10.) Notice how throughout the book Lennie is often times referred to as an animal. How does his death connect to these references?

Well in the first chapter I believe,the author describes Lennie`s feet and hands as paws and at the end he gets shot for being bad. Picture it, your neighbor has a dog that is kept in their backyard most of the time and is very friendly usually. One day for some strange reason when the mailman comes to deliver your neighbor their mail all of a sudden the once very friendly dog is now chewing up the mailman`s hand and is attacking him like he stole something. Now to make a long story short, when a dog is mad, or crazy or is uncontrollable, it is shot or put to death. Do you see the connection? Lennie, the dog, killed a puppy and Curley`s wife, and injured Curley`s hand, the mailman, and was then.... shot like a mad dog.