Fear of Plans
In Of Mice and Men Lennie and George move from town to town because people fear Lennie and He always makes them move and get “ripped” from their home. The poem “To a Mouse” Is about a mouse who is scared of the narrator even though he would never the hurt the mouse. The novel Of Mice and Men and the poem “To a Mouse” are similar because they both focus on the ideas that plans can be made and perfected but most often life takes over and they fall apart.
In Of Mice and Men Lennie small is portrayed almost as a bear and him having a dead mouse in his pocket gave off a small sense of fear towards him.
“... He walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely” (Steinbeck pg.2) Steinbeck is telling us about this giant of a human and making him almost scary.
In the poem “To a Mouse” The narrator is talking to the mouse about why it is scared of him.
“Sleek, tiny, timorous, cowering beast, whys such a panic in your breast?... When I would be loath to run after you with a murderous plow staff.” (Burns)
Burns is explaining to the mouse that even he would never want to hurt it and he couldn't understand why the mouse would be afraid of him. Lennie's relationship with other people is like the narrator and the mouse. People fear Lennie when they first see him but he would really never purposefully hurt them.
In Of Mice and Men Lennie was off task a lot and obsessed with rabbits. These two things weren't helpful until George told Lennie about the “dream farm”. It would be full of rabbits and alfalfa for Lennie and they would live off the land. Lennie was so focused on getting the dream farm that he worked and tried to act like a normal person. George and Lennie planned the dream farm for months and they had everything lined up to buy a house and catch rabbits until Lennie killed Curley's wife and the dream was dead. “...George said softly, I thinked I knowed it from the very first. I knowed we never do her” (Steinbeck pg.92) George was snapping back and realized he was left with nothing. He felt a loneliness and emptiness of having a whole plan set and then everything changing. In the poem “To a Mouse” The narrator was talking about how to mouse had spent all year building its home for the winter and just as winter was approaching his home got destroyed. “The best-laid schemes of Mice and Men go oft awry” (Burns) Just like Lennie and George's dream farm the mouse spent months building and planning its shelter for the winter just to have everything torn from in because of an accident.
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The novel Of Mice and Men and the poem “To a Mouse” are similar because they talk about how every living thing fears something bigger than itself, and how you could spend a week or even your whole life planning something but life will end up getting in the way and the plans could be destroyed.
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