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  the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.                                                                                                                                          my mom said the american dream is anything you want it to be.

    John stienback when he was little   this is him smoking    after of mice and men he wrote  this book.

                  Feb 27, 1902 John Ernst Steinbeck III is born in Salinas, California. He is the third of four children (and the only boy) born to John Steinbeck, Sr., the treasurer of Monterey County, and his wife Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, a schoolteacher. As an older boy, Steinbeck will work summers on the nearby Spreckels Farm. 1919 John Steinbeck graduates from Salinas High School and enrolls at Stanford University. When not at school, he works odd jobs at ranches, shops, farms and factories. 1925 After six years as an on-again, off-again student, Steinbeck leaves Stanford for the last time. In November he travels to New York City to start his life as a writer. He never receives his degree. 1926 Steinbeck returns to California and settles in Lake Tahoe. He works as a handyman at a local resort. Aug 1929 Cup of Gold , Steinbeck's first novel, is published. The book focuses on seventeenth-century pirate Henry Morgan's adventures in Panama.

                       

Crooks  is very old. Crooks  is so named because of a crooked back caused by a kick from a horse. Crooks  is a man who takes care of the horses and lives by himself because he is the only black man on the ranch.  Crooks is a character used by  Steinbeck  to show the effects of discrimination. This time the discrimination is based on race, and Crooks is not allowed in the bunkhouse with the white ranch hands. He has his own place in the barn with the ranch animals. This time the discrimination is based on race, and Crooks is not allowed in the bunkhouse with the white ranch hands. He has his own place in the barn with the ranch animals. Candy realizes he has never been in Crooks' room, and  George 's reaction to Crooks being involved in their dream is enough to cause Crooks to withdraw his request to be part of the dream. Racial discrimination is part of the microcosm Steinbeck describes in his story. 

Geroge was Lennies brother basically even though they are friends but they bond like brothers George would say whatever is on his mind people assumed they were gay but they were good friends .George basically took care of Lennie ,Lennie is Retarted so George would always help him George was also smart and brave.