Animals play an important role in much of the symbolism found within the novel. A common motif throughout the book, bunnies symbolize the hopes and dreams of the future. The fantasy rabbit farm shared by George and Lennie, two friends and companions working on a ranch, keeps them moving toward the goal of one day realizing that dream. Lennie’s love for soft creatures helps show his innocence, despite his tendency to kill the very animals he adores, due to his brutal strength. Their deaths and Lennie’s eventual death result in the unfulfillment of the dream, leaving everyone lonely and without purpose.
Also he is emotionally upset because the men on the farm came to a consensus to shoot his dog to put it out of its misery. Candy has now lost his close companion and friend. He’s now like the rest of the men on the farm, alone. Candy realizes that he is old, crippled, and alone, and the farm may no longer have used for him. Candy and hears of George and Lennie’s dream and he becomes excited and thrilled with the idea.
He obliges so thoroughly that he accidentally breaks Curley’s wife’s neck. Lennie tries to bury Curley’s wife under the hay, but then he decides to leave and head for the safe place George told him about, dead puppy in tow. Lennie waits for George to show up and worries about how mad he will
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.
Soon his anger takes the best of him, “you’ve had a fair warning now,” I yelled at him. I’m enraged now” (139). His existential beliefs are pushing him to attack the goat without reason, “I tip up a boulder, and let it fall thundering down at him” (139). The goat notices Grendel the entire encounter and completely ignores him. It climbs the cliff instinctively, attempting to dodge Grendel’s attacks, “he keeps on climbing, mindless, mechanical, because it is the business of goats to climb” (140).
This could also make them very anxious as it is a new environment for them. They may not know anyone in their new school/college. They could also feel really happy about it as it also gives them the opportunity to meet new people and make new friends. Another common transition experienced by children and young people is moving up through the school years. This could make the child feel anxious and apprehensive about meeting their new teacher, if they are in high school they may also be feeling anxious and worried about their new timetable and getting used to it.
Once a fine sheepdog, useful in the ranch, Candy’s dog is now crippled by age, Candy’s sentimental attachment to the dog- his plea to Carlson that he let him live longer due to the fact that he raised it since it was a little puppy- means nothing at all on the ranch. Although Carlson promised to kill the dog painlessly, his insistence that the dog must die supports a cruel natured law that the strong will dispose of the weak. Candy identifies this lesson, for he fears that one day he will suffer the same feat as his dog, he realises that he is nearing an age when he will not be needed at the ranch subsequently no longer wanted. Lennie's Puppy is another symbol in which Steinbeck uses to portray that the strong will dispose of the weak. Lennie unintentionally kills the puppy: “You ain’t so little as mice.
He continues by saying “We pigs are brain workers, the organization of the farm totally depends on us” (Orwell 42). Here Squealer puts the sake of the whole farm (and Animalism) on the pigs consuming the apples & milk. He uses the fear of Jones coming back to end the conversation. Squealer also uses guilt as a way to persuade the animals. When the other animals discover that the pigs have changed their residence to the farmhouse.
This is what causes the animals to rebel. “At last they could stand it no longer”. Now I am going to talk about a power struggle which took place between two of the main characters, snowball and Napoleon two very intelligent pigs. Ever since the taking of the farm there has been ongoing argument between these two as to what changes should be made around the farm. One argument that stands out the most in the novel and eventually decides who will win the power struggle is the debate over the windmill.
The author describes Snowball as “a more vivacious pig” that is “quicker in speech and more inventive” than Napoleon, meaning that Snowball has great speaking skills that help him win the attention and loyalty to his fellow animals and exhibits innovative ideas that may help the farm both economically and socially (Orwell 12). Although Snowball has certain flaws such as allowing the creation of a greatly divided social hierarchy, he attempts to create animal rebellions throughout the countryside in other farms and better living conditions for the animals. However, these qualities fail Snowball and allow Napoleon to take complete control of the farm. When Snowball proposes the idea to create a windmill for electric power to the farm, his speech “conjured up images” in the animals “of fantastic machines which would do their work as they grazed in their fields,” and his words brought “astonishment,” hope, and motivation to work to achieve a dream (35). Snowball tries to use peaceful ways to run the farm, but Napoleon’s brutal, relentless rule proves to prevail after Napoleon commands his secret dog police to chase