Lennie and George talk about their plans to start a farm 5. Lennie takes one of Slims puppies to the barn, but sadly he accidentally kills it due to his strength 6. Curley's wife heads to the barn to talk to Lennie about the pup. They start talking about how…
Tragedy will reveal the beauty behind the pain. This truth is made clear in Thomas Scarseth's excerpt "A Teachable Good Book: Of Mice and Men". In the excerpt, Scarseth states that Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a tragedy. The tragedy is the pain of living life and being defeated can be transformed into the beauty of art. With the book, Of Mice and Men, Scarseth established his opinion in three ways.…
Stienkbeck uses foreshadowing to show what happens to Lennie in the end of the novel in many different ways. The first reason how Steinbeck foreshadows Lennie's death is when George tells Lennie to stay away from Curley's wife. George tells Lennie this because he does not want him to get into trouble with her which he does later in the novel. The second reason how Steinbeck foreshadows Lennie's death is when Carlson is telling Candy how he should shoot his dog. He tells him where to shoot his dog so hat he will not fell a thing.…
(Steinbeck 44) C: Carlson wanted to end the life of the one thing which mattered most to Candy which was his dog. Candy had had that dog since he was a pup and he always tells stories of how it was the best sheep dog he had ever seen and how he had made lots of memories with that dog. This shows how cruel the people at the ranch could be because they didn’t care how much Candy loved that dog, and it took Carlson almost no regret of killing him.…
Lennie kills a dog and a woman by petting them too hard. So after that George shoots Lennie. George did a bad thing shooting Lennie because George doesn’t have a companion, George loses happiness and George loses all the hope of getting the farm. George did not want to kill Lennie, but he had no other choice. George loses his companion in a few seconds.…
The argument begins when Carlson, in a bad mood after having just lost at horseshoes to the “nigger” stable buck, enters the bunk-house, smells the dog and has a go at Candy. Candy’s retaliation is pathetic which shows that he cannot explain why he wants to keep the dog. Candy does not want the dog shot as hit reminds him of himself. Before his accident, Candy was a good worker, and before it got old and stiff, the dog was a good worker. If Candy were to have the dog shot, it would go some way towards realising his true fear of being cast out of the ranch (once you are no longer useful, what is the use of keeping you).…
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.”’…
This makes him feel like he 's not an equal and crushes his spirit. Candy has his dog shot and this causes him deep pain he becomes miserable and recedes into himself. Until he hears about George and Lennie 's plan, when George is forced to kill Lennie he almost can 't bring himself to do it but knows if he doesn 't Lennie will suffer a slow painful death at the hands of Curley. So in an effort to ease Lennie’s passing he helps him imagine the thing that he cares most about the farm and then shoots him.…
He works as a swamper as he lost his hand while working on the farm and they gave him the job as a swamper to help compensate for his hand. Candy was fine working on the farm, but he realized he wasn't going to have his job soon and too make things worse his very old dog that he had since he was a pup was being insulted by the other workers for being stinky. Another ranch worker name Carlson convince Candy to let him shoot the dog to “put it out of its misery” when he just thought it stunk up the whole bunkhouse. After the death of the dog, candy is seen to go downhill into loneliness until he hears about George and Lennie's dream house. ”Tell you what-,…
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.…
George expresses his and Lennie’s dream of getting a small farm together; Candy immediately says he will join in and give more than half of the money needed to seal the deal. “An’ they give me two hundred an’ fifty dollars ‘cause I los’ my hand. An’ I got fifty more saved up right in the bank, right now" (Steinbeck 59). He is willing to give every penny that he is worth just to join in on their dream and break his solid feeling of loneliness. All this time Candy used his dog as some kind of “shield” to hide his loneliness.…
George and Lennie are talking about the farm when he overhears and wants in on the deal. He tells George that “‘[Candy] shouldn’t oughta of let no stranger shoot [his] dog’” (61). This is his ultimate motive, the main dream of his: To live an independent life and make his own choices. He was pressured into getting rid of his own dog, and he felt it should have been his decision to make. In order to achieve his own independence (and get to the farm), Candy sacrifices a few things.…
Having lost his hand in a farming accident, his boss provided him with financial compensation, and a job as a swamper. However, he often feels isolated on the farm. After the death of his dog he feels threatened, claiming that, “Jus’ as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunkhouses they’ll put me out in the country" (60). He has fear for the future, knowing that after spending his life as a rancher, when the time comes that he can no longer ranch, he will be sent away and have nowhere to go. In addition to this, when George and Lennie discuss their “dream” with Candy, he offers a share of his money to purchase the land, and even promises to “cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some.”…
VJ Becerra Mrs. Reschan HSE 1 Period 4 January 5 2015 Of Mice And Men In the novella Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck uses dreams to give hope and bring friendship. Steinbeck gives us many examples of this theme. The first example is when Candy’s dog dies so then he joins George and Lennie and their dream of owning land. Second is Crooks’ memory of his father’s chicken ranch.…
If one theme can be thought of as defining the symbolism Of Mice and Men, that theme is loneliness. In many ways, from the honest to the subtle the presence of loneliness defines the actions of the various characters in the book. The itinerant farm worker found it nearly impossible to establish a fixed home. These men were forced to wander from ranch to ranch seeking temporary employment, to live in bunk houses with strangers, and to suffer the abuses of random bosses. George sums up the sadness of this situation at several points when he speaks to Lennie “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.…