Alice Wilson

Alice Wilson
Senior English
2nd block

Twisted

Eli: Hello, my name is Eli it's nice to meet you.

George: Why, hello Eli my name be George.

Eli: It looks like you've had a rough night.

George: Well by golly, trust me I have had a hard night. Working on ranches bailing hay ain't the best, but I get the job done to get my money.

Eli: Yeah, I hear you on that. Life can be really hard at times. Life can be very unrelenting.

George: Yeah? Whys that, why is life unrelenting for you?

Eli: Well... I'd rather not talk about since you're a stranger. Not that, thats bad or anything its just a really intense subject.

George: It can't be that bad can it?

Eli: I just can't stand what they did to us... how cruel, how inhumane, how just sick and disgusting they were.

George: I have no idea what you are talk'n about.

George: Is it your family? Your family done you wrong or something? I used to have something like that. But now he dead.

Eli: No, no it's not my family that did anything to me. They'd never be even though of as my family. I hate to even imagine them as my family. Your family? They're all dead? Mine are too.

Eli: I never really got to see my mother, or sisters again after we departed that day. And my father, well my father is gone too.

George: Well, I don't have any family. I just have, well had Lennie. Anyway though he dead so it don't matter.

George: I'm sorry to hear your losses, must've been hard huh?

Eli: Yeah, it was. But thats in the past now and I don't want to re-live it ever again.

George: Yeah I ain't forcin you nothing, but what really happened with you? Whats your story?

Eli: People are twisted, they are sick out there. I was a Holocaust victim, where they took us Jewish people to concentration camps to kill us off. I am one of the lucky survivors from this catastrophe. It was horrible there, awful. The smell of burning flesh every morning. Working until you can't breathe nor think anymore. Watching innocent people being beaten down to a bloody pulp. It was Hell on earth.

George: Damn, that sounds really awful. I know what its like to have sick twisted people hanging around ya. I used to know a guy like that. Couldn't keep his paws out of trouble, they were always dirty. I was always having to clean up his messes it was a pain. He was sick in the mind. Defiantly not right, he was literally retarded.

Eli: Well there is nothing wrong with mentally handicapped.

George: Yeah, there ain't but if you knew this guy. Man, woo he was more than two handfuls. I just couldn't take him anymore. I mean I loved him, but he had to go.

Eli: Thats how the Nazi's felt about us... I understand that the man you're talking about might have been hard to handle but I'm sure you still want him in your life. Is he your brother or something, your father?

George: Nazi's? Whats them? No, he was just a friend of mine. I'd been taking care of him for some time.

Eli: They started out in Germany and they were Hitler's followers who believed that the economic downfall was all of the Jewish republic's fault. But anyhow its very complex to really understand how horrible it was. Oh, okay I see.

George: Yeah, but he ain't nothing now but a dead body.

Eli: It seems like whenever something bad happens people always blame it on another person. Yeah maybe he was a pain in your rectum sometimes but you can't blame his illness on him, it's not his fault. He was born that way, thats what God gave him. It wasn't anyone's fault for the economic downfall. Even if it was doesn't mean that a whole damn sector of people because of this.

George: Well we're all twisted in a sense.

George: He was twisted, but I damned loved that fool. He never meant to do a thing, know one understood that he never meant to kill nobody. He was just dumb as a rock, that was all. I kilt him only to save him, I wasn't trying to mean it cruely.

George: Lennie, was his name. He was my partner when working, he was always the best worker out of anybody. He was so strong he could do anything, just anything. I knew that Curley was gonna kill him so I killed him first.

Eli: What?

George: It was a fast death, a happy death too.

Eli: How is that George?

George: Well, Lennie always liked this story I'd tell him about what we was gonna do when we got enough money. We were gonna buy a nice ranch, work on it make it look real nice. Lennie always wanted bunnies, so I told him we was gonna get bunnies. I told him the whole story perfectly like he always wanted to hear. And then I just shot him, he was dead within seconds.

Eli: Wow, George I'm sorry about that. I just, I don't know I don't agree with you killing an innocent person like that.

George: Then you don't have to like it, I've got to go, nice talking to ya though.

Eli: Yeah, nice meeting you too...