Please develop your understanding of the character of Lennie here in this post. Talk to each other and support your points with specific references from the text.
Lennie is a very child-like immature man. He's described as behaving like an animal. 'Snorting the water like a horse'. This shows how child-like and immature Lennie is and Steinbeck describes behaving an animal.
After reading the first bit of Mice and Men I think that Lennie is a very child minded and innocent man this is because from the book there is a bit where he says `can we get a different coloured rabbit' now we all know that you cannot get different coloured rabbits but for Lennie he finds this hard to understand. Suman
Steinbeck compares Lennie in mice and men to animals as it says 'drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse', here Lennie ias described as a horse as horses snort in the water and they gulp the water. Also it says in the text 'Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the water arose in little splashes' here Lennie is described as a dog becuase dogs act like that. Lennie here is described as a immarture+childlike man. Natasha
The Character Of Lennie Is A Simple, Quite, Childish Guy. He is very simple minded, and also happy and smiles a lot. Lennie is in his 30's and he's a big man with a shapeless face and large pale eyes. He doesn't realize how strong he is.
Lennie loves to pet mouse’s and has an American dream to live in a small house with coloured rabbits with George. Lennie admires George. on page 40 it Quotes '...Immediately Lennie got up and did the same with his bed' This shows that he does what George does.
Lennie acts very child-like and innocent, he tends to say what he thinks with out realizing. Lennie will always put Georges feelings first and he is considerate.
Lennie is a simple minded character. He is a large built that doesnt understand how strong he really is and has passion for animals. He's kind hearts but not the brightest star in the sky, he has the body of an adult but the mind of a child. We know this because in the book it tells us that he picked up a dead mouse and wanted to keep it has a pet. Lennie has a big 'American Dream' he wants very much, to live in a small house with his best friend/carer george and own acers of land also to keep many animals speically different coloured rabbits, Lennie likes george to keep repeating this dream to him even though hes heard it many times before, he just likes the idea of it.
Lennie is an immature yet inocent person,who is referred as an animal as steinbeck reffers him of having feet of a bear this gives us an impression that lennie seems to be not bothered a person who couldn't care less, and lazy, the description of a bear also tells us he is a white fat man who is a huge man with a shapless face, with large pale eyes, his personality is like that of a child,he is inocent,and has no proper understanding of what is right or wrong,While he acts with great loyalty to George, he has no comprehension of the idea of "loyalty." For that reason, he often does not mean to do the things that get him into trouble, and once he does get into trouble, he has no conscience to define his actions in terms of guilt. Lennie only defines them in terms of consequences: "George is going to give me hell" or "George won't let me tend the rabbits." He is devoted to George like a dog is devoted to its master, and he tries to follow George's commands. There is a childlike wonder in Lennie that can be seen when he first sees the pool of water and slurps down huge gulps of water like a horse. he has no sense of what he does and how it impacts the people around him. lennie feels good when he is around animals and does not want to cause them any harm we know this because when george asks lennie to throw the dead mouse away lennie does not want to give it away instead he makes an excuse by saying he was just petting it while they were walking.ikra.s
Lennie, is like a body with the wrong mind, in my opinion. By many of his actions in the book 'Of Mice and Men' you can tell that Stenbeck has tried to make him seem child-like, and make him seem like he may have a disability or mental illness. He is described as a big man, reffered to as a bear and horse more than once.
'...dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags its paws.'
'...with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse.'
This just backs up my points on him being a big man, he is reffered to as these big creatures, big strong creatures. Steinbeck has used Animal imagery in these scentances. He has described him as the animals, horse and bear, ones who are usually big and strong but they have little knowledge. However for Lennie, it is not the idea of simply just being dumb. But the fact that he is child-like as I said before and he can't help the fact that he acts the way he does. To add onto the idea that he acts more like a child, Steinbeck has said that her had wide dull eyes, like a babies.
'...with large, pale eyes...'
Another time he asked George, if they could have different coloured rabbits, however we all know that you cannot get different coloured rabbits, George assured him by saying,
'Yeah sure...we can have red ones...blue ones...and yellows ones...'
This shows you that George is trying to comfort him how a person would do to a child, almost letting him continue with their fantasy even though you yourself know that what they are imagining can never come to be. Almost playing along with them just to make them happy. This is what many children tend to do.
In conclusion we can tell that Lennie is child-like, because of the many ways Steinbeck has used writting. Also his actions are child-like, the way he asks for if he could have ketchup but it was obvious that he couldn't...
my understanding of Lennie is that he is a fully grown man that has a childlike sense to him, he is a large bearlike man with the undderstanong of a child. he is vulnerable and confused of the time and has trouble most of the time remembering things, he says 'lets have different couloured rabbits, george' this tells us that he doesnt understand that there are no such things as different coloured rabbits which tells us he is unaware of his surroundings. he is also very fond of geroge we know this as he tries to copy everything he does and sees him as an authority figure. also with what is written one could say that he has some sort of disability that causes him to talk the way he does and act the way he does
Lennie is a child-like character who despite this is extrememly strong making him a good worker on the ranch. He is mentally subnormal which explains his childish actions and his lack of understanding when it comes to serious sitatutions which have been clearly explained especially when he doesn't see why he can't take the puppy outside the barn. In chapter one Steinbeck describes Lennie using animal-like terms such as '...snorting into the water like a horse' as well as 'Lennie dabbled his paw in the water...' giving the reader a better understanding of Lennies persoanlity as well as his actions. We also can tell that Lennie relies on George to look after him and if he doesn't understand something that George will explain as many times as needed I noticed this when Lennie and George were having a conversation and Lennie needed George to repeat the plan and how it was going to work as well as George explaining that they cannot afford Lennie to cause any more trouble. -Lucy
I think that Lennie was a man who didn't know his power, he was very child-like, but he was big and strong.'Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face...' Another quote being 'he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws'. These quotes imply that Lennie behaved like a child, but looked like a bear, he is describes as a dumb animal this is because he was innocent at heart, as well as being a very large man.
In the story,Steinback compares Lennie to animals as it states in the book 'snorting the water like a horse' Lennie also relise on George alot, and looks up to him as a father, coppies everything he does. Lennie is very child-like for his age, some of the quotes in the book show just how child-like and immature he is, Lennie's dream is to have loads of coloured rabbits ' can we all get diffrent coloured rabbits' Lois
In chapter 1, page 30. The scene where Lennie demands for ketchup and George and Lennie has a disagreement , soon turns out to prove what good friends they really are. "I was only foolin', George. I don't want no ketchup. I wouldn't eat no ketchup if it was right here beside me." "If it was here, you could have some." "But I wouldn't eat none, George. I'd leave it all for you. You could cover your beans with it and I wouldn't touch none of it."
This shows Lennie may not be able to look out for George, but he does what he can for his friend, like give him all the imaginary ketchup. Showing the amount of frienship they have for each other. Lennie is dependant on George and is continuously looking up to him. Another quote in the book saying
' Lennie who had been watching imitated George exactly'
The writer of mice and men John Steinbeck is trying to put across the the point that Lennie looks up to George and imitates him. Alicia
Chapter 1, page 19) 'Lennie was a huge man with a shapeless face with large pale eyes wide sloping shoulders and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms hung loosely'
This shows that he is quiet masculine and strong because Steinbeck is describing him as a bear. This also shows that he is quiet slow because he drags his feet and his arms hang loosely.
'Lennie's lip quivered and tears started in his eyes'
This tells the reader that Lennie is sensitave and abit emotional. He gets upset and cry's like when George through the dead mouse across the river that Lennie had found. Lennie wanted to keep the mouse to pet because maybe he was lonely and wanted something to talk to instead of George. Ambyr
After reading the first few chapters of 'Of Mice And Men', In my opinion, I would say that Stienbeck had described Lennie as quite a character. An innocent man that doesnt quite understand some things in life. He does what he thinks is right and doesnt act like he should, for example '...snorting into the water like a horse' A grown man wouldn't be expected to drink water like that, as it would be 'unacceptable' behaviour. Steinbeck has used many discriptive sentences to get across his character but the main point he is probably trying to tell his readers how child-like Lennie is. As he explains later on in the novel 'Let's have different colour rabbit's, George' We all know that children would of said such a thing about having different colour rabbits, but as Lennie doesnt know much about reality, he expects everything to be is way. Iqra
Lennie is an immature, childlike man this is made clear in the text when Steinbeck says “Lennie looked startled and then in embarrassment hid his face in his knees “this shows Lennie is childlike because his actions are that of a young child rather than of a 30 year old man. He is often described like animals we know this when Steinbeck says “dragging his feet a little like a bear drags his paws “this makes him seem a lot like an animal and it gives us a message that he’s tired and strong because he walks like a bear.Lennie feels secure when he pets soft things we know this when Lennie is having a conversation with George and says “I could pet it with my thumb while we walk along!” this shows that Lennie wants the mouse for comfort and to pet this demand of his often gets him into trouble from George for example when Steinbeck says “George took the mouse and threw it across the pool to the other side..…what do you want a dead mouse for anyways?” this shows George was angry with Lennie because he threw the mouse with such force that it went all the way to the other side of the pool.so overall Lennie is a childlike man who wants to pet dead mice for comfort and obeys George like a dog would to his master. zoiya
Lennie Small is not so small, he is very tall and 'strong as a bull' as it states in the book.Lennie has a friend named George Milton who is also his carer and they both rely on each other as Lennie has the strength, Lennie really doesn't know how strong he actually is. He has the brain of a toddler as he is mentally disbabled and acts very dumb, forgets a lot of things which infuriates George because it is generally quite hard for him to look after him 24/7. Lennie is very child-like as it states in the book: 'Lets have different colour rabbits, George' if he were an adult he would know there is know such thing as coloured rabbits! Which is why he's very child-like. Lennie is also very innocent and keeps to his own business as George always says to let him say everything and Lennie not to speak at all in case he says something he's not supposed to. In conclusion Lennie really looks up to George as a father and they are extremely close and love each other(as father son love) even if George says he doesn't, without each other they wouldn't be able to survive.
Lennie is a large, 6 foot character, with extreme strength. But he doesn't know his own strength as shown when he had a pet rat, and just like a chiled would, he accidently kills it by petting it too hard. His mind is chlid-like and he doesn't understand whats going on around him, when he took the puppy from the barn and lied to George that he didn't, it was obviouse to George because Lennie lies like a small chiled would. Steinbeck describes him as many different animals through out the book such as a bear and a horse because of the way he acts and the way he presents himself to other people. He doesn't mean to get into trouble such as when he wanted to hold the girls dress because it was soft, he didn't know what it must have looked like to the girl, he doesn't understand because of his lack of mental development. Georgie
Lennie is a very child-like immature man. He's described as behaving like an animal. 'Snorting the water like a horse'. This shows how child-like and immature Lennie is and Steinbeck describes behaving an animal.
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After reading the first bit of Mice and Men I think that Lennie is a very child minded and innocent man this is because from the book there is a bit where he says `can we get a different coloured rabbit' now we all know that you cannot get different coloured rabbits but for Lennie he finds this hard to understand. Suman
ReplyDeleteSteinbeck compares Lennie in mice and men to animals as it says 'drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse', here Lennie ias described as a horse as horses snort in the water and they gulp the water. Also it says in the text 'Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the water arose in little splashes' here Lennie is described as a dog becuase dogs act like that. Lennie here is described as a immarture+childlike man. Natasha
ReplyDeleteThe Character Of Lennie Is A Simple, Quite, Childish Guy. He is very simple minded, and also happy and smiles a lot. Lennie is in his 30's and he's a big man with a shapeless face and large pale eyes. He doesn't realize how strong he is.
ReplyDeleteLennie loves to pet mouse’s and has an American dream to live in a small house with coloured rabbits with George. Lennie admires George.
on page 40 it Quotes '...Immediately Lennie got up and did the same with his bed' This shows that he does what George does.
Lennie acts very child-like and innocent, he tends to say what he thinks with out realizing. Lennie will always put Georges feelings first and he is considerate.
Ekita
Lennie is a simple minded character. He is a large built that doesnt understand how strong he really is and has passion for animals.
ReplyDeleteHe's kind hearts but not the brightest star in the sky, he has the body of an adult but the mind of a child.
We know this because in the book it tells us that he picked up a dead mouse and wanted to keep it has a pet.
Lennie has a big 'American Dream' he wants very much, to live in a small house with his best friend/carer george and own acers of land also to keep many animals speically different coloured rabbits, Lennie likes george to keep repeating this dream to him even though hes heard it many times before, he just likes the idea of it.
Lennie is an immature yet inocent person,who is referred as an animal as steinbeck reffers him of having feet of a bear this gives us an impression that lennie seems to be not bothered a person who couldn't care less, and lazy, the description of a bear also tells us he is a white fat man who is a huge man with a shapless face, with large pale eyes, his personality is like that of a child,he is inocent,and has no proper understanding of what is right or wrong,While he acts with great loyalty to George, he has no comprehension of the idea of "loyalty." For that reason, he often does not mean to do the things that get him into trouble, and once he does get into trouble, he has no conscience to define his actions in terms of guilt. Lennie only defines them in terms of consequences: "George is going to give me hell" or "George won't let me tend the rabbits." He is devoted to George like a dog is devoted to its master, and he tries to follow George's commands. There is a childlike wonder in Lennie that can be seen when he first sees the pool of water and slurps down huge gulps of water like a horse. he has no sense of what he does and how it impacts the people around him. lennie feels good when he is around animals and does not want to cause them any harm we know this because when george asks lennie to throw the dead mouse away lennie does not want to give it away instead he makes an excuse by saying he was just petting it while they were walking.ikra.s
ReplyDeleteLennie, is like a body with the wrong mind, in my opinion. By many of his actions in the book 'Of Mice and Men' you can tell that Stenbeck has tried to make him seem child-like, and make him seem like he may have a disability or mental illness. He is described as a big man, reffered to as a bear and horse more than once.
ReplyDelete'...dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags its paws.'
'...with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse.'
This just backs up my points on him being a big man, he is reffered to as these big creatures, big strong creatures. Steinbeck has used Animal imagery in these scentances. He has described him as the animals, horse and bear, ones who are usually big and strong but they have little knowledge. However for Lennie, it is not the idea of simply just being dumb. But the fact that he is child-like as I said before and he can't help the fact that he acts the way he does. To add onto the idea that he acts more like a child, Steinbeck has said that her had wide dull eyes, like a babies.
'...with large, pale eyes...'
Another time he asked George, if they could have different coloured rabbits, however we all know that you cannot get different coloured rabbits, George assured him by saying,
'Yeah sure...we can have red ones...blue ones...and yellows ones...'
This shows you that George is trying to comfort him how a person would do to a child, almost letting him continue with their fantasy even though you yourself know that what they are imagining can never come to be. Almost playing along with them just to make them happy. This is what many children tend to do.
In conclusion we can tell that Lennie is child-like, because of the many ways Steinbeck has used writting. Also his actions are child-like, the way he asks for if he could have ketchup but it was obvious that he couldn't...
Aminah
my understanding of Lennie is that he is a fully grown man that has a childlike sense to him, he is a large bearlike man with the undderstanong of a child. he is vulnerable and confused of the time and has trouble most of the time remembering things, he says 'lets have different couloured rabbits, george' this tells us that he doesnt understand that there are no such things as different coloured rabbits which tells us he is unaware of his surroundings. he is also very fond of geroge we know this as he tries to copy everything he does and sees him as an authority figure. also with what is written one could say that he has some sort of disability that causes him to talk the way he does and act the way he does
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Lennie is a child-like character who despite this is extrememly strong making him a good worker on the ranch. He is mentally subnormal which explains his childish actions and his lack of understanding when it comes to serious sitatutions which have been clearly explained especially when he doesn't see why he can't take the puppy outside the barn. In chapter one Steinbeck describes Lennie using animal-like terms such as '...snorting into the water like a horse' as well as 'Lennie dabbled his paw in the water...' giving the reader a better understanding of Lennies persoanlity as well as his actions. We also can tell that Lennie relies on George to look after him and if he doesn't understand something that George will explain as many times as needed I noticed this when Lennie and George were having a conversation and Lennie needed George to repeat the plan and how it was going to work as well as George explaining that they cannot afford Lennie to cause any more trouble.
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I think that Lennie was a man who didn't know his power, he was very child-like, but he was big and strong.'Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face...' Another quote being 'he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws'. These quotes imply that Lennie behaved like a child, but looked like a bear, he is describes as a dumb animal this is because he was innocent at heart, as well as being a very large man.
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In the story,Steinback compares Lennie to animals as it states in the book 'snorting the water like a horse' Lennie also relise on George alot, and looks up to him as a father, coppies everything he does.
ReplyDeleteLennie is very child-like for his age, some of the quotes in the book show just how child-like and immature he is, Lennie's dream is to have loads of coloured rabbits ' can we all get diffrent coloured rabbits' Lois
In chapter 1, page 30. The scene where Lennie demands for ketchup and George and Lennie has a disagreement , soon turns out to prove what good friends they really are.
ReplyDelete"I was only foolin', George. I don't want no ketchup. I wouldn't eat no ketchup if it was right here beside me."
"If it was here, you could have some."
"But I wouldn't eat none, George. I'd leave it all for you. You could cover your beans with it and I wouldn't touch none of it."
This shows Lennie may not be able to look out for George, but he does what he can for his friend, like give him all the imaginary ketchup. Showing the amount of frienship they have for each other.
Lennie is dependant on George and is continuously looking up to him. Another quote in the book saying
' Lennie who had been watching imitated George exactly'
The writer of mice and men John Steinbeck is trying to put across the the point that Lennie looks up to George and imitates him.
Alicia
Chapter 1, page 19)
ReplyDelete'Lennie was a huge man with a shapeless face with large pale eyes wide sloping shoulders and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms hung loosely'
This shows that he is quiet masculine and strong because Steinbeck is describing him as a bear. This also shows that he is quiet slow because he drags his feet and his arms hang loosely.
'Lennie's lip quivered and tears started in his eyes'
This tells the reader that Lennie is sensitave and abit emotional. He gets upset and cry's like when George through the dead mouse across the river that Lennie had found. Lennie wanted to keep the mouse to pet because maybe he was lonely and wanted something to talk to instead of George.
Ambyr
After reading the first few chapters of 'Of Mice And Men', In my opinion, I would say that Stienbeck had described Lennie as quite a character. An innocent man that doesnt quite understand some things in life. He does what he thinks is right and doesnt act like he should, for example '...snorting into the water like a horse' A grown man wouldn't be expected to drink water like that, as it would be 'unacceptable' behaviour. Steinbeck has used many discriptive sentences to get across his character but the main point he is probably trying to tell his readers how child-like Lennie is. As he explains later on in the novel 'Let's have different colour rabbit's, George' We all know that children would of said such a thing about having different colour rabbits, but as Lennie doesnt know much about reality, he expects everything to be is way.
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Lennie is an immature, childlike man this is made clear in the text when Steinbeck says “Lennie looked startled and then in embarrassment hid his face in his knees “this shows Lennie is childlike because his actions are that of a young child rather than of a 30 year old man. He is often described like animals we know this when Steinbeck says “dragging his feet a little like a bear drags his paws “this makes him seem a lot like an animal and it gives us a message that he’s tired and strong because he walks like a bear.Lennie feels secure when he pets soft things we know this when Lennie is having a conversation with George and says “I could pet it with my thumb while we walk along!” this shows that Lennie wants the mouse for comfort and to pet this demand of his often gets him into trouble from George for example when Steinbeck says “George took the mouse and threw it across the pool to the other side..…what do you want a dead mouse for anyways?” this shows George was angry with Lennie because he threw the mouse with such force that it went all the way to the other side of the pool.so overall Lennie is a childlike man who wants to pet dead mice for comfort and obeys George like a dog would to his master. zoiya
ReplyDeleteLennie Small is not so small, he is very tall and 'strong as a bull' as it states in the book.Lennie has a friend named George Milton who is also his carer and they both rely on each other as Lennie has the strength, Lennie really doesn't know how strong he actually is. He has the brain of a toddler as he is mentally disbabled and acts very dumb, forgets a lot of things which infuriates George because it is generally quite hard for him to look after him 24/7. Lennie is very child-like as it states in the book: 'Lets have different colour rabbits, George' if he were an adult he would know there is know such thing as coloured rabbits! Which is why he's very child-like. Lennie is also very innocent and keeps to his own business as George always says to let him say everything and Lennie not to speak at all in case he says something he's not supposed to. In conclusion Lennie really looks up to George as a father and they are extremely close and love each other(as father son love) even if George says he doesn't, without each other they wouldn't be able to survive.
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Lennie is a large, 6 foot character, with extreme strength. But he doesn't know his own strength as shown when he had a pet rat, and just like a chiled would, he accidently kills it by petting it too hard. His mind is chlid-like and he doesn't understand whats going on around him, when he took the puppy from the barn and lied to George that he didn't, it was obviouse to George because Lennie lies like a small chiled would.
ReplyDeleteSteinbeck describes him as many different animals through out the book such as a bear and a horse because of the way he acts and the way he presents himself to other people.
He doesn't mean to get into trouble such as when he wanted to hold the girls dress because it was soft, he didn't know what it must have looked like to the girl, he doesn't understand because of his lack of mental development.
Georgie