George admits this to Slim when discussing him and Lennie "It's a lot nicer to travel around with a guy you know" "I forgot again" This suggests that Lennie has the mental immaturity of a child, as children always forget and only remember things they find important. "Aw, let me have it George" This suggests this as well as children don't understand that when they've got to follow an order, and they throw tantrums. "Where we going?" This shows that Lennie has the mental immaturity of a child as he depends totally on George for his survival, therefore he just follows George and takes his orders. Steinbeck conveys that George gets easily annoyed with Lennie as he always has to remind him as Lennie always forgets things; "So you forget that awready did you?
Georges reprimands Lennie when he makes disturbance to people and mistakes in his life. This shows the audience that Lennie idolize George the way which John Steinbeck is presenting Lennie as a childish man and has a mind of a young
''So you forgot that awready did you''. This makes George look like a reminder for Lennie as Lennie wont be able to remember a lot of things by himself, also this foreshadows later events in the novel because after Lennie killed Curleys wife, George had to remind him about the place to run to. Lennie strokes Curleys wifes hair. This foreshadows later events in the novel because Lennie also strokes a pet mouse. ''I could pet it with my thumb while we walk along; said Lennie''.
Both honest mistakes that he didn’t even know he made. The ignorance shown towards Lennie in the novel was due to the time period and the people’s lack of knowledge. People in the story like “The boss” just thought that Lennie wasn’t smart because he just didn’t talk much unless it was to his best friend George. There was ignorance in Raymond because his brother thought that he could remove Ray from his schedules at his home and take him with him. The Ignorance was that Ray needed those schedules or he will have a fit.
It could also be teaching parents and adults to be careful of what they do in front of children, but the first part is strange because there doesn’t really seem to be any moral or lesson to learn. “Freddy and Katy” would be categorized as both a cautionary and an endless tale. I think this because there was no real ending since Katy just joins the thieves and people see her as the devil. Also, it teaches a lesson similar to Clever Hans that one should have some common sense and think for themselves without someone always telling them what to do. Katy always has good intentions, but she is unable to distinguish between reality and fiction and it seems like she has the mind of a child.
Readers then realize that Lennie doesn’t understand the difference between killing an animal and murdering a human, therefore putting other lives at risk. There was an instance where Crooks was in danger himself, the result of him taunting Lennie that George might never come back for Lennie. Readers can sense the danger that Crooks was facing when “Suddenly Lennie’s eyes centered and grew quiet, and mad. He stood up and walked dangerously towards Crooks. ‘Who hurt George?’ he demanded” (Steinbeck 73).
Crooks is a man, supposedly young but disabled, that likes books and keeps his small room neat, but has been so beaten down by loneliness and prejudicial treatment of that he is now suspicious of any kindness he receives. Racial discrimination is part of the microcosm Steinbeck describes in his story. It reaches its height in the novel when Curley's wife puts Crooks "in his place" by telling him that a word from her will have him lynched. Interestingly, only Lennie, the child-like character, does not see the color of Crooks' skin. Crooks isn’t ashamed about his inheritance but has pride and tells Lennie he doesn’t descend from slaves but from landowners.
After George says to Lennie,: „Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em. ” Lennie answers to that: „but i don’t wanna kill’em, George.“ This show that lennie again, doesn’t have control about what he’s doing with all his force. He doesn’t want to kill the mice, but he isn’t aware of his force, so he always breaks their necks. Another way how steinbeck relates to nature in his novel is by Georges and Lennies dream. When they speak about their future, they often say things like: “We could live offa the fatta the lan'.” This shows how
Disorganized speech is another symptom of schizophrenia which he displayed frequently. John often interacted with things that weren't there. This is seen when he feels like he is being tracked with a tracking device and even cuts his harm open to try to find it resulting in self-afflicted injury. Another example of abnormal behaviour John has shown would be the scene where he places his new-born baby in the bath tub and leaves it there because his "friend" said he would watch it. The baby almost drowns because of this.
The king did not understand why the slave had become so quiet after being thrown in the water. The philosopher replied: “Before he had tasted the calamity of being drowned, he knew not the safety of the boat; thus also a man does not appreciate the value of immunity from a misfortune until it has befallen him.” In “The Yoga of Knowledge” one of the main themes is the concept of nonattached work. Nonattached work also ties into teens taking everything for granted by the performing of ones duty without concern of the results. Teens often do stupid actions and don’t care about what the outcome is or even think about what’s going to happen after what they have done. However, in “The Yoga of Knowledge” Arjuna, a king, is faced with a dilemma: He knows it’s wrong to kill his cousins and uncles who are on the opposing side, but he knows that it is his duty to his duty to fight for his country as king.