Realism In Down With The Shine By Lennie

George realizes what will happen when he kills Lennie, but he has to do what is right. He knows that his dream would have only worked out if his best friend, Lennie, was there with him. In addition to his loss of his fantasy, George is losing the person that meant the most to him. George’s fear of losing everything that was ever important to him causes him to hesitate before he finally ends it all. Even if George fails to admit it, he knows that Lennie’s happiness was always his true inspiration in pursuing their dreams, and that fact that he has to kill his inspiration troubles him the most.

Initially, Lennie’s first misdeed occurs in Weed. While in Weed, Lennie becomes excited, grabs a hold of a young girl’s dress, and does not understand when he needs to let go. This leads to both George and Lennie being forced to run away for their own safety, as Lennie is accused of raping the young girl. In addition, once arriving in Soledad, readers are given a sense of unease at the introduction of the characters Curley and Curley’s Wife. This can be seen as yet another example of foreshadowing, hinting to the reader that something unpleasant will happen between Lennie, Curley, and Curley’s Wife later in the book, as George warns him with “Look, Lennie!... You gonna have trouble with that Curley guy” (29). Later, Curley has a fight with Lennie over his wife, resulting to Lennie being beaten, but Curley is carried off with a broken hand. Furthermore, Lennie’s acts once more escalate when he grabs a hold of the hair of Curley’s Wife and eventually kills her by snapping her neck when he again is unable to release his grip on her. The escalation of these events point to Lennie’s own death, as each of his wrongdoings have worse punishments, from running away, to being beaten, to eventually being mercifully dispatched by

In Of Mice and Men, the character Lennie is sitting alone in a barn when the lonely and desperate wife of Curley comes in. She talks to him relentlessly and eventually Lennie snaps her neck, in turn causing another character to kill Lennie. She was persistent against warning, unhappy with being lonely, and she was bitter about not being able to pursue her dream. These all led her to beg for attention and company, leading to the death of not only her, but Lennie as well.

All the sudden, back at the bunkhouse surprisingly Curley’s wife pops up looking for someone to talk to. Later on Lennie had done something wrong, the murder of Curley’s wife made Curley out to get revenge on Lennie. Meanwhile, George had to make a decision for Lennie. Was mercy killing really what Lennie wanted? The novel makes it clear that not everything is easy.

After shooting Lennie, George couldn’t stop thinking about it. He went with the other guys for a drink, but he couldn’t stop thinking about Lennie. George didn’t get much sleep that night, Lennie was hunting his dreams but not in a wrong way, he was now just a broken memory in George’s heart and brain. No one knew how close they were, that’s why it didn’t affect the others; however, Candy found out and said, “What are we going to do? You killed Lennie as they killed my dog. What about our ranch? Is our dream dead as your inseparable friend?” George just couln’t respond his questions, it was too painful for him. At night, George started seeings shadows that looked like Lennie.

Zoey awoke from her well deserved slumber in her first class of the day, being awoken by Mrs. Serrano yelling "Zoey"! "Mrs. Serrano" she retorted sleeplessly, trying to sit up to the best of her ability. "Do you know why George killed Lennie out of love"? "Can I ask a question? Who's Lennie" she inquired in all seriousness. "If you had been reading the book you would know" she snapped and moved onto the next person before I could answer.

That was it, I silently thought to myself as I held Carlson's gun. I held the gun tightly to my chest as I thought about Lennie's body. I had shot him I just killed my best friend Lennie. I sank to my knees wishing there was something I could have done to prevent this. There had to be a better way that this could have ended. Lennie would have been killed either way either by my hands or at the hands of Curley. Thinking about what Curley would have done to Lennie makes me think that what I did had to be the right thing. As I contemplated this the Other men I work with found me and what had used to be Lennie. Curley ran at me with a complete and utter rage, screaming and yelling, I’ll kill Lennie I'll kill him for what he did

Today in Soledad we mourn the murder of Helen Smith and Lennie Small. Lennie who worked at Ben’s Smith Ranch was known to have some type of mental disability. He was also known to get along with everyone and he did have a strong love for animals. He accidently killed his puppy by petting him too hard and that caused Lennie to panic. Similarly, while stroking Helen’s hair, he also accidentally broke her neck. This caused Lennie to lose control and worry about the consequences that George is going to put on him.

Turning up on (Ian)'s doorstep doped up out of her mind; Lehane fell into the arms of the man who had always been there. Getting clean was the hardest thing that Lehane had ever had to do other than burying her own child. 3 years passed with Lehane being clean she was now 21 years old and living on her own attending Georgetown. Soon after starting her second semester into her 2nd year tragedy struck once again. This time it was in the form of her friend found dead and drained of all her blood. Going t0 (Ian) Lehane lost it and it that moment she was the weakest she had ever been. Giving into the urges they slept together for the first time; before turning it to be something more. Soon after her friends death Lehane went to her brother Spencer about her theories. Though nobody believed her. Who would? she was a 21 year old college student who always ranted about there being evil in the world. Evil that could never have an accurate explanation. An explanation that Lehane wanted or more like needed. Making her brother dig into old case files triggered a series of events leading up to the arrival of two men. Men claiming to be F.B.I agents not knowing that Lehane was the sister of a real F.B.I

As sick as it was Gabby needed a drink, and she hated herself for it. Pulling her knees up Gabby rested her head against them and wrapped her hands around her ears as if to block out the world. It felt as if she were being sucked down the rabbit hole, her world spiraling out of control. And the only anchor she had was dying next to her, and she was the one that killed him. "fuck." she sobbed softly tried to block out all the other people arriving. She wanted to crawl into her own skin and disappear, but she couldn't do that. At least not until she knew Hunter would be

Lennie Walker has just lost her sister, Bailey. One day Bailey collapsed at school and she’s gone forever. Lenny was shocked, since Bailey is the closest family she had. While grieving, she found herself getting closer and closer to Toby, who is Bailey’s boyfriend. She feels connection with him because both of them are experiencing the same kind of loss. At the same time, there’s a new boy in school, Joe Fontaine. He’s attractive, talented, and has beautiful eyelashes. As Lennie’s drawn to Toby, at the same time she also found connection with Joe. In grieve; it turns out Lennie discovered love along the way.

If Lennie got to live he could be doing worse things, or get arrested. He kept playing with Curley’s wife’s hair constantly even when she told him to stop. Lennie killed Curley’s wife and ran away. You can’t just get away with murder. The person who hates Lennie has found out it was Lennie and he will not stop until he makes Lennie pay for his crimes. “I know who done it.” That big son of a b*tch done it.” (96) After killing Curley’s wife the only thing he was scared about was if he could tend rabbits not the fact that he took someone’s life away even though it was an accident. The only thing he fears is if he does not get to tend rabbits or if George is mad at him. George has to always be mad at Lennie so Lennie could learn from his mistakes. Lennie is starting to kill things as he does it more. Lennie started off killing small animals and it started to get worse and worse. He took it too far when he killed Curley’s wife and there is no way he could be forgiven for killing a human being for the fear of her telling someone that you messed up her hair. “She stopped givin’ em to ya. You always killed em.” (9) Lennie is uncontrollable and forgets things easily.He also touches anything that is soft which could get him to touch things that aren’t his. His love for soft stuff could land him in

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