Examples Of Foreshadowing In Of Mice And Men

Lennie definitely lacks common sense, much like an animal does. For one, Lennie would catch mice because they were soft and he liked to pet them. But, whenever he would pet them, he would pet them or squeeze them too hard because he forgot how small they are and end up killing them. He would also get mad at them for biting him, and also ended up killing it. He accidentally killed his puppy and Curley's wife, too, because he forgot his own strength. On page 3, when Lennie and George reached the clearing they would be staying at one night, Steinbeck says, “His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool; drank with long gulps, snorting the water like a horse.” Why would a person

George even uses Lennie’s need as leverage to keep him under control. Lennie strives to hold responsibility. Unfortunately, Lennie tends to hurt the animals that he does receive. He is too strong for the animals that she cares for. During their journey from Weed, Lennie tends to a mouse, only to end up killing the fragile creature. Later on, George gets Lennie a puppy that Lennie regretfully kills with his power. Lennie’s good intentions fell short in comparison to his power. Lennie was looking for responsibility in pets but took on too much when the animals would be killed by his overwhelming strength.

Finally, John Steinbeck shows off the bullying and meanness as intentional and contrasts it to Lennie’s unintentional meanness, such as when he hurts the puppy (pg 85), the mouse (pg 5), and kills Curley’s wife (pg 91). When Curley wants to fight it is intentional and violent. George explains Lennie’s violence when he says that Lennie "never done it in meanness" (pg 104). Lennie kills because he does not know his own strength – he cuddles or loves to hard. Also, he panics and reacts without thought, such as when he pulled the woman’s dress. (pg 41) Also, showing a contrast in motive is that Lennie is so upset by what he has done, especially to Curley’s wife. He is the only one who shows real remorse.

On Page 20, George explains why Lennie acts like a harmful kind of guy. No one believes George so he tells the story on why they had to skip town in Weed. Lennie saw a girl in a red dress walking down the street. When Lennie sees silky or soft things he likes to pet them, so he went up to the girl and grabbed her dress and the girl got scared so she started to scream. Lennie didn’t mean to hold on so tight but the girl screaming scared him so he held on even tighter. George saved Lennie and got him out of there and hid in a ditch. A couple days later, they ended up skipping town. This shows how Lennie acts like a violent type of guy. His personality and how he acts towards people who don't make him mad shows how harmless of a guy he can be. He almost seemed like a shy person who wouldn't even kill a fly. Once someone scares him like scream or yells at him, he becomes mad and holds on even tighter and won't let go until the thing or person will stop moving. Another way that Lennie acts violent in the book was on page 45 when Lennie and Curley's wife talking in the barn. Lennie acted hesitant at first because George saw she can act like a bad lady but Lennie didn’t think so. He petted the puppy and it kept squirming so he shook it and killed it but didn't mean to. Curley's wife helped him calm down and she talked about how soft her hair felt so she let Lennie touch it.

Foreshadowing is used throughout the novel to show how most characters had a dream of their own but it didn’t end up in the right direction. One example of this is when Lennie wanted to tend the rabbits since that was really his dream once they worked and got all them acres. One quote from the book that proves this is “ He shook her then, and he was angry with her. “ Don’t you go yelling’,” he said, and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck.” ( Steinbeck,pg.91) This quote from the text shows the theme by using foreshadowing because since it was Curley’s wife, Curley himself would want to kill him. He would get fired which would make it harder for him to

Literature is difficult for some and effortless for others, but there is a type of literature that is commonly used by many people and most use it without knowing. It is called allusion which is the reference to another person or item. John Steinbeck uses allusion to foreshadow what will happen in his book Of Mice and Men. In the book Of Mice and Men the two main characters are George, a smart and short man and Lennie, a strong but dumb man who both lived during the Great Depression. They are migrant workers that get in trouble a lot of times and run from town to town trying to find work, until they stumble upon a ranch that they can work on. During their stay and the ranch foreshadowing suggests what would happen next, but the book still had many twist that foreshadowing did not suggest. In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in various ways to suggest that George and Lennie’s plan would go askew, that Curley’s wife would die, that George and Lennie would lose of the farm dream, and how Lennie would die.

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men tells a story of two very different friends how both share the dream of one day buying their own farm. George and Lennie are both two workers that take temporary jobs at different ranches. That the new job that they get to meet Candy, the old “swamper” who cleans the bunkhouse; Slim, the “prince of the ranch”; Crooks, the African American stable hand. Then there is also Curley, the boss’s son and Curley’s wife, women that is desperate for the attention. Throughout the story, Steinbeck uses a lot of foreshadowing to prepare the reader what is about to occur. The plans of the characters going “askew,” the death of Curley’s wife, the loss of the farm dream, and the death of Lennie; are four clear examples of Steinbeck’s

Lennie is extremely large and powerful. But he is uncoordinated therefore his strength is not entirely under his control as a result of this he hurts many animals and people, for example the mice that aunty Clara gave him and the mouse in his pocket on the way to the ranch at the beginning of chapter one. Lennie is too powerful for the mice, as he pets them he scares and hurts the mice resulting in the mice biting him which makes him angry and resulting in him killing the mice. Likewise with Slims puppy, After Lennie killed the pup Curly’s wife saw it and asked him what had happened to the dog and he said” he was so little’’ I was jus’ playin’ with him….an’ he made like he was gonna bite

In John Steinbeck’s famous novel Of Mice and Men, foreshadowing plays a large part in the reader’s experience. Almost every event that is important was foreshowed at some people, such as the multiple deaths that occur throughout. If Steinbeck wasn't so prolific in his use of foreshadowing the readers experience would be very different.

This year before Christmas, my mom foreshadowed on of my presents that I was going to receive. It was mid-december, and I was going to buy a makeup palette that I had wanted for a while, but my mom refused to bring me to the store. She said, “Well, what if one of your friends gets you it for Christmas?” At that moment I knew that something was up. She strongly foreshadowed that I was going to get that gift. Sure enough, when Christmas came around she had got me that makeup palette. Of Mice and Men has a lot of foreshadowing, some is very apparent, and some is much less, just like in the small excerpt from pages 5-9. The book Of Mice and Men, has strong foreshadowing to the murder of Curley’s wife, however in the passage it is much more indistinct.

Foreshadowing is shown in Of Mice and Men by comparing the poem and how George and Lennie’s plans go “askew”. The book titled Of Mice and Men references to a poem named “To a Mouse.” (Doc. A). The poem is about a mouse’s house getting destroyed by a farmer. “The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew….” This quote shows how Steinbeck got its title and because of this we can assume that some “men” will have

Have you ever watched a movie and knew what the ending was before it was over? John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to hint on what will happen in the future. In Of Mice and Men, the main characters George, and Lennie are migrant workers from the town of Weed. When plans go askew they have to change their plans. Many of the future plans are hinted through the use of foreshadowing. There are many examples of foreshadowing that John Steinbeck creates in Of Mice and Men. Some key uses of foreshadowing that Steinbeck uses in Of Mice and Men are there wishes of the ranch plans going askew, how Curley's wife will die, how they will not get the ranch, and lastly, how Lennie will die.

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck is a misfortunate story which represents how easily dreams become disappointment. The main characters of the novel are George Milton and Lennie Small, who are complete opposites. George is the smaller of the two with a stronger feel of common sense while Lennie is a man of incredible size yet with the personality of a young child. Despite their differences, George and Lennie have been traveling together for years. They have a dream of owning a ranch where Lennie would get to take care of the rabbits. However, fate soon overtakes them and reality shatters their dreams into pieces of disaster.

Steinbeck shows Lennie unaware of his physical strength as a form of mental disability. When George tells Slim what happened in Weed and says that “he couldn’t let go of that dress”(Steinbeck 41) and the girl was panicking and was yelling. Lennie was unaware that he was holding on to the dress so tight that it made the girl afraid. People with a lot of strength do not realize that a light touch can hurt or make others afraid because there touch is really strong. Lennie in the story also kills his puppy because the puppy was too small for Lennie’s strength. Lennie was telling Curley’s wife that he was“ was jus’ playin’” (Steinbeck 87) with the puppy. To Lennie he was doing nothing wrong but with his strength he snapped the puppy’s neck with a small pat. Even though his motives were in the right place due to him unaware of his physical strength he was unable to comprehend his consequences that ultimately ended up the puppy dead and them having to leave

Lennie tends to grab things and hold on to it and not let it go. He gets nervous and doesn’t think. He doesn’t know his own strength. The reason why I say this is because in the beginning George was talking about how Lennie killed a mouse just by petting it. He gets too carried away and pet’s too hard he ends up hurting them without meaning to. Again with the puppy he does the same thing. Lennie really lives the puppy and wants to protect it. But in the end he feels guilty for what he has done. Then again happened the same thing to Curley’s wife. She lets Lennie touch her hair to show Lennie how soft it is. She told Lennie to stop because it was messing up her hair. Then she jerked away and again her grabbed on her tight like a mouse and eventually kills