In peace like a river, guns are a symbol used for taking authority into your own hands. When guns are used in the book, there is always a sense of power belonging to whoever is wielding the gun.…
Hierarchy in the ranch is important, some of the characters use body language and clothing to show their status about the ranch. Age has a lot to do with hierarchy in the ranch. We first see this in the image of Candy’s dog, the dog is old and lame, parallel to the image of Candy. The dog is shot later on in the novel because it is worthless in the ranch, because of age similar to Candy. The amount of work Candy can do is limited because of disability and when the boss thinks he cannot do anything else in the ranch, he will be fired and have nowhere to go. The natural authority shows when Candy talks about Crooks, “Ya see the stable buck’s a nigger.“ this shows that race in the ranch is important in in the hierarchy of the ranch. Crooks is not allowed into the bunkhouse because of race, he sleeps elsewhere, he is lower in the hierarchy of the ranch.…
Candy’s dog parallels Candy’s plight. Though the pet was once “... the best damn sheep dog” as Candy states, it was put out once it stopped being productive. Candy realizes that his fate is to be put on the roadside as soon as he’s no longer useful; on the ranch, he won’t be treated any differently than his dog. Worse than the dog parallel, though, is that Candy (unlike his dog) is emotionally broken by this whole affair. He can’t bring himself to shoot his pet himself, and we suspect this is going to be the same fear that keeps him from making anything more of his life. Candy can’t stand up for his pet because Candy can’t stand up for himself.…
1. The narrator is an old man who is about 50 to 60 years old. He took care of the dog, which shows he is compassionate. He lives in Snake River Valley, Idaho.…
An aging ranch handyman, Candy lost his hand in an accident and worries about his future on the ranch. Fearing that his age is making him useless, he seizes on George’s description of the farm he and Lennie will have, offering his life’s savings if he can join George and Lennie in owning the land. The fate of Candy’s ancient dog, which Carlson shoots in the back of the head in an alleged act of mercy, foreshadows the manner of Lennie’s death. He is an old man that is missing a hand. He is an outcast and is discriminated against. He offers his life savings to George and Lennie to help finance their dream. He wants to be…
That day, Jem and Scout saw Tim Johnson, a dog who belongs to Mr. Harry Johnson. The dog’s acting kind of strange, so they run home to tell Calpurnia, the house keeper. “At first, I told the kids to deal with it them selves, but when I saw the dog myself I was shocked.”She said. After she saw the rapid dog she dashed for the phone to tell Atticus that there’s a mad dog on the loose. Then she talked to Miss Eula May, the town telephone operator, to tell her to let everyone else on the street know that they should stay out of the way of the rabid animal.…
page 44) The other characters agree because the dog smells, and the dog is sick and old. Carlson ends up shooting his dog that night. When he hears the gun shot he became really sad. The next day he has no dog, and when the other guys go out to the field he has nobody to comfort him. In the book he is disabled, he is missing one of his hands. This creates loneliness because he thinks of his future. He thinks he will soon be not useful to the ranch because he will be disabled and old, much like his dog. Throughout the book Candy is presented as both a flat and static character.…
Candy stood up for his dog’s life because he loved the dog and they held a true friendship. Over the years of growing together Candy and his dog shared a growing friendship and when Carlson asked Candy if he can shoot the dog Candy felt like he was going to lose a part of himself. After Carlson pressured him and he had no other choice he decided that the dog was suffering from all its disabilities. He thought it was the right thing to kill it because…
Candy is lonely because of his old age. He is rejected by the people of the ranch due to him being old and handicapped. His only company is his faithful dog companion who later in the story is killed by Carlson. Candy response was "You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs.”(Steinbeck, 60) This quote really symbolizes the suffering that Candy goes through and how the men were willing to kill the old dog, while letting the old guy suffer. This also leads to Candy wanting to join George and Lennie on there dream to own their own ranch.…
One of the best animals he used was a wolf. A wolf can be described as a wild carnivorous mammal of the dog family, living and hunting in packs. The author says. “All of the town’s big shots were there in their tuxedoes, wolfing down the buffet foods, drinking beer, and whiskey and smoking black cigars.” The narrator refers the big shots as the wolves. The wolves come in town preying on people that they fell that are lesser than them. They think they run everything. These wolves run in packs. Therefore, they only do their dirty acts together; they feed off each other negative feed.…
While the relationship between a boy and his dog is a persistent theme in children and young adults’ as well as American culture, Old Yeller is not merely a boy-and his dog story, but also a dramatic expression of the meaning of adulthood Set in a settlement on the edge of civilization in the Texas frontier, Old Yeller is a novel about a boy named Travis, his family and their day-to-day lives on their farm in the 1860s, a dangerous place with all kinds of perilous forms of nature such as wild boars, wolves, and rattlesnakes, which threaten this family on what must have felt like…
One of the characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’ that is not treated fairly is Candy. At the beginning of the novel we learn that Candy is very old, weak and is missing a hand. During these times we learn that the elderly aren’t really cared about or treated well, we also see this by the way the ranch men treat Candy’s dog. “That dog of Candy is so god damn old”; “you get Candy to shoot his old dog”. This event of the killing of Candy’s dog makes Candy fall into depression and grief because it shows us that if you’re old, weak and useless you must be disposed of because you are only seen as a waste of space. This event is also significant because Steinbeck is showing us how Carlson’s attitude towards wanting to kill the dog simply because he was old and useless reflects on the people in society and how they only cared about themselves and how they don’t consider other people’s feelings.…
Once upon a time the poorest fed dog in America was the farm dog left to fend for itself for food. These dogs, undernourished bags of bones, were once so common they almost became symbolic of impoverished rural America. Today vast numbers of those small farms have vanished. With them have gone the gaunt, hollow-eyed hounds that greeted every farm visitor with a hungry, ill-tempered bark.…
Candy lives a lonely life on the ranch. He works alone because he can’t work with the other guys. His hand is cut off, so he can’t lift stuff. The guys leaves him back at the ranch while they go to drink and sleep with women. Then, Candy doesn’t want Carlson to shoot his dog because it’s his only companion. Candy says, “I don’t mind takin care of him.” (45).…
From this extract we can see that the killing of candy’s dog is an important part of the novel, because it shows the loss of a companion for candy, making him even more alone than he already is and showing us how strong his relationship was with his old dog. Also, it shows how ruthless the ranch hands can be and selfish for not caring for candy’s feelings about the death of his dog. As well as that, the death of Candy’s dog testifies to the pitiless process by which the strong attack and eliminate the weak.…
