LAST BLOG POST!

This week in reading:

Hey Hey, to all of you who have followed my blog through the last weeks. So this weeks reading has been crazy!! Something happened that I didn’t see coming. Even though I was expecting some kind of climax at the end of the book, I didn’t expect the book to end this way.

Warning!! BIG spoiler alert! You don’t want to read this if you are thinking about reading this book yourself!!

So Lennie received a puppy from one of the other farm workers and was super happy, I can honestly say that I was excited for Lennie at this point because he finally had something that he could pet. Unfortunately, Lennie once again did not listen to the instructions George gave him, which was to wait until the puppy was big enough to be petted. Lennie went into the barn to pet his puppy and he accidently killed it!! I know… very sad right, but it gets worse. Curleys wife shows up in the barn, while Lennie is trying to hide the dead puppy under hay. She asks Lennie what he is doing here, because she didn’t realize there was a puppy missing. So Curleys wife is lonely like always and keeps the conversation going, and offers Lennie to let him touch her soft hair. Lennie grabs her hair, gently at first, but then he pulls it a little too hard and Curleys wife starts screaming. Because of that Lennie freaks out and doesn’t know what to do, he forces his big hands over her mouth and chokes to death!😞 The poor guy Lennie didn’t even realize what he did until it was too late.

Since this happened when the other workers were at a bar, nobody noticed what happened right away. Lennie suddenly remembered what George told him in case something bad would happen to him. So Lennie did as George told him and hid in a bush where the book started. After coming back from the bar, George and the other workers know what Lennie did. Everybody tries to find Lennie to kill him for his action, but only George knows where he is hiding and finds him down by the water where they were sleeping the first night of arrival. George pulls out a gun and shoots his best friend in the back of the head!

Obviously George did this because he knew that Lennie was going to get killed anyways, so I don’t even know what to think about it at this point…

However, I want to say that it was a very well written book and it was worth reading! Really interesting to see how Steinbeck uses the characters in the book to relate them and teach us something about the social economical aspect in the United States during the 1930s.