Of Mice and Men pg.75-end, 9/12/10

The author writes with more emotion in the last section I read. He shows the characters personalities more. Even Curley’s wife showed more of her character. She isn’t a bad person, people just think of her bad. She likes to talk to people a lot like some of my classmates. All she wanted was to be treated like she was wanted. When she and Lennie got to talking her and him actually had a conversation. Lennie is probably the only one on the ranch that actually treats her normal.
I feel so bad for Lennie when he accidentally killed the puppy. He didn’t mean to kill him he just wanted to pet it. I am not saying it was ok for him to take it from the nest. He should have kept it there. Lennie is one of my favorite characters because of what he does in the book. He kills animals not on purpose, but because he just wanted a pet.
On page 91 when Lennie kills Curley’s wife he doesn’t understand that killing someone is worse than killing an animal. He says, “I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing.” He treats it as though it were like the other killings. George will forgive him after he tells him and he won’t get in trouble for his felonious crime.
When George finds him on the bank by himself he tells him the whole story of how they’re going to live off the fat of the land he also tells him to look out across the river. The author does a great job here with detail and visualization. While Lennie is dreaming about the vision George shoots him before anybody else can get to him. In my opinion, I think that would be the hardest thing I would have to do. I could never shoot my best friend.

Of Mice and Men pg.50-75, 9/6/10

Curley’s wife is something else. She really does not want to be found. All she does all day is hiding from Curley and peaks in on the other guys. On the other hand Curley is always looking for her. Everybody talks and gossips about her and Curley. That just reminds me of high school, how everybody always talks about one another behind each other’s back. George said, “Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain’t no place for a girl, especially like her.” I definitely agree with him because a girl like her does not belong on a farm, but that doesn’t mean girls don’t belong on a ranch or a farm. She reminds of the girl who always gets her way and likes to flirt with other guys.

Slim was going to give a puppy to Lennie, when they get old enough. Lennie sees them all the time, but what he didn’t know was that the puppies can’t be away from their mother to long because they are too little. Lennie doesn’t know this because he is demented. He puts the one that Slim is going to give him in his lap and pets it. Of course Slim tells Lennie he can’t do that anymore. This, in my opinion, is a little torturous. Lennie wants to pet the puppies, but they get taken away from him like all the other animals he touches. All he wants is something soft, and warm, and loving to have. He wants that because he does not usually get that from the people around him. I think he always wants a pet because he can do whatever he wants to it like pet it or hold it. But the people around never give him that. That’s why he reaches out to animals.

When George brings up how they’re going to buy a farm and live off the land Curley was listening and decides to help them out. He is going to give them a couple hundred bucks to buy it as long as he gets to work on it. Tome I think that’s a fair share. He gives them money, they give him a job. They plan on moving in at the end of the month when they get paid last. When everybody is back in the bunkhouse Curley is trying to start a fight just like George said he would. He ends up hitting Lennie and George tells him to fight back. Lennie doesn’t want to at first, but then he grabs on to his fist and squeezes as hard as he can. He ends up breaking his hand. Lennie faced his fear of fighting. I think he did the right thing by defending himself against Curley because if would have just laid there being beat up he probably would have been the one going to the doctor.

Crooks is the only colored guy on the ranch. Lennie doesn’t know that you’re not supposed to hang out with colored people, which I disagree with, but it was a different time period then. Crooks and Lennie talk about how Crooks grew up on a chicken ranch. Lennie tells him how he’s going to tend to the rabbits when they get a farm. When slim comes he said he’s never been inside Crook’s bunk before. I think that is sad that he has never been in his bunk house just because he’s colored. To me that would be the worst thing ever to be treated like you don’t belong and never will belong.