Chapter 2 Notes

Summarize:
       To sum up everything that happened in this book, Lennie and George end up getting a job as workers who buckle barley. They end up concluding their journey (hicking), and they make it to their job in the early morning. While being assigned to where they will sleep in the house they end up meeting a couple new people that they will have to share their lives with from now on. They meet their boss, the boss's son Curely, his wife, Slim, and a few older men who gave them some insite on what's to expect around. It also seems as if Lennie had already made some enemies with one of the most important people around the job.  George has no hesitation to defend his companion in any way he can, and George warns Lennie about the people they will be working with. The people that work in that area aren't quite pleasant to be around and it makes Lennie uncomfortable. With some doubts to leave George warns Lennie that they have to stay if they want to survive. So with a new day to start a new beginning also starts for these two men.

Question:
       In the beginning of the chapter, Lennie and George show up to their new job and they meet their boss's helper. He's an older fella and he explains where George and Lennie will be sleeping and where they will be staying. Along with some explanations George and Lennie begin to ask questions and it brings up the subject about the last "residents" that worked there. The helper has a simple explanation to everything except one. "Why did the last person leave?" This is the question that he couldn't simply answer firmly, and though George and Lennie seemed to have let the subject slide, I just couldn't let it go. Why does the man hide the answers for that question, though he knows the answer to it. What is so bad that he couldn't tell the new workers? He just continued making excuses and tried to make everything else sound better. What is there to hide?

Reflect:
       What impacted me the most in this chapter was the conflict that Curley had with Lennie. Without even knowing Lennie, he begins to hate him just by the site. Then later in the reading when it states that Curley was mad with Lennie simply because he felt intimidated was just hilarious to me. The fact that a small man hates because he is small is amusing in so many ways. It actually reminds me of the older Napolean ruler. He was a very small man so he used different techniques in paintings and power to show that he wasn't that small of a man. But it looks as if Curley's anger for Lennie will get him into big trouble later on in the story.