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             The title of the book that I read is Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. George is the protagonist in this story. Lenny is the other main character in the book. George was friends with Lenny's Aunt Clara and she told him to take George with him to find jobs. George took Lenny and they set out to find work. Lenny is slow, as in a retard. He likes to pet and touch soft things. He was in the town that George and him were working at and he saw this little girl with a really soft looking dress. So Lenny just being himself went over to her and grabbed her dress and started to feel it. Lenny is real tall and has a lot of muscles, so when this girl saw this big guy feeling her dress, she screamed so loud that Lenny just held on tighter not knowing what to do. All of the men in the town came to look and they thought that he was trying to rape her. So then he got away and just started to run. George heard all of the commotion so he ran to find Lenny, but he was no where in si!
             ght. Then he found him hiding in a ditch. George and Lenny left town and walked to a farm that George had applied to work at. They got to the farm and told the boss that Lenny was real strong and was a good worker, but they never told the boss that he was mentally challenged. They started work there and met all of the staff. Slim was a worker, Curly ( the bosses son), and his wife. There also is the stable buck, (a black guy) and Candy(an old man). Slim takes Candy's old dog out and shoots him because he says that the dog is no good anymore, it's just suffering. After that Curly has been giving Lenny a hard time because he doesn't like big guys. While Lenny was in the barn petting a puppy he kills it because it was trying to bite him and he got to excited and hit it so hard that it died. Just then Curly's wife came in the barn and told him that she wouldn't tell that he killed the puppy if he just lye with her. So he did bec...

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