Because Lennie's last name is Small. And the irony is that Lennie is viewed as a big and powerful man, but even though he may be big, he just can't grasp the importance of anyâ¦thing. Also John Steinbeck (the author) is saying that however big a person may be, he will still feel very small inside if he is lonely, hurt or misunderstood.
The class Gastropoda includes snails and slugs of all kinds and all sizes from microscopic to large. There are many thousands of species of sea snails and sea slugs, as well as freshwater snails, freshwater limpets, land snails and land slugs.The class Gastropoda contains a vast total of named species, second only to the insects in overall number.The fossil history of this class goes back to the Late Cambrian.There are 611 families of gastropods known, of which 202 are extinct and appear only in the fossil record.owever, eyes in gastropods range from simple ocelli that only distinguish light and dark, to more complex pit eyes, and even to lens eyes. In land snails and slugs, vision is not the most important sense, because they are mainly nocturnal animals.
This article on nocturnal animals list will help you understand the insects, birds, and animals that can hunt and survive in the dark. Indeed mother nature has intrigued us in various ways. Similar to the presence of thorns in desert plants to grow in less water or arid soil, there are some bird and animal species that are adapted to remain active in the darkness as well. Such animal behavior is known as nocturnality. And nocturnal animals are those belonging to this behavioral group. Likewise, plant varieties with the flowers open during night and closed at daytime are called nocturnal plants. In oppose to the diurnal animals that sleep at night, nocturnal animals rest during the daytime and come out at night in search of food. However, in contrary to the common belief that all nocturnal animals see well in the dark, many of them have a poor eyesight.