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Maurice Goldston. Born Feburary 27, 1902 Hometown: Salinas, California Worked on ranches as a child Attended Stanford but did not graduate Worked odd.

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1 Maurice Goldston

2 Born Feburary 27, 1902 Hometown: Salinas, California Worked on ranches as a child Attended Stanford but did not graduate Worked odd jobs to support his writing

3  Cup of Gold in 1929  Achieved first monetary and critical success with Tortilla Flat in 1935  Wrote Of Mice and Men in 1937  Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 with Grapes of Wrath Grapes of Wrath is widely considered his greatest work  Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962  Died of heart disease on December 20, 1968

4  Their American Dream Their American Dream  Takes place on a ranch during The Great Depression

5  George- Main protagonist  Lennie- Protagonist- Mental Illness  Slim- Wise Farm Hand  Curley- Son of farm owner- Entitlement  Curley’s Wife- Women/Housewife  Crooks- Racism against blacks

6  George and Lennie are traveling workers  They find work at a ranch ‘bucking barley’  They make friends and enemies  Lennie gets into trouble with basically everyone  Lennie accidentally kills Curley wife  George purposely kills Lennie for self- preservation

7 Ending Lennie

8  “We could live offa the fatta the lan'.”  “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”  “Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.”

9  The American Dream  The Great Depression  Mental Illness  Loneliness  Racism  Gender Roles  Life and Death

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