https://padlet.com/21pearsonc/npeo6oo3p7ne Night, Of Mice and Men. en-us 2018-06-15 11:35:05 UTC 2025-10-22 13:29:13 UTC hello@padlet.com 21pearsonc https://padlet.com/21pearsonc/npeo6oo3p7ne/wish/267357052 In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the character Lennie had made many mistakes while under the pressure of a future he wanted to have . Lennie was a below intelligent individual, and portrayed many times throughout the book he was not able to make good decisions while under pressure. It is made clear, that a large cloud of fear had been hovering over him. Him and George were planning on buying a farm where as he loved to think, he could tend the rabbits.However, If he did a "bad thing", he believed George would give him no part of this dream. This external pressure influenced Lennie's decisions. Making a bad decision under this immense pressure led to his death, and another. Lennie was tending towards the puppies in the barn, as Curley's wife confronted him, allowing Lennie to touch her soft hair, she knew Lennie loved soft things. Unfortunately, Lennie had gripped too hard and she began to scream; the cloud of fear hovering of Lennie had began to pour. "He shook her then, and he was angry with her. "Don't you go yellin', he said, and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck"(Steinbeck 91). Lennie did not murder Curley's wife with dark intent. While in the moment Lennie had no other thought than of him not being able to tend the rabbits on the farm. He had no thought of the woman in front of him begging for him to stop; the woman he killed. George was forced to euthanize Lennie because of his poor decisions, as Lennie would have been tortured if he were to stay alive. Lennie ultimately portrayed he could not make good decisions while under his external pressure, as it had led to his own death. ]]> 2018-06-15 11:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/21pearsonc/npeo6oo3p7ne/wish/267357052 21pearsonc https://padlet.com/21pearsonc/npeo6oo3p7ne/wish/267357086 In Night by Elie Wiesel , Elie had been given countless external pressures from the holocaust he suffered; these external pressures caused him to make bad decisions. Elie Wiesel, had been forced to fight for his life everyday, never knowing if he would live to see another. However, he lost his entire family besides his father while in the concentration camps. And making sure his father stayed alive was important to him, more important than keeping his own self alive. Elie had seen many horrors throughout his time at the concentration camps. He saw fellow Jews starve to death, beaten, shot, and hung. Yet, through these tragic events he always had his father, but, his father was old and was withering away in physical condition which is what the Nazis fed off of. The pressure of making sure his father stayed alive, and not another number lost in history put tremendous strain on Elie, and he made many bad decisions because of this. He almost died because of it. As the end of WWII was nearing, Elie and his fathers camp, Auschwitz was beginning to deport its prisoners as Russian forces were nearing. At this time, Elie was in the infirmary, where the Nazis were allowing the patients and doctors to stay. Elie's care in his father caused him to make his biggest mistake of all. "We could decide our fate for ourselves. To stay, both of us in the infirmary, where thanks to my doctors, he could enter as either a patient or a medic. I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went"(Wiesel 82) Rather than him and his father staying in the infirmary, where they would have been liberated shortly after, Elie decided to stay with his father and deport with the other prisoners while under the pressure of making sure his father stayed safe. Shortly after, Elie's father died when they arrived to Buchenwald, another concentration camp. Elie could have kept his father if he forced him to stay in the infirmary. The pressure of keeping his father alive, is what killed his father. ]]> 2018-06-15 11:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/21pearsonc/npeo6oo3p7ne/wish/267357086 21pearsonc https://padlet.com/21pearsonc/npeo6oo3p7ne/wish/267357180 In Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, the character Jack was a young boy, who's family had no food nor money and his care for his mother caused him to make bad decisions. Jack lived with only his mother. who he loved more than anyone else. Him and his mother having no food nor money put tremendous pressure on him. He was forced to sell their cow, Milky White, who Jack loved and did not want to let go. However, he did for his mother and it led him down a bad path. Jack traded his cow, for beans, magic beans. He was worried and nervous, which caused him to take the beans under pressure However, this was not the worst of his decisions. Those magical beans grew into an enormous stalk that would stretch into the heavens as explained by the Narrators. On top of this stalk were a home of giants. Filled with many riches. Jack saw this as the solution to keep him and his mother fed. He began to venture up the stalk and steal what was not his. The giants quickly found out, and Jack murdered one of these giants, still under the pressure of keeping him and his mother safe and fed. This did not end well, for many people. "We do not see the giant, but when she speaks, the sound is loud and comes downward, from the direction of the shadow. Giant: Where is the lad who killed my husband?" (Sondheim Lapine 100). Jacks poor decision of killing the giants husband was detrimental to himself and many others. Wanting to take care of himself and his mother led him down this path that he could no longer walk away from. Many people died by the terrorizing giant who was in mourning of her husband. All because Jack had made a bad decision under pressure; and his bad decision making was portrayed throughout the book. ]]> 2018-06-15 11:44:13 UTC https://padlet.com/21pearsonc/npeo6oo3p7ne/wish/267357180