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		<title>After Of Mice and Men: What Happened to George After Lennie?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;What Happened to George After Of Mice and Men?John Steinbeck ends Of Mice and Men beside the Salinas River.George tells Lennie about their little farm one final time. Lennie listens to the familiar dream of a house, land, freedom, and rabbits.Then George shoots him.The novel ends soon afterward.But George's life does not.What happened when the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Of Mice and Men in 7 Minutes: When Love Is Not Enough</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[George Milton spends most of Of Mice and Men protecting his best friend.&#160;At the end of the story, he raises a gun and kills him.&#160;That is the shocking contradiction at the center of John Steinbeck's 1937 novel.&#160;But the deepest question is not simply:&#160;Was George right to kill Lennie?&#160;There is an earlier question.&#160;How did one man [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Of Mice and Men: 5 Modern Stories About Love, Care and Responsibility</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;George and Lennie’s tragedy in Of Mice and Men begins with friendship, but gradually becomes something much heavier.George is not simply Lennie’s friend. He becomes his protector, caregiver, problem-solver, safety plan, and eventually the person forced to make an unbearable decision about Lennie’s future.That leaves us with a question that reaches far beyond Steinbeck’s novel:How [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Of Mice and Men: Was George Right to Kill Lennie?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is often remembered as the heartbreaking story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two migrant workers traveling through Depression-era California with a simple dream.They want a little land.A house of their own.A few animals.And rabbits for Lennie.But beneath that small dream sits a much harder question.What happens when one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Of Mice and Men: Was George’s Final Choice an Act of Love?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is often remembered as the story of two migrant workers and a dream that never comes true.But after listening to George, Lennie, Candy, Crooks, Curley’s wife, and Slim speak together, the novel begins to look much larger.It becomes a story about what happens when human beings need one another [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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