Chapter 1

John Whitworth

Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck

-John Steinbeck

-George

-Lenny

-The Setting

Response:

The first chapter in the book did a spectacular job of setting up everything through mostly conversation. It gave us the setting, the characters, and a few of the conflicts. Because of Lenny’s condition it allowed the character, George to have to explain everything that was going on to Lenny, and more importantly to us. In the book It did a nice job of this and bunched the dialogue over an amount of times so that you got everything, but they told it to you in chunks so that there was still some questions that you ended up with. The movie, however said pretty much the same things, but faster and in a more casual conversational way, finishing each point before moving on to the next. I liked how the story was set up and I want to read on to the part where they are on the ranch.