How Does Steinbeck Use Foreshadowing In Of Mice And Men

Literature is difficult for some and effortless for others, but there is a type of literature that is commonly used by many people and most use it without knowing. It is called allusion which is the reference to another person or item. John Steinbeck uses allusion to foreshadow what will happen in his book Of Mice and Men. In the book Of Mice and Men the two main characters are George, a smart and short man and Lennie, a strong but dumb man who both lived during the Great Depression. They are migrant workers that get in trouble a lot of times and run from town to town trying to find work, until they stumble upon a ranch that they can work on. During their stay and the ranch foreshadowing suggests what would happen next, but the book still had many twist that foreshadowing did not suggest. In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in various ways to suggest that George and Lennie’s plan would go askew, that Curley’s wife would die, that George and Lennie would lose of the farm dream, and how Lennie would die.

Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in this passage. Lennie is the snake and George is the heron. In the end, George is the one who kills Lennie for what he did. The heron killed the snake because he needed to eat to save his life. George killed Lennie because he wanted to save the rest of his life from having to take care of Lennie, but he also save Lennie from having to suffer even more with Curley.

Foreshadowing is the use of subtle hints in written text that insinuates what will occur in the future. Foreshadowing is used throughout the story “Of Mice and Men” by author, John Steinbeck, to indicate to the reader which events are likely to take place going forward. In “Of Mice and Men” migrant workers George and Lennie strive to accomplish the American dream. Due to an unexpected accident, George and Lennie must leave their former workplace and travel to a new ranch. There they meet several new characters and face various challenges. How does Steinbeck use foreshadowing? Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in “Of Mice and Men” by alluding to the poem “To a Mouse”, expressing Lennie’s obsession with soft things in “Pet it like it was a mouse”, illustrating the American dream in “A little piece of land”, and drawing a parallel between Candy’s dog and Lennie’s death in “Right in the back of the head”.

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.

One key passage of the novel is when Lennie grabs onto Curley’s wife’s hair and eventually kills her. He panics because she starts screaming at him to let go so he holds on tighter. After the long struggle, Curley’s wife dies because Lennie breaks her neck after squeezing her too tightly. This passage is important because it uses foreshadowing and simile to create the main conflict of the novel.

Books with surprises are always fun, but what if you could figure out the ending on your own? Foreshadowing is the hinting at future events in literature, which Steinbeck seems to love using in his work. Of Mice And Men is a thrilling novel based around George and Lennie; two friends with large differences. Despite the shock factor at the end of the novel, it isn’t much of a surprise if you analyzed the text throughout the book. The first example of foreshadowing in the novel is the title itself.

The author, John Steinbeck, uses plot development to carefully develop a tone in which the reader can understand the characters and their actions. Three reasons that support George’s decision to kill Lennie as an act of mercy rather than a brutal murder was that George shot him in the back of the head so he wouldn’t see it coming, Lennie was mentally handicapped and didn’t know his own, brutal strength, and Lennie would have suffered at the hands of the victim’s husband. Steinbeck depicted Lennie as mentally unstable and completely unaware of his own brutal strength. Although physically he was a massive man, emotionally, he had the mentality of a child.

Steinbeck is a well known for his writings during the Great Depression. The majority of his works were based out of California. He does a great job of realizing what part of history he is apart of and communicating his themes to the readers. What people don’t always understand is that he teaches us history through fictional stories, something that many authors may never be able to achieve. He uses the everyday man to teach the reader about the time period and history. In one of his many famous pieces, “Of Mice and Men,” migrant workers George and Lennie are let off a bus in California and forced to find work. They struggle, but they never leave one another and eventually lie their way into a job working on a ranch. Eventually George

I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.” (Steinbeck 13). George even said if he hadn’t had to stick with Lennie his life would be so much easier but he mentioned he didn’t mean it, even though he moderately did. Lennie was a stumbling block for George, but George had to face reality and deal with it even if it meant losing his job. Immediately upon when Curley absconded into the hills searching for Lennie, George had to face reality. “George was a long time in answering. Guess... we gotta tell the... guys. I guess we gotta get 'im an' lock 'im up” (Steinbeck 97). Tying in with my drawing both of them are looking at what was going to become a reality. Though with the bullet in Lennie’s head it no longer can’t become it and George is facing the reality of it not becoming one.

The novella Of Mice and Men, by Steinbeck presents several foreshadowing elements that prompt following events. First, when George and Lennie meet the boss’ son, he dislikes the imposing guy for being bigger than him. His dissatisfaction with Lennie implies that he will get him into trouble because he acts suspicious and George murmurs: "What's he have against Lennie? ” (p.26) Later, Lennie crushes Curley’s hand during a fight. The supervisor enjoys showing his prestige by getting into duels. If he loses, the workers will blame his defeat on the height of his massive opponent and by winning, he will impress. Second, Carlson shooting Candy’s dog suggests George killing Lennie. Indeed, the victims were executed with the same Luger gun fired towards

Now matter how big your dream is people might think it’s not going to happen. George and Lennie wanted to own a ranch and have animals George says “ok someday we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and--” (Steinbeck 14). “An’ live off the fatta the lan’,” (Steinbeck 14). Lennie shouted. (Steinbeck 14). George is telling Lennie how their going to live lavish one day. Crooks was alone in his room when Lennie comes in and accidently says his and George's dream, Crooks says are you “Jus’ nuts,” (Steinbeck 69). Lennie refuses that it's not a lie. It shows that it was easy to dream about the American dream even if they were going through the great depression where the majority

"He led the dog out into the darkness. George followed to the door and shut the door and set the latch gently in its place." A door is both an entrance and an exit and it has connotations with heaven or leaving a place and moving forward. The dog walking out the door can signify Lennie walking through the doors of heaven and when George closes the door it is a symbol of the finality of death. The manner in which George closes the door can be compared to how he he closes off the idea of the dream when he kills Lennie at the end of the book. Lennie can figuratively be seen as the dog waiting for its only fate which is death and George closing the door can be seen as him letting go or killing Lennie and starting a new part of his life without him. After the dog is killed Candy tells George that he regrets letting someone else shoot his dog. Candy believes his dog was his responsibility, and Candy feels he let the dog down by not taking its life himself, "you shoot your own dog." This can be compared how to how George sees Lennie as his responsibility and how he can be the only one that kills Lennie in the end therefore Candy and his dog mirror the image of George and Lennie. Both the dog and Lennie are loyal to their leader. The dog is loyal to Candy, and Lennie is loyal to George. George can not allow Lennie to die the same way Candy's dog did which is at the hands of a stranger. This chapter purely shows us that the weak don't survive in the harsh environments the workers live in which applies to Lennie due to his mental capabilities and therefore applies to their dream which is so fragile and delicate in a pitiless and unrelenting environment and it can only stay a dream and never be obtained only

Second of all, John Steinbeck used foreshadowing to influence the characters. George and Lennie have a dream to buy a small piece of land and live free, but everybody keeps calling him nuts. " 'Go on, George! Tell about what we're gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. Tell

“God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble...I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want” (Steinbeck 11).

Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in his book by creating an allusion to the poem “To a Mouse”, written by Robert Burns. “To a Mouse” is a poem about a mouse who lives peacefully in his house and plans to continue down that path. The mouse’s plans go askew when he loses everything he has like George and Lennie whose plans go askew during the Great Depression, like many other Americans. The mouse’s house is destroyed when the farmer above his house plows the land. The mouse in the poem is left with nothing and is on his own. Now he will either die or find a new a house. Reading the poem, I was able to infer that he wouldn’t be getting back to where he was in life and that he is most likely going to die. I was able to make my inference from “To a Mouse”. “The best laid schemes of mice and men often go askew”. (Burns) In Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie