Of Mice and Men pages 1-30 8/22/10

This week we started a book titled Of Mice and Men. We meet two characters, George and Lennie, right away. From these pages, I can infer the characters’ personalities. It seems George is always telling Lennie what to do. This shows me that George is a character controlling personality. An example that reveals that part of his personality is on page 8 when he tells him to go get the sticks for the fire and also later on page 8 and the beginning of 9 when he insists that Lennie give him the mouse. George often seems angry too. I am also getting a vibe that Lennie isn’t smart enough to see that George is lazy and makes Lennie do all of the work. It’s as if he gets pushed around by George, but Lennie doesn’t even realize it. Their personalities are exact opposite, but yet they seem to click well.
As I read further, I was pondering the ways Lennie would have gotten himself into trouble before. On page 16, George had said that if Lennie got in trouble, he wouldn’t get to feed the rabbits. It had me wondering if Lennie would remember to stay out of trouble. After further reading, I came to find that Lennie almost got himself in trouble, but he caught himself. This surprised me, but yet it didn’t. Knowing that Lennie isn’t very smart, I wasn’t sure if he would remember to not saying anything about the trouble he had been in. This is making me wonder if Lennie will get in trouble at this job also.
Later when the guys met Curley, I was also wondering why Curley was being so cold to them. I thought a reason to his cold attitude could be jealousy. It is possible that he Curley doesn’t like them because they may become better workers than he is. I then found out that he doesn’t like George because he wishes to be a big guy like George is. I can already tell that Curley won’t be my favorite character of this book.
I am curious to see if their dream of owning acres of land will be fulfilled. I am going to predict that they will be successful because the two of them make a great pair. Lennie seems to be a hard worker too. This concludes the first section I read of the book Of Mice and Men.