Of Mice and Men By: Rosie King
i AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT lENNIE sMAILL, ONE OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK oF MICE AND MEN AND ALSO gEORGE milton's friend. IN the book george had to basically keep up with lennie and parent him. George constantly had to remind him of things because Lennie would always forget things and also George always had to take things away from him. They had lost THEIR job and gotten ran out of town because of lennie messing things up. Lennie always seemed to have dead mice in his hand and george told him to give him the mice or to put it down. This was because lennie had always killed them. George does not have sense of his own strength and when he would pet the mice he would crush their neck/skulls. He had even once killed a puppy. He is just not aware of what he is doing sometimes and in some INSTaNCES george would get real upset. In the video the girl talks about how she has autism and how she recognizes when she does something abnormal. In the book nobody knew what was wrong with Lennie not even george. I feel that if their was a name for what and why he was actin the way he was and doing the things he does, i feel like some of the things would be prevented. Maybe their could be a medicine for him of some sort. maybe not, but i feel george would have not been as mean and would not have had some of the outbursts he had towards lennie if he knew actually what was wrong with him. Because it is obvious in the book and in the film we watched in class that lennie has a mental disability. I also feel if he knew his own problem he would catch himself before doing the things that got him in trouble and hated. because after killing curley's wife, people hated lennie's guts and wanted him dead. |
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