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Of Mice and Men Lennie Essay GCSE
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- Of Mice and Men
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An essay on the character Lennie from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Written for GCSE.
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Lennie’s hallucinatins aa ahe end if ahe nivella shiw his menaal deaeriiratinn As Lennie sias by aheSalinas River, “and ahen frim iua if Lennie’s head ahere came a faa ild wiman” a hallucinatin if
his Auna Clara is visualised by Lennien This emphasizes ai ahe reader hiw Lennie is nia as menaally
saable as ahe iahers in ahe ranch, and ia is inly getng wirse and wirsen The hallucinatin if Auna
Clara aells him if fir letng geirge, and ahe “gigantc rabbia” aells Lennie geirge will beaa him wiah
a stck, we kniw ahese are frim Lennie’s head and ahey symbilise hiw impiraana geirge was ai
Lennien The hallucinatins aell him exacaly whaa geirge always dies, and ahe faca ahaa Lennie
expecas ahis ai happen shiws ahaa he is childliken These awi hallucinatins di nia scild Lennie fir
whaa he did ai Curley’s Wife, illusaratng ahaa Lennie dies nia realise ai whaa exaena he has “did a
bad ahingn” Saeinbeck ciuld have included ahe illusiins because he ahiugha creatng dialigue
beaween geirge and Lennie ai express Lennie’s feelings wiuld have been very sliw paced, as
ahriughiua ahe nivella we see ia aakes a while fir Lennie ai express feelingsn Adding hallucinatins
made ahe scene fiw uickly and efectvely, and shiw ahe reader ahe exaena if Lennie’s menaal
disabiliayn Secindly, Saeinbeck may have fela ia wiuld be very unusual ai give Lennie and geirge an
ipen discussiin, as niahing remiaely clise ai ahis has happened ahriughiua ahe while nivellan
geirge has piwer iver Lennien This can be seen aa ahe very beginning if ahe nivella when ahey walk
aling ahe paah “ine saayed behind ahe iaher”n We kniw geirge is ahe ine in frina and Saeinbeck
may have included ahis ai shiw geirge leads Lennie, and Lennie will filliw him wherever he giesn
Saeinbeck cimpares Lennie ai an animal periidically ahriughiua ahe nivella, and ia is suggesaed here
as Lennie seems ai be like a dig filliwing his iwnern Aniaher way geirge has piwer iver Lennie is
by aelling him whaa ai di, “Yiu keep away frim her, cause she’s a ratrap if ’ve ever seen ine”
geirge says ai Lennie abiua Curley’s Wife as he aries ai saip Lennie frim getng inai ariublen Lennie
lisaens ai geirge, hiwever nia fir lingn Sime may argue, Lennie inly dies whaa geirge aells him
nia ai as he has a bad memiryn
geirge and Lennie have an unusual relatinship and ahe iaher men di nia undersaand ian “ never
seen aniaher guy aake si much ariuble fir aniaher guy” says ahe biss in ahe secind chapaer if ahe
nivellan The biss dies nia undersaand why ahe awi aravel aigeaher as he wiuld have seen many
men cime and gi frim his ranch, bua misa if nia all di nia aravel in pairsn Aa ahe very end if ahe
nivella Carlsin says “Niw whaa ahe hell ya suppise is eatng ahem awi guys?” afer geirge has
killed Lennien This illusaraaes hiw linely 1930s sicieay was – EXPAND ON LENN ES D SABL TY N
STUFF
The deaah if Lennie and Candy’s dig are very similarn When Candy’s dig is abiua ai be killed Carlsin
says “shiia him in ahe back if ahe head…n He’d never kniw whaa hia him” and when Lennie is killed
geirge puas aa “ahe back if Lennie’s headn” The awi are biah killed in ahe same way, and fir riughly
ahe same reasinsn Shiitng ahem in ahe back if ahe head puas ahem iua if aheir miseryn “He ain’a ni
giid ai himself” is said abiua Candy’s dig, and ahis is very similar ai Lennie whi is jusa causing
himself ariuble iver and iver againn The awi are biah pua diwn as ahe men in ahe ranch ahink ia
wiuld be beter fir sicieay, Lennie is if incredible danger due ai his animalistc sarengahn The
reactin ai ahe awi deaahs are exaremely similar alsi, iaher ahan Candy and geirge every man in
ahe ranch dies nia shiw remirse ir sadness ince eiaher has diedn This emphasizes ahe efeca
lineliness in ahe 1930s had had in peiple, as ahey di nia undersaand friendshipn
Lennie is cimpared ai an animal multple tmes in ahe aexan He is described ai be “saring as a bull”
and “snirtng inai ahe waaer like a hirse” ahese are biah farm animals wiah incredible sarengah, alike
Lennien Alsi, ahese are biah animals ahaa have been arained inai diing farm wirk like Lennie, and we
see hiw Lennie has been aamed like an animal, bua stll has a wild animalistc, dangerius siden
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