40 Book Challenge 4/30/15

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Prompt: From your brainstorming session, choose at least two conflicts to explore more in depth in this blog. Be sure to include textual evidence and support and also identify the effect that the conflict has had on the plot so far
Pages: 37-98

     One conflict I chose was when whenever Lennie was in shock or in fear he always held tight to the thing that was scaring him. When he used to live in Weed he saw a girl's dress that was soft and he touched it. The girl yelled out because she thought Lennie was going to hurt her. He was very scared that he held on in shock. That includes when he was in the fight with Curley. It states, "George slapped him in the face again and again, and still Lennie held on to the closed fist." That shows the relation of the first and second incident, he is scared so he holds on. This was a Man vs Self conflict because he just froze out of fear. He never meant to hurt anyone.

     Another conflict I chose was how Candy was very guilty that he couldn't kill his own dog. He thought that he was useless because many people compared him to his dog. It states, "...a lousy ol' sheep dog..." He gets very frustrated at that and he feels guilty about his dog dying because a stranger shot him, instead of himself. This is also a Man vs Self conflict, he is very guilty about his dog dying.



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