What are important quotes from Of Mice and Men?

We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn.

What is a memorable line from Chapter One Of Mice and Men?

“Trouble with mice is you always kill ’em.” Of Mice and Men, Chapter 1. George to Lennie, who likes to pick up mice when he sees them running about the fields and caress them with his hands. Lennie always ends up crushing and killing them because his hands are too powerful.

What is one meaningful quote from John Steinbeck?

“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.” “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” “All great and precious things are lonely.” “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

What does the last line of Of Mice and Men?

Maybe it’s because english isn’t my native language, but the last sentence, after George kills Lennie and the rest of the people arrive, Slim helps George up and they both walk away, Carlson says “Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?”

What is George’s dream quotes?

“Well,” said George, “we’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin’ to work, and we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof.”

What page is God you’re a lot of trouble said George I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail I could live so?

“I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl.” For a moment Lennie lay quiet, and then he said hopefully, “We gonna work on a ranch, George.” Of Mice and Men, Chapter 1.

What is an important quote from Chapter 2 Of Mice and Men?

“A guy on a ranch don’t never listen nor he don’t ast no questions.” Of Mice and Men, Chapter 2. Candy explains how migrant workers keep to themselves. They have no friends and it’s a lonely life.

What is an important quote from Chapter 3 Of Mice and Men?

Chapter 3, page 61: “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t of ought to let no stranger shoot my dog.” This quotation illustrates Candy’s remorse over allowing someone who did not care about his dog to end its life. It foreshadows the decision George will have to make in the final chapter of the book.

What are some quotes from the giver?

The Giver Quotes

• “If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you.
• “For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music.
• “I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
• “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness.

What is a favorite theatrical quote of mine said by John Steinbeck?

“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”

What foreshadows Lennie’s death?

When Carlson kills the dog, Candy confides to George that he wishes he’d done it himself instead of letting Carlson do it. This comment foreshadows George’s decision to shoot Lennie himself, as he is Lennie’s closest companion. Lennie’s death at George’s hand is a heartbreaking moment for George and for the reader.

What does Lennie’s death symbolize?

Because George is forced to kill his friend himself, Lennie’s death is not only the death of a single vulnerable person, but also the destruction of a rare and idealized friendship.