Of Mice and Men Foreshadowing essay
Samantha Monks
Ms. Tami Davis
English II Pre-IB
26 October 2014
Of Mice and Men Foreshadowing
In John Steinbeck’s famous book, Of Mice and Men uses foreshadowing throughout the book. From the beginning to the end it fallows the story of a mentally handicapped man and his friend threw their tale. Using foreshadowing to tell the tale in as much detail as possible, predicting the decision that will abruptly end the friendship of the two friends.
As we meet the lovely wife of Curley early on in the book she is perceived as an unfaithful women looking for attention. George knows she will be a problem for them and warns Lennie, ““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.”” This foreshadows that something will happen between Lennie and Curly’s wife. Another foreshadowing event for Curly’s wife’s death was: “Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bastard like he is, he wants to feel it. So he reaches out to feel this red dress an’ the lets out a squawk, and gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on ‘cause that’s the only thing he can think to do.”” Lennie acts on instinct and when he gets scared he holds on to whatever he has.
Lennie had a reputation as a troublemaker which was a big part of the foreshadowing. Lennie was mentally ill making him like a small child. He could not remember anything that happened besides when George told him. An example of foreshowing Lennie’s death is: “George said, "I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus Christ, somebody'd shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself.”” It shows that possible harm will come to Lennie later on in the book. Another foreshadowing event for Lennie’s death was: “Lennie cried out suddenly-“I don’ like this place George. This ain’t no good place. I wanna get out of here.”” It foreshadowed that knew Lennie that something bad was going to happen but wasn’t
Ms. Tami Davis
English II Pre-IB
26 October 2014
Of Mice and Men Foreshadowing
In John Steinbeck’s famous book, Of Mice and Men uses foreshadowing throughout the book. From the beginning to the end it fallows the story of a mentally handicapped man and his friend threw their tale. Using foreshadowing to tell the tale in as much detail as possible, predicting the decision that will abruptly end the friendship of the two friends.
As we meet the lovely wife of Curley early on in the book she is perceived as an unfaithful women looking for attention. George knows she will be a problem for them and warns Lennie, ““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.”” This foreshadows that something will happen between Lennie and Curly’s wife. Another foreshadowing event for Curly’s wife’s death was: “Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bastard like he is, he wants to feel it. So he reaches out to feel this red dress an’ the lets out a squawk, and gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on ‘cause that’s the only thing he can think to do.”” Lennie acts on instinct and when he gets scared he holds on to whatever he has.
Lennie had a reputation as a troublemaker which was a big part of the foreshadowing. Lennie was mentally ill making him like a small child. He could not remember anything that happened besides when George told him. An example of foreshowing Lennie’s death is: “George said, "I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus Christ, somebody'd shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself.”” It shows that possible harm will come to Lennie later on in the book. Another foreshadowing event for Lennie’s death was: “Lennie cried out suddenly-“I don’ like this place George. This ain’t no good place. I wanna get out of here.”” It foreshadowed that knew Lennie that something bad was going to happen but wasn’t