Of Mice And Men Passage Analysis

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Every book and story has one passage that is more important than all the others. In the book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, when George and Lennie’s dream is first told in chapter one about owning their own farm and tending the rabbits that is the most important passage of the whole book. I will prove that this passage is the most important by showing how it develops a theme and establishes a pattern of events. In the story Of mice and men there is one passage whose importance is above all the others. This passage is in chapter one when George and Lennie first talk about their dream. Their dream is they will have their own house and raise different farm animals. They will have a vegetable patch and nice food to eat. But, most …show more content…

Even so it creates a pattern. This dream that George and Lennie hold onto is in every single chapter in the book. It creates a pattern of feeling calm just thinking of this book. Whenever Lennie is stressed or upset the first thing he thinks of to calm down is their dream. For example, when Crooks is telling Lennie how George will never come back and Lennie will be forever alone, Lennie gets very worked up. To help calm himself down Lennie keeps repeating to himself how he will get to tend the rabbits and get to live with George forever. Also, at the end of the book while Lennie is with Curlys wife, and Lennie is worried about is not being able to tend the rabbits. In the book Lennie yells, “Oh! Please don’t do none of that...George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits.” (p. 91). In this moment Lennie knows he has done a bad thing but he doesn’t care any other consequences accept for not being able to tend the rabbits. Being able to tend the rabbits comes up whenever Lennie is in trouble, this dream is one of the few constants in this book. It regularly comes up in the …show more content…

Steinbeck made sure that George and Lennie went through very hard times in this story. They went through more bad than good. Rough times was one of the constants in this book, the other constant is their dream. Chapter one is when we are introduced to this dream. That is when we learn that this is what they want in life. This is their one goal. Ever since chapter one they have done everything they can to reach that goal. This dream creates this theme in so many ways. For instance, this dream doesn’t only help George and Lennie get through hard times, it also helps Candy. When they first tell Candy about their dream, his first thought is that he has money and can be apart of this dream. This part when they all realize this dream could come true very soon gives them so much hope, and helps them keep moving forward. The dream gave hope to people whose dream it didn’t even start off to be. Another thing is, the hardest thing George had to do was kill his best friend. Though, George knew he wanted it to be peaceful and he wanted Lennie to be calm. So, George has Lennie recite the dream one last time. The dream helped Lennie die calm and peacefully not even thinking about this hard times. Lennie was so scared and frightened but that dream helped him move on. The dream is recited in the very beginning and the very end, this shows that Steinbeck wants their

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