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Themes Of Cycles In Of Mice And Men

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In the novel Of Mice and Men, the themes of cycles are represented by the theme of deaths and how they were carried out and the book. These deaths create a cycle in the book of being shot in the back of the head. The bunkmates of Candy found his dog to be more of a nuisance than a benefit to them or Candy because the dog was smelly, didn’t do much and only quality was a friend to Candy. On page 45 one of his bunkmates suggested that “If you were to take him out and shoot him right in the back of the head.” The fact that the bunkmates would go as far as to kill an animal because of the smell and his age is showing that their first reaction is to kill in the quickest way possible. Whenever Lennie gets found out by George and he wants to end
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