Of Mice And Men

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Choose a novel which portrays a close relationship between two characters. Show how this relationship develops and adds to your enjoyment of the novel.

The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is set in California during the time of the depression. The book is about two men who keep on getting chased out of villages when they just want some money to buy a house of their own. The novel mentions a lot about the two men’s close friendship by showing that they travel everywhere with each other and can’t travel by themselves.
Our first impressions of George and Lennie are that George is a kind of parent figure to Lennie and is always looking after Lennie because Lennie is always getting into trouble and acts like a child even though he is an adult. George is a friend of Lennie but has to be like a father because Lennie is unable to look after himself. George is very independent on himself and doesn’t really need Lennie by his side who is just slowing him down. Lennie is very big and slow and can’t really fend for himself and always need George to look after him. Lennie acts very childlike and always wants to put soft things like the dead mouse George finds in his jacket pocket. Most of the animals that Lennie pats end up dead because he doesn’t know his own strength because he thinks he’s as strong as a child but is actually as strong as a full grown adult. They both play a part in their strong friendship and as you can see this by seeing that George can’t leave Lennie and Lennie is always very innocent and can’t fend for himself. One of the reasons that they have to travel with each other all the time is that George told Lennie’s family that he would look after Lennie for them. The book does make you laugh slightly when you hear about how slow and child like Lennie is. A quote from the book that shows that Lennie is very childlike is “How I get to tend the rabbits” He says this all the way though as if it’s t...