Of Mice and Men Chapter-by-Chapter Reading Notes and Questions Please answer all questions on a separate page. Of Mice and Men Reading Notes: Chapter One (pgs. 1–16) Introduction While reading Of Mice and Men‚ we will pause to make some observations. These observations are intended to improve your ability to see and interpret key ideas and events in the story. Write your responses to these questions on a separate sheet of paper as you read. It’s fine to type your responses if you prefer
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In the novel‚ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ foreshadowing is used to give the readers an idea to what could happen towards the end of the book. There is slight reference‚ which hint slightly‚ and also direct parallel of the situation‚ with Candy and his dog. There are episodes in the novel where Lennie’s physical strength and childlike incompetence‚ which are presented to emphasise the instinctive threat‚ which he poses. When George talks of what happened in Weed‚ he proclaims that Lennie
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Even though women won the right to vote in 1920‚ that still did not change how women were seen in this time period. Women during the Great Depression had a lot responsibility. They struggled to take care of their families and always had difficulties finding jobs to support their loved ones. In the book Of Mice and Men‚ John Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife to represent women and to show all the hardships they suffered during this time. Women struggled a great deal during the Great Depression. Many
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Isolation of the characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’ Curley’s wife is the only female on the ranch and is described in a very feminine and incongruous manner‚ “full‚ rouged lips and wide spaced eyes‚ heavily made-up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters‚ like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules‚ on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers”. The bold‚ heavily made-up appearance matches her personality as she disguises her true
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John Steinbeck shows that discrimination can lead to aggression in the novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ through the character Lennie. Lennie tries to explain to George that he doesn’t try to kill the mice‚ but he ends up killing them anyway; “I’d pet ‘em and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead-because they was so little” (Steinbeck 10). Lennie wants the comfort of having something to take care of even if it is just a mouse. George doesn’t understand why
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but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody?” (87). Curley’s Wife is asking Lennie why he cannot talk to her‚ and displays how Curley’s Wife feels alone and isolated by being suppressed. Loneliness causes her to seek attention from others and eventually leading to her death. Not having a true self-identity is a result of Curley’s Wife loneliness‚ and why she has no name. Curley’s Wife has no self-identity instead Curley defines her identity‚ and this
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HOW DOES STEINBECK PORTRAY THE THEME OF LONELINESS IN “Of Mice And Men”? Steinbeck introduces characters sequentially and in this way is able to demonstrate a recurring theme of loneliness. Loneliness comes with racism‚ discrimination & ageism. Marginalization is a word which so eloquently describes the happenings that transpire throughout the book: Of Mice & Men. One character‚ who suffers from loneliness through intolerable discrimination‚ is Curley’s wife. She is discriminated against purely
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How does Steinbeck present disadvantaged characters? John Steinbeck’s novel ‘of mice and men’‚ is set in California during the 1930s. At this point in time was the ‘great depression.’ Steinbeck got the name of the novel from a poem called ‘To a mouse on turning up her nest with a plough.’ There are many reasons why Steinbeck wrote this novel: one is that he was briefly a ranch hand‚ meaning he had a great comprehension of the difficulties and disadvantages of working on a ranch. Another reason
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How does Steinbeck present the lives of migrant workers in chapters one to three in ‘Of Mice and Men’? John Steinbeck’s novel‚ ‘Of Mice and Men’‚ was published in 1937. At this time America was still suffering the from the depression and the wandering workers who form the basis of the novel were very much within the consciousness of a nation separated by wealth yet driven by the idea of ‘the American dream’. Steinbeck’s novel is‚ however‚ essentially a tale of loneliness and of men struggling alone
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How does Steinbeck explore different attitude towards women in the novel Of Mice and Men? John Steinbeck provides a variety of different attitudes towards women in the novel ‘Of Mice and Men.’ I will explore these attitudes in order to represent the portrayal of women in the book; in which there are many different women with different attitudes respectively. Steinbeck uses the portrayal of Curley’s wife‚ who is the main female protagonist to show how women were treated during the 1930’s ‘Depression
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