Of Mice And Men Rhetorical Analysis

Many characters have hopes and dreams which they wish to accomplish. Of Mice and Men has two main characters that go through obstacles to get what they want. In the beginning it is George and Lennie running away trying to get a job. Once both George and Lennie have a job they try to accomplish their dreams. Unfortunately they both can't get their dreams to come true since lennie does the worst and George has to shoot Lennie. Steinbeck uses characterization, foreshadowing, and symbol as rhetorical strategies to make George's actions justified.
Slims character is one important way I saw George's actions were justified. Slim is the person that showed us why George should have done what he did. “ I guess we gotta get ’I'm” slim repeated” (97).

This is one reason why this sentence Slim said works because he says that they have to get Lennie. The way Slim also said it was that if George killed Lennie it would be a whole lot better because Curley than wont be able to torture lennie. Slim said the right thing because Curley was going to torture Lennie and it would be better if Lennie was gone. George also wanted Lennie to be happy and die peacefully.
The foreshadowing used was a great way to see George's actions were justified since they said many things lennie had done in the past. All the foreshadowing shows how bad Lennie was and how he got in trouble or killed many creatures that did nothing. “Why do you got to get killed you ain't so little as mice” (85). This shows how Lennie has done bad with too many animals and how he has been very bad. George did the right thing because if not Lennie was just going to keep killing creatures or even more people. George’s thoughts made Lennie happy, not suffer and not get tortured.
When Steinbeck used symbol for George's character it made everything go by smoother. George would have good tone and mood at the end which made George's actions feel right and not so harsh. George made Lennie feel better when he said “ No Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad. And I ain't now. That's a thing I want you to know” (106). Many things that George said before he had to kill Lennie made Lennie feel happy. “Lennie giggled with happiness “ (105). Everything George had done made Lennie feel happy which made Lennie die in peace and happiness.
This is how the characters strive for dreams. The theme Steinbeck used for this novel was sad and a little bit funny. I say that this story had many sad moments because of many deaths and problems since the dreams were hard to get to. Yet this story still had George do the right thing at the end of the book.