Louie Parizeau

Louis Parizeau
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Historical Fiction
Holiday
Just Finished

1.      In the end of the book, Lennie was "petting" Curley's wife's hair. He liked it because it was soft. But things started to get out of hand when Curley's wife told Lennie to stop and start panicking. This made Lennie panic, and as a natural reaction, he grasped onto her hair tighter. Lastly, he started shaking her to stop and snapped her neck because of his uncontrollable strength. He knew he had done a bad thing, so he ran to the  safe place he and George had talked about in the begging in the book by the river. When the other men came back, including George, they would Curley's wife dead. They knew it was George. Curley said that he wanted to blow Lennie's guts out, and they all also thought that Lennie had Carlson's gun. While they went on a search for him, George ran to the safe place he and Lennie had talked about, and Lennie was there. Lennie was very scared the George would be mad at him and not let him tend the rabbits. But instead, George was told him not to worry, and changed the subject to their new farm they were going to buy. George was trying to be very nice and calm with Lennie to make him happy, and Lennie was. "Lennie giggled with happiness. 'An' live on the fatta the lan'"(105). When Lennie wasn't looking, George took out the gun he stole from Carlson, still talking about this land, and shot Lennie in back of the head before Curley could get there to shoot him.
2.      I liked this book. I thought that it was very interesting, especially the characters. I liked how each character was unique in his or her own way. I also liked the plot in this book and how there was exciting and calm parts in it. I liked the part where Lennie crushes Curley's hand. Lastly, I liked the foreshadowing in this book. It was cool how there where hints of what would happen in the book throughout the book. If I could rewrite this book, the one change I would make would be to add more exciting parts in it too make it more interesting.
3. One theme in this book I noticed in this book is love and sacrifice. Love is shown, for example, as the connection between George and Lennie. They love and support each other is different ways. But when George has to kill Lennie, this is Sacrifice because he knows that it is for the better. If he hadn't killed him, he would have been torched by Curley. Love and Sacrifice is also shown between Candy and his dog. Once the dog gets to old and blind, Candy decides to put him down because the dog suffers in his everyday life because of all his disabilities.
4. My favorite character in this book is Lennie because he was a nice and thoughtful character. He interested me because he didn't understand many simple things. This happens when Curley starts beating him, and he doesn't do anything about. He doesn't know he can fight back because George told him not to. This is interesting because most people would fight anyways.
5. My least favorite character in this book is Curley. I don't like him because he is very self conscious, grouchy, and mean. He is self conscious because he is very mad about how small he is.    He is mean to Lennie because of this. He is jealous that Lennie is so big, so when he fought him he was trying to prove that just because he is small he is still tough and better than Lennie. He is always grouchy and mean too. He has a grumpy tone to him where ever he goes, like when he looks for his wife, he asks people with a "mad vibe". Throughout the book, he was never positive or nice.
6. I was surprised by the ending of this book. I didn't think that it would end with Lennie killing George. I always thought that in the end Lennie and George would get the house they always dreamed about, and one of the main themes would be something like, "work hard and you can go anywhere." But although I didn't predict the ending, I still thought that is was a good ending. After reading it, I realize that there is some foreshadowing leading up to it. For example, when Candy's dog gets killed, Candy has to let go of a loved one for the better. This is the same withe George, he had to let go of Lennie for the better.