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The Great Depression is a very important event that we can learn a lot of things through it. John Steinbeck was living during that time**;** he had very strong senses about the Great Depression. In his novel “Of Mice and Men”, there were many different types of characters involved in the story**;** the main characters were Lennie and George. Both of them were migrant workers, same did the workers in the working ranch; but the different was that only Lennie and George traveled together. **(Maybe you could change you last sentence, it seems not very good to put it there.)**

Lennie and George were opposite to each other: George was very smart for surviving during the difficult time, but he was not strong enough to work alone; **(George is not as strong as Lennie, but I don’t think he could not work alone.)** when the same thing happen to Lennie, the process would be totally different, Lennie was a child-like thinking person but the had so much power whenever he was working or fighting. According to the novel, Lennie was a very important person to the plot and the lessons inside of this novel. To be more specific, John Steinbeck put the meaning of the sample of the migrant workers who had dream during the Great Depression and how their dreams routinely destroyed by the Great Depression was because he wanted to use Lennie to express his believes towards American society. **(John Steinbeck may want to use all the people in the ranch to express his feeling.)**

As the readers all knew, because of Lennie’s habits that always brought troubles to George and himself. They were moving and moving all around the place, the only thing that supported them was their dream — “their own ranch”. Lennie liked to listen all the details about “the ranch” even he remembered everything, because that story was told by George, Lennie’s close friend. ** (I think that’s not only because George is Lennie’s close friend, I think if that is Candy telling their dream Lennie will also be very happy.) ** Lennie trusted George, seemed George was the only guy who can be trusted in this world, and therefore Lennie remembered everything that George told to himself. To be realistic, the truth was cruel, during the time that was difficult for workers who just liked themselves to survive. George knew this for real, he must thinking about all the details of how could two men alive and safe. Sometimes George was exhausted and sad, Lennie always use the strategy of asking for the story of “their own ranch” to made George thinking the positive side in life, and “the ranch” might encourage George to work hard for himself. Actually this was the most effective way of making people feel hopeful and not to be beaten by the short-lived unsuccessful. The example was George, he was unhappy when he just started telling “the ranch” to Lennie, but then he enjoy the world that created by himself, **(Maybe the world created by themselves.)** his eyes became bright and acted very exciting, he walked out of the sadness. Lennie was the people that were most seen during the Great Depression, they hold their dream, struggled for the aim, and they never give up.

The dreams were not like something very big and unachievable, they were just the human’s basic needs that we evaluated them today, such as a hot shower, etc. **(The example of hot shower seems not very good to put here.)** The workers enjoyed the time that they thinking about the future life. However, for those migrant workers, dreaming of those “needs” cost a lot that they could afford. George and Lennie thought their dream was just “a little place”; if they worked peacefully and successfully they could easily achieve their dream. The Tyler Ranch was a turn for both Lennie and George, their plan had another participator—Candy. Candy’s help made the dream became easier to touch. Like people always said, nothing could be what you expect. Lennie did a wrong thing that made someone inside of this ranch very angry and prepared to give Lennie a huge revenge. People were saying sometimes we should do something even we don’t want that happen. George killed Lennie for different perspectives, for helping Lennie run away from the long time pain, for him to get reputation in the ranch— The only thing now we saw directly from the story was George became the same person ** like ** other workers in the ranch, alone without Lennie, hopeless without Lennie’s encourages. It’s easy to find out Lennie’s whole experiences told everyone how men’s dream easily destroyed by the society. ** (In my opinion Lennie’s dream is destroyed by himself.) **

In this story Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck put so many thoughts on Lennie’s quote, “I dislike this place.” This quote expressed the belief that John Steinbeck tried to tell the readers. He wanted to use this way to make the thoughts more effective by people felt the happy relationship ended as a tragic story, the turn of the story might let people thinking more. ** (That may also show the readers that John Steinbeck does not like this place either.) ** As reader all knew, Lennie was a child-like thinking person, he was simple for sure, his death might caused by himself for miss standing of the realistic world; but there was a belief that the adults were unclear when they involved in, only children could see the truth because they had a pure heart. John Steinbeck hoped people could own pure hearts for rebuilding their home and having a better future. ** (I like your topic.. And I don’t think the essay need editing on meaning now..) **

**Yan's Edit** __**grammar #4**__ The Great Depression is a very important event that we can learn a lot of things through it. The author John Steinbeck was living during that time. He had very strong senses about the Great Depression. In his novel “Of Mice and Men”, there were many different types of characters involved in the story. The main characters were Lennie and George. Both of them were migrant workers, same did the workers in the working ranch; but the different was that only Lennie and George traveled together.

(Transition) Lennie and George were opposite to each other: George was very smart for surviving during the difficult time, but he was not strong enough to work alone; when the same thing happen to Lennie, the process would be totally different, Lennie was a child-like thinking person but he had so much power whenever he was working or fighting. According to the novel, Lennie was a very important person to the plot and the lessons inside of this novel. To be more specific, John Steinbeck put the meaning of the sample of the migrant workers who had dream during the Great Depression and how their dreams routinely destroyed by the Great Depression was because he wanted to use Lennie to express his believes towards American society.

As the readers all knew, because of Lennie’s habits that always brought troubles to George and himself. They were moving and moving all around the place, and the only thing that supported them was their dream — “their own ranch”. Lennie liked to listen all the details about “the ranch” even he remembered everything, because that story was told by George, Lennie’s closed friend. Lennie trusted George, seemed George was the only guy who can be trusted in this world, and therefore Lennie remembered everything that George told to himself. To be realistic, the truth was cruel, during the time that was difficult for workers who just liked them to survive. George knew this for real, he must thinking about all the details of how could two men alive and safe. Sometimes George was exhausted and sad, Lennie always use the strategy of asking for the story of “their own ranch” to made George thinking the positive side in life, and “the ranch” might encourage George to work hard for himself. Actually this was the most effective way of making people feel hopeful and not to be beaten by the short-lived unsuccessful. The example was George, he was unhappy when he just started telling “the ranch” to Lennie, but then he enjoy the world that created by himself, his eyes became bright and acted very exciting, he walked out of the sadness. Lennie was the people that were most seen during the Great Depression, they hold their dream, struggled for the aim, and they never give up.

The dreams were not like something very big and unachievable, they were just the human’s basic needs that we evaluated today, such as a hot shower, etc. The workers enjoyed the time that they thinking about the future life. However, for those migrant workers, dreaming of those “needs” cost a lot that they could afford. George and Lennie thought their dream was just “a little place”, if they worked peacefully and successfully they could easily achieve their dream. The Tyler Ranch was a turn for both Lennie and George, their plan had another participator—Candy. Candy’s help made the dream became easier to touch. Like people always said, nothing could be what you expect. Lennie did a wrong thing that made someone inside of this ranch very angry and prepared to give Lennie a huge revenge. People were saying sometimes we should do something even we don’t want that happen. George killed Lennie for different perspectives, for helping Lennie run away from the long time pain, for him to get reputation in the ranch— The only thing now we saw directly from the story was George became the same person with other workers in the ranch, alone without Lennie, hopeless without Lennie’s encourages. It’s easy to find out Lennie’s whole experiences told everyone how men’s dream easily destroyed by the society.

In this story Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck put so many thoughts on Lennie’s quote, “I dislike this place.” This quote expressed the belief that John Steinbeck tried to tell the readers. He wanted to use this way to make the thoughts more effective by people felt the happy relationship ended as a tragic story, the turn of the story might let people thinking more. As reader all knew, Lennie was a child-like thinking person, he was simple for sure, his death might caused by himself for miss standing of the realistic world; but there was a belief that the adults were unclear when they involved in, only children could see the truth because they had a pure heart. John Steinbeck hoped people could own pure hearts for rebuilding their home and having a better future.

=My ESSAY (1st Draft):= The Great Depression is a very important event that we can learn a lot of things through it. John Steinbeck was living during that time, he had very strong senses about the Great Depression. In his novel “Of Mice and Men”, there were many different types of characters involved in the story, the main characters were Lennie and George. Both of them were migrant workers, same did the workers in the working ranch; but the different was that only Lennie and George traveled together.

Lennie and George were opposite to each other: George was very smart for surviving during the difficult time, but he was not strong enough to work alone; when the same thing happen to Lennie, the process would be totally different, Lennie was a child-like thinking person but the had so much power whenever he was working or fighting. According to the novel, Lennie was a very important person to the plot and the lessons inside of this novel. To be more specific, John Steinbeck put the meaning of the sample of the migrant workers who had dream during the Great Depression and how their dreams routinely destroyed by the Great Depression was because he wanted to use Lennie to express his believes towards American society.

As the readers all knew, because of Lennie’s habits that always brought troubles to George and himself. They were moving and moving all around the place, the only thing that supported them was their dream — “their own ranch”. Lennie liked to listen all the details about “the ranch” even he remembered everything, because that story was told by George, Lennie’s close friend. Lennie trusted George, seemed George was the only guy who can be trusted in this world, and therefore Lennie remembered everything that George told to himself. To be realistic, the truth was cruel, during the time that was difficult for workers who just liked themselves to survive. George knew this for real, he must thinking about all the details of how could two men alive and safe. Sometimes George was exhausted and sad, Lennie always use the strategy of asking for the story of “their own ranch” to made George thinking the positive side in life, and “the ranch” might encourage George to work hard for himself. Actually this was the most effective way of making people feel hopeful and not to be beaten by the short-lived unsuccessful. The example was George, he was unhappy when he just started telling “the ranch” to Lennie, but then he enjoy the world that created by himself, his eyes became bright and acted very exciting, he walked out of the sadness. Lennie was the people that were most seen during the Great Depression, they hold their dream, struggled for the aim, and they never give up.

The dreams were not like something very big and unachievable, they were just the human’s basic needs that we evaluated them today, such as a hot shower, etc. The workers enjoyed the time that they thinking about the future life. However, for those migrant workers, dreaming of those “needs” cost a lot that they could afford. George and Lennie thought their dream was just “a little place”, if they worked peacefully and successfully they could easily achieve their dream. The Tyler Ranch was a turn for both Lennie and George, their plan had another participator—Candy. Candy’s help made the dream became easier to touch. Like people always said, nothing could be what you expect. Lennie did a wrong thing that made someone inside of this ranch very angry and prepared to give Lennie a huge revenge. People were saying sometimes we should do something even we don’t want that happen. George killed Lennie for different perspectives, for helping Lennie run away from the long time pain, for him to get reputation in the ranch— The only thing now we saw directly from the story was George became the same person with other workers in the ranch, alone without Lennie, hopeless without Lennie’s encourages. It’s easy to find out Lennie’s whole experiences told everyone how men’s dream easily destroyed by the society.

In this story Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck put so many thoughts on Lennie’s quote, “I dislike this place.” This quote expressed the belief that John Steinbeck tried to tell the readers. He wanted to use this way to make the thoughts more effective by people felt the happy relationship ended as a tragic story, the turn of the story might let people thinking more. As reader all knew, Lennie was a child-like thinking person, he was simple for sure, his death might caused by himself for miss standing of the realistic world; but there was a belief that the adults were unclear when they involved in, only children could see the truth because they had a pure heart. John Steinbeck hoped people could own pure hearts for rebuilding their home and having a better future.

== =sage addtion= The Great Depression is a very important event that we can learn a lot of things through it. John Steinbeck was living during that time, he had very strong senses about the Great Depression. In his novel “Of Mice and Men”, there were many different types of characters involved in the story, the main characters were Lennie and George. Both of them were migrant workers, same did the workers in the working ranch. But the different was that only Lennie and George traveled together.

Lennie and George were opposite to each other, George was very smart for surviving during the difficult time, but he was not strong enough to work alone. When the same thing happens to Lennie, the process would be totally different. Lennie was a child-like thinking person, but the have so much power whenever he was working or fighting. According to the novel, Lennie was a very important person to the plot and the lessons inside of this novel. To be more specific, John Steinbeck put the meaning of the sample of the migrant workers who had dream during the Great Depression and how their dreams routinely destroyed by the Great Depression was because he wanted to use Lennie to express his believes towards American society.

As the readers all knew, because of Lennie’s habits that always brought troubles to George and himself. They were moved from on ranch to other ranch, the only thing that supported them was their dream — “their own ranch”. Lennie liked to listen all the details about “the ranch” even he remembered everything. Because the story was tell by George, Lennie’s close friend. Lennie trusted George, seemed George was the only guy who can be trusted in this world. Therefore Lennie remembered everything that George told to himself. To be realistic, the truth was cruel, during the time that was difficult for workers who just liked themselves to survive. George knew this for real, he must thinking about all the details of how could two men alive and safe. Sometimes George was exhausted and sad, Lennie always use the strategy of asking for the story of “their own ranch” to made George thinking the positive side in life, and “the ranch” might encourage George to work hard for himself. Actually this was the most effective way of making people feel hopeful and not to be beaten by the short-lived unsuccessful. The example was George, he was unhappy when he just started telling “the ranch” to Lennie, but then he enjoy the world that created by himself, his eyes became bright and acted very exciting, he walked out of the sadness. Lennie was the people that were most seen during the Great Depression, they hold their dream, struggled for the aim, and they never give up.

The dreams were not like something very big and unachievable, they were just the human’s basic needs that we evaluated them today, such as a hot shower, etc. The workers enjoyed the time that they thinking about the future life. However, for those migrant workers, dreaming of those “needs” cost a lot that they could afford. George and Lennie thought their dream was just “a little place”, if they worked peacefully and successfully they could easily achieve their dream. The Tyler Ranch was a turn for both Lennie and George, their plan had another participator—Candy. Candy’s help made the dream became easier to touch. Like people always said, nothing could be what you expect. Lennie did a wrong thing that made someone inside of this ranch very angry and prepared to give Lennie a huge revenge. People were saying sometimes we should do something even we don’t want that happen. George killed Lennie for different perspectives, for helping Lennie run away from the long time pain, for him to get reputation in the ranch— The only thing now we saw directly from the story was George became the same person with other workers in the ranch, alone without Lennie, hopeless without Lennie’s encourages. It’s easy to find out Lennie’s whole experiences told everyone how men’s dream easily destroyed by the society.

In this story __Of Mice and Men__, John Steinbeck put so many thoughts on Lennie’s quote, “I dislike this place.” This quote expressed the belief that John Steinbeck tried to tell the readers. He wanted to use this way to make the thoughts more effective by people felt the happy relationship ended as a tragic story, the turn of the story might let people thinking more. As reader all knew, Lennie was a child-like thinking person. He was simple for sure, his death might caused by himself for miss standing of the realistic world. But there was a belief that the adults were unclear when they involved in, only children could see the truth because they had a pure heart. John Steinbeck hoped people could own pure hearts for rebuilding their home and having a better future.

(so much run on sentence )

The Great Depression is a very important event that we can learn a lot of things through it. John Steinbeck was living during that time, he had very strong senses about the Great Depression. In his novel “Of Mice and Men”, there were many different types of characters involved in the story, the main characters were Lennie and George. Both of them were migrant workers, same did the workers in the working ranch; but the different was that only Lennie and George traveled together.
 * Yvonne’s editing #meaning1 **


 * good topic. **

Lennie and George were opposite to each other: George was very smart for surviving during the difficult time, but he was not strong enough to work alone; when the same thing happen to Lennie, the process would be totally different, Lennie was a child-like thinking person but the had so much power whenever he was working or fighting. According to the novel, Lennie was a very important person to the plot and the lessons inside of this novel. To be more specific, John Steinbeck put the meaning of the sample of the migrant workers who had dream during the Great Depression and how their dreams routinely destroyed by the Great Depression was because he wanted to use Lennie to express his believes towards American society.


 * I think you should give us more specific examples to explain the differentces between Lennie and Geogre.(only personality is not enough) **

As the readers all knew, because of Lennie’s habits ** (In my opinion, Lennis is not on purpose that always make troubles to George) **that always brought troubles to George and himself. They were moving and moving all around the place, the only thing that supported them was their dream — “their own ranch”. Lennie liked to listen all the details about “the ranch” even he remembered everything, because that story was told by George, Lennie’s close friend. Lennie trusted George, seemed George was the only guy who can be trusted in this world, and therefore Lennie remembered everything that George told to himself. To be realistic, the truth was cruel, during the time that was difficult for workers who just liked themselves to survive. George knew this for real, he must thinking about all the details of how could two men alive and safe. Sometimes George was exhausted and sad, Lennie always use the strategy of asking for the story of “their own ranch” to made George thinking the positive side in life, and “the ranch” might encourage George to work hard for himself. Actually this was the most effective way of making people feel hopeful and not to be beaten by the short-lived unsuccessful. The example was George, he was unhappy when he just started telling “the ranch” to Lennie, but then he enjoy the world that created by himself, his eyes became bright and acted very exciting, he walked out of the sadness. Lennie was the people that were most seen during the Great Depression, they hold their dream, struggled for the aim, and they never give up.

The dreams were not like something very big and unachievable, they were just the human’s basic needs that we evaluated them today, such as a hot shower, etc. The workers enjoyed the time that they thinking about the future life. However, for those migrant workers, dreaming of those “needs” cost a lot that they could afford. George and Lennie thought their dream was just “a little place”, if they worked peacefully and successfully they could easily achieve their dream. The Tyler Ranch was a turn for both Lennie and George, their plan had another participator—Candy. Candy’s help made the dream became easier to touch. Like people always said, nothing could be what you expect. Lennie did a wrong thing that made someone inside of this ranch very angry and prepared to give Lennie a huge revenge. People were saying sometimes we should do something even we don’t want that happen. George killed Lennie for different perspectives, for helping Lennie run away from the long time pain, for him to get reputation in the ranch— The only thing now we saw directly from the story was George became the same person with other workers in the ranch, alone without Lennie, hopeless without Lennie’s encourages. It’s easy to find out Lennie’s whole experiences told everyone how men’s dream easily destroyed by the society.


 * I think you can add some sort of quotes to support your explanaions. **

In this story Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck put so many thoughts on Lennie’s quote, “I dislike this place.” This quote expressed the belief that John Steinbeck tried to tell the readers. He wanted to use this way to make the thoughts more effective by people felt the happy relationship ended as a tragic story, the turn of the story might let people thinking more. As reader all knew, Lennie was a child-like thinking person, he was simple for sure, his death might caused by himself for miss standing of the realistic world; but there was a belief that the adults were unclear when they involved in, only children could see the truth because they had a pure heart. John Steinbeck hoped people could own pure hearts for rebuilding their home and having a better future. I do not really understand your article. Maybe my reading ability is not very well.

=My Outline= Introduction: Background Information: The story happened during the Great Depression. Lennie and George were the migrant workers at that time. Hook: Lennie is a very important character in this novel. He is hopeful whatever the situation George and himself meet, he never gives up. When George is hopeless or sad, Lennie uses their dream to encourage him. “I got you, and you got me.” This quote is very important to use for separating George and Lennie from all the other migrant workers in the ranch.

Thesis Statement: In this novel, Steinbeck uses Lennie to express his belief about American society. To be more specific, Lennie represents the people who are hope during the Great Depression, and how their dream were routinely destroyed by the Great Depression. 1. Lennie represents the people who had hope during the Great Depression. 2. His experiences tell us how man’s dream destroyed by the Great Depression. 3. John Steinbeck uses Lennie to express his thought about American society.

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