Question

Identify the book you are reading. What is the setting of your book, the time and place of the characters and their story? Based on what you have read so far, what purpose might the author have for writing this book? Use details from your reading to explain why you think the way you do. Use proper spelling and grammar. (10 points)

Answer 1

Book Title: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Setting Time:1937
Setting Place: South of Soledad, California
Summary of the Story: The story evolved on the two displaced migrant ranch workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, who move from one place to another place in California  in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States.
 Purpose of the Author: The story/novella is based by John Steinbeck on his own experiences working alongside with the migrant farm workers as a teenager in the 1910s. Because he has experiences which he thought might be a good story to tell, he was inspired by how the migrant farm workers were working and he was able to witness how hard the life of a migrant farm workers was and thought that it was a great story to tell and get inspired.