Chapter Summary After killing Curly's wife, Lennie runs to the brush, remembering that George had told him. "If you ever get in trouble go to the brush." So that is where George went, while sitting in the brush two visions came to him. The first vision was of his Aunt Clara saying how George always did everything for him. How George lived for Lennie and all Lennie did was mess things up. This made Lennie upset, he would never get to his dream of the rabbits. Thinking about this the next vision that came into his mind was of a large rabbit. He would never get to tend to them. Back at the ranch the men were preparing to hunt Lennie down and let Curly shoot him. Slim and George knew what George had to do. George made sure to get to Lennie first in the brush. He shared a last few final words and the last of the dream of a farm with rabbits; he shot Lennie in the back of the head. He did this because he was afraid for Lennie of the fate the rest of the ranchers would bring, he was also afraid of Lennie killing someone else. Quote Explanation"Never you mind" Slim said "A guys got to sometimes."
This quote is said toward the end of the last chapter of the novel, "Of Mice and Men", written by John Steinbeck. This quote gives the reasoning for George shooting Lennie. He had to shoot Lennie for his own good. Slim agreed with George's decision. He loved Lennie, Slim knew that and Slim knew that Lennie was actually a very sweet guy. He knew that his intent was not to kill Curly's wife.
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Chapter SummaryThe events in chapter five of the novel, "Of Mice and Men", written by John Steinbeck go awry. The first bring Lennie accidently kills his puppy while playing with it. He blames the puppy, that its his fault for dieing and he is now friad he cannot tend to rabbits. Curly's wife sees Lennie distraght and comes in to try and help him. She tells him the stories of her life, why she is married to Curly and how her dreams fell through. She talks about her soft hair and lets Lennie touch it considering she knows he like to touch soft things.A repeat of events happens when he start to touch her head to hard and laches on; she is sceaming and he is stunned. Lennie ends up snapping her neck, grabbing the puppy and running of to the "brush." Candy finds her dead, and immediately him and George knew that Lennie had killed her. Quote Explanation"Why do you gotts get killed? You aint so little as mice. I didn't even bounce you hard"
This quote was said by Lennie to his dead puppy in Chapter five "Of Mice and Men", written by John Stienbeck. this quote is a perfect example of Lennie proving that he does not know his own strength. Lennie was just playing around with the small puppy and in an instant he takes it way to far. He does this again, and he did this to the girl in the red dress in Weed. Because of Lennie's disability he doesn't realize that these things can happen and that he really can hurt someone. Chapter SummaryIn Chapteer four of "Of Mice and Men", written by John Steinbeck we are introduced to a new character. All the ranchers went into town and George left Lennie in the care of Candy. Lennie saw a light on in a room and found himself in Crooks room. Crooks lives separate from the rest of the ranchers because he is African American. At this period of time African Americans were not looked at as the equals of whites. Crooks lives by himself and feels his life of loneliness is worthless. Lennie finds himself amost befriending Crooks when Crooks allows him into his room. This made Crooks secretly happy, all he has been looking for is someone to talk to and to confide in. It started off a little rocky when Crooks put the idea of reality into Lennie's mind. What is Geroge left Lennie? What if he got hurt? What if he never came back? These ideas filled Lennie with fright. Curly's wife found herself to find these two very different men talking. She acts a little strangely towards Lennie. She lets him know that she thought it was good for Curly, that Lennie toughened him up a little. This meant that she knew that Curly's hand wasn't really broken by amachine, but by Lennie. Quote Explanation"What are you doing in Crooks room. You hadn't oughtta be in here."
Crooks nodded "I tol em, but they come in her anyways." I think that this quote might seem insignificant but in reality, isn't. This short dialogue between these two racially different people shows me how horrible the conditions for African Americans were. In history we learn about segregation and slavery but, what we don't learn is how these people felt emotinally. Crooks is being segregated for his race; all he wants is for people to be around him. He is just looking for a pal to talk to. He explains to Lennie how a man can go crazy if they have no one to talk to. Chapter SummaryIn chapter three of "Of Mice and Men" written by John Steinbeck two very important things happen. The first being that Lennie tells Candy their plan. He explains how they were going to go out and buy land for themseleves and have rabbits, horses, chickens and cows. This made Candy think.He wanted in. He had lots of money to offer and felt that this could be a possibly for him to find a new purpose for his life. George was a tad annoyed that Lennie had spilled their plan to Candy, but got over it when he heard how much money he had saved up. The second important thing that happened was Curly had provoked Lennie. Lennie answered back and Curly went in for the attack. He wasn't able to hit Lennie because Lennie grab his fist before it hit his face, he ended up breaking Curly's hand. Quote Explanation"You got your senses in hand enough to listen?" he asked. Curly nodded.
"Well, then listen." Slim went on. "I think you hand got caught in a machine. If you don't tell anybody what happened, we aint going to. But ou just tell and try to get this guy canned and we'l tell everyobe and then you will get laughed at." This quote is important to this chapter because it shows Slim standing behind George and attempting to protect Lennie. He was able to understand something only George could; that Lennie never really means to hurt anyone. Lennie just does not know her own strength. He was able to stand up to Curly and keep him from exposing Lennie. Chapter SummaryIn chapter two of the novel "Of Mice and Men", written by S.E. Hinton George and Lennie arrive at the ranch were they have a job set up. They meet the boss who seems nice and they have a nice fellow rancher show them to the bunkhouse and assign them to their bunks. They start to meet different workers such as; Slim and Curly. Curly is the boss's son and is very rude. Slim is the worker on the ranch that everyone wants to be and is envious of, but he is a kind, honest worker. The one thing that George fears on this new ranch is Lennie's safety. Two people have already said that George should not speak for the "big man". They found it strange that the smaller man would take charge in situations for a much bigger man. Quote Explanation"But this Curley better not make no mistake about Lennie. Lennie ain't handy, but this Curley punk is gonna get hurt if he messes around with Lennie."
This quote is said by George in Chapter Two of the novel "Of Mice and Men", written by JOhn Steinbeck. I believe that George is afraid that Lennie might hurt Curley. That Lennie would do anything to protect George and defend his honor because he looks up to George. He says that Lennie is smart but he is good with a fight. But the thing is that Lennie does not know when he actually is hurting someone. He is not smart enough to know his ow strength. Chapter SummaryChapter One of the novel, "Of Mice and Men,", written by John Steinbeck begins with an extremely detailed description of the journey of two opposite men. One is small and quick, the other large and clumsy. We learn that the smaller man, George, is leadin the other man Lennie, away from their old town and two their new home, in search of jobs. They had to leave their old town because of something Lennie did, which George remembers and Lennie does not. As we learn more about the two of them and see hoe they complete certain taska and interact with each other we get a sense that something is a little bit off with Lennie. He does things strange ways and is almost protrayed as child or animal like. We also see that George takes responsiblity of Lennie like he is his child or a younger sibling. As the chapter comes to a close George is about to go talk to this "new boss" about a job and he tries to see if Lennie can remember to stay hidden in a bush. this makes me think that there is something wrong with Lennie's memory. He believes that he can remember to stay put there and George goes off. Quote Explanation"Lennie broke in. "But not us! An' why? Because........ because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and thats why."
This quote can be found on page fourteen, of chapter one of the novel "Of Mice and Men", written by John Stienbeck. This quote is said by Lennie to George, Lennie is explaining to George why it doesn't matter if no ne else cares about them. That its okay for it to be them agaisnt the world. |
AuthorThis novel is written by John Steinbeck. This blog page is for the third novel I have read during my eighth grade year. |