Chapter 6 Response

Chapter 6 of "Of Mice and Men" was a sad chapter. At the beginning of the chapter Lennie gets visions of his Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit. When we finish reading the conversation between Aunt Clara and Lennie we change our views on Aunt Clara. Throughout the story we thought that Aunt Clara was a nice caring woman since Lennie talked about her in a positive way. At first I was a bit confused with the visions. I knew that he was disabled, but since he has visions and talks to them, he's rather insane. The visions help Lennie in a way. They tell him that something bad is going to happen to him; obvious enough for Lennie to ask George how much trouble he's in. I thought that George shooting Lennie in the back of the head reminded me of Candy and his dog. I think that George wanted to be the one that killed Lennie, because he didn't want some random man, or even Curley to hurt him. He also promised Lennie that he wouldn't let anyone hurt him, but he never actually said that he would never hurt him.
I thought that "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck was a great book. There was a lot of symbolism and foreshadowing. The author was innate with describing scenes.