Post 7 of 7- Julianna

Julianna Hale
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Read by Oct. 6
Post by Oct. 6

Hi Griselda, it's our final post for the first book(yay!)

I just wanted to start by saying that I think it is completely sad about what happened to Lennie. The fact that George cared about him so much that he shot him was so bittersweet. He would rather have let Lennie die and be with all his rabbits and puppies, then to have seen him rot in a jail cell for killing Curley's wife. You are right that a theme is smartness. George always tells Lennie to repeat things so that he won't forget but sometimes he ends up forgetting anyway. In this case, however, he remembered what George told him about going into the brush and waiting for him there. It seems that Lennie only retains the information that his brain thinks is most important in his life. He never seems to forget about living "off the fatta the lan'" or raising rabbits and he doesn't forget about hiding either, his brain seems to pull out the necessary information at the right time. Lennie does end up "seeing his Aunt Clara" but why do you think Lennie thought she was saying what a burden he was to George. I would think that him seeing her would be foreshadowing his death but nothing is mentioned about that. Finally, I do think that a theme in the book is trust. From the very beginning Lennie trusted George no matter what, even up to the very end. However, I don't think George ever trusted Lennie 100%. He was always telling Lennie not to tell other people about their plans of getting enough money to get their own land but even when Lennie did tell, George didn't seem mad at all; like he knew it was going to happen anyway.