Of Mice and Men Literary Exam
Between the Line Questions
1. What did the puppy represent in the book
The puppy represented new life. The puppy meant new beginning or strength. Although the puppy was meant new life Lennie killed the puppy just like the mice before the puppy. Just as quickly as the new life was brought into the world it was destroyed by this kind but negative power force. The puppy also represented a person starting fresh from their old life and how in can be crushed in a matter of seconds.
2. Why do George and Lennie keep moving from place to place?
George and Lennie are always getting into some trouble or they just have to keep moving because of whatever reason that comes up. Like they said “they work up a stake in a town and spend their stake in another town. Sometimes Lennie would get into with women. Lennie got into trouble with a girl with a red dress because he wanted to feel the dress. A mob coming after him almost lynched Lennie, making him and George have to leave town again.
3. Would Lennie be able to survive without George?
I don’t think Lennie would e able to survive without George. No one else would want to take time out of their own life to care for such a huge mentally challenged man in that time period. Lennie would be neglected because he’s weird. He likes to fell every soft thing he sees. Lennie isn’t the smartest person but he’s very dumb.
4. Is George and Lennie’s relationship more symbiotic or parasite?
George and Lennie relationship is more symbiotic because there just two people who are almost inseparable. George is the brains of their operation and Lennie is the brawn. They both need each other. George needs Lennie because of his size and he gets jobs done quick and with quality. Lennie needs George because George is that guide he’s like that rabbit that Lennie is following.
5. Is George benefiting from Lennie because of his tremendous size?
George is benefiting from Lennie’s size. Without Lennie George wouldn’t be able to get the money that he gets while he’s with Lennie because they each get paid separately. Both of their pay together gives them double what each of them separately would get. George might be benefiting but he still takes care of Lennie like and older brother because Lennie wouldn’t know what to do with the money.
6. Does Lennie and George need each other?
George and Lennie need each other, they are like a non-gay completion of each other. George needs Lennie because he does most of the hard working jobs that take a lot of labor. Lennie need George because he manages Lennie and doesn’t listen to anyone but George. I don’t think anyone would care for Lennie the way George does because of the connection between them.
What comparisons and different attributes - George and Lennie have compared to Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade of “The Outsiders”?
George and Lennie are somewhat like Dally and Johnny Cade. George is like Dally because, Dally is like the brains but not really but he is according to Johnny. Lennie is like Johnny because everything he does goes wrong some way and that ended up for the both of them losing their lives. Johnny’s death not so drastic like Lennie’s death but they both died. Some different things about the four is Lennie always listens to every word that George says without question but Johnny is smarter and he would question Dally’s judgment on things that he doesn’t understand
George and Lennie are like brothers. Lennie is guided by George because He’s mentally ill but he is enormous in size and George uses that to his own advantage. George provides for Lennie because Lennie has the brain function of a six year old boy. George takes time out of his life to care for Lennie because no one would care for Lennie at that time in America because of his size. When Lennie went to go feel the girls’ red dress the girl screamed and Lennie got scared and held on to the dress. If George weren’t their Lennie would have been lynched. Like George Dallas Winston cared for Johnny Cade just in a tough way. Johnny looked up to Dallas like a younger brother looked up to an older brother. Johnny listened to everything Dallas said like Lennie. Johnny wanted to be like Dallas a little. Dallas was a hoodlum with a long criminal record.
George always wants Lennie to listen to him so they would stay out of trouble with other people. Dallas is trying to turn Johnny from acting like a punk who is afraid of a fight to a hardened hoodlum like him. Johnny sometimes doesn’t listen to Dallas because some things Dallas does Johnny doesn’t agree with. Lennie would never dare to go against whatever George told him to do. The connection between George and Lennie is more in depth than Dallas and Johnny.
George and Lennie have similar and different characteristics as Dallas and Johnny Cade. The four all had things that affected their lively hood. Dally tried to his life around in the end but a dream can be crushed in five seconds as we read in the book Of Mice and Men
