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Analysis Of Red Rabbits In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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In the song “Red Rabbits,” James Mercer, an American singer, musician, and songwriter for the band The Shins, sings, “I can't go into this no more. It puts too many thorns on my mind, and the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor.” This song describes a person, the narrator, who is associated with someone who has committed a crime. The narrator reaches a point where he can no longer take the mental stress that comes with protecting his friend because their means of escape, or the “necessary balloon,” is no longer available, or rather “a corpse on the floor.” A similar concept is presented in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men when Lennie, one of the main characters, kills a woman after his friend George has been protecting him for many years. The duo’s dream of paradise, or their necessary balloon out the their current life of moving from town to town in order to find work, is now dead, along with the person that Lennie killed. Then, George, for various reasons, including to get out of the predicament he has been made a part of, makes the decision to kill Lennie. George justifies his desire to kill Lennie in order to rid himself of a burden, because he loves Lennie, and so that he can worry about only himself and not Lennie. Of Mice and Men starts with two men, George and Lennie, on their way to a new job. Lennie is a big and strong, but has a mental handicap and is very forgetful, while George is Lennie’s opposite–short and smart. George has to remind Lennie several times that they are on their way to a new place to work after having to leave their previous home because of something that Lennie did. George makes it obvious that Lennie is rather inconvenient to take care of when he carries on about how easy life would be without Lennie. It is clear that Lennie could not manage on his own because of his carelessness and lack of common sense. Despite this, George seems to be somewhat fond of Lennie as he often entertains Lennie with a story of how the two of them will one day live in a house on their own where they can work on their own schedule and will not have to answer to anyone but themselves. When they finally get to their new job, a man named Curley, the boss’s son, starts to cause trouble with

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