Lennie

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    • It is evident that Lennie doesn't learn from failure or past mistakes.
      • "Lennie. You gonna be sick like you was last night."
      • He doesn't understand consequences and cannot retain linking information. HE IS CHILDLIKE.
    • From the outset of his introduction he associated with animal imagery.
      • "Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water"
        • Lennie's innocence is contrasted with something more sinister.
          • The conversation between George and Lennie at the exposition of the novel is controlling. Parent and Child.
            • George is a parental figure to Lennie.
              • This emphasises Lennie's childlike mind and behaviour.
            • "Jesus Christ Lennie, you crazy *******."
              • George is a parental figure to Lennie.
                • This emphasises Lennie's childlike mind and behaviour.
        • Metaphor.
      • Lennie's innocence is contrasted with something more sinister.
        • The conversation between George and Lennie at the exposition of the novel is controlling. Parent and Child.
          • "Jesus Christ Lennie, you crazy *******."
      • Lennie has a lack of awareness of his own strength. From the outset Steinbeck conveys this lack of awareness with an ominous sense.
        • He immediately sets the tone and creates an ominous sense to the reader and portraying the main themes.
        • "Aw, leave me have it George."
          • Uneasiness created for the reader. Lennie wants to keep a mouse he's killed. To stroke it. Further emphasises the lack of awareness he has.
      • Our society has no place for people like Lennie. Lennie has to try to live in this world as if he has the mind of an adult. There is no place to put him as such.
        • "I wisht I could put you in a cage with about a million mice an' let you have fun."
          • Pathos created.
      • There is an ominous sense created by the author.
        • Lennie is drawn to sensory comforts like a child would be and his desire to touch and feel things that appeal to him brings problems along with it.
          • George must control him. HE IS A PARENTAL FIGURE TO LENNIE.
            • "You get in trouble. You do bad things, and I got to get you out."
        • "Jus' wanted to feel that girl's dress. She jerks back and you hold on like it was a mouse."
      • The dream is the only time throughout chapter one that the two protagonists have a reciprocal conversation.
        • "Lennie broke in. But not us."
          • Provides reader with a sense of care and informs about Relationship.
      • The end of chapter one is directly juxtaposed. The dream and the provisions for Lennie to remember exactly where they are. Just in case, a safety blanket.
        • The sense of freedom and disaster feature from the exposition of the novel. They are directly juxtaposed.
        • "Hide in the brush till I come for you, Can you remember that?"

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