Another conclusion readers can draw from Thomas Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor: a Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Line, is in his chapter “More than It’s Gonna Hurt You”. Although, Foster doesn’t use any new vocabulary he does introduce a new idea about the importance and depth in violence. As well as the fact that violence always has a deeper meaning than just a brutal encounter. “Violence is one of the most personal and even intimate acts between human beings, but it can also be cultural or societal in its implications” (Foster 88). In summary the use of death can be protective or even an act for love as twisted as it sounds. Foster retells the tale told in Morrison’s Beloved where as protection from slavery a black mother murders her children, not out of cold blood, but to save them from the troubling life of slavery. …show more content…
“And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle to the back of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook very violently, but his face set and his hand
(Steinbeck, 91) As a result, whatever convenience Lennie had had, became lost. He ran away, and hid. Once the other ranch hands discovered his folly, they chased him down with George running ahead. After laying out the dreams that he, Candy and lennie would never achieve because of Lennie’s vanished usefulness, George “raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head.
”George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.” (Steinbeck pg. 52)
George is clearly shocked and emptied as he absorbs the events occurring, as Steinbeck writes, “George sat stiffly on the bank and looked at his right hand that had thrown the gun away” (107). Steinbeck proves the effects of failure with the emotion he portrays through George in the final page of his
He even had difficulty raising the gun behind Lennie’s head. This substantiates George’s adherence to Lennie due to the fact that he struggled to do what was best for his chum because he did not want to lose him. Therefore, George made the correct decision to assassinate Lennie, guarding him against an apprehensive
We gotta.” And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again.
George told him about the fantasy life they have been dreaming of, and in the middle of the dream George holds the pistol to the back of lennie 's
While everyone was looking for him to kill him, George manages to find Lennie before and knows that Lennie has to die, anyway. George decides to end Lennie's suffering for the better of him. George finds Lennie alone hiding and while Lennie is talking to him, George “raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.
The hand shook violently…”. It is a much slower, smoother scene in the book, while in the movie, George is talking to Lennie about the difference between them and the other guys, and about living of the fat of the land when George picks up the gun and shoots him very quickly. A painful similarity between the scenes though, is how excited Lennie gets about the rabbits just before he
On page 92 it says, “ But Curley’s gonna want to shoot ‘im. Curley’s still mad about his hand. An’ s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good, George.” This quote shows that George did the right thing because if he didn’t Lennie could have gotten locked up or in a cage.
An End to Suffering "George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie's head… He pulled the trigger" (Steinbeck 106). In the novella, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie are two men who travel together. Lennie is mentally retarded and George is like his caretaker who watches over him. Lennie's disability causes him to do things he doesn't mean to do.
George yearns for a worry free life not for himself but for Lennie, showing all the power for his hard work comes from his caringness for his best friend. By placing Lennie above himself and feeling the need to compensate for him, it gives George the necessary motivation to put in double the work to save and earn money. Moreover, when George shoots Lennie in the woods, “his face set and his hand steadied,” and it drains all the emotion and joy out
Since the beginning of fictitious novels, there have been many sorts of characterization techniques. John Steinbeck makes a very clear character out of George from his book, Of Mice and Men, using some of these techniques. George is a hard working man from the 1930’s just trying to survive in the harsh state of America’s depression. George is bold yet humble and has stronger features. He also takes care of his lifelong friend, Lennie.
When George arrived, he relaxed Lennie and shot him in the back of the head because he knew that Curley was going to find him and kill
“And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head... He pulled the trigger.” ( Steinbeck, Pg 106) Starting off, in Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck to working men during the great depression try to find their place in the world. On this journey, they will meet all types of people. Some main characters are George, Lennie, Slim, Curley, Curley's Wife, Candy, and Crooks.
Springer (2009) believes that violence is a gross stereotype which is associated with the depiction of the culture in the context of 'war in terror '. African, Asian and Islamic cultures are said to be highly violent. Thus, any discourse that suggests violence should be viewed as contextually specific, because it is bound to particular places in which the culture of violence is formed. Therefore,