Chapter 1

Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men



George Milton is someone that Lennie will listen to and can look up to. George is very calm and doesn't want to get into any kind of trouble.



Lennie is a big man, but is a little slow. He doesn't mean to harm anything but is a lot like me and has to feel everything or touch it.



The book starts out on a farm near Weed, but then moves towards a farm near the town of Soledad. Soledad means lonely in Spanish.

In this chapter of the book I think that Steinbeck does a very good job of describing each character. He gives a lot of detail of the main characters introduced and shows exactly what their main role is going to be in the story. Steinbeck uses a lot of dialog in his writing, however it isn't written normally, it is in a certain dialect. It is strongly southern, especially in the use of bad words. Right from the beginning of the story, I noticed that the conflict was going to have something to do with Lennie and the fact that he has to touch everything he sees. I also noticed a bit of foreshadowing when Lennie and George were in the brush before going to the new farm. George was making sure that Lennie knew exactly where to go if he ever got in trouble, this shows that Lennie is probably going to get into trouble. The movie starts out a bit different from the book, in the book you know whats happening but in the movie you don't. The book starts out with a description of the setting, while the movie starts with the girl running and who we know to become George and Lennie hiding. I liked the way the movie started better then the way the book began. At the end of the chapter, you are left with another description, in the book.