“I seen guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good. They don’t have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They wantin’ to fight all the time.”(Steinbeck‚ 41). In the novel “Of Mice and Men” By John Steinbeck‚ we learn about George Milton and his Companion Lennie Small they are two men traveling town to town looking for work in the 1930s Great Depression. Until they end up at a ranch up in soledad that is really mean and cruel and this rance splits these two apart forever. A major
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Chapter One George and Lennie stop off for the night before going to a ranch where they’ve been hired to work. The two men talk about their problems in the past and their plans for the future. Vocabulary All page numbers refer to the Penguin Books edition‚ 1993. "...willows fresh and green with every spring‚ carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter’s flooding: and sycamores with mottled‚ white‚ recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool (p. 1)." "...and
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Of Mice and Men Foreshadowing is used in several different stories to assist the reader with their predictions throughout the story. Of Mice and Men is a story about George and Lennie‚ two migrant workers that dream of having a ranch with animals‚ and being able to work for themselves. They arrive to Riverbank and meet several other workers. George and Lennie face severe obstacles at their new work. John Steinbeck‚ the author of the novel uses foreshadowing in the story through characters and events
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John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing through out the story of "Of Mice and Men" to prepare the reader for the final scene. Foreshadowing is the composition of layered hints or clues about what may happen in the future of the story. Early in the story‚ these lines or events suggest a wide range of possibilities to the audience. But as the story progresses‚ the range narrows. In order for the impact of foreshadowing to be effective‚ the audience has to be both surprised by the climax of the story and
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short natural vignettes with the parallel struggles of humankind. Of Mice and Men‚ as is clear from the title alone‚ features this parallelism as well. It is a novel about the natural world – “of mice” – and the social world – “and men.” The relationship between these two worlds is not one of conflict but of comparison; he invites us to witness the similarities between the human and animal worlds. The title‚ Of Mice and Men‚ comes from an eighteenth-century poem by Robert Burns entitled “To a
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Brooke Ahonen Ms. Phillips College English 10 18 November 2012 Foreshadowing in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men The word foreshadow is a literary term used to describe how the author discreetly gives clues to the reader of the events later to occur. The touching realistic fiction novelette Of Mice and Men is written by John Steinbeck. George and Lennie‚ two men who have become close friends over time‚ travel together to a ranch to pursue their dream as a team. George is considered to be Lennie’s
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“If you ever just happen to get in trouble like you have always done before‚ I want you to come right here and hide in the brush.”(doc B) In the story Of Mice and Men there are two main characters‚ George and Lennie. George is average sized and intelligent‚ and Lennie is tall‚ very muscular‚ and below average. George and Lennie have a farm dream that they will own land‚ so they go to work on a ranch to earn money. A worker there‚ Candy‚ offers to go in with 300 dollars. Everything is looking
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OF MICE AND MEN Chapter 1 Setting : It is a hot Thursday‚ late in the afternoon. The characters are four miles south of Soledad. They stop right by the Salinas River‚ a beautiful river in rural California surrounded by woods that have a warn path through them that runs to the river from the ranches and farms. There is a giant sycamore near them with a horizontal limb worn smooth by men who have sat on it‚ and under it is the ash pile of many fires. It is a very peaceful and heavenly setting.
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In John Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck expertly uses foreshadowing to prelude many surprising events in the ending. From the very beginning we can predict what will happen to the two main characters: Lennie and George. It is used to hint at future events concerning Lennie’s death. First‚ Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to hint at Curley’s wife’s’ death and that Lennie killed her through the mouse’s death early in the novel‚ and the dog’s death mere pages before. Lennie had killed the
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set.”(pg.6) According to that Lennie is a great worker at the ranch but he can’t communicate very well with other people. So‚ George is unconfident because he knows that Lennie is a good worker‚ and if they get the job they will be the most blissful men in the country. On the other hand‚ Lennie is very much like a child‚ and children like to nag‚
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