LENNIE'S DEATH

HOW DO YOU KNOW LENNIE WILL GET KILLED

THESIS

• How do you know Lennie got killed?
• We know he'll get killed, because all the "companions"
• And "sources of comfort" in this story get killed

LENNIE KILLS MICE

• "They was so little," he said, apologetically."
• I'd pet 'em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and pinched their heads a little ...."
• "And I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead -- because they was little"
• Chapter 1; Pg 8

CANDY'S DOG IS SHOT

• "He said miserably, "You've seen what they done tonight ?"
• "They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else.."
• "I'll have thirty dollars more comin, time you guys ready to quit"
• Chapter 3; Pg 18/19

LENNIE KILLS THE PUPPY

• "Why do you got to get killed? You ain't so little as mice."
• "I didn't bounce you so hard" Chapter 5; Page 1
• "Lennie sat in the hay and looked at a little dead puppy that lay in front of him"
• Chapter 5; Page 1

CURLEY'S WIFE IS KILLED

• He shook her then, and he was angry with her.
• "Don't you go yellin", he said, and he shook her, and her body flopped like a fish"
• "And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck."
• Chapter 5 Pg:6