Of Mice and Men - March 14th, 2011

          The poem "To a Mouse and" the book "Of Mice and Men" have a lot of the same messages.  They talk about how the future is always uncertain.  I think that this book was called Of Mice and Men because the poem is about how plans are ruined easily.  This book talks about the same things.  Some other contributing factors to this book title is that it was written during the Great Depression.  Because it was written during the Great Depression many people could easily relate to this story.  Most people probably didn't kill someone but they had lost everything from homes to financial security.  Their plans were destroyed and people had a hard time regaining what they had lost.  When Lennie killed Curley's wife it destroyed any chances of George and Candy being able to achieve their goals of owning some land.  Steinbeck is saying that life always takes unexpected turns and that you have to deal with them the best that you can.  People's lives take turns everyday and they deal with it the best that they can.

My Ending of Mice and Men

It was all quiet in the barn.  No animals were squeaking, no wind was howling and no doors opening and closing.  Candy was sitting beside Curley's Wife's dead body wondering what could have been.  Wishing that Lennie hadn't killed Curley's Wife and thinking about what it would be like knowing that he would still be useful even after he was not.

The farmers were all getting irritated.  They had spent hours wandering the cities like animals devouring them like the wolves they were.  They were on their 5th town when Curley yelled,"where is the son of a bitch" and slim said, "don't worry we'll find him." They were in the bushes now taking a break and many rabbits were wandering about.  "What the hell are these things" said Curley and he was about to shoot one but George, Carlson and Whit stopped him. 

Lennie was sitting out in the bushes waiting.  He had been there for hours and didn't know where or when George would come get him.  Suddenly he saw a bunch of rabbits and chased after them.  He ran off in the distance chasing them southward.

The farmers had retraced their steps and returned to the barn.  After a hard day and night of searching they knew that he wasn't south.  Curley and Carlson were starting to question whether George had been telling them the truth the whole time and decided to go north with Whit.  They were going to go the next day but wanted to wait a day.  When they entered the room there was a heated argument going on already between Slim and Whit about something else.  Then Whit slapped Candy in the face and everything stopped.  Slim fell to his knees and crawled away.  No one said anything after that. 

Lennie had followed the rabbits back toward the farm and was almost there.  When the sun broke the next day Carlson, Whit and Curley came out of the barn.  They were only a few hundred yards away when all of a sudden Curley yelled, "there he is, shoot that son of a bitch!"  Quickly Carlson took his new gun out and shot a bullet.  It missed but it was Lennie's turn.  He shot Whit in the arm and he fell down and ran away.  It was just Carlson and Curley.  Curley took out his gun and hit Lennie in the stomach.  Carlson ran over and started to wail on him.  Curley took aim at him one more time and this time he killed him.  George ran out and he was ecstatic why did you shoot him and Curley had no more bullets started to beat him to.  Slim came out and shot Curley and it was all over.  Candy never got his dream and he walked off the farm never to be seen again.