Examples Of Foreshadowing In Of Mice And Men

George and Lennie were best friends for a long time, more like brothers. Lennie is about as bright as a 2 watt bulb, so George couldn’t really get mad at him when he accidently killed Curley’s wife while feeling the softness of her hair. “…’I ain’t mad. I never been mad, an’ I ain’t now. That’s a thing I want ya to know’”. The two had planned a future together—a future in their own dream ranch, a ranch where no trouble would ever bother them. “’You…an’ me. Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ‘em’”. Then after he tells him about the rabbits that Lennie is so fond of, he shoots him in the back of the head where he knows it will not hurt him, and Lennie will not know what hit him. This is the peaceful alternative to what Curley had in store for him. Curley's exact words were "shoot the bastard right in the guts." George's euthanizing of Lennie makes the mentally incompetent Lennie die with dignity. Had Curley gotten to Lennie first, Lennie would have suffered. This shows you how much George cares for Lennie, no matter what he does or the crimes he commits. He’d always be there to help Lennie get right back up to his feet, make him forget all his worries, and move on like nothing happened. I strongly believe George was the right person to kill Lennie, and made the right decision in doing so, rather than to let him suffer in the hands of Curley.

However, he doesn't know when to let go so, he kills everything he touches. In the beginning of the story George and Lennie are running away from their previous work up North because Lennie wanted to feel a girl's dress, but he wouldn't let go so the girl flipped out and thought he was going to hurt her. Lennie also was given mice by his Aunt Clara, but killed them because he would pet them to hard so, she stopped giving mice to him. "Lennie sat in the hay looked at a little dead puppy that lay in front of him."(Pet it like it was a Mouse). As Lennie sat there he took a moment to cogitate the incident that had happened, but he still knew he did kill the puppy by accident, by bouncing it too hard. Curley's wife met up with Lennie in the barn and she wanted to show Lennie how soft her hair was. Lennie started to stroke her hair and fell in love with the softness it had. Lennie wouldn't let go so she started to freak out and then Lennie jerked her too hard and snapped her neck. In conclusion, Lennie kills everything he

As many people who were out to get Lennie, the only person qualified to kill him was George. George has been there for Lennie, his whole life, “Him and me was both born in Auburn… When his Aunt Clara died, Lennie just come along with me out workin’. Got kinda used to each other after a little while” (Steinbeck 40). Furthermore, George was only trying to take away more suffering later in the future. Since Lennie killed Curley’s wife,

Arguably the biggest example of foreshadowing came from Lennie getting shot. In the book on pg. 12 it said, “George said, ‘I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus Christ, somebody’d shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself.’” This quote represents foreshadowing as it says Lennie will be shot. The book ended with Lennie getting shot by George as George couldn’t stand seeing Lennie getting killed by anyone else. Also this quote shows foreshadowing as Lennie was shot like a dog. In the quote it said that somebody would shoot him like a coyote. By saying that he would get shot like a coyote, he meant getting shot when he wouldn’t even expect it. This is exactly what George did at the end; he shot Lennie when he wasn’t expecting it.

The first reason why George is justified in killing Lennie is because Lennie is worthless like Candy’s dog. Candy’s dog is causing trouble for the men, and suffering while it's still alive “Ain’t nothing left for him. Can’t eat, can’t see, can’t even walk without hurtin’( Steinbeck 47). Like Lennie, the dog is physically impaired. The dog can hardly walk and Lennie has some trouble moving around. Lennie is worthless, because he does

Foreshadowing is when the author gives the reader a hint to what is going to happen later on in the story .

Because Lennie is confused he grabs her hair and tries to make her stop yelling. But because Lennie does not know how to control his own strength, he squeezes Curley’s wife’s neck too hard and crushes her spine. Lennie then flees the ranch because Curley wants to kill him for what he did to his wife. So Lennie is not brutally murdered by Curley, George finds Lennie and, because he cannot get him out of trouble, shoots Lennie. Lennie’s uncontrollable strength and ignorance destroyed his, George and Candy’s dream

Once again, Lennie finds himself in trouble, when he killed Curley’s wife. He remembers what George told him, “...I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush” (Chapter 1). That is exactly what Lennie does, he runs straight to the camping spot. When everyone finally sees Curley’s wife dead, they all know who it was and set out to kill him. George sets out as well to see if he can reach Lennie before the rest of the men. “I oughtta of shot that dog myself, George, I shouldn't oughtta of let no stranger shoot my dog” (Chapter 3). That is what Candy said to George after Carlson shot his dog. “George… reached in his side pocket and brought out Carlson’s Luger…” (Chapter 6) This is when George finally reaches Lennie and decides to go ahead and put him out of his own misery, so he shoots him. John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing by clearly using Candy’s dog to represent Lennie’s

This is what most consider the climax of the novel. From what the novel says about Lennie, he is someone that is not so bright. Countless times George has to tell him to be quiet or not to do something. George is not the most gentle man either, this is shown through how he treats animals. The first incident is when Lennie has a mouse. “That mouse ain’t fresh, Lennie; and besides, you’ve broke it pettin’ it.” (Steinbeck pg. 9) Because of the shear size of Lennie, it does not take much force to apply pain to something. This being said, him even petting a mouse in his pocket kills the poor rodent. The second incident of Lennie being rough around animals is with Slim’s pups. When Slim speaks of having some pups Lennie takes interest fairly quickly. Slim allows Lennie to hold one and eventually take one. Later on in the novel, Lennie is in the barn while the other boys play horseshoes. Little do they know, Lennie had killed that pup Slim gave him. “I was jus’ playin’ with him . . . an’ he made like he’s gonna bite me . . . an’ I made like I was gonna smack him . . . an’ . . . an’ I done it. An’ then he was dead.” (Steinbeck pg. 87) The final incident where Lennie shows some bad behavior is when he kills Curley’s wife. These events all end in tragedy, the untimely death of Lennie. George and the others knew that it was the right thing to do. George decides he should be the one to do it, with Carlson’s gun. This leads the reader to believe karma was involved in Lennie’s death. All of the lives he took eventually made it so he had to be too.

This dog was candy’s life but he was also a miserable. After a little bit of convincing candy gave in because he care about the dog. He choose not to shot the dog himself, but later regrets that because he wanted the killing under his control. Later on in the book George realizes that Lennie was out of control, with his desire of soft thing.

During scene one, George discovers a dead mouse in Lennie’s pocket. This angers him, as Lennie has seemed

Throughout the plotline Of Mice and Men, Lennie gets his hands on many living creatures and accidently kills them. For instance, “A mouse? A live mouse’ ‘Uh-uh. Jus’ a dead mouse, George. I didn’t kill it. Honest! I found it. I found it dead” (Steinbeck 7). Lennie doesn’t confess to George that he kills the mice because Lennie’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (O.C.D) symbolizes his being tossed away from his parents and found by George, gives Lennie the comfort of family. George is the closest person to Lennie, and the only family that Lennie has, so Lennie doesn’t want to lose George; but, also doesn’t want to lose the comfort feeling of petting animals to help him satisfy the lack of home. Lennie gets worked up when he has done something wrong and doesn’t want to get in trouble, causing him to panic and underestimate his strength. In the event with Curley’s wife who was screaming, “Lennie was in a panic … he shook her … and then she was still, for Lennie has broken her neck” (Steinbeck 88-89). As a result, Lennie’s actions killed Curley’s wife. Lennie’s desire to touch soft things like Curley’s wife’s hair reminds him of his aunt, who gave him many mice, and was the last person that left him. Lennie’s past is reminded when Lennie’s aunt gave him the mice it was like a security blanket for Lennie, but when his aunt is no longer there Lennie has no one else to protect him.

In chapter three, Curley, the boss’s illegitimate son, takes his anger out on Lennie and attacks him, starting a fight between the two. From the beginning, in chapter two, Curley targets Lennie because he is a huge, strong fella, so it is not surprising that Curley eventually attacks Lennie. This occurrence fulfills the foreshadowing that Candy and George establish during their conversation in chapter one, in which Candy explains,”…Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he’s mad at ‘em because he ain’t big guy…” - to which George replies, “I seen plenty tough little guys. But this Curley better not make no mistakes about Lennie. Lennie ain’t handy, but this Curley punk is gonna get hurt if he messes around with Lennie.” Followed by “…Lennie ain’t no fighter, but Lennie’s strong and quick and Lennie don’t know no rules.” In addition to this, George expresses to Slim in chapter two that Lennie won’t let go when he’s scared because all he can think to do is to hold on which is first proven during the fight with Curley and Lennie holding onto Curley’s wife’s hair; Lennie grabs Curley’s hand and crushes it due to not letting it go. The injury serves to also support that Lennie doesn’t understand how strong he is as well as the text; George says ”Sure he’s jes’ like a kid. There ain’t no more harm in him than in a kid neither,

The parallels between Lennie and George’s relationship and the relationship that their workmate, Candy had with his dog reaffirm the power dynamic between George and Lennie. In the novella, Candy must kill his dog because it is old and weak. Candy felt such extreme regret when it came time to kill his dog, that instead of doing

In the first few paragraphs of the book Lennie talks about all the mice he has had. However the mice don't die accidentally, they die because Lennie "pinched their heads a little" after they bit him (1.79). His excuse: "they was dead—because they was so little," but their size doesn't really have anything to do with it. The mice died because lennie reacted to them biting him, which shows us just how sinister Lennie can be.