Of Mice And Men Essay – How Different Events in the Novel Prepare you for the Ending.

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Of Mice And Men Essay – How Different Events in the Novel Prepare you for the Ending.

Setting

The setting that is described at the beginning of Chapter 6 is more or less the same as the description at the beginning of Chapter 1.

For Example:

Chapter 1 – “The Salinas river … runs deep and green”

Chapter 6 – “The deep green pool of the Salinas River”

These quotes are nearly the same apart from that they are worded differently.  However, chapter 6 is set later in the day (not the same day).

So, technically, the characters go nowhere.  As soon as Lennie and George appear in the setting in chapter 1, the environment is disturbed.  Therefore this makes you think that wherever George and Lennie go, they are going to disturb the environment / atmosphere.

Foreshadowing

I am going to be looking at how past-events prepare you for the ending of the novel.  

In the beginning of the novel, as we know, Lennie kills a mouse.  At this time, I didn't think anything of this.  But then, in chapter 5, Lennie kills a puppy.  I don't think this may have been accidental.  So, we know its only a matter of time until he kills a human.  

Whit, is like the grim reaper.  I don't know where it is by coincidence but he arrives when something/someone dies.  Therefore, when he arrives to second time, we can the guess that Lennie will die.  

Lennie symbolises Candy's dog, because Lennie is useless and no good to anyone.  This is almost on the same as candy’s dog.  And as candy's dog gets shot, we know that either George or someone else is going to kill Lennie.  

Progressively through the novel, we get more and more reminded of the fact that Lennie is sentimental, he likes touching soft things.  But one problem with this is that Lennie can't control his strength.  A mix of a big strong man, a mental disability, and an inability to control his own strength is a deadly mix.  This is also bad because Curly his wife he's going to lead him on.  She has soft hair so consequently, he is going to want to feel her hair.  If George isn't around to tell him to let go, or defend himself, then he is just going to keep hold of her hair and not let go.  This, I think is what happened in weed.  

Therefore, Curly's wife, life is literally in their hands of Lennie.  But in weed, he didn't kill the woman this may have been done so it makes it not or not much as bad as killing the mouse.  

Therefore building all in a steady slant of his (maybe accidental) victims.

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Characterisation

In this paragraph I am going to be talking about how the characters prepare you for the ending of the novel.  

Obviously, the actions of Lennie are extremely important in the work up to the ending.  For example, first he kills a mouse.  This is murder, but not on a very large-scale, but this starts off a dangerous cycle.  In Chapter five, he murders (maybe accidental) something bigger, a puppy.  This is socially unacceptable.  But, the next victim of Lennie his killer grasp is Curly's wife.  Although, I think she leads him on because she ...

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