The next night, when most of the men head to the local whorehouse. Lennie is left with Crooks, the Negro stable buck, and Candy. Curley's wife came to the barn saying that she was looking for Curley, but she actually came to talk to the men and find some company and refuse to leave until the other men come home. She notices the cuts on Lennie's face and suspects that he, and not a chunk of machinery like Curley told her, is responsible for hurting her husband. 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.
Almost immediately, the development and description of the first little pig is introduced. Also, it describes the house which the first little pig built. “The first little pig did not like to work at all. He quickly built himself a house of straw”. These two lines follow each other consistently, and appear on the first page.
He considers carrying things through the streets undignified, and refuses to do it himself. On Christmas morning, Malachy and Frank attend Mass with their father and go to collect leftover coal strewn over the Dock Road so that their mother can cook the pig’s head. Pa Keating meets the boys on the street and convinces the landlord of South’s pub to give them a bag of real coal. They drag the coal home through the rain, passing cozy houses. Children laugh at them from inside the houses, taunting them and calling them “Zulus” because they are smeared with black coal.
I jus’ went in but he wasn’t very nice, he said that we couldn’t make our dream come true and he was sayin’ bad things ‘bout George, that he’s not comin’ back no more. I became mad, an’ I told him to shut up. Then Candy came in as well, and him and I told Crooks about the house we’re gonna buy an’ ‘bout the rabbits. I like to hear about our dream, but Crooks was very negative, but I think he’s jus’ jealous. After a while Curley’s wife came in, Crooks told her to leave, but she said she was very lonely, I pity her a little
They set out supplies, and Skeetah decides that they need more food, so he shoots a squirrel with his BB gun. Randall refuses to clean the squirrel, so Skeetah does, but he accidentally nips the intestines. The smell forces Esch into the bushes to vomit. While the meat is cooking, Marquise, Big Henry, and Manny arrive. Esch comments that Skeetah never named the puppy, so he tells her to give it a name.
All he had was his young daughter and a mangy donkey. When all his money was gone he became very hungry. So he ate a little off the wall. Kaddo ate a little off the wall day after day until it was gone. Kaddo knew if he was going to live he would
Lot’s wife, as noted in the text, perishes, because she does not trust and obey. These stories act as corrective tales to guide behavior. Popular stories might include folk tales, fairy tales, fables, etc. For example, in Aesop’s “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf” (popularly known as “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”), the boy told the same lie three or four times about a wolf killing the sheep. When a wolf did threaten the lives of the sheep, no one believed him.
Patrick Maloney came home from work and tells Mary Maloney that he is leaving her. Mary Maloney wanted to cook him supper, so she went downstairs to get a leg of lamb and when she came back up she walked behind him and “swung the big leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head” (382). The irony jumps out at us because Mary Maloney was supposed to be nice and cook him supper. Mary Maloney makes it out that somebody else killed him and the cops and detectives ate the weapon and did not know. The reader wants to keep reading to find out
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. Finally, Opal manages to persuade her father, who is a preacher, to keep the dog. One night, there is a thunderstorm during which Opal and her father discover that Winn-Dixie has a terrible fear of storms. During the summer holidays, Opal and her dog spend a lot of time at the tiny library near her home. Opal doesn't have many friends.
When George tells him about the ranch he insists that he tell him about the rabbits but actions of Lennie foreshadows that pets will be trouble for him because at the start of the book Lennie finds a mouse but the mouse keeps moving so Lennie tightens his grip and kills the mouse. This is foreshadowing that if he has pets he might kill them, which he does further in the books. Lennie gets a secret pet puppy. Once again the pet does something that Lennie doesn’t like so he holds it very tight and kills the puppy. Lennie knows he had done something wrong because he was thinking George won’t let him have rabbits, so he hid the puppy in hay in the barn.