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Of Mice and men chapter 5 latest 2023 with certified solutions 1. List the reasons that Lennie gives to explain how the puppy is responsible for its own death. Are Lennie's arguments valid? Why or why not? ✔✔Lennie claims that he didn't bounce the puppy very hard, and believes that the puppy should have been able to handle it. He also says the puppy isn't as small as a mouse and it should have been able to endure his rough play. Lennie's arguments are obviously invalid, this displays how he is not willing to take responsibility for his actions. He blames the dog for the fact that it cannot handle his rough play when he is at fault. 2. Explain what happened to Curley's wife that led her to meet and quickly marry Curley. ✔✔There was a man who pretended to be from hollywood who took advantage of Curley's wife, he lied to her and told her that she could star in a movie, this man seems to have had a one night stand with Curley's wife. She fell for this lie and continues to believe in it. She met Curley in the same dance hall and married him to get away from her mother, who she thinks stole the nonexistent letters from the hollywood man. 3. I know that you want to despise Curley's wife, but this chapter helps us to see her in a slightly different light, changing her from a static character to one who is more dynamic. Now that you know a bit of her background, how have your feelings about this character changed? Explain your answer. ✔✔I still dislike Curley's wife, her racism has shown us her true colors. However, I still feel sorry for her, she is lonely and desperate, she shares her secrets with Lennie who has only arrived on the ranch a day and a half ago, she longs for connection with someone. 4. When Lennie runs away, he takes the dead puppy with him, saying, "I'll throw him away...It's bad enough like it is." What does this show us about his mental state? ✔✔We see how Lennie is really a child here, he does not realise difference in harshness between the dead girl and the dead puppy. For Lennie, there are right things and wrong things, he doesn't understand how certain actions can cause more harm than others. This line displays Lennie still has the mental capacity if a child. 5. When all of the ranchers enter the barn, which one of them inspects Curley's wife's neck? What does this show us? ✔✔Slim is the one that inspects Curley's wife's neck. This shows us that Curley didn't really care about his wife, instead of checking for vital signs, he lets Slim do that. Also this shows that Slim is the one who would do the difficult compassionate things on the ranch, not Curley. 6. Now that you've finished the chapter, explain what the death of the puppy foreshadows. Also, the puppy can be seen as a symbol. How so? ✔✔The death of the puppy foreshadows the death of Curley's wife. It also symbolizes the death of the dream farm for George, Lennie and Candy.

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