PART 5 AND 6:

Part 5 and 6:

          Chapter 5 and 6 led from Lennie stroking his dead puppy in the barn, to being dead himself. I think Steinbeck used the puppies death in the beginning of the chapter to foreshadow Lennie's death. Lennie, whom everyone sees as more animal then man, died due to the haplessness of his situation, a child like brain being forced in to the body of what could have been a strong independent man, just as the puppy was forced to have a master such as Lennie, not being able to make the decision for himself. Both Lennie and the puppy had no say in their own life and died not knowing why. Lennie died clueless of the cruelty of the world, he still talked and thought of the rabbits he would raise with George up to the moment he died. George talked Lennie through their dream, while killing him, "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. The crash of the shock rolled up the hill and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward into the sand and he lay without quivering"(106). And like the puppy, George tries to cover up Lennie's death, saying that he had the gun, just as Lennie tried to hide the puppy's death. Being an animal, the puppy probably didn't understand why death had taken him, neither would Lennie.