Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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This play put on by SI tells the story of a young teenager named Alice trying to figure out her life. After she was raped by a popular kid at school, there was no one she could talk to and figure out what to do. Her parents, the typical very religious family was obviously against having an abortion, something Alice wanted to have but didn’t know how to ask her parents. To gauge there response, she asked them through someone else, telling her exact story but saying it was someone else, and there were definitely against it. Another character named Lennie was struggling with a common problem amongst teens as well, bullying. He was being bullied at school by the same group of the people that Alice’s rapist was in. In Lennie’s family, his dad was catching wind of a …show more content…

When he got home, he shot himself. He came back in the story as an angel along with Jesus and saw his family mourning and crying. The news spread and people were devastated, but did not recognize his death as an accident, as it had been ruled. In Alice’s history class, people were fed up with being handed out supplemental readings, as they weren't part of the curriculum or in the textbook. There was an argument in class one day about Thomas Jefferson and how he raped his slaves, and Alice was very vocal about it. Through Thomas Jefferson, she accused her attacker, Luke, of being a rapist and he became very defensive. As the play continues, Alice tells her history teacher her predicament and how she saw Luke and his friends assaulting Lennie the day he shot himself. The teacher, Ms. Janaleris, reported her findings to the police and Luke and his friends were suspended. There was later a town hall where the boys were acquitted and Alice was forced to tell her parents about the baby. The play then had a sudden ending where everyone stood for America the Beautiful, concluding an excellent

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