~*~ Blondes the new Pink~*~

So… wow, big shock to read the last page of the book, and then  all your opinions on the characters changed. I knew that the workers would catch up to Lennie, but I didn’t expect George to be the one to kill him. The way he did it by distracting him and telling him to look down the river to picture this beautiful place was just so sad. You could tell by the tone of George’s voice that he was dreading this, even though he knew it was something he had to do.

This more of the lines shocked me, it wasnt that i felt sadness because in a way i see why George had to do this, but it was just like, wow, how could he do it that fast. Did George try to get to the bush to do this to Lennie before the others? Did he know that he was going to kill Lennie before he even reached the bush?

You would think that doing something like that to another person would tramatize a person, but the tone of George after Slim offers to take him to have a drink, isn’t so much tramatizing but more along the lines of guilty and dreadful. In his heart he knew he had to do that, but to him it was hard letting someone go that he loved deep down.

In the story, I have noticed that Lennie has started a odd friendship with Crooks. They are starting to talk now, and Crooks isn’t persisting so much on Lennie leaving him alone.  The first time Lennie walked in on Crooks he demanded him to leave him alone. “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s y room. Nobody got any right in here but me.” pg.68. I know the fact that Crooks is black does knock him down alittle bit because the other workers treat him differently, but I don’t understand why he is so hostile?

After a while when Lennie and Crooks start to accept their presence together, Crooks shares his input on how he feels being with these other workers. ”Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he’s goin’ to come back. S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunk house and play rummy ’cause you was black.”pg. 72.  I don’t have so much of a question about this passage, but more of a lack of comprehansion. Is Crooks saying this because he is trying to make Lennie feel bad for him, or is he telling Lennie this so he gets a prespective of how Crooks is living his life?

Lennie starts sharing what he is going to do with his life to Crooks, and then Crooks shares his opinions on Lennie’s future. “You’re nuts. I seen hunderds of men come by on the road an’ on the raches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em gets it.”pg. 74. While I was reading this I was wondering if the reason Crooks feels so strong about this is because maybe was he one of the men that wanted land, and didn’t get it?

 Crooks seems like a strong character, and these passages he obviously speaks his mind, and doesn’t really care about what people think of him. He does try and avoid people, but I believe its because most probably try and avoid him because he is black. Crooks seems like he is a good man but doesn’t like meeting new people, or even like change.

In the book, “The Old Man in the Sea,” the man finally has caught a fish, and he is going on a odd journey that the fish is leading. I have noticed that in the book, the old man isn’t so much getting desperate, but the reader can tell that he is getting tired and worn out, but so is the fish. I see how the man keeps repeating that he wished the boy was there with him. This symbolizes how even though the boy isn’t with him the old man still thinks about him, and also see’s the hard work the boy has put into helping him. I think that since the old man has caught this fish, he is becoming even more grateful for the boy. The man, in my eyes, seems to be on the verge of a personality breakdown. He is lonely which is symbolized by his persistence of seeing the boy, and also the odd conversation with the resting bird.

The fish and its personality is starting to come together. The old man shares a lot of common characteristics with the fish. The old man says, “Never have I had such a strong fish nor one who acted so strangely. Perhaps he is too wise to jump. He could ruin me by jumping or by a wild rush. But perhaps he has been hooked many times before and he knows that this is how he should make his fight. He cannot know that it is only one man against him nor that it is an old man. But what a great fish he is and what will he bring in the market if the flesh is good.”
The old man says he doesn’t want the fish to know he is an old man, in someway that might change the fishes attitude, but the old man also mentions that maybe this fish is to wise to jump, and also had been hooked many times before. Which makes me question, if the old man realizes that this fish has probably been hooked before, why is he trying so hard to catch it, if he has been cut, or realeased, or gotten away so many times before, what makes the old man so confident that he will be the one to catch this great fish.?

I believe that this book is headed to a tragedy. I just get this feeling for the book that this mans desperation, is going to be either cut down by this fish, or the tragedy could make him great.