Take off your hat, Lennie

Children are children. In childhood – fearing to be alone - children have the virtue of dividing in other people and thus being accompanied. This way, while waiting for George, the child Lennie started chattering with his aunt who reproached him his behaviour with his best friend.

Not only can you be with another person, in childhood, you can be arguing even with animals, because animals, adults or not, sometimes they have an incredible skill to row and that happened to Lennie with a giant rabbit, very sure of itself, which tells him that he´s not trained to raise rabbits. He doesn´t like to be contradicted.

Lennie is truly enraged when he hears the footsteps of someone approaching him. It's George.

From my Borstal.

LDR

Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck. Pocket Penguin Classic. London, 2006.