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Book details:
- * Â Â Â Book title: Of Mice and Men
- * Â Â Â The author: John Steinbeck
- * Â Â Â Translator: Ariyantri E. Tarman
- * Â Â Â Publisher: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama
- * Â Â Â Publication Year: 2017
- * Â Â Â Number of pages: 144 pages
- * Â Â Â Language: Indonesia
- * Â Â Â Published edition number: ISBN 978-602-03-3781-4
"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why."
  John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
The quote above may illustrate the essence of the story that is presented in this book. After reading this book, it occurred in my mind, 'are we not allowed to have dreams? Â Even just to dream we are not sure? ".
The tragic reality about the struggle for human life who strives to achieve dreams among so many limitations. A novella written by America's greatest poet, John Steinbeck, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.Â
The novella Of Mice and Men was first published in 1937. The setting of this novella is California during the United States economic depression. This novella is a depiction of working class life which tells about the friendship of two men named George Milton and Lennie Small.
George has a small body with a smart brain while Lennie is a big man but has mental retardation so that Lennie can't chose what is good and what is bad and even Lennie is unable to control his emotions. Not only that, Lenny has extraordinary physical strength, therefore Lennie often brings them both into trouble.
 The novella with a third person point of view tells the story of two human beings who complement each other's shortcomings and protect each other. They two have dreams that are very difficult to achieve it.
Covered by a farm setting and strong labor nuances, with other worker figures, namely Candy the worker who has a work accident and only gets a cleaning job, Crooks the negro who is exiled because of his different skin color. Then Slim the foreman, a typical worker who is quite above the other workers. Then there is the son of the owner of the farm, Curley, who is known for his arrogance and his seductive wife.
George, Lennie and their friends are people who can only work their whole life to survive, without any guarantee that their life will get better. Even to have dreams they don't dare because there are too many of them, the lower class people who have to live with the reality that dreams will still be dreams.
