Lennie accidentally killed wife of Curley because he was frightened by her screams and he knew George would be mad at him. He also was afraid that his friend would not allow him to care for the rabbits on their dream land. Lennie ran to the hiding spot by the Salinas River where George had established would be their “safe place”. While waiting for George to arrive, Lennie imagined his Aunt Clara scolding him and a giant rabbit tormenting him. Once George arrived, Lennie anxious about what George would do to him. To Lennie’s pleasure, George explained their dream of a their house and why they would be successful. When Lennie was facing the mountains, George was behind him, comforting Lennie. George heard voices in the distance and knew it was
They travel from ranch to ranch together, George is Lennie's caretaker. George and Lennie have always had the dream of owning a ranch, they then would have a place to stay and not worry about Lennie getting in trouble. George knows his life would be a lot easier without Lennie. Lennie gets George into many situations because he does not know his own strength. Lennie means no harm, he is a nice, sweet person, he is just like a little kid.
Lennie then runs away looking for safety. When the boys get back, Candy see's Curley's wife lying dead. Curley is quick to blame it on someone, and that someone is Lennie. George is obligated to shoot and kill Lennie; he remembers the spot where he previously told lennie to go in case of an emergency and goes out to search for him. George finds lennie and is left with the hard decision of killing his best friend.
After accidentally killing Curley’s wife, Lennie runs to hide in a brush, out of distress he starts to hallucinate and talk to himself. For instance, "George gonna give me hell," he said. "George gonna wish he was alone an' not have me botherin' him." He turned his head and looked at the bright mountain tops. "I can go right off there an' find a cave," he said.
Based off what the reader knows about Crooks from chapter four, the reader can infer that he would be the kind of person to join the NAACP. The reason for this is because he believes that African Americans do not receive the same things that whites do. In the text it states, “‘ This is just a nigger talkin’, an’ a busted-black nigger, So it don’t mean nothing, see? [...]
George told him that if he got in trouble go to the river up the road and hide in the brush so he did, when George and the men found the body they went searching for him. George knew where he was, he finally found him hiding in the brush where he told him. Lennie asked George to tell him “’Bout the others guys an’ about us.” As George told Lennie about the way their life was going to be he shot Lennie in the back of the head. So George is disillusioned with Lennie and what is really best for
No matter how good we act or how humane we are, due to our lack of personality and abilities, we can never achieve what we deserve. As individuals, many people do good deeds towards others every day, but nobody earns what they deserve. Everyone is a good person at heart and deserves a better life than what they have now, but due to our limitations we can’t always achieve them, similarly to Lennie and George’s situation as they struggled in the limited world in gaining money for a piece of land as “all men dream of”, “We gotta get a big stake together. I know a little place we can get cheap, but they ain’t givin’ it away” (56). In addition, no matter how good someone is or how hard they work, they will never achieve their dreams because dreams
One of our favorite parts was definitely in the beginning, when George and Lenny were camping out. George cooks some beans, and then Lenny rambled for a bit about how he wishes he had ketchup which causes George to explode. Then he settles down, and tells Lenny how one day they will they have their own farm and raise rabbits. We like this part because it reveals how conflicted George was. Another favorite part of the book was when Lenny killed the mouse on accident because it was in his pocket and he was still petting it as if it was still alive because he didn’t understand the power of his own strength or even that it was no longer living shows his innocence.
Later in the book, George and Lennie reached a new working place and because George cared so much about Lennie and did not wanted him to get in trouble so he kept on reminding him that whenever he senses trouble he should just flee to the clearing and hide in the brush, until he comes to receive him. All of these things show the amount of love and care that George and Lennie had among them that lacked in everybody else throughout the
I think Steinbeck had that as an original because something always happens in this book and it’s not always good. Well in this book the same bad thing happened twice, I think the title it has now has more meaning than the original. I also believe that the original would catch more attention because the readers will want to know what has happened. I think the original would have a different understanding because that reader is going to expect something very extreme has happened. I believe that John SteinBeck chose “Of Mice and Men” because it has more meaning to the book than the original.
Of Mice and Men is a classic everyone for sure has read, an American classic tale of close pals that are quite different, but can still find a way to work together through thick and thin for the same dream. It can be seen as a bit of a depressing book towards the end, but it’s a great read and deserves the the respect it gets. Two not too well resourced young men that go by the name of George and Lenny try to fulfill the dream of owning their own land. The two venture off into a sad heartfelt journey that requires open minded thinking to see and experience at its full potential. Lennie a big hearted giant who though isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but is simple and loves basic cute things.
Of Mice and Men contain a lot of dramatic and overwhelming content. The author might have wrote the book this way to show that times are rough but you can still dream, and i say this because Lennie and George don't make too much money but they still have a picture of the house in their heads. The author has a good way of building up the characters but he doesn't give the reader much of a visual. He doesn't describe who they are or where they came from, but he has a good detail from where they are going and why they had to move. There are a few symbols that stick out to me and probably more readers but crooks is one, crooks is a black man who gets treated like crap just because of his color.
The book “Of mice and men” by John Steinbeck is a novel that follows the lives of two working class men as they make their way across a desolate American landscape searching for work following the devastating events of the 1930’s dust storms which are now a series of occurrences known as the dust bowl. The two men search for work a midst a agricultural society, where all labor accessible to them would be farm labor. One of the men named Lenny is a large kind hearted but mentally handicapped individual.
Since Lennie and George travel together i think the benefits that come with that is, they have each other to there not alone in this journey like other people in the Great Depression. Secondly if one of them gets hurt or something bad happens in generally or they need help the other person can at least try to do something but if there alone they would just have to figure it out by themselves. They also solve things together and even thought there might be a smarter person in the friendship at the end of the day if they but there ideas together they come up with something better just because they worked together,which is something you cant do if your by yourself. The risks that come with this id that they might end up get in into a heated argument
The death of Curley’s wife is a very shocking event which is what triggers George’s decision to shoot Lennie. She does nothing wrong and without noticing Lennie kills her; just how he killed the mouse and the puppy killed the puppy. Curley’s wife’s death is a tragedy and symbolizes Lennie’s untroubled life coming to an end. Even though Lennie is not a bad person after the death of Curley’s wife, we can no longer think of him as an innocent child-like person. George and Lennie’s life was about survival, but centred on the innocent dream of the rabbits.
Lennie and George’s relationship and their development throughout the story is shown through these ideas: dreams and reality, the nature of home, and the difference between right and