THE FORESHADOWING OF LENNIE'S DEATH IN MICE & MEN

Thesis PAGE :

• Readers could predict
• Lennie would get killed because
• all the companions in the novel
• get killed

LENNIE KILL'S MICE

• "I'd pet them and pretty soon they bit my fingers
• and I pinched their heads a little
• And then they was dead " because they were so little"
• (Page 8 chapter 1)
• Lennie kills his companion just like George kills companion, Lennie

CANDY'S DOG IS SHOT

• "Look candy this dog jus suffers hisself all the time.
• If you was to take him right in the back of the head
• He leaned over and pointed right there
• Why he'd never know it hit him ." (Page 6 chapter 3)
• Candy's companion gets shot in the head just like Lenny gets shot

LENNIE KILLS THE PUPPY

• "He was so little" said Lennie, " I was jus' playin with him ...
• And he made like he was gonna bite me ...
• An I made like I was gonna smack him and I done it
• And he was dead." (Page 3 chapter 5)
• Lennie kills his companion just like George will have to kill him

CURLEY'S WIFE IS KILLELD

• "Don't you go yellin'," he said
• "And shook her ; and her body flopped like a fish.
• She was still for Lennie had broken her neck."
• (Page 6 chapter 5)
• Lennie kills curley's companion so Curley wants to kill lennie