As a result of this event, George and Lennie had to go on the run because this woman assumed that Lennie was going to rape her when he grabbed onto her dress. After this event, George and Lennie were stuck with each other and whatever problems Lennie had George now had. Furthermore, George has been with Lennie a long time, and he has learned many things about himself and Lennie. “ …One day a bunch of guys was standin’ around up on the Sacramento River. I was feelin’ pretty smart.
I think that throughout chapter five, both Lennie and Curley's wife feel regret through their actions, or their emotions. I think that Lennie feel regret on chapter five because of the fact that he just killed his pup, only friend, who he will no be able to pet the rabbit anymore if George saw what he did to the pup by accidentally. This quote“Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard” (85) showed that since Lennie kills the pup that Slim gave him while he was playing too roughly with the puppy.
They would not let him off the hook because of his mental disabilities, he still would have been reprimanded for his offense. In Weed Lennie scared a woman by grabbing onto her dress and not letting go. The men of Weed went after him requiring George and Lennie to flee. The latest trouble he got himself into was killing Curley’s wife in Soledad. Curley, the boss’ son, was after Lennie right off the bat because he was bigger than him.
In Of Mice and Men there are a lot of times that show that Lennie really likes touching soft things. These times also show that he usually hurts everything he pets without trying to. Around the beginning of the book George told Lennie, That mouse isn’t fresh Lennie, and besides you broke it petting it. You can see that Lennie isn’t mean because he didn’t know he hurt the mouse. Another example of Lennie hurting something that he pets is the puppy he got, but this time was different because Lennie actually realized what happened.
fiction " of mice and men". the story was talking about the relationship and the feeling's change surround george and lennie although at least the happen of some serious things cause george has to kill lennie. i still believe, there're a great friendship between lennie and george. to begin with, analysis all of the chapter of the book. As george's friend, lennie always is honest, pocile, and helpful to george.
Lennie grabbed the dress harder and she thought she was going to be raped. George is basically Lennie's parent in a way, and he keeps Lennie in check. Gerorge says, “‘When I think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts. I never get any peace’”
In the 1930s, a large amount of the United States population had some type of mental disability. The Colorado Territorial Prison, also used as a facility for the mentally ill, held approximately 1,000 people at one time (Abbot). During that time period, they started to experiment with treatments for those patients, including Lobotomy, which consisted of drilling a hole into one’s head and remove a section of their brains. They also used other types of deadly therapy to try and help patients. In the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the setting takes place in the 1930s, and one of the main points in this book include how people were treated.
Does the story end the way you expected it to? As I was finishing each chapter, I was predicting what the next chapter would be about, my predictions weren't so similar to the book. Although some ideas were not so different but not so alike. In chapter 2, when Curley was snapping at Lennie, I thought Lennie was done for, since Curley was the boss's son. But it wasn't like that, Lennie stayed with his job.
We know Lennie does not mean to do bad things but is just unlucky and gets in trouble alot. We saw how many times Lennie got in trouble making us readers assume that something was going to happen to poor Lennie. In this case it does. In the beginning of the story George gets mad at Lennie saying hoe his life would be so much easier without him and wish Lennie was never with him. Saying hoe Lennie is the one who makes all the trouble and George has so much responsibility.
Lennie accidentally killed wife of Curley because he was frightened by her screams and he knew George would be mad at him. He also was afraid that his friend would not allow him to care for the rabbits on their dream land. Lennie ran to the hiding spot by the Salinas River where George had established would be their “safe place”. While waiting for George to arrive, Lennie imagined his Aunt Clara scolding him and a giant rabbit tormenting him. Once George arrived, Lennie anxious about what George would do to him.
Lennie was mentally handicapped and he was not sure of what he had done when he accidentally killed Curley’s wife. This was much like the situation in Weed that was referred to in the beginning of the book. George had told about the time that Lennie had wanted to feel a dress that a woman was wearing. Lennie grabbed the dress and she started screaming. Lennie, out of fear, held on.
The novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, has a very controversial ending between the two main characters. George ends up shooting his best friend Lennie in the back of the head with a pistol. This is controversial because of the repercussions of George killing Lennie. There were only two ways that this situation could have gone, George shooting Lennie in the back of the head or Curley shooting Lennie with a shotgun in the guts. George did the morally correct thing by shooting his best friend Lennie because it was a quick death and the last thing that Lennie felt was happiness.
As from chapter one, it was evident that Lennie was a big man with a child-like heart, brain and attitude, he was not an independent man, while George was quite the opposite-a short but averagely intelligent who could live on his own(independent). Due to Lennie’s attitude and behaviour, it will not be wrong to say that the relationship between Lennie and George was that like father and son. It is also obvious that they were in a symbiotic kind of relationship in which Lennie benefited the most out of in the sense that he got taken care of by George while George got only the benefit of
In the story Mice and Men it took place in California on their plantation during the Great Depression. George which was an intelligent but uneducated man and Lennie which was a little slow are in Soledad on their way to find new jobs in California. They want to settle down on a farm and have dreams of settling down on their own piece of land. Lennie's part of the dream is to tend rabbits because he loves touching soft animals. although he always kills them.
Of MICE AND MEN is an incredible book showing a dream two men had. Lennie and George work off each other, they are companions in their life dream. With a friendship there always comes complications that grow down the line. George pretty much had to watch over Lennie and his handicapped mental state, making sure he did not get into trouble or kill any thing on accident. No one understood their friendship, but George needed Lennie’s companionship.
