Examples Of Foreshadowing In Of Mice And Men

On countless occasions Lennie has been unaware of how strong he was and did something bad. After Curley's Wife found the dead puppy Lennie accidentally kills her too by snapping her neck. "Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay.(46)" Curley's Wife let Lennie stroke her hair, but she started yelling and Lennie got angry. Lennie got scared and ran to the river where George wanted Lennie to go.

Throughout the book Lennie has not changed at all really because he forgets things and also cannot remember everything well at all. Because of this Lennie can’t really change in this book at all. Though little changes have occurred. He was once a gentle giant but now realizes how dangerous he really is. Lennie is a loving person that loves soft and hairy animals. He likes rabbits, rats, mice, and dogs. He likes animals that are soft to the touch. George does not like the idea of Lennie holding young animals or mice and rats because he will kill them on accident and does not want Lennie petting a dead mouse or dog. On page 9 in “Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck writes, “I wasn’t doin’ nothing bad with it, George. Jus’ strokin’ it.’ George stood up and threw the mouse as far as he could into the darkening brush, then he stepped to the pool and washed his hands.” Lennie is stroking a dead mouse when George notices and takes the mouse from him and throws it as far as he can. This shows how Lennie likes furry and hairy things. But when he handles them he accidentally kills them because he is too strong and doesn’t know how to control it.

9. Curley’s wife seeks out Lennie for company when he’s alone in the horse barn with his dead pup. Eventually she invites him to pet her hair in place of the pup, and he starts to scare her with how rough he is being. Her screams frighten Lennie, so he grabs and holds tight, shaking her and killing her without meaning

The death of various mice leads to Lennie’s imminent Demise. Because Lennie killed a mouse in the beginning of mice and men, George said “what you want of a dead mouse”. Lennie replies “I could pet it with my thumb (pg.6) the reader knows Lennie doesn’t care about killing the mouse. Just petting its fur. This later could

“Uh-uh Jus’ a dead mouse, George. I didn’ kill it honest. I found it, I found it dead.” pg5 The story Of Mice and Men tells the story of two friends, George and Lennie. Their both looking for a job during the great depression.

In Of Mice and Men, I believe George's actions are justified at the end. If George hadn't shot Lennie then he would have died a more gruesome death. Curly and Carlson would have killed Lennie on sight and wouldn't have let him give an explanation as to why he broke Curley's wife's neck. Lennie isn't capable of understanding his own strength. First, it all started with something simple, mice.

Another example from the text of foreshadowing is when George shoots lennie in the head the same way carlson shoots candy's dog. Carlson was telling candy how he would shoot the dog to end its suffering and how he wouldn't even quiver. When George found lennie at the river he wanted to end his suffering to so, “ He brought the muzzle to the back of lennie's head... he pulled the trigger... lennie jarred and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering,” (pg.106).

Lennie Small, a large lumbering man, who is simple-minded and usually unaware of his actions is often compared to an animal for his characteristics. Also because he is simple-minded trouble finds him easily. Him and his best friend George lose their jobs everywhere they go and are constantly on the move. Since Lennie has this history of doing bad things it is foreshadowing what is to come for him. Lennie and his appearance are referred to as “animal” like throughout the course of the novel, so when Lennie is killed execution style it is an example of irony because he is so usually compared to an animal. When animals are out of bounds or messing with human society animal control either relocates them or kills them. In the book Of Mice and Men,

The dynamics of literature are dependent on many pieces, but nothing supersedes an enjoyable literary device. In the novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, foreshadowing is used throughout the fiction. The detailed killing of Candy’s old dog determines the fate of a hopeless individual named Lennie Small. Both murders are virtually similar, however there are also significant distinctions.

Steinbeck foreshadowing the death of Curley's wife. When Lennie gets scared he gets nervous and he does not let go of her. Lennie does not like when George gets mad at him. Steinbeck states "Let go," she cried." You let go!" "Lennie was in a panic. His face was contorted. She screamed then, and Lennie's other hand closed over her mouth and nose!"(Steinbeck 91). When Lennie kills Curley's wife she starts screaming which makes Lennie nervous. He does not know what to do so he kills her, but he did not mean to kill her. When Curley's wife starts

Lennie loves to pet soft objects, and he’s obsessed with mice and rabbits because he loves how nice their fur feels. Every time he pets things he likes, he always gets himself into trouble. In the very beginning of the book, George and Lennie have to run away from a town. They need to escape because a woman accuses Lennie of raping her but all he did was pet her soft dress. When the women started screaming Lennie got afraid and held on. Lennie doesn't understand right from wrong when it comes to situations like this.. “Jus’ wanted to feel that girl’s dress-jus’ wanted to pet it like it was a mouse.”(Doc B) This dialogue from Lennie shows how he can’t control himself. Later in the book Lennie gets a puppy that he can pet without harming it. Lennie ends up petting it too hard and kills the puppy. “I di’n’t know you’d get killed so easy.” (Doc B) This quote shows how Lennie didn’t mean to harm the puppy. When Curley's wife talks with Lennie and tells him he can pet her hair, things don’t turn out well. While lennie pets Curley's wife's hair, she yells many times “Let go!” This startles Lennie and he ends up snapping her neck by accident. John Steinbeck foreshadows Curley's Wife's death by showing how when Lennie pets soft things, he gets in trouble or ends up killing what he’s

Because Lennie and Candy’s dog were both shot by their best friend and by the same way and similar reason, it foreshadowed Lennie’s death. George throwing the gun and then throwing the mouse at the beginning and a the end of the book foreshadowed that he would have something to do with the death of Lennie because he threw both things that killed Lennie into the distance. And George trying to save Lennie was foreshadowed by George trying to take away the things that would eventually lead to Lennie’s death. All of the foreshadowed events gave the audience a warning of what was yet to come and how the ending of the story would come to be without even having to read the ending of the book “Of Mice and Men” by John

In the beginning of the novel, we learn that Lennie has a few obsessions, one of them being mice. Lennie has a history of killing any mouse he can get his hands on. Lennie is not a bad guy, he just does not realize his own strength sometimes. "He ain't mean, I can see Lennie ain't a bit mean" (41).

In Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck shows foreshadowing of Lennie’s death in three ways : The dream of the farm, when George told him to meet at the brush and when candy’s dog gets shot. The first way Steinbeck shows foreshadowing is when George and Lennie talk about the dream farm. “Well,' said George, '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” (Steinbeck, 14-15). George and Lennie have no family and no home.

Lennie unintentionally kills Curley’s wife, by snapping her neck (Steinbeck 107), which ultimately ends up in his own death. No one sees Lennie kill her, but he is a prime suspect. Earlier in the book, George tells Lennie to hide in the brush if he ever gets himself into trouble (Steinbeck 110). Right after he kills Curley’s wife, Lennie heads straight for the brush, where George finds him, and kills him. Although Lennie did kill someone, he was not able to explain himself in court, or even to his friends before he was killed.