things like you
done in Weed, neither.”

Lennie looked puzzled. “Like I

done in Weed?”

“Oh, so ya forgot that too, did

ya? Well, I ain’t gonna remind
ya, fear ya do it again.”

A light of understanding broke

on Lennie’s face.

“They run us outa Weed,” he

exploded triumphantly.

“Run us out, hell,” said George

disgustedly. “We run. They was
lookin’ for us, but they didn’t
catch us.”

Lennie giggled happily. “I didn’t

forget that, you bet.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Characters

Lennie Small ᐧ George Milton

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“Lennie—if you jus’ happen to

get in trouble like you always
done before, I want you to come
right here an’ hide in the brush…
Hide in the brush till I come for
you.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Characters

Lennie Small ᐧ George Milton

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“It ain’t so funny, him an’ me

goin’ aroun’ together,” George
said at last. “Him and me was
both born in Auburn. I knowed
his Aunt Clara. She took him
when he was a baby and raised
him up. When his Aunt Clara
died, Lennie just come along
with me out workin’. Got kinda
used to each other after a little
while.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Characters

Lennie Small ᐧ George Milton

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“I got you to look after me, and

you got me to look after you,
and that’s why.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Character

Lennie Small

Concepts

friendship ᐧ caring

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“As happens sometimes, a

moment settled and hovered
and remained for much more
than a moment. And sound
stopped and movement
stopped for much, much more
than a moment.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Concepts

peace ᐧ calm ᐧ quiet

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“Guy don’t need no sense to be

a nice fella. Seems to me
sometimes it jus’ works the
other way around. Take a real
smart guy and he ain’t hardly
ever a nice fella.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book Character

Of Mice and Men Slim

Concepts

kindness ᐧ intelligence

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“His ear heard more than was

said to him, and his slow speech
had overtones not of thought,
but of understanding beyond
thought.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book Character

Of Mice and Men Slim

Concepts

understanding ᐧ talking ᐧ
listening

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“We could live offa the fatta the

lan’.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Character

Lennie Small

Concepts

dreams ᐧ hoping

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“It ain’t no lie. We’re gonna do it.

Gonna get a little place an’ live
on the fatta the lan’.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Character

Lennie Small

Concepts

dreams ᐧ hoping

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“You never oughta drink water

when it ain’t runnin’.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Character Concept

George Milton advice

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“They fell into a silence. They

looked at one another, amazed.
This thing they had never really
believed in was coming true.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Concepts

dreams ᐧ hoping ᐧ reality

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“We got a future.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book

Of Mice and Men

Character

George Milton

Concepts

hoping ᐧ future

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“A guy sets alone out here at

night, maybe readin’ books or
thinkin’ or stuff like that.”

Author

John Steinbeck

Book Character

Of Mice and Men Crooks

Concepts

reading ᐧ night ᐧ thinking ᐧ

alone

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“Lennie, who had been

watching, imitated George
exactly. He pushed himself back,
drew up his knees, embraced
them, looked over to George to
see whether he had it just right.”

Author