Synopsis

The classic novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is one that has been read, and shall be read, by high school students across several countries for many years.
It follows the unique situation of George and Lennie, two ranch workers with nothing in the world but each other and a can of beans. George is small but quick of mind and motions, and Lennie is his complete opposite. Lennie is 'strong as a bull' but with a mind that retained throughout his life the mental capacity, attention span, and innocence of a small child. The were binded together by the rarely mentioned Aunt Clara, and have been wandering the country looking for work to hopefully save enough money to have a little place they could call their own.
However, Lennie's... condition, put lightly, gets the pair in trouble whenever they begin to settle, so they up and travel to some other town and begin again.
The tale starts with George and Lennie arriving at a new ranch, where they meet their fellow workers; Candy with his old dog and stump wrist, Carlson, Crooks, the crippled negro, the ambitious boss and his small but tough and mean son, Curly, Curly's 'tart' wife, and the wise and ageless Slim. Among this miss-matched group, George and Lennie struggle to stay out of trouble, but fate keeps intervering in the form of the biased Curly and his provacative wife.