Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Q- “I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her” what is the reader supposed to think about Curley’s wife? * How is she described by the other characters? * How the author describes her * How she speaks/behaves * Her dreams * Is she the cause of all the trouble Written By Ruqayyah Draey Curley’s wife is not well described and respected by the other characters. She is often looked down upon and discriminated
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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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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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In the book Of Mice and Men Lennie is the one with a disability. George is Lennie’s keeper and takes care of him. George and Lennie go everywhere together and they are always together. Lennie is very unique you could say. Lennie doesn’t really get things all the way and he can’t really remember things that George tells him. In this book my character whom is Lennie represents an intellectual person. Lennie isn’t fully there he forgets things very easily and he doesn’t really know a lot of stuff.
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after the play‚ therefore Arthur Miller was able to fill and take away in places that needed‚ which gives lots of comparison and contrast between them. In Act I of The Crucible‚ it starts with the girls gathering up and meeting Tituba in the woods. An example of change from the text to film‚would be the setting of Abigail and Proctor’s conversation. In the book‚ the setting took place in Parris’ home therefore‚ Betty heard. Whereas in the film‚ the conversation happened in private outside Parris’
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community should not be able to ban books. They could be educational to students‚ and they would be missing out on that education. For example‚ Of Mice and Men helped our class learn a lot of the literary elements‚ and good ways to right books. Of Mice and Men and other books like it are banned a lot of the time. However‚ Of Mice and Men as well as a lot of other books that are banned are banned because of stupid reasons. Sometimes‚ even‚ the reason the book was banned was because of what the author
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scene. This distinction in description is also displayed in John Steinback’s novella Of Mice and Men. Steinback composes two passages‚ the first the opening of the first chapter‚ and the second the opening of the sixth chapter (the last chapter). These two texts describe a site that the two main protagonists of the plot‚ Lennie Small and George Milton‚ visit both in the very beginning and very end of the book. However‚ similar to sentence one and sentence two‚ the mood from these two passages is
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on the 1952 play The Crucible by Arthur Miller did a commendable job at an accurate portrayal of the play. But in any book‚ or in this case‚ play to movie conversion‚ some differences occur. The few differences that stand are not important enough to sway the fact that the movie did an excellent job of portraying the play. One of the biggest differences between the play and the movie is the dramatization of everything‚ they show all seances with something that the play could not deliver by itself. One
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Of Mice and Men and The Great Gatsby are tragic books where the characters strive to achieve the American dream. Because of the common dreams of the characters‚ these two books’ characters can be compared to each other to teach morals about how to achieve the American Dream. The American Dream is a dream that everyone strives for‚ where the world is perfect in the eyes of the dreamer. The Dream that is nearly impossible to achieve‚ and describes the ideal world where everything goes correctly for
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* 1930s was a racist era – Crooks is referred to as a “nigger” (p.40) and naturally doesn’t have power * Crooks does have some power – books‚ possessions‚ gold glasses‚ own room “You got no right coming in here.” (p.100) * Able to be rude to and manipulate Lennie‚ which makes him feel powerful “You crazy as a wedge… (p.101) George might not come back” (p.103) “I guy goes crazy if he can’t talk to nobody” (p.105) * Backs down to Lennie who is disabled = weakness “I was just supposin’‚
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