Coming to American for more than two months, but during that time I really read so few books, just "of mice and men" which is the
homework of reading class. However this time is the different, because in China I read some English novel, however, it had the Chinese lines beside. So sometime I was so lazy that just saw the Chinese lines and it could not practise my English skill.
"of mice and men" is a very good novel which describe a life in the old times when people have different valid level between each other and most of the poor led a very difficult life at that time. This novel does not express this kind of feeling so valid, however, it uses a very clever way to express it. The writer creates two common worker working in the ranch and they are different because they have a great future plan for themselves. They are different from the other workers who just work hard for their bosses everyday and have no freedom.
There are a lot of interesting characters in the novel and most of them are nice guys, like Slim who has a very good personality, Candy who owns an old dog and he loves him very much, Lennie who has a mentally disease, however, he has a warm heart and he loves mice so much, George is a short guy with bad temper and has a good planning for himself and so on.
The writer writes a lot of stories happening between them. Although sometime they have fun with each other; however, they are no happy in fact. So we could imagine that their dream of future really is hard to come true under the terrible society at that time.
It is a cool book, even though i have not finished yet.
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haha, thank you so much, Holly!
What you wrote like a summary, which can help me in the exam, thank you!
And do you really want to know the end of the story, what happened at last? Do you wondering about it? Hey, do you really want to know, I might want to help you to figure it out. HAHA...
To be honest, this was the first English novel that I have finished in my life. Before this one, my teachers gave me several like "The Giver", "The catcher in the Rye", "Tuesday with Morries" etc to read, but I have no patient and I thought they are boring except Tuesday with Morrie( I found out that is fantastic later). Of mice and man is really worth to be read. I hope you enjoy it.
thank you first, you help me remember so many details about the characters in it . (*^_^*)
i think this novel is worth to read, because it effect many degree of people living.
also, it was the first english novel which i read...
This novel is really famous which makes me surprised in that i never heard about it before i came here. The reading class is really intersting because this novel, but i have to say that the test made by Richard is really hard for me! Many people said that they had seen the movie based on this novel, i really want to see it becasuse maybe i can help me prepare for the next test of this novel. It is meaningful for us international students to read the English novel written by the native English writter, it can help us improve our English!
John, You are welcome!
I think you are right,it's a cool book. but I'm not interested in it,I can't get the meaning when I read it for such time. maybe I will improve my reading speed and level,then come back to "of mice and men"
Wow, good job, Holly.
I'm glad everyone like "Of Mice and Men." It's a novel that is often taught in American high schools. I have favorite novels in French, one of them is "Justine."
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