Ponyboy really likes cherry they have a lot in common. It was going great for Ponyboy until he found out that cherry is a soc which meant they can’t hang out or see each other at all anymore. A while before Ponyboy met cherry jonny was beat up by bob, which is a soc, and after Ponyboy discovers cherry is a soc he discovers that bob is also cherry’s boyfriend. After finding out about cherry and bob Ponyboy decides to go home and think about it all when he got home Darry screams at Ponyboy about how he can’t come home at two am, because Darry didn’t know if he was all right. The conversation turned into a yelling match and Darry ended up hitting Ponyboy, at that moment Ponyboy ran to the park and Jonny followed him so that he could get away from his house.
In of mice and men George and Lennie have this big idea to work and save up their money to build a farm. lennie gets so excited about the idea and wants to have rabbits because he loves soft fury animals. In the end the plan doesnt go as well as expected, Lennie ends up killing his puppy and also curlys wife. So george had no choice but to shoot him. In the T.V series Dexter, the main character "Dexter" is living a double life almost, he is a blood splatter specialist in homicide.
Lennie hopes of owning rabbits, but readers know that this is impossible because Lennie doesn’t know his own strength and goes weak for soft things. Crooks hopes that people would stop treating him different due to the color of his skin. Poor Candy just wants someone to keep him as an employee so he doesn’t die in the world lonely. All of these characters show this form of irony in their own way. Each of these characters holds these dreams close but as readers go throughout the story they see that the characters dreams are nothing more than far-fetched
As Terry continues with his supper, he is asked by his uncle what he’s been up to. They argue back and forth about his uncle going up to the attic to check out what he’s been doing up there. His uncle says he better not have been playing with matches up there. After supper, Terry’s uncle goes up to the attic and he is laughing in amusement as he came down the stairs. He says to his wife “You’d never guess what that kid has been doing up there!” After Terry’s uncle and aunt find what he has been doing, they both laughed at the fact that a boy was playing with paper dolls.
His life has almost no chance of improving. While in Crooks’ room, Candy and Lennie talk about their plan to buy a plot of land for them and George to live and farm on. As Crooks hears, he asks if he could come with them; he explains that he could help in the garden or any odd jobs. Before Candy or Lennie could answer, Curly’s wife enters the room looking for Curly. She begins talking to them and calls them “bindle-stiffs.” Eventually Crooks had enough of her and stood up for himself “You got no rights comin’ in a colored man’s room… get out quick” (88).
Dreams is also linked in with the bunkhouse because this is where George and Lennie discuss their dream ‘of living on the fat of the land’ ‘ Lennie tending the rabbits’ but candy over hears their conversation and wants to be part of their dream. This adds to the tragedy of the story when Lennie dies, because of this now all three of them have shattered dreams. This could show how the people during the American dreams back in the 1930’s do have hopes and dreams but most of their dreams do not come
George and Lennie lose themselves in the idea of the dream; their relationship is inspired by ideas of ' rabbits', 'puppies' and 'alfalfa'; “George says were gonna have rabbits and a berry patch.” (Section 4, Page 83) This dream becomes impossible due to the death of Lennie. George is passionate about the dream, it is his life fulfillment to own his own property: ‘to live of the land’, but George sacrifices this by killing Lennie. George knows the inevitable future of Lennie and places Lennie in front of the dream. This act of friendship is definitive and he sacrifices all his dreams and hopes to save his best friend from heartbreak. George also goes against his moral code, George does not want fall into the ranch worker stereotype.
George had to kill Lennie instead of the other guys dealing with Lennie. Without the other main benefactor to the dream, George realized that he would never be anything but a migrant worker. “ The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”, Robert Burns’ TO A MOUSE. The title of the book comes from this quote, which means no matter how carefully a project is planned, something can always go wrong. George believed his plans were going to be successful but he learned that seldom are dreams
Similarly, Mole refuses to listen to Rat's reasoning, and hence almost drowns himself and later almost gets himself killed in the Wild Wood. For a while, Mole is defined more by childish pride than by humility, though this pattern shifts almost entirely by the end of the novel. 2 Explain how Toad’s personality causes him to pick up and then quickly
The former tenant, a priest, died in the backroom leaving a few yellowed books and a rusty bicycle pump. The priest and the objects may represent symbols of a religious past. The young protagonist, still boyishly shy, waits desperately for Mangan’s sister to notice him. When she comes out to call her brother in, he says, “we watched her from our shadow peer up and down the street” (101). Every morning he watches her door being careful that she doesn’t notice him.