Please take a moment to complete this survey below
Library's collection Library's IT development CancelLennie, in the novel of Of Mice and Men, is described as
a mentally handicapped person. The way he does and sees
things refers to that of simple child-like manner eventhough
his simplicity as a mentally handicapped person is not
reflected in his use of sentence patterns.
His use of sentence patterns involves all of the pat-terns
existing in aduIt-language. He can perform the pat-terns
of simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sen-tences,
and compound-complex sentences.
The performance of Lennie's simple sentences in stage I
is greater than that in stage II and III. This pattern be-comes
less and less from stage I to stage II and from stage
II to stage III. Also, in stage III, the reduction of this
pattern is followed by the increase in other sentence pat-terns
which are more complicated. And his language perform-ance
in stage III is better structurally than that in stage
I. Besides, the sentences in stage III are relatively longer
than those in stage I. Finally, it can be concluded that
Lennie's language develops.