Explain how Steinbeck presents Crooks in the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ The first time Crooks was mentioned by Candy Chapter 1 page 21. Candy is the gossip one‚ he knows everything‚ and sees everything. Candy introduces Crooks to Lennie and George. ‘Yeah. Nice fella‚ too. Got a crooked back where horse kicked him. The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable bucks don’t give a damn about that’. That shows that Crooks doesn’t care what people think about him‚ he respects himself. On
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Steinbeck portrays Curley’s wife in multiple ways. In the first appearance of ‘Mice of Men’ he described her symbolically using a metaphor; ‘the rectangle of sunshine in the door way was cut off’. This is already foreshadowing to the reader that Curley’s wife is trouble‚ for example the metaphor Steinbeck used to describe her can be referred to as light and darkness. In this case Curley’s wife representing the darkness presenting her as destructive further in the book‚ an example of her being destructive
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Reading Log: Where Football is King Part I: 9-54 The book Where Football is King by Christopher Walsh is about the history of arguably the greatest collegiate conference in all of sports; the SEC. At the beginning‚ it talks about how the SEC got started‚ the original teams‚ coaches and early memorable games. For instance‚ when Georgia Tech was still in the SEC‚ they beat Cumberland College 220-0. As time went on and football started to spread across the country‚ teams started to branch
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A Raisin In The Sun: Reading Logs Act 1 Day1: Walter approaches Ruth with kindness but Ruth denies him at first. This tells Walter something is wrong and her being upset could foreshadow complications between them. Ruth longs for a new life. Day2: Walter talks about a dream of owning a liquor store. He has the idea of getting some money from his Mom. Ruth denies him and ignores his dreams. They get into a fight on how useless each other are‚ comparing themselves to white people. Beneatha (nicknamed
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LEFT HAND PAGE | RIGHT HAND PAGE | Santich‚ B and G. Bryant. 2008. “Gatherers To Growers” In Edible: The Illustrated Guide to the world’s Food Plants‚ 14-19. Australia: Cameron House | Santich‚ B and G. Bryant. 2008. “Gatherers To Growers” In Edible: The Illustrated Guide to the world’s Food Plants‚ 14-19. Australia: Cameron House | In this book chapter Santich and Bryant looks at how our ancestors became more efficient in improving their living conditions. They described how our ancestors became
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H/W Of Mice and Men Notes up to page 9 5.11.12 Page 3 – On this page I thought that John Steinbeck described the overall setting of the place. “A few miles south of Soledad‚ the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.” Straightaway Steinbeck sets the scene and puts us in place. The description on this page is visual and also audial. The writer achieves this by saying‚ “recumbent limbs” and “skittering”. Steinbeck personifies the trees branches by saying they
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who Lennie was falsely accused of raping. The first thing the reader notes when reading about Curley’s wife is the lack of importance she is being given by Steinbeck not mentioning her name‚ and by referring to her as a possession of Curley ‚however this also reflects to 1930’s America‚ when women weren’t given any importance and were treated with a huge amount of disrespect. They didn’t have much power over the men and were considered ‘useless’. Henceforth Steinbeck may have not given her a name
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person to presents candy and show his feeling and emotions to the reader and makes the reader feel sypethic for the character. He is giving us allot of information of the character by doing this and it tells us the thought of the reader’s learnt for reading this novel that candy is a lonely and isolated character in the ranch as soon he will be useless as he is getting old as a result of this the boss will have to kick him out of the ranch as he will be useless as a consequence of this he will be left
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contrast‚ Steinbeck also provides a blunt backdrop to the violent language and feelings that characters like George have due to the time fame of the novella. Steinbeck uses improper grammar in his dialogue to demonstrate the backgrounds of the men. Steinbeck used language that illustrates the uneducated backgrounds of Lennie and George. In their dialogue‚ he spells words incorrectly to show how the characters pronounce the word. This gives the dialogue a realistic style. The realistic pronunciation
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hardly realistic; he thinks of nature as full of fluffy and cute playthings. He has no notion of the darkness in the natural world‚ the competition and the cruelty. He wouldn’t have the faintest notion how to feed himself without George. In this too the men balance each other: George sees the world through suspicious eyes. He sees only the darkness where Lennie sees only the light. George may complain about how burdensome it is to care for Lennie‚ but this complaint seems to ring hollow: in truth‚ George
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