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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English 102 Compare and Contrast Essay Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy shaped the work of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Both are revenge tragedies that include the mystery of death. Behind the mystery‚ there is a spirit of the dead who appears before the protagonists‚ Hieronimo and Hamlet‚ to cry out for revenge. In The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet‚ soliloquy plays an important role. It is often used to express the true feelings of the main characters. In both tragedies‚ the protagonists use
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ENG111-001 Compare/Contrast Essay Final Draft 25‚ June 2012 Camping or Resort I have always wondered what would be the difference between camping at a state park and a resort vacation. I looked into two different vacations that a family might enjoy‚ comparing the difference between what it would take to prepare for‚ the prices for a week and what is offered with both. Primitive camping consists of a tent‚ fire ring and a picnic table. Families
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He Shoots and He Scores? George is a kind hearted guy but he is faced with the murder of his best friends. Was it the right thing for him to do? In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ George shoots Lennie to save him from Curley’s wrath‚ because George loves Lennie‚ and to protect Lennie from himself. George must shoot Lennie because Curley would torture Lennie until death. Everyone in the ranch knowns‚ “‘Curley’s still mad ‘bout his hand’”(Steinbeck). Lennie had previously broken Curley’s
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“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart‚ I shall say that life is good.” -Helen Keller. This quote speaks of why friendship is such a significant part in our life‚ similarly to what John Steinbeck shows in the book‚ Of Mice and Men. Friendship is not simple‚ it is very complex. It is made up of key elements such as: struggles‚ happiness and dreams‚ George and Lennie clearly shows these thought the book. To say a friendship is always enjoyable would be a lie. In fact‚ often
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Second Paragraph A. Topic Sentence: In the novel‚ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ the main characters George and Lennie want to "live off the fatta the lan’." (7) B. Example‚ Reason‚ or Fact from the text: Lennie and George dream of owning a ranch. It’s what keeps them going and motivates them. They keep
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Of Mice and Men‚ by John Steinbeck‚ shows an outcast who is excluded from the company of others in the book. The books shows that everyone will eventually feel loneliness and isolation. Almost everyone in the book has some sort of issue or reason for them to become lonely and isolated. People that are outcast in the book are Crooks‚ Lennie‚ and Curley’s wife. Crooks is the only black man at the ranch with a crooked back and he lives by himself. Others asked him not bother the whites and he told
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Is ‘Of mice and men’ a pessimistic novel? Written in 1936‚ ‘Of Mice and Men’ is perhaps a bleak novella by John Steinbeck. It is set in California in the 1930’s at the time of ‘The Great Depression’ and ‘The Dust Bowl’ when life was particularly harsh and humanity somewhat lacking. Arguably‚ the novel is a pessimistic one as it depicts the world of migrant workers‚ lonely and desperate and hungry to achieve unattainable dreams. However‚ ‘The American Dream’ also stands as a symbol of hope and
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This essay will compare & contrast the protagonist/antagonist’s relationship with each other and the other jurors in the play and in the movie versions of Reginald Rose’s 12 Angry Men. There aren’t any changes made to the key part of the story but yet the minor changes made in making the movie adaptation produce a different picture than what one imagines when reading the drama in the form of a play. First off‚ the settings in the movie are a great deal more fleshed out. In the play‚ the scene begins
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and living off the pension joy riders — I am a dropout.’ These are all ideas raised and challenged by Joshua Iosefo’s 2011 viral speech‚ ’Brown Brother’. ’Brown Brother’ is one of three texts that will be examined‚ compared and contrasted in this essay. The second text‚ ’Manurewa’‚ is a short film based on the South Auckland murder of Navtej Singh‚ a liquor shop owner. The third text is ’Fish Heads’‚ a short story written by Aparina Taylor‚ that focuses on a group of Maori boys who live in the
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