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'OF MICE AND MEN' BY JOHN STEINBECK IN 7 MINUTES: PLOT & CHARACTERS MINDMAP! | GCSE MOCKS REVISION!
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- hello and welcome now in this video i'll be going over a very quick and very brief plot overview of my cinnamon in a quick
- nutshell now do bear in mind that i have created a video where i go into lots of detail as to what happens within
- the plot in depth however this video was really made if you are for example having an exam the next day for instance
- or you need something that's really quick short and snappy just to give you a very general idea because you're really
- familiar with all the nitty-gritty details of this novella but you just need to kind of take a step back
- and look at the plot in a nutshell so now as you can see behind me what i did was essentially just create a very brief mind map of all the key
- major events that happen in the novella so let's begin with the opening and essentially always remember that the opening of the
- this novella it begins with george and lenny who are looking for work and essentially they're by the river and they dream and they'll articulate their
- dream of owning a farm one day okay and one of the things that we quickly realized is that george is
- essentially the leader and then he's in many ways is held back by his mental deficiencies that seems to be somewhat of an obstacle
- to them we don't quite know how this is an obstacle until later on in the story okay so then it progresses to when george and
- lenny do find work on a ranch in soledad so that's the second major thing that happens then thirdly once they find work in
- soledad and then the bunk house they meet the first main character curly who's the boss's son and we learned that he's very angry he's
- quite jealous he has a new wife called curly's wife we never know her real name and he's very jealously protective of he doesn't want any of the
- men to look at her and this is a bit of a problem for him because she loves attention she's always being chased by him he
- doesn't quite know where she is okay so curly the boss's son is quite angry he doesn't let anyone look at his new wife
- but also another event that happens is that candy who's one of the other older ranch workers who we meet later on his old dog is killed by carlson then
- the fourth event that happens the fourth major event that happens is curly accuses slim who's the other ranch hand
- he's quite powerful he's the buckline skinner he accuses him of crossing the line with his new wife he's constantly insecure
- that his wife is very drawn to slim now he then curly out of his frustration because he knows that he cannot pick a fight with
- slim as slim is taller and more powerful than him he ends up picking a fight with lenny and he tries to fight lenny who
- ultimately crushes his hand which is a very humiliating defeat for curly now the fifth major thing that then happens afterwards
- is most of the ranch workers including curly himself go to a brothel a place where they can basically buy sexual services from women
- and even curly does so in spite of being newly married to his wife now whilst they're at the brothel we learn that key characters have been left
- behind these characters are lenny crooks the only african-american or negro stable buck also candy the old hand and of course
- curly's wife and they're all left behind whilst all the rest of the ranch workers go off to the brothel now curly does come into
- crooks's place because lenny first enters then candy follows crooks's own home okay
- and curly then comes in and basically insults the men as being weaker than the rest of the men hence why they were left behind when
- crooks does try to stand up for himself and ask her to leave she then also threatens him and essentially tells him that she
- would get him lynched if he doesn't know his place as a black man then the sixth major event is we learned that
- lenny one of the puppies that he's allowed to have as a pet he pets it to death and this ultimately foreshadows
- the killing his accidental killing of curly's wife when he pats her hair too much she panics he then smothers her and he
- accidentally kills her now this ties into the opening this is now where we realize the main thing that is standing in
- jordan and his way of achieving their dream of owning a ranch is lenny's own unwieldy strength which he's
- unable to control seleni kills uh curley's wife and runs away and he runs back to the river and where he and george had promised in case there's
- any issues they would wait for each other there ultimately the men including curly discover that curly's wife has
- died so it's first candy who discovers the dead body of curly's wife he then informs george who then lets all the other men know
- curly is in a massive rage and they go out with the shotguns in search of lenny to kill him okay so the death is discovered and the men
- search for lenny george does find him because george remembers that they had agreed at the beginning of the novella where they would find each
- other in case of any trouble george finds him and as he's articulating their dream of owning their ranch
- and lenny is looking out onto the river george shoots him at the back of his head ultimately as an act of preservation for
- his own protection okay so that's really it when it comes to understanding the key events in a nutshell in terms of what happens
- in of my cement and of course as i've mentioned if you want more detail do check out my other video where i go into detail on what happens in the
- plot key characters as well as important contextual factors that you need to understand
- so hopefully this helps especially if you're revising under pressure you