John Steinbeck and His Uses of Foreshadowing
Without delay, migrant workers have started becoming more popular, even having been made into novels; including, A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord, and also The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck. In one of these books, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses foreshadowing. Firstly, foreshadowing is a clever device used by an author to hint to the reader, that something will happen. In the book Of Mice and Men the main characters, George and Lennie, who are migrant workers, want to live on on their own piece of land. However, trouble -that usually follows them- catches up to them, so one thing leads to another, causing them to lose all possibility in their dream. Then the story reaches its universal ending, leading to them becoming separate from one another. There are several examples that Steinbeck included in this story: plans go “askew”, the death of Curley’s wife, the loss of the farm dream, and the death of Lennie.
One of the other foreshadowing examples is how their plans go “askew”. Askew means to have plans go off track. The poem “To a Mouse” written by Robert Burns tells the story of a mouse, who, like a man, has it’s plans sent askew. The poem states “Your small house, too, in ruin… Now you are turned out, for all your trouble, …show more content…
In this case in Of Mice and Men we see again how two men face the same struggles, trying to make their dream come true. They had to go through the struggles like having to move from place to place, having to find new jobs, and also all the problems Lennie creates and brings with them. Foreshadowing is a tool that Steinbeck used to foreshadow the migrant workers to the situations they would have to face. These would include, their plans going askew, the death of Curley’s Wife, the loss of the farm dream, and the death of
Without delay, migrant workers have started becoming more popular, even having been made into novels; including, A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord, and also The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck. In one of these books, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses foreshadowing. Firstly, foreshadowing is a clever device used by an author to hint to the reader, that something will happen. In the book Of Mice and Men the main characters, George and Lennie, who are migrant workers, want to live on on their own piece of land. However, trouble -that usually follows them- catches up to them, so one thing leads to another, causing them to lose all possibility in their dream. Then the story reaches its universal ending, leading to them becoming separate from one another. There are several examples that Steinbeck included in this story: plans go “askew”, the death of Curley’s wife, the loss of the farm dream, and the death of Lennie.
One of the other foreshadowing examples is how their plans go “askew”. Askew means to have plans go off track. The poem “To a Mouse” written by Robert Burns tells the story of a mouse, who, like a man, has it’s plans sent askew. The poem states “Your small house, too, in ruin… Now you are turned out, for all your trouble, …show more content…
In this case in Of Mice and Men we see again how two men face the same struggles, trying to make their dream come true. They had to go through the struggles like having to move from place to place, having to find new jobs, and also all the problems Lennie creates and brings with them. Foreshadowing is a tool that Steinbeck used to foreshadow the migrant workers to the situations they would have to face. These would include, their plans going askew, the death of Curley’s Wife, the loss of the farm dream, and the death of