Of Mice and Men Script

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SOMEDAY, THEY'RE GDING TD GEI SCENE 1 ice an Adapted by Bryon Cahill • Art by Robert Carter Narrator 1: It is sometime in the 1930s. Somewhere south of Soledad, Calif., in the Salinas River valley, two men walk wearily along a wooded path toward the river. Narrator 2: Both are dressed in work clothes and carry blanket rolls on their shoulders. The first man is small and quick, with restless eyes. Behind him is a huge man with large, pale eyes and wide, sloping shoulders. He walks heavily, dragging his feet. Narrator 3 : They come into a clearing, where the river forms a deep green pool. The big man throws himself down and drinks long gulps of -water. George: Lennie! For God' sakes don't drink so much. You gonna be sick like you was last night. Narr 1: Lennie dips his head under the water, hat and all, and then sits up, snailing happily Lennie: Tha's good. You drink some, George. You take a good big drink. George: I ain't sure it's good water. Looks kinda scummy Narr 2: Lennie wiggles his big fingers in the water. Rings widen across the pool to the other side. Lennie: Look, George. Look what I done. Narr 3: George takes a scoop of water and splashes his face. He stares morosely at the water. CHARACTE Narrators 1, 2, and 3 migrant farmworkers Lennie Candy, ranch handyman Lennie: George? Curley, the boss's son George: Yeah, what ya want? Curley's wife Slim, main driver of the mule team Carlson, a ranch hand ivocab [MOROSELY: miserably A LITTLE PLACE AND LIVE DFF THE FAT DF THE LAND Lennie: Where we goin', George? George: So you forgot that already, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I? Lennie: I forgot. I tried not to forget. Honest to God I did. George: OK, OK. I'U teU ya again. I ain't got nothing to do. Might as well spend all my time tellin' you things and then you forget 'em.

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