Of Mice and Men Word Search
This Of Mice and Men word search holds forty words from John Steinbeck's novella: George, Lennie, Candy and his old dog, Curley, Slim, Crooks, the bunkhouse, the rabbits and the Salinas River.
The title comes from a Robert Burns poem, To a Mouse, about how the best laid plans of mice and men go wrong. Steinbeck had worked on ranches in the Salinas Valley himself, and he set the book near Soledad, California, in the Depression years, when migrant workers drifted from job to job carrying their bindles. Before it came out in 1937, he lost half a draft to his setter puppy, which chewed it to pieces.
George and Lennie arrive on the ranch after running from trouble in Weed, and they share one dream: a few acres of their own, where Lennie will tend the rabbits. Candy, an old swamper whose dog Carlson shoots, offers his savings to join them. Curley keeps one hand in a glove full of Vaseline. The book begins and ends at the same pool by the river, where a heron stands in the shallows and eats a water snake.
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- Alfalfa
- Barley
- Barn
- Bindle
- Boss
- Buck
- Bunkhouse
- Burns
- California
- Candy
- Carlson
- Crooks
- Curley
- Depression
- Dog
- Dream
- George
- Glove
- Heron
- Horseshoe
- Ketchup
- Lennie
- Loneliness
- Luger
- Migrant
- Mouse
- Puppy
- Rabbits
- Ranch
- River
- Salinas
- Slim
- Snake
- Soledad
- Stable
- Steinbeck
- Sycamore
- Vaseline
- Weed
- Whit