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Unformatted text preview: 7:25 4 II“ LTE E} . Another example of foreshadowing is George
confiding in Slim why he and Lennie were forced
to leave Weed, a small Californian town. 'He seen
this girl in a red dress. Just wants to feel it. So he
reaches out to feel this dress, and the girl lets out
a squawk, and he holds on. The guys in Weed
start a party out to lynch Lennie.'(p.41) Curley's
wife and Lennie were talking and the subject of
feeling soft things came up. She asked him to
feel her hair, because it was so soft. She feared
he would mess it up, so she jerked her head
sideways, and Lennie‘s fingers closed on her hair
and held on. ‘Let go!‘ she criesfi he shook her,
and her body flopped like a fish, for Lennie had
broken her neck.(p.91) He ran away after this and
was pursued by the workers. A third event in the novel presents Candy, the
swamper, having his old, outcast, useless dog
shot right back of the head. He wouldn't feel
nothing.(p.45) This foreshadows the later incident
when Lennie was killed, reluctantly, by George.
George raised the gun and steadied it, and he
brought the muzzle close to the back of Lennie‘s
[email protected] he pulled the trigger. (p. 106) The
shootings of the dog and Lennie were both
painless, and happened because they were
unavoidable. The dog and Lennie both had no life
ahead of them. Lennie would have been
imprisoned, and the dog was a major burden to
himself and others. In conclusion, I believe that these fores adowings play a big role in helping the reader
understand the novel. They allow the reader to fl freeessay.com ...
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