How does a story about the friendship of two workers end with one killing the other in the end? Does author John Steinbeck leave clues throughout the story to foreshadow the death of Lennie Small, and many other events that occur during the novel? The story Of Mice And Men tells the tale of migrant workers George Milton and Lennie Small, and their experiences working on a ranch in the Salinas Valley. In the story, John Steinbeck does a marvelous job foreshadowing the events that will occur so that all of them have meaning. Everything in the book has significance because all aspects of the plot foreshadow many events including their plans failing, the death of Curley’s wife and the destruction of their dream. Steinbeck had reasoning for everything
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Knowing that everyone else’s dreams had been destroyed in the story, it isn’t hard to predict that their dream will also be crushed but Steinbeck actually left many other clues in the story to foreshadow that their dreams will also never be achieved. In the story, Lennie continuously urged George to tell about the land that they will one day have. After beginning to tell about it, George says, “I ain’t got time for no more” in Document C. George recognizes that they will never obtain the ranch of their dreams which signals the readers that it will never happen. Another occurrence that foreshadows the destruction of their dream happens when Lennie was having a conversation with Crooks. In Document C, Lennie also tells Crooks about their dream and his response is, “I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads. They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in their head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it.” Crooks has seen so many people that have claimed that they would have their own land one day but never achieve it. This makes it obvious that George and Lennie would never go on to get their land, and that their dream would be destroyed in the
Knowing that everyone else’s dreams had been destroyed in the story, it isn’t hard to predict that their dream will also be crushed but Steinbeck actually left many other clues in the story to foreshadow that their dreams will also never be achieved. In the story, Lennie continuously urged George to tell about the land that they will one day have. After beginning to tell about it, George says, “I ain’t got time for no more” in Document C. George recognizes that they will never obtain the ranch of their dreams which signals the readers that it will never happen. Another occurrence that foreshadows the destruction of their dream happens when Lennie was having a conversation with Crooks. In Document C, Lennie also tells Crooks about their dream and his response is, “I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads. They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in their head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it.” Crooks has seen so many people that have claimed that they would have their own land one day but never achieve it. This makes it obvious that George and Lennie would never go on to get their land, and that their dream would be destroyed in the