Ronnie Donnie Andy Batto November 2nd, 2011 Ronnie Donnie Lavesque, the most ostracized child you could ever see. In reality he was very nice kid who would love to socialize but he had some very odd hobbies. He knew that people would not understand his hobbies, but he made a choice early in life that he valued who he was and what he did over what people thought of him. You are probably thinking how odd could his hobbies be? Some of his hobbies are playing with toads and stamp collecting, but by far the weirdest hobby was collecting dead ravens.
The fact that the rabbits never really appear in the book, shows the reality of Lennie’s dreams that he will never understand. The mice in the story represent a false hope for a safe place for Lennie. The first mouse in the story is a dead one that Lennie likes to keep in his pocket so he can pet it. Which kind of says that Lennie doesn’t care about death or even realize it sometimes, he’s more concerned with comfort. The mice are what Lennie remembers his Aunt Clara by, and that’s the only thing he has to remember her by are those mice.
“The Lesson of the Moth” In society today there are two main different types of people, the free spirited individuals and the conservative individuals. The free spirits believe to live in the moment and die doing something that makes them happy while the conservatives believe to live in routine and stick to “playing it safe”. In Don Marquis’s poem, “The Lesson of the Moth”, Don uses a moth and a cockroach, named Archy, to portray those two personalities. The poem dives deep into how people go about their lives, a touchy subject for some, and how they view each other. The poem starts off with Archy giving the reader the setting and an idea that the moth is suicidal, but the next stanza explains that the moth and the cockroach do not understand each other’s lives.
It depicts the story of a young man mourning over the loss of his love, Lenore. One night he was reading “forgotten lore” (Poe) as a way to rid his mind of his lost love. But as he was reading, he heard a “rapping at his chamber's door”(Poe) which at first reveals nothing when he goes to investigate the noise. But when the noise arises again, he goes to check and it is a Raven, who just sits “On a bust of Pallas above the door”. (Poe) Then, he begins to ask the Raven questions.
Thus, he loses interest in activities that do not keep his attention. Once he sees something that looks more exciting than what he is doing, he focuses all his energy on the new activity. In this way, he is like a spoiled child who discards one toy in complete favor of another. This proclivity also reflects his distaste for hard work; most hobbies require focus, as Rat suggests during their caravan trip. Nevertheless, Toad cares only about the hobby so long as it is entertaining and easy.
She finds that hard to believe because boys aren’t supposed to be scared of crawly things, and Patrick had wanted to do this project. He tells her that he thought she wanted to do the project. Chapter 12-B Julia knows that Ms. Park has a worm phobia and accuses her of being sympathetic to Patrick. Chapter 13 The caterpillars stop eating and get ready to spin. Since they like to spin in the dark, Julia and Patrick work to change their habitat.
Lennie has got nobody to talk to besides George, and he means the world to him “Lennie who had been watching, imitated George exactly” Lennie copies everything that George does, like a brother, he also listens to everything George says but always forgets because of his illness “ I forgot again” this shows that it isn’t the first time that George has had to remind Lennie of something. Lennie tends to not talk to humans as much but to interact and communicate with animals for example the mouse he held at the start of the novel “I could pet it with my thumb” and the pup George gives Lennie “I just wanted to pet ‘um a little” but Lennie always ends up killing the animals. This foreshadows the terrible accident at the end where Lennie accidentally snaps Curleys wife’s neck, just like he did the pups. As well as Lennie, Curley’s wife is also lonely; Curley never gives her any attention, she has all these dreams but she is not allowed to live them because she married Curley “coulda been in the movies”. Also Curley doesn’t treat his wife very well, in those days hardly any men treated there wives well.
George acts like he is the parent and Lennie is the child in their friendship, which may give evidence why Lennie acts sometimes childish in the book. Lennie tells us that he had the mouse to “put with my thumb while we walked along”. This can give us evidence that he is childlike as he has to fidget and touch things. It reminds the reader of Lennie's mental handicap and how gentle of heart he truly is. Although Lennie killed the mouse, he never meant
He is friends with all the other characters, but is still very observant to their lifestyle. Owl Eyes is another character that sees things as they really are. He discovered that the books in Gatsby's library were "real." Other characters, like Gatsby, only see the past, or characters like Daisy and Jordan only see their own little world and are trapped in it. Its like a haze-they walk around in it because its comfortable, but they fail to realize what is going on outside their social circle, and often times they don't understand their own comfort zone.
Like Crooks, Curly’s wife is slowly losing her mind. She confides to Lennie, “I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely”(86). All of the trouble she causes stems from her craving for human contact. Candy isn’t necessarily as lonely as Crooks, or Curly’s wife, but he does experience a certain kind of alienation.