Examples Of Foreshadowing In Of Mice And Men

In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to give readers insight on pivotal events in the book. Steinbeck foreshadows pivotal events in the book by using symbols of light and dark. In the book, the setting for a scene will darken when Curley’s wife or an antagonist walks in. “ Both men glanced up, for the rectangle of sunlight in the doorway was cut off. A girl was standing there looking in”(41). Furthermore, that darkness shows something bad will occur at that moment or because of that character. Another example of foreshadowing is Candy and his dog. There is parallelism between George to Candy and Lennie to the old dog. The character Carlson says “Got no teeth”(44) when referring to Candy’s dog which is parallel to when George says Lennie isn’t harmful. Later when the dog is put down, the reader can infer from the foreshadowing that Lennie will get shot as well. The effect the foreshadowing has for the book’s tone is that takes away from the suspense and adds to the sadness when there is no happy

Steinbeck portrays Lennie to be very careless and irresponsible through the death of the mouse, the puppy and Curley’s wife. The death of the mouse foreshadows the death of the puppy and the death of Curley’s wife. Through the death of the mouse we see how Lennie is irresponsible for his actions. “They was so little,” he said apologetically. This shows that Lennie is taking

George eventually finds out about the death of Curley’s wife so he sets out and kills Lennie by the river. Lennie dies a gentle death, thinking only the happiest thoughts. The moment before he died, his mind is filled with their farm and there rabbits and there dream. Steinbeck reminds you that Lennie is still as gentle as he ever is, despite the fact that he killed

Finally, John Steinbeck shows off the bullying and meanness as intentional and contrasts it to Lennie’s unintentional meanness, such as when he hurts the puppy (pg 85), the mouse (pg 5), and kills Curley’s wife (pg 91). When Curley wants to fight it is intentional and violent. George explains Lennie’s violence when he says that Lennie "never done it in meanness" (pg 104). Lennie kills because he does not know his own strength – he cuddles or loves to hard. Also, he panics and reacts without thought, such as when he pulled the woman’s dress. (pg 41) Also, showing a contrast in motive is that Lennie is so upset by what he has done, especially to Curley’s wife. He is the only one who shows real remorse.

In his writing, Steinbeck literally compares Lennie to animals. For example, the author associates Lennie's strength to that of a horse. Furthermore, in the scene when after killing Curley's wife Lennie flees to the grove near the river, as George has told him to, Steinbeck describes Lennie moving "as silently as a creeping bear" and drinking like a weary animal.

When the author has Lennie kill Curley’s wife, he doesn’t even describe her death or even her dead body. On page 91. “ He shook her then, and he was angry with her. Don’t you go yellin’, he said, and he shook her, and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck.” Also when Lennie dies the author doesn’t describe his dead body, none of the blood that would be running down his body. On page 106. “The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred and then settled slowly forward in the sand, and he lay without quivering.” Steinbeck only describes how peacefully Lennie went down after he died he wasn’t bloody or gory he tried making it

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men tells a story of two very different friends how both share the dream of one day buying their own farm. George and Lennie are both two workers that take temporary jobs at different ranches. That the new job that they get to meet Candy, the old “swamper” who cleans the bunkhouse; Slim, the “prince of the ranch”; Crooks, the African American stable hand. Then there is also Curley, the boss’s son and Curley’s wife, women that is desperate for the attention. Throughout the story, Steinbeck uses a lot of foreshadowing to prepare the reader what is about to occur. The plans of the characters going “askew,” the death of Curley’s wife, the loss of the farm dream, and the death of Lennie; are four clear examples of Steinbeck’s

In John Steinbeck’s famous novel Of Mice and Men, foreshadowing plays a large part in the reader’s experience. Almost every event that is important was foreshowed at some people, such as the multiple deaths that occur throughout. If Steinbeck wasn't so prolific in his use of foreshadowing the readers experience would be very different.

In chapter 5, Steinbeck writes of Lennie sitting in the barn while the other men are playing one of either cards or horseshoes. Lennie smacked his puppy when it tried to bite him, which killed the puppy. On page 85 of the story, “And Lennie said softly to the puppy, “Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard.”

This passage uses foreshadowing at the beginning of it. When Curley’s wife begins to scream, Steinbeck writes, “Lennie was in a panic. His face was contorted…” (99) to help with foreshadowing. When these words are read by the reader, a connection is made to previous events. Every time that Lennie panics in the novel, something bad follows. He panicked in Weed and got him and George in trouble. Lennie panicked when Curley began to fight him and broke Curley’s hand. This phrase foreshadows that Lennie is going to do something terrible again because he panics.

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

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Lennie’s mental illness and large size causes him to get into trouble. Lennie doesn’t know what is right and wrong because of his mental problems. He causes deaths and pain unintentionally wherever he goes. When he pets living creatures, he kills them, like the mice, the puppy, and Curley’s wife. Lenny is kneeling over a dog that he killed by petting it, when Curley’s wife comes in.

In the book, Of Mice and Men, foreshadowing is used all the way from the title of the book to the last sentence. Of Mice and Men was written by Nobel Prize for literature winner, John Steinbeck. The book is about two migrant workers with the fantasy of a place to call their own. When George and Lennie end up traveling together to a new town to find work, new challenges await them there that are disastrously worse than the ones they faced in their former town, Weed. How does Steinbeck use foreshadowing? Foreshadowing is when the author uses clues in the story to show what is going to happen later. In Of Mice and Men, foreshadowing is used though allusion to “To a Mouse”, Lennie’s obsession, the American dream, and the parallel between the

It is quite ironic how Lennie loves animals but keeps unintentionally killing them throughout the story.The irony in this matter is that nothing can resist the love Lennie has to give. He shows his way of love by being rough, and nothing will stop him from doing so. This shows how childish Lennie is and how dependent he is on George. It is not only said that Lennie loves animals, but he is also characterized to also act the same way as them. It is almost as if Lennie might belong in the “animal world” in certain ways. An example shows his similarities to an animal,“He drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse."

I could get you strung up on an tree so easy is aint even funny.¨ ( John Steinbeck, page eighty-one). Is can also be seen with her reaction to her husband getting badly injured, ¨Awright, cover ´im up if ya wanta. Whatta I care? You bindle bums think you 're so d*** good. Whatta ya think I am, an kid?¨ ( John Steinbeck, page seventy-eight). Towards the end of the book she tries to find out more about the incident with her husband by talking to Lennie and she ends up sharing her whole life story with him and then ends up dead because she let him stroke her hair because he liked how it felt. When she gave him permission to touch her hair he said that is was soft and started to stroke it harder, which then caused her to react in a scared and angry manner, she then began to act more aggressively in order to escape his firm and vigorous grip, but is just caused more harm. Curley 's wife started to scream and Lennie decided to tighten his clench on her body to silence her wails. His actions were too encroaching on her body and it caused him to snap her neck in a matter of seconds, which therefore, caused her to die in a pretty deplorable form. This incident is demonstrated in the book when Lennie says, ¨ I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing.¨ ( John Steinbeck, page ninety-one). This quote shows and tells what Lennie is thinking and feeling when he kills Curley 's wife on accident.