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.…
George did make the right decision when he ended Lennie’s life by shooting him in the back of the head because Lennie was a threat to the general population and he was even a threat to animals. Lennie killed mice all the time, he even killed a few birds. Then one day he killed a puppy that was only a few weeks old, and one day in town he grabbed a little girl’s dress and scared her. Then toward the end of the book he killed Curley’s wife.…
Finally, when George found Lennie, he had him look over the river, just above the hills, and imagine what their life was going to be like. BANG! Then George shot Lennie…
In the novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, there are several instances that foreshadow the events that eventually led to Lennie’s death. Two instances are when Candy’s dog is shot in the back of the head, and when Lennie got into trouble, in Weed, the town in which Lennie and George worked in previously. This led the reader to speculate that Lennie was going to get in trouble at the ranch, and eventually get killed. About a day after George and Lennie joined the ranch, Carlson, a thick-bodied man on the ranch, made comments about how Candy’s dog was old and suffering. He stated, “Look, Candy.…
We hear phrases earlier on such as on page 12 George saying, “’I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus Christ, somebody’d shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself.’” along with, on page 45, “’The way I’d shoot him, he wouldn’t feel nothing. I’d put the gun right there.’” Both of the occasions foreshadow in one way or another that Lennie will be shot as they as both conversations consisting on how someone would be killed in the same style Lennie ultimately was or by the person who killed him, Lennie having no clue about either…
After arriving on the farm, the friends quickly learn of Curly’s reputation for fighting people much larger than him. This foreshadows a conflict between the two which eventually happened the night everyone was in the barn. The fight resulted in Lennie crushes Curley's hand, showing just how strong Lennie can get. Another event that Steinbeck foreshadows well is the dream of the farm Lennie and George have. Right away readers can tell Lennie has trouble remembering simple things.…
Foreshadowing in Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck in the novella, Of Mice and Men (1937), uses foreshadowing in such a way that the reader can almost exactly predict what’s going to happen. His symbolism connects the foreshadowing together so that it is more understandable and easier to infer what is going to happen next. Steinbeck utilizes foreshadowing in the most important pieces of the book: George’s warnings to Lennie, Lennie’s mice, and Curley’s wife. In Steinbeck’s novel, he emphasizes foreshadowing, particularly when George is constantly reminding Lennie where he should go if there’s trouble, ‘ “…Lennie, if you get in any kind of trouble, you remember what I told you to do?……
“Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bas**** like he is, he wants to touch everything he likes. Just wants to feel it. So he reaches out to feel this red dress and the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on’ cause that’s the only thing he can think to do” (Steinbeck 41). So in conclusion George was scared that Lennie would keep screwing up, so he had to shoot him.…
“Oh, that's nice… lennie was in a panic… lellies other hand is over her nose and mouth. ‘Please don't georgell be mad… he shook her… she didn't answer” (Steinbeck,91). George killed lennie because he didn't want him to go off and commit an more crimes like killing people. He didn't want him to suffer any more from making fun of him. Lennie told george “I’d pet em and pretty soon they bite my fingers and i pinch their heads a little and then they was dead…” (Steinbeck,10).…
He, soon after, killed Curley’s wife, showing that if provoked enough, he could kill a person. Therefore, this lead George to kill Lennie. Some people think that George shouldn’t have killed Lennie because he didn’t know what he was doing. When Lennie killed the mice, it took him some time to realize it was dead. He didn’t know that hitting his puppy like that would kill it.…
The death of Candy’s dog foreshadows the oncoming death of Lennie. George comes to his own realization that the ideal life he is seeking will never occur. It is an impossible goal for the two of them. Thus, George feels sympathy for Lennie and decides that it will be best for the both of them if he kills Lennie. When George was asked how he killed Lennie, he responded simply, ‘“I just done it.”’…
In 1937 John Steinbeck wrote the novella Of Mice and Men, in order to express his societal conscience about America in the 1930’s. Of Mice and Men is about visions, friendship and hope. It’s a story about the nature of human visions and ambitions and the forces that work against them as it is the story of two men. The principal theme of this bestselling novel is that humans give importance to their lives and to their futures by creating dreams. Without dreams and goals, life is a limitless stream of days that have diminutive joining or meaning.…
As Steinbeck describes death throughout the entire book was a very natural way of life. When somebody died it wasn’t a very big deal. In the last paragraph of the book George shoots Lennie because he had killed Curly’s wife. They all made the decision the kill Lennie but they weren’t really worried about the consequences if any.…
Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to show the reader warnings on what's going to happen further on in the novel. Foreshadowing is used throughout the novel to show that loneliness connects to every character in a dangerous way. That Candy’s dog was his lifelong companion, but since Candy’s dog was getting too old he had Carlson shoot his dog with his gun then Candy had started to felt lonely since Candy had lost his companion. That the gun his foreshadowing Lennie’s death because the same gun was used to kill Candy’s dog and Lennie. “George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head.…
(pg. 96). George didn’t want someone to kill Lennie and wanted him to die peacefully. Before he shot Lennie, George told him to imagine the farm of his dream that he wants. “Look across the river, Lennie, an’ I’ll tell you so you can almost see it.” (pg.105).…