"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

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BeTheChange
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Sun Mar 19, 2017 2:13 pm
BeTheChange says... · Sun Mar 19, 2017 2:13 pm
Disclaimer: I haven't read this since late August, so the details are a little hazy. Bear with me! :)

I really liked this book; it was very bleak, but, honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way. It's about migrant workers during the Great Depression. What did you expect?

For an age rating, I'd suggest it to fifteen-year-olds and up, because of the aforementioned bleakness and the raunchiness/innuendoes.

Discussion questions:
1. Did you sympathize with Curley's wife? Why or why not?
2. How has the treatment of the disabled and/or the poor improved since the 30's? How is it the same or worse than in those times?
3. If you were in George's place, would you have made the same decisions? If not, what would you have done?
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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy