Of Mice And Men Foreshadowing

I never thought about losing someone I really adore. I never thought about waking up and not feeling her warm breathes and her soft hands. I never imagined doing everything without her just because she’s no longer beside. I have had lost my mother under terrible circumstances, (www.kibin.com, losing someone you love). In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, we learn about two ranch hands trying to make their dream of a couple acres come true. A major theme in the novel discusses that loneliness can be a very dangerous thing to people. Steinbeck uses literary devices to reveal the theme by creating tension and sentimental connections to the characters and through their dreams.
Foreshadowing is used throughout the novel to show the how fatal loneliness can truly be, it shows this when George and Lennie are talking about how truly lonely they would be without each other. An example of foreshadowing from the text is when George states “ Guy’s like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world,” ( Steinbeck, page
# 13). This is foreshadowing because it shows how he ends up, George also mentions that ranch hands don’t really have a real reason to work, and George at the beginning had a dream he was focused on but once Lennie passed he was just another ranch hand like he aforesaid. This connects to the theme because loneliness can be treacherous, due to George losing lennie he no longer had a reason why to work.
Steinbeck uses symbolism to create meaning and emotions by using the ranch as a sign of being together.
“ You an’ me can go there an’ live nice, can’t we George? Can’t we? Before George answered, Candy drooped his head…” (Steinbeck, pg. 94). Symbolism is revealed in this quote because it was an idea that was beginning to form while Lennie and George still had each other, but the dream was truly an idea for just the two of them. This establishes the theme because the ranch was like an idea of friendship and the idea was holding on by all of their friendship, but without lennie the idea of friendship died and turned into loneliness.
Still today loneliness is shown in everyone's life, in differents ways but none the less. People need someone to be there for them at all times, if they don’t they put all of these ideas in their head, and push everyone out. Loneliness makes a person see the world as worthless, no meaning, and become
doubtful.