How the Characters React Towards the Shooting of Candy's Og

On pages 63 to 65, Lennie struggles internally over his own unrealized strength. After Lennie crushed Curley’s hand, Lennie sat cowering in the corner. He’s scared that he did something wrong but he never meant to hurt Curley. He only fought back because George told him to. George and Slim assured George that it wasn’t his fault and that he didn’t do a bad thing. On pages 44 to 48, Candy undergoes a personal struggle. When Carlson tells him that his dog is old and suffering and should be put down, Candy does not want to give up his dog. After Slim agreed that Candy’s dog should be put down on page 45, “Candy looked helplessly at him, for Slim’s opinions were law.” After being defeated by Carlson’s reasonable argument, Candy finally forces himself to give up his dog, knowing that he won’t have to suffer any more.

In the same way that Crooks looks weak, Candy shows weakness when he lets Carlson shoot his old dog. Killing the weak old dog shows how important it was to be strong. Candy regrets letting a stranger take his dog away to shoot him, and feels like he should have taken the dog himself because he had him since he was a small puppy.. He feels weak because he didn’t

The remarks respectively made by Carlson then slim shows a contrast between the two characters, as the fact that Candy only later agrees for them to shoot the dog after Slim’s words shows his high authority and how his words are what all men are to take, once again using Carlson to show the level of Slim’s respect within the men’s of the

Steinbeck fully develops the animal comparison at the end of the novel by drawing a parallel between Candy and his old dog and George and dog-like Lennie. Like Candy's useless old dog, after the incident with

Carlson, the ranches ranch-hand is a blunt and a simple character. His hard life on the ranch has made him cruel and callous, one of his first lines is, “Well looka here Slim. I been thnkin’. That dog of Candy’s is so God damn old he can’t hardly walk. Stinks like hell, too … I can smell him for two, three days. Whyn't you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one of the pups to raise up? ” (Steinbeck 36) Immediately the reader is greeted with Carlson's malicious personality, he can’t understand the struggle that Candy faces when faced with the reality that his dog must be killed. Carlson is self-serving and unsympathetic, for he repeatedly tells Candy that he should just kill the dog already. Moreover, he even offers to kill the dog in place of Candy, finally convincing Candy and kills the dog. George on a different matter decides to kill Lennie, rather than allow him to be brutally murdered by the others. George must confront the reality of killing his only friend for the better good for the both of them. George realizes that Lennie can’t survive in the harsh world that they live in and with a shaking hand, “He pulled the trigger.” (Steinbeck 106) George is kind and caring, for when killing Lennie he tells Lennie to “Look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the place.” (Steinbeck 106) letting Lennie die happily and ignorant to the gun barrel behind his

In the foreshadowing Carlson shoots Candy’s dog. Carlson's reason for doing this is that it’s too old and doesn't have fun anymore. When Carlson does it Candy say “ I ought to have shot that dog myself George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.” (61).George probably took this and put it in perspective with Lennie. If he would’ve let Curley shoot him then things would've been worse because he would've suffered more. Another reason the reader thinks he did the right thing is because of what slim says.

In the novella Of Mice and Men both Lennie and Candy’s dog dies. The dog was killed by Carlson with a bullet in the back of his head with Carlson’s Luger pistol. Carlson convinced Candy to kill him because the dog was useless to itself and he wouldn’t hurt it while killing it as he said on page 72, “The way I’d shoot him, he wouldn’t feel nothing.” Lennie was killed by George by the Salinas River. George killed Lennie because Curly was going to kill Lennie for killing his wife and I guess thought he should do it. Both Candy’s dog and Lennie was killed by a shot

In chapter three, an older migrant worker called Candy explains to George how he lost his hand on the ranch and was compensated with a “swapin” job and 250 dollars. Because of Candy’s older age, readers can infer that he has outlived many of his friends and family members; consequently, Candy feels all alone and longs to find a “family” before he dies. Knowing that Candy doesn’t have any remaining family helps the audience understand why he struggled so much with Carlson’s proposal to end his dog's suffering: “I had him so long. Had him since was a pup… You wouldn’t think

The killing of Candy's dog deepened his loneliness, just as the killing of Lennie totally destroyed George. Since the dog was Candy's best friend, its death was drastic to him. Candy was rejected by the society because he was old and had only one arm. He was useless to it; therefore they did not care about his feelings. Also, since he was weak no one cared about him and he could not do anything about it. A stronger person like Slim had the respect of everyone and this forced the society to listen to them. Candy was deeply saddened by this, and this was shown when he said "You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They say he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else."(Pg.60). Then he said "When they can me here I wished somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do anything like that. I won't have no place to go an' I can't get no more jobs."(Pg.60). This showed that Candy was hopeless and had no place to go. Without his dog, he was now alone.

John Steinbeck used literary elements to help further develop characters in the novel. One literary element that John Steinbeck used for George is irony. In the novel Carlson had to put down Candy’s dog because he was very

The taken lives of animals is overlooked but the loss of any one human is important thus for the death of curley’s wife will be avenged. Lennie is being hunted by the spouse of the dead. If anyone is to find him curley wants to be told so he can personally take care of the matter of justice. George knows where lennie is so he ran to find him before anyone else so he could see him again. When george gets there he finds lennie and lennie starts saying that it was an accident and it was not his fault. So george calms lennie down by telling him stories of the farm. Then george shoots lennie in the head to peacefully take him out of a world he doesn’t belong in. steinbeck used foreshadowing in the shooting of candy’s dog because he isn’t good for

Meaning, Curley killing Lennie would result in no significance to him, but because if the bond George and Lennie have established, Lennie suffering in George's hands would mean the most to him. George said, "I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun". (Steinbeck 41) Meaning George and Lennie have virtually and unbreakable bond that was formed. They have been together for a long time now and have done everything together. George needs Lennie as much as Lennie needs George, they provide comfort and support for one another even if Lennie does takes it over board many times. They have an amazing bond therefore George knew that Lennie was going to get killed, and he knew he needed to be the one to do so. In addition, At the begging of Mice of Men candy's old dog was suffering and everyone at the ranch knew it had to go. Slim and candy had no connection therefore when slim had shot what meant mist to candy, he regretted not shooting the off himself. "Quote about candy regretting not killing his dog". Connecting back to the first quote. Candy knew it would mean more to him if he were to kill the dog himself, and let the animal he loved to suffer in his own hands, not in a strangers which would mean absolutely nothing to him. The author wants to describe how an Individual is obligated to

In my opinion when Candy's dog was killed my first thought was that this a big even in the story. And i thought that Candy's dog would play into the stTory later. When the story told us that George has always told Lennie to run away from his problems and hide. I thought that it was a very controlling move on george's part but also i believe george will stand up for Lenny in any Altercation Lenny gets into.

Like Candy, Candy’s dog is faced with the ultimate punishment for his age and disability. Candy’s dog is old and said to smell bad and isn’t worth anything, the dog is shot because of its disabilities. This event foreshadows Lennie’s fate at the hand of George. Both of these characters’ euthanasia is rationalized to put them out of their misery and to prevent future suffering from happening due to their disabilities. Which is almost a mirror image of George and Lennie’s relationship where George has known Lennie for a considerable amount of time and George knows that he is completely responsible of Lennie’s well-being and when that well-being is in jeopardy George feels a moral obligation just like Candy did when he gave permission to Carlson to shoot his dog. The euthanizing of Candy’s dog is a “foreshadowing of what will happen with Lennie and George” (Thomas Scarseth) because both Candy and George’s relationship to those dependent to them end with them killing them in order to save them from suffering.

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