"No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know"(Steinbeck 106) -George…
For example, the title indicates that the dream will die. “The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew” (Doc A). The title of the book was taken from this line. It is hinting that their farm dream will die when it says that plans of mice and men go often askew. Also when Curley’s wife dies; it is foreshadowing for the farm dream dying. After killing her, Lennie says, “I done another bad thing” (Doc B). Lennie is realising that he just killed her, that the other guys are going to want to kill him, so he has to run away killing the farm dream. The foreshadowing in the book tells the readers that the farm dream will…
The final instance in which Steinbeck skillfully displays the use of foreshadow is when Candy’s dog is about to be put down. Carlson basically begged Candy to let him kill his dog, telling him that the dog “Won’t even feel it.” This statement reinforces the earlier statement about how George must kill Lennie. It foreshadows how George will shoot Lennie in a quick and painless fashion. Nevertheless, Steinbeck takes foreshadow to a whole new level and applies it during a scene that only lasted for a couple…
In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck there are three characters that show person vs fate in a negative way. The book ends by George shooting Lennie at the end. George will turn into the average migrant worker because he does not have Lennie any more. Also, Crook's future is bad because of segregation. Finally, Curley's wife will not make it to Hollywood because she is married to Curley. With Lennie’s death it makes it very hard for george to try to achieve the American Dream.…
So in the end John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in the book Of Mice and Men to show what will happen in the book such as Curley’s wife getting killed by Lennie, Lennie’s own death, and their dream dying. Unfortunately nothing they had planned will work out now that Lennie is dead and George has no desire for the…
The novel, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is an extraordinary story of two men who travel together through tough situations and remain loyal to one another. They develop a strong friendship and share many qualities. My best friend, Alla, and I have known each other for over seven years and we have a strong bond. What binds us together are our differences and loyalty, just like Lennie and George, but unlike them, we have different dreams.…
Foreshadowing is used in several different stories to assist the reader with their predictions throughout the story. Of Mice and Men is a story about George and Lennie, two migrant workers that dream of having a ranch with animals, and being able to work for themselves. They arrive to Riverbank and meet several other workers. George and Lennie face severe obstacles at their new work. John Steinbeck, the author of the novel uses foreshadowing in the story through characters and events. In the story, John Steinbeck alludes the poem “To a Mouse”. John Steinbeck also describes Lennie’s obsession with soft things in “Pet it like it was a mouse”. He demonstrates how Lennie and George are trying to achieve the American dream in “A…
Steinbeck illustrates the American Dream during the Great Depression using characters and their thoughts. Utilizing indirect characterization, he shows how characters appreciate the comfort that their dreams provide. When George explains their dream in vivid detail, Lennie often becomes very giddy and complacent (Steinbeck 13-14). Therefore, this example suggests that the American Dream reassures Lennie and his other peers when they are feeling troubled. Also, the changes in the attitudes of the characters express the positive impact their ambitions have on them. Thus, this quote demonstrates Crooks' eagerness to be a part of something as important as The Dream. Lastly, the American Dream's significance is also shown through the way the characters…
In John Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck expertly uses foreshadowing to prelude many surprising events in the ending. From the very beginning we can predict what will happen to the two main characters: Lennie and George. It is used to hint at future events concerning Lennie’s death.…
In Of Mice and Men, it is foreshadowed many times that Lennie will be shot due to his animalistic traits. These animalistic traits included liking soft things, drinking from the water even though it could make him sick, and having large, paw-like hands. An example of this foreshadowing includes the claim from the novella in which Candy is Foreshadowing that George will have to kill Lennie because George should not make the same mistake Candy makes. Candy tells George that he should have shot the dog himself and not let someone else shoot his best friend. This foreshadowing reveals to the reader that George will not allow Lennie to be killed cruelly or put in an insane asylum. This is backed up by a sentence found in Great American Writers: John Steinbeck, when the writer says that after George realized that Lennie killed Curley’s wife, he realized he had to shoot him or else the angry mob would get Lennie (Shuman 1462). Many of Steinbeck’s works contain the large use of foreshadowing including another quote from Of Mice and Men which talks about Curley’s hatred towards big people that inevitably foreshadows Curley targeting…
the whole story was about these two farmers called Benny and Lenny and these two farmers are always saying that they are lonely and that nobody loves them and they will never find someone who will care about them and they live in a bunker and the bunker is all beat up like the walls are brought down and the floors are unpainted and they talk about a dog that is old and they want to kill him because he is all old and not good to use and so the reason they want to shoot him is because he is all old and h can barley walk and take care of it self and they want kill him but they dont want to because they fell bad for him and had the dog for so long since it was a pup ans it work around the farm and the guy who is goimg to kill him stoped by the…
Of Mice and Men is a novel in which John Steinbeck, the author, portrays many broken dreams. Steinbeck is a famous author known for many books like “The Grapes of Wrath,” and “The Long Valley.” The book was published in 1994 by Penguin Classics. The book is geared towards teenagers and above. The genre of the book is considered novella. George and Lennie, the main characters, show what it’s like to live as a migrant worker in the early 1900’s. In “Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck shows dreams can easily be broken by character’s actions and the world they were born into.…
A man getting shot and killed by their Best friend might sound mean and horrible but a guy in Steinback will make you think things around and puzzle stuff together to make you feel even worse making you feel you did the right thing or the bad thing. Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in characterization to make the reader realize that George did the right thing.…
“The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew”, said Robert Burns, in the poem “To a Mouse”. In this book Steinbeck uses foreshadowing a lot for upcoming events that will shock you. This book is about 2 friends that have a huge farm dream and a lot of things happen in this story to make that big plan go askew. Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to indicate the deaths of the farm dream, Curley’s wife dying, and Lennie.…
Throughout the book “Of Mice and Men,” the author John Steinbeck drops hints of what will happen further in the book, also known as foreshadowing. To begin, the first foreshadowin moment is when George tells Lennie what to do if he ever gets in trouble. “Lennie—if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush.” This later relates to when Lennie had to go and hide in the brush after he killed Curley’s wife and his pup. Furthermore, the next moment the story foreshadows in when George and Lennie first meet Curley, George tells Lennie to stay away from him because he will cause him no good. Later on we find out that George was right, “Then Curley’s rage exploded. ‘Come on, ya big bastard. Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. I’ll show ya who’s yella… He slashed at Lennie with his left, and then smashed his nose with a right. Lennie gave a cry of terror.” Moving on, when Lennie and George meet Curley’s wife George also has a bad feeling about her. George tells Lennie, “Listen to me, you crazy bastard,’ he said fiercely. ‘ Don’t you even take a look at that bitch. I don’t care what she says and what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be.” Further along in the novel, when Curley’s wife was talking to Lennie and she let him feel her hair, he wouldn’t let her go and ended up killing her. Finally, the last foreshadowing event was when they killed Candy’s dog. Candy told George, “I ought to shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.” This is something that George remembers when he kills Lennie. It was rather he shoot him while he was happy, or have him be killed upset and by some man. As one can tell throughout the book John Steinbeck loves to drop hints about what will happen later on.…