Of Mice and Men is good literaure, because it shows feelings and it has emotional parts. Its main characters are George and Lennie. Lennie is always geting into trouble, because he likes soft things and he is a big man so when he gets a hold of something soft its hard to get him to let go.
George is a short man who has a short temper and when he gets mad he cant hide it. So he tells Lennie to stay away from girls so he wouldnt get into trouble. He did a pretty good about it too.
George and Lennie travle together so George can look out for Lennie, because Lennie is mentaly challenged so he dont know rite from wrong. But when Curley, the bosses son, messes with lennie, George tells him to fight back, so Lennie grabs Curleys hand and started crushing it. Curleys hand started to bleed because the bones were sticking out of the skin. It took three men to pull Lennie off of Curley.
Lennie was in the barn one day playing with the little pup and Curleys wife walked in. Lennie isnt supposed to talk to girls so he didnt say anything. But when starts talking to him, she asked him if he wanted to touch her hair. He shook his head yes and when he started touching it he wouldnt let go. she started to scream and he started shaking her, but he shook her to hard and he broke her neck.
If you want to know how the book ends and how Lennie and George get away, you will have to read the book.
