ANIMALS Flashcards
(4 cards)
LENNIE COMPARED TO ANIMAL
‘He walked heavily, dragging his feet like a bear drags its paws’
‘snorting in water like a horse’
‘like a terrier who doesn’t want to bring a ball to its master’
‘huge paws and bleated with terror’
‘he pawed up the hay until it partly covered her’
Foreshadowing of Curley’s wife death through mice and puppies
‘you’ve broken it pettiness it’
‘Trouble with mice is you always kill em’
‘I pinched their heads a little and the they was dead because they was little’
‘looked at a little dead puppy that lay infant of him’
‘and he swept the hay on top of it’
VS
‘he pawed up the hay until it partly covered her’
The rabbits symbolise Lennie’s childish dreams
‘And from the direction of the state highway come the sound of footsteps. The rabbits hurried noiselessly for cover.’
‘Lets have different coloured rabbits George’
‘tell me about the rabbit George’
‘I wishy’t wed get the rabbits pretty soon. They aint so little’
‘Now I won’t get to tend the rabbits’
Heron and water snake ( killed in the end) like the simple man is swallowed by the world
Foreshadow Lennie’s imminent death
“A silent head and beak lanched down and plucked it out by the head and the beak swelled the little snake”
