"This passage contains the tragic climax of the novel."
" "
"Touchingly, George agrees to tell Lennie one last time about the dream farm, so that Lennie can die happy."
" "
"Notice the significant details which echo the earlier killing of Candy's dog by Carlson."
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"The little evening breeze blew over the __?_?_?__ and the leaves rustled and the wind waves flowed up the green pool. And the __?_?_?__ of men sounded again, this time much closer than before."
"__?_?_?__ took off his hat. He said shakily, 'Take off your hat, Lennie. The air feels fine.'"
"Lennie removed his hat __?_?_?__ and laid it on the ground in front of him. The shadow in the __?_?_?__ was bluer and the evening came fast. On the wind the sound of __?_?_?__ in the brush came to them."
"Lennie said, 'Tell how it's gonna be.'"
"George had been listening to the __?_?_?__ sounds. For a moment he was business-like. 'Look acrost the river, Lennie, an' I'll tell you so you can almost see it.'"
CLEARING,7,50
SHOUTS,9,18
GEORGE,11,10
DUTIFULLY,13,33
VALLEY,14,42
CRASHING,15,54
DISTANT,18,43
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"Lennie turned his head and looked off across the __?_?_?__ and up the darkening slopes of the __?_?_?__."
"'We gotta get a little place,' George began. He reached in his side pocket and brought out Carlson's __?_?_?__; he snapped off the safety, and the hand and gun lay on the ground behind Lennie's back."
"He looked at the back of Lennie's head, at the place where the __?_?_?__ and skull were joined."
"A man's voice called from up the __?_?_?__, and another man __?_?_?__."
" "
"'Go on,' said Lennie."
"George raised the gun and his hand __?_?_?__, and he dropped his hand to the __?_?_?__ again."
POOL,7,59
GABILANS,8,41
LUGER,10,48
SPINE,14,10
RIVER,15,43
ANSWERED,16,10
SHOOK,19,45
GROUND,20,26
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"'Go on,' said Lennie. 'How's it gonna be. We gonna get a little __?_?_?__.'"
"'We'll have a __?_?_?__,' said George. 'An' we'll have maybe a pig and chickens ... an' down the flat we'll have a ... little piece __?_?_?__ --'"
"'For the rabbits,' Lennie shouted."
"'For the rabbits,' George repeated."
"'And I get to tend the rabbits.'"
"'An' you get to tend the rabbits.'"
"Lennie __?_?_?__ with happiness. 'An' live on the fatta the lan'.'"
"'Yes.'"
"Lennie turned his head."
PLACE,8,17
COW,9,24
ALFALFA,11,16
GIGGLED,16,17
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"'No, Lennie. look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the place.'"
"Lennie __?_?_?__ him. George looked down at the __?_?_?__."
"There were crashing __?_?_?__ in the brush now. George turned and looked towards them."
"'Go on, George. When we gonna do it?'"
"'Gonna do it soon.'"
"'Me an' you.'"
"'You ... an' me. Ever'body's gonna be __?_?_?__ to you. Ain't gonna be no more __?_?_?__. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from 'em.'"
"Lennie said 'I thought you was __?_?_?__ at me, George.'"
"'No,' said George. 'No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know.'"
OBEYED,9,17
GUN,9,58
FOOTSTEPS,10,30
NICE,15,48
TROUBLE,16,27
MAD,18,41
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"The __?_?_?__ came close now. George raised the gun and __?_?_?__ to the voices."
"Lennie __?_?_?__, 'Le's do it now. Le's get that place now.'"
"'Sure. Right now. I gotta. we gotta.'"
"And George raised the gun and __?_?_?__ it, and he brought the __?_?_?__ of it close to the back of Lennie's head. The hand shook __?_?_?__, but his face set and his hand steadied."
"He pulled the __?_?_?__. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie __?_?_?__, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without __?_?_?__."
"George __?_?_?__ and looked at the gun, and then he threw it from him, back up on the bank, near the pile of old __?_?_?__."
