Lennie Small

Lennie Small

Section 1
1. Quotations
  1. " Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. "
    1. "The way a bear drags his paws " this animalistic imagery conveys his streangth
    2. He lumbers along
    3. Mentally challenged
  2. " His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool; drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse. The small man stepped nervously beside him."
    1. "Like a horse" an animalistic simile
    2. "The small man stepped nervously beside him." shows that George cares for Lennie,
  3. " Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly."
    1. Shows Lennie looks up to George and trusts him.
    2. Childlike
  4. " But Lennie made an elaborate pantomine of innocence. 'what mouse, George? I ain't got no mouse.' "
    1. Shows that Lennie can be quite manipulative and devious when he wants to.
  5. " I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead - because they were so little
    1. Plural
    2. Foreshadowing - Killed because they were so small and defenceless
  6. "Jus' wanted to feel that girl's dress - jus' wanted to pet it like it was a mouse. "
    1. Foreshadowing
    2. Danger
    3. Lennie does not know what he did wrong
  7. " Because... because i got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why."
    1. They both know that they have each other to look after them
  8. "And live of the fatta' the lan'."
    1. The dream
    2. Very simple
Section 2
1. Quotations
  1. " Lennie ain't handy, but this Curley punk is gonna get hurt, if he messes around with Lennie."
    1. "gonna get hurt." - inevitable
    2. Lennie doesn't know how to fight
  2. "Lennie don't know no rules."
    1. Could only assume the worst
  3. "I never meant no harm, George."
    1. Childlike
  4. "i don' like this place, George. This ain't no good place. I wanna get outta here.
    1. Foreshadowing

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