The dog, while of no working value, was a faithful companion to Candy. After its death, Candy was left in loneliness but instead of falling into despair, he chose to dream of the future along with George and Lennie. Another dog found in the novel was Lennie’s puppy. Lennie, unable to control his strength, accidentally kills the puppy when it bites him. Feeling alone and betrayed, Lennie is filled with sorrow and guilt.
Lennie says a little too much when he is introduced to the boss at the new ranch. Lennie gets scared when Curley tries to pick a fight with him. Lennie sees Curley’s wife and thinks she is "purty." Lennie discovers that Slim’s dog has had puppies. Needless to say, he wants one desperately.
The successive day, Lennie accidentally kills his puppy in the barn, and Curley's wife came to see Lennie because she knew she could get company from Lennie while the others were outside. She tells him that life with Curley is a disappointment and thinks that she should’ve followed her dream of becoming a movie star. Lennie tells her that he loves petting soft things, and she offers to let him feel her hair. So Lennie pets Curley's wife's hair and gets a little too rough and when Curley's wife starts to struggle, he gets confused and hold even tighter. When she starts to yell, Lennie gets more and more confused as to what to do.
In the novel 'of Mice and Men' written by John Steinbeck, one of the protagonist who names George travels with his friend Lennie, they find a new job in the ranch and try to adapt themselves to new circumstance. During this time, they meet an old swamper whose name is Candy. Generally, Candy and George are different because they have different backgrounds, and they are similar because they have the same wishes about their futures. To start with, the reason why George chooses to come and work on the ranch is that Lennie and George have no choice but to leave their hometown. In the novel, George and his friend Lennie worked in their hometown-- Weed.
When Opal is out shopping for her dad, she comes across a stray dog causing mayhem in the Winn Dixie Grocery Store. The manager begs his employees to call the pound (a home for stray dogs) and Opal makes her move. She can't bear to let the mangy hound be locked away, so she tells the manager he is her dog. She calls him Winn-Dixie, as it's the first thing she can think of! When she arrives back at the caravan she lives in with her dad, he is incredibly shocked to hear his daughter begging him to let her keep a skinny, stinky, ugly stray, and he says a firm no.
A Tail To Tell “A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of wicked are cruel” (Proverbs 12:10). Imagine looking outside on a crisp autumn day to find a neighbor’s new puppy jumping in excitement throughout orange and red leaves scattered on the ground. Unfortunately, this young pup’s innocence will come to a screeching halt in a year or two. These neighbors are morally corrupt and have adopted this puppy to fall victim of growing up in a puppy mill. A puppy mill is “a large-scale commercial dog breeding operation where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs” (ASPCA).
George and Slim are playing cards and talking about Lennie. Later, Candy walks in with Candy's dog that smells really bad. This quotation was said by Carlton to Candy. They complain and say the dog isn't any use to anyone and suggests that Candy shoots it. Candy doesn't want to since he's had the dog since he was a pup.
Summary The Novel Stealing freedom is opened up with a young slave girl named Ann who has been sent by her mother Arabella to feed the masters dogs late at night. These dogs are vicious just like their masters; the slaves feed the dogs in case they ever must run away. Ann doesn’t like the idea of running away even if it would grant her the freedom she has always dreamed, Ann is terrified whenever her uncle Abram talks of his escape attempt. Aside from her fear of running away, she is swept away with the idea of freedom and acceptance into the world in which she belongs. Their master, Charles C. Price, once was a kind and giving owner but when he hit hard times financially he turned into angry, short tempered owner.
After some references to the children and “my wife”, the speaker can be seen as an adult male, father and husband, not to mention the dog’s owner. Also, the tone of the speaker is a bit melancholic, as he grieves over his beloved pet. The dog, described as “too young to know much” was still a puppy and that is probably why it didn’t have a name yet. Other elements that contribute to this idea are its illness once interpreted as a “shot reaction” – dogs are usually vaccinated when they are very young – and the fact that “she tried to bite” his hand, which is also a puppy’s behavior. The use of the subject pronoun “she” referring to the animal suggests that it was part of the family.
Working on a ranch together, Lennie, George, Candy, and Slim show dependence on each other’s companionship in this novel. They benefit from each other's company and help each other during the harder times of their life. Through this struggle, Steinbeck shows how friendship is the most essential way of coping with reality. George's friendship is probably the most prevalent in the novel, directed many of the characters on the ranch, but mostly at Lennie. George always