This week our group read pages twenty-six through fifty in Of Mice and Men
In section 2 there was a ton of foreshadowing:
Throughout the section (for example pg.26 and 37), George gets really upset about Curley and goes on saying how he is going to fight him. I think that the author is telling the reader that there is something big is going to happen in the future between them. My best guess is that Lennie is going to be involved, either the cause of the fight or one of the contenders in it. (Page twenty-six when Curley starts picking on Lennie specifically and on page thirty-one when Lennie is all to interested in Curley's wife)
When Lennie gets his new puppy he is elated, but I think that John Steinbeck is just reminding the reader about the mice from the beginning of the story. (How Lennie is unaware of his strength and kills them) I believe there is some significance in Candy's dog being shot. If there wasn't any meaning in it, Steinbeck wouldn't have used 3 pages to cover the awkward silence between the guys up to the point when the dog was killed.
Cecilia I agree with you about how the author is reminding the readers about the mice at the beginning of the story. The readers need to remember just in case Lennie gets a puppy.
ReplyDeleteCecilia i agree with how you are saying that the author is reminding us about what Lennie did to the mice earlier on in the story. I like how you give and example of what you are talking about, and how you are using foreshadowing throughout to guees what will happen or may happen.
ReplyDeleteCC!!!!!:) I think you did a really good job of foreshadowing...but I disagree/agree with you when you say "I believe there is some significance in Candy's dog being shot. If there wasn't any meaning in it, Steinbeck wouldn't have used 3 pages to cover the awkward silence between the guys up to the point when the dog was killed." I think that he takes a smaller meaning like the fact that Candy says he should have just killed his own dog...and I think it will play a big part of the ending.
ReplyDeleteCheyenne! The more I read on the more I agree with you. I don't think the significance was so much in the dog being shot but more in Candy being so upset about it. Thanks for all of the input guys!!
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