Chapter 1: In the first chapter the author introduces you to Treegap. It explains how the Fosters owned the wood. No one went into the wood because it belonged to the Fosters. Then it tells you about Winnie.
On page 13 John Steinbeck writes “Lennie pleaded “come on tell me----like you done before”... “You get a kick out of that, don’t you? Awright, I’ll tell you then we’ll eat our supper…” This shows how George was asked to tell Lennie about the rabbits and he
Lennie constantly fears that his actions will anger George, who will then punish him by taking away his rabbit-managing privileges. During the debacle with Curley's wife, he says “‘George gonna say I done a bad thing. He gonna ain’t gonna me tend no rabbits’”(91). Lennie represents innocence and
All George knows is that at least Lennie was happy when he died and still had the vision of the rabbits dancing in his head. I think that's another reason why he killed Lennie was he knew their dream wasn't ever going to be a reality and he didn't want Lennie to live a doomed dreamless life with nothing to look forward to.
When Lennie was going crazy and thinks he sees his Aunt clara “I tried, Aunt Clara, ma’am. I tried and tried.” Lennie was like a sick dog a dog that has gone blind he did not know if what he is seeing is real or not. George saw that and George did not want Lennie to suffer he just wanted to put him out of his misery. I understand that George and Lennie might have been able to make it out and that what George did was wrong each time you kill a person it is wrong.
“Tend rabbits,” it said scornfully. “You crazy bastard, You ain’t fit to lick the boots of no rabbit. You’d forget ‘em and let ‘em go hungry. That’s what you’d do. An’ then what would George think?”2 You can tell that much like the encounter with Aunt Clara that this rabbit is just dishing out Lennie’s own self-criticism.
Lennie had always wanted to live on his own ranch and have many animals. When George was telling his made up story about their future, Lennie asked George to tell him “how [he gets] to tend the rabbits.” (Page 14) The quote shows that Lennie wanted to care for rabbits. Lennie tried to care for other living things, but he was unintentionally rough.
Lennie was a young man who was very tall and much bigger than George, they travelled together with no transportation and no home. Lennie was always feeling alone and as if George never really listened to him. Most of the time Lennie was scared that he would mess up something and George would get mad. All that Lennie wanted in life was to have his dream come true and to tend the rabbits. “But you ain’t gonna get in no trouble, because if you do, I won’t let you tend the rabbits” (16)
In the novel, before George kills Lennie, Lennie escapes and goes to hide in the brush down by the river, he starts to hallucinate. He sees his deceased Aunt Clara whom is telling him that he should repay George for taking such good care of him not doing bad things. He also sees a giant rabbit who tells him that George is going to beat the heck out of him and then leave. Then Lennie yells George’s name and he comes. In the movie, Lennie has no hallucinations of his Aunt Clara and of a giant rabbit.
One historical figure that influences me is Martin Luther King Jr. He was an African-American activist and a political leader. During the Segregation in 50’s and 60’s in USA, he stood up for black people’s rights. However, he did not defend their rights by violence, he did it by peace.
George thought it was another mice that Lennie killed, so George want down stairs to wake up Aunt Clara but when he tried to wake her up she wasn’t breathing. Aunt Clara was died . George wasn’t surprised and thought to himself that she had finally been free from hell and he was kind of happy to say that Aunt Clara died. At first, George took advantage to Lennie's innocence because he always thought that without Lennie Aunt Clara would have lived a happy life, Lennie wasn’t so stupid that he will be no use of George, but George had promised Aunt Clara and he had to keep the promise and he will take revenge from Linne as well. Lennie Did everything thing that George asked him to do So George took advantage of this and made fun of Lennie in front of his friends and treated him like his slave, but Lennie never said a word.even though be was big and strong, he never argued with George, but George didn’t appreciate Lennie’s kindness or ever tried to be nice to Lennie.
Lennie knew he did something wrong and he wouldn’t be allowed to tend the rabbits, which was his dream. And he went to the brush George told him to go to if he got into trouble, but then went to find a cave and live alone. Lennie’s dream is over, and he can no longer live on the farm with George and Candy, tend the rabbits, or have a dog. George found him and knew he would have to be killed. He had a gun and told their dream once more, and then he shot him in the back of the head.
Lennie is big and tall, but he doesn’t have a sharp mind. Lennie’s dream is also to live in the farm, but not for the same reason as George. Lennie’s perspective of a perfect dream is to have a big garden with many rabbits. In Chapter 1 of Of Mice and Men, George said to Lennie, “When we get the coupla acres I can let you tend the rabbits all right.” (Steinbeck 16) The only reason George doesn’t want Lennie to have the rabbits is because whenever Lennie pets soft things, he accidently kills them.
However, when Lennie kills Curley’s wife, George pityingly kills Lennie. After Lennie kills her, he feels so awful that he starts hallucinating a giant bunny and his aunt. They tell him how he never does anything right and how he should never tend rabbits. The giant rabbit says, “Tend rabbits, You crazy bastard. You ain’t fit to lick the boots of no rabbit.
Because of Lennie's mental disability, he is required to be dependent on George. In the beginning of the novel as George and Lennie are making their way to the migrant farm, Lennie has a dead mouse in his pocket. Lennie feels that if he were to tell George concerning the mouse, he would yell at Lennie and be angry with him for his wrong doing. Ultimately, the more times George gets furious or impatient with Lennie, Lennie believes that George will not allow his dream of owning a farm in the future to come true (Owens). Likewise, Lennie's lack of consciousness from determining right from wrong, denounces his self character, leading to his own death.
