Rabbits I am choosing to make a rabbit cake because in the book Mice and Men it states that Lennie always wanted to tend the rabbits. The rabbits are so important to Lennie in Of Mice and Men because they represent, to him, home, safety, peace and love. Lennie is an innocent with the mental capacity of a child; he knows and believes only as much as George has told him. The rabbits are soft, smooth and comforting to him.Lennie would always talk about the rabbits and he always talked about the little cabin that George and Lennie would get. I can see that Lennie really likes the rabbits because they are soft and Lennie always loves soft thing, that's why they had to run away from Weed. They had to run away because poor Lennie just wanted to
First off, the bunnies. Many times throughout the book Lennie asks George to tell him about the ranch that they are going to own. The first instance is on page 14, “‘...we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs…’” and “‘...we’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin’ to work, and we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof…’”. The next time the farm is mentioned again is on page 57, “Lennie said, ‘Tell about that place, George.’ ‘I jus’ tol’ you, jus’ las’ night.’ ‘Go on-tell again, George’ ‘Well, it’s ten acres,’...” The final time the farm is mentioned is on page 105, “‘We gonna get a little place,’ George began.” Very early on we learn that Lennie does not have the best memory but he always remembers the farm that he and Lennie are going to own. By the end of the book the reader so badly wants for that dream to come true that it makes the end of the book even more heartbreaking. Since Lennie remembers the farm the reader can infer that that dream is very important to Lennie which makes the reader want to see that dream come true therefore making that reader
Although Lennie is a big, strong man, Lennie emotionally is vulnerable because he does not like to have his pets taken away. In Weed, Lennie’s Aunt Clara would give him mice to pet, which he would always kill. After killing so many mice, Aunt Clara decided to give him a rubber mouse to pet instead causing Lennie
The author, Steinbeck, uses his own personal experience to “serve as an inspiration…” (Johnson 1) when writing this particular story. His past experiences also helped him for the future. Lennie, of all characters, is the least dynamic. He undergoes a significant amount of change and develops throughout the story. He has been isolated with George throughout his life. His sole purpose in life is to make George happy and to own a farm with George and take care of the soft rabbits. Lennie is the most innocent and defenseless. He also is the largest and strongest, which does not help in certain situations. Lennie is the protagonist in the story. He gains the readers sympathy by his intellectual disability and helplessness. Lennie murders things by accident such as the mouse in his pocket, the puppy and Curley’s wife. He enjoys the touch of and somehow uses those murders and experiences to scare him from doing it again. George’s opinion means the most to him.
Lennie has his mind set on one thing. That is getting out of the barn and getting his own piece of land with George. This dream motivates Lennie to always listen and follow what George says. There he can finally tend the rabbits he has always wanted. Lennie loves petting things such as small animals and dresses which usually leads him to trouble.
Lennie is dim witted but still has conscious when he first got to the ranch he decided not be acquainted with Curly and instead take a liking to Candy. George and Candy say that George say that Lennie is just some dumb person who doesn't know at he's doing. Mostly, Lennie dreams about having different colored rabbits and in doing so it takes him away from the real world. John Steinbeck portray Lennie as this person who has a compulsive need to have rabbits. On page 28 Lennie said "An' rabbits," Lennie said eagerly. "An' I'd take care of 'em. Lennie's obsession for Rabbits affects the story because he's so fixated on them he has so little awareness is in the book with very little thought or comprehension of anything else. Lennie's obsession with rabbits doesn't affective his relationship with the character that much except with George, whenever they start or have a conversation it almost always comes back to Lennie bringing up the farm with a place for the rabbits and how he would get to feed them. Lennie's personality is severely hindered by the fact that he wants rabbits so much because he just doesn't have the want or urge to make friends or talk to people besides the case with accidentally running into the stable boy.
Lennie is a pivotal character as he is the literal demonstration of how a person can be both bad and good. Lennie is immediately shown as childlike when he hides the dead mouse from George on the walk to the ranch. ‘I ain’t got nothing George. Honest’ said Lennie which also shows his love for soft little things which is common amongst children, this is exemplified by the many animal connotations throughout. An example of this is when ‘Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water’. This is imagery of a bear which references the size and strength of Lennie but his lack of intelligence. He is very simple-minded and cannot even remember his own Aunt Clara. Being such a simpleminded person, Lennie does not comprehend the intricacies of laws in society like the majority of people do. Lennie depends on George to lead and guide him and to show him what’s right and wrong. We learn that Lennie tries to be good and repeatedly asks George to hear the dream of the rabbits and their planned simple life on a farm but when Lennie is met with a situation like with Curley’s Wife in the barn, he is unable to fight his evil actions because he himself does not understand nor realise that they are evil. Furthermore, he is incapable of distinguishing the difference
Do you still remember why does Lennie wants George to talk about the farm the first time? George first introduce that fine-nice farm to us was mainly because Lennie's really want George to quote “Tell about what we're gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove” unquote. For George and other workers like the old Candy, as I mentioned, the farm mainly symbolized as a chance of freedom, but for Lennie, since he is not smart enough, it is just as simple as the soft things that he enjoys feeling over the course of the years. However, as the old saying says “Every coin has two sides.” , behind the symbol of nice and lovely rabbits, we also know that Lennie always hurts whatever he pets.
Lennie old Lennie the great old Lennie. Lennie wants to own a rabbit farm. But there are some of Lennie traits that I believe will make it a little bit of a struggle for Lennie. The traits that will hurt Lennie the most are he does not like to talk, he is mentally challenged, childish and playful, also he is very strong. These traits will harm Lennie in the long run because rabbits are small creatures and could be harmed if he is too rough.
with George where he can take care of rabbits. One night, before arriving at the ranch, Lennie and George camp by the Salinas River and talk about their hopes for the future. Lennie says to George, “Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits,” (14). Later in the story, Lennie is in the barn with Sometimes dreams don’t come true
Their dream also sets George apart from the others because it means he and Lennie have a future and something to anticipate. Unlike Lennie, George does not see their dream in terms of rabbits; instead, he sees it in a practical way. Their farm will be one where they can be independent and safe and where he will not have to worry about keeping track of Lennie 's mistakes. They can be secure and in charge of their own lives. However, Lennie is the one who adds the enthusiasm because George never really believed they could swing this farm of their own. He mostly uses the story to give Lennie something to believe in for their future. Only when Candy offers
George has a dream that he will one day own his own land and make money off of it. Lennie’s dream is that he will we be able to tend the rabbits on the same land that George owns. This is all a positive thing because this gives Lennie and George something to keep working hard for during a time where a lot of people give up.
He loves touching soft things, such as a cotton dress or a soft puppy and sees these things as calming. Lennie dreams of having a small piece of land with his friend George; particularly with having a small rabbit hutch where he can tend rabbits. Since Lennie is incapable of making decisions by himself he relies on George to guide and make decisions for him even though Lennie usually does not realize the things he does are wrong. His Aunt Clara raised him and requested George to take care of Lennie before she passed
Lennie had a goal of getting to see the rabbits and petting them. “I wish we’d get the rabbits pretty soon, George. They ain’t so little” (pg.10). All he ever wanted to do was get to the rabbits and so that’s all Lennie did. Getting into some trouble on the way and he kept going.
Lennie's dream was to live on a farm with George and attend his rabbits. Although, Steinbeck wrote how rabbits secretly equals freedom, so when George killed Lennie, he was trying to help him get his freedom from everything that happened during the Great Depression. On page 81 it says, “Now I won’t get to tend the rabbits.” Lennie says this when he gets into trouble because Lennie wants George to let him take care of the rabbits on the farm they want to own.
It shows in the text evidence of this, Lennie says, ‘‘Cause I can jus’ as well go away, George, an’ live in a cave.’ ‘You can jus’ go to hell,’ said George” (Steinbeck 16). This shows how Lennie’s dream of tending the rabbits would keep Lennie a friend of George. Without the dream Lennie doesn’t seem like he’d stay friends with George. Steinbeck states in her text, “—I think I knowed from the very first.