OMM pgs.76-end [9-13-10]

This week our group read from page seventy-six till the end.

In this section we saw so much more of Curley's wife. Curley's wife seems to be SO lonely that she will take attention from anyone. It seems that Lennie gets along with Curley's wife better than most other people [Maybe because the other guys at the farm are so intimidated by her husband]. What is extremely ironic though is that Lennie ends up being the one that kills her.

Throughout this whole book I've felt sorry for Lennie. His mental disability holds him back so much, but he doesn't even realize it. As I've said before in my previous blogs, Lennie is much like a young child. Lennie's main problem appears to be that he is unaware of his own strength [pg.90 is where he really starts to get into trouble]. One thing that I find intriguing about Lennie is that he is amused, almost obsessed with touching soft things.

The ending of the book really surprised me. I wasn't so surprised that Lennie killed his puppy, or even Curley's wife, but the fact that George killed Lennie... wow. I would not have predicted that.

OMM pgs.51-75 [9-7-10]

In this section George and Lennie's dream finally takes a steap in the right direction, but I, personally, was extremely disappointed in both George and Lennie when they went out and told other people about their grand plan. First George goes out and tells Candy about what they were planning on doing and then Lennie tell Crooks... I don't really think that Crooks' knowing will affect the pursute of their dream because Crooks doesn't seem to beleive Lennie on page seventy-four when Crooks said: "...nobody gets no land. Its just in their head." I would like to beleive that Candy would keep that knowledge to himself too, but Candy could be a powerful influence to either help or harm George and Lennie. The author could possibly be using this whole part of the section as foreshadowing to something devestating happening in the future.

In the section our group read this week, one of my predictions was "fulfilled". Towards the beginning, Curley comes into the bunk house and despritely tries to start a fight. Against Lennie's wishes he gets into it. Lennie simply squeezed and accidentally crushed Curley's hand. I found this absolutely hilarious! To me this points out two options. Either Curley isn't going to be a problem anymore because he's too afraid of Lennie or it would just give Curley another thing to be mad at George and Lennie for.

Looks to me like John Steinbeck is leading up to something big happening at the end. I can't wait!!