Section A - Of Mice and Men Section: 1 hour for this section – whole exam 1 hour 45 minutes. Part a Questions. (16 marks) 5 minutes annotating 20 – 25 minutes writing 1. Read the question carefully. 2. Spend 5 minutes annotating the extract carefully. You need to underline key quotations and make brief focused comments. DO NOT MISS THIS PART OUT. 3. Track through the whole extract choosing your 5 or 6 most perceptive comments and exploring Steinbeck’s use of language. 4. Introduce your points
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Matthew Williams HIS 3 Paper #1 Throwing off the British monarchy on July 4‚ 1776‚ left the United States with no central government. It had to design and install a new government and quickly. As early as May 1776‚ Congress advised each of the colonies to draw up plans for state government; by 1780‚ all thirteen states had adopted written constitutions. In June 1776‚ the Continental Congress began to work on a plan for a central government. It took five years for it to be approved‚ first by members
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The story ’Of Mice and Men’‚ written by John Steinbeck‚ is bassically a novel that is about impairments that are both symbolic and literal. Most of the characters in the novel are impaired in a constricting way‚ whether it is mentally through isolation‚ loneliness and intellectuality or physically through their damaged bodies. Crooks‚ the stable buck who works with the ranch horses‚ resides in a little shed connected to the barn by himself because he is the only black man on the ranch. He is named
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Greavu 1 John Greavu WRIT 1301 Mr. Anderson 13 DEC 2011 Major Paper #4: Self Assessment: Turning “I Hate You” Into “Thank You” Throughout my life‚ for some reason or another‚ my writing has always been one of my weakest academic areas. At a very young age‚ through a series of many tests at doctors’ offices and local universities‚ I was told that I was three things‚ ADHD‚ OCD‚ and finally “gifted”. In addition to being hyper‚ having a very short attention span‚ and being obsessive-compulsive about
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“Of Mice and Men” Quotes Hopes and Dreams: “An’ live off the fatta the lan’‚” Lennie shouted. “An’ have rabbits” “We’d jus’ live there. We’d belong there. We’d have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunk house” They fell into silence. They looked at one another‚ amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true. “Nobody never gets to heaven‚ and nobody never gets no land. It just in their head.” [Crooks] “why I’d come lend a hand” “Well just
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Writing My Essay 1. Deconstruct 1. How is friendship shown in the text‚ Of Mice and Men? 2. How is misunderstanding shown in the text‚ Of Mice and Men? 3. How is mental illness shown in the text‚ Of Mice and Men? Teacher Example: How is gender shown in the text‚ Of Mice and Men? 1. Keywords – Highlighted topic a. How b. misunderstanding c. Shown d. Text i. Synonyms 1. How – In what way‚ by what means 2. Misunderstanding-
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Of Mice and Men: Discrimination ’"Why ain’t you wanted?" Lennie asked. "’Cause I’m black. They play cards in there‚ but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink.’ (p.68) Discrimination is the treatment of a person based on the group‚ class‚ or category to which that person belongs. Discrimination is demonstrated in Of Mice and Men many times throughout the book with Lennie‚ Curley’s wife‚ and Crooks. Each one of these characters experience discrimination in the book and it can be related
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In the book “ of mice and men” Euthanasia played a small theme but a very important one. Euthanasia is painlessly putting a person to death. One example of euthanasia in “mice of men” is For a moment he was business like.”Steinbeck pg 105. This described George’s personality before he killed Lennie. He had to prepare himself to get ready to kill his close friend. He had to do this to save him he would either have gone to jail or had been killed slowly. Not only is euthanasia used
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How does Steinbeck show the importance of work in “Of Mice And Men” Of Mice And Men is set mostly on a ranch‚ which is where men go to make money. Money is a much-needed resource‚ and the only way to get it is through working. Money is important for the characters of the story to complete their dreams. Hence work is important in “Of Mice And Men”. When the reader was informed of (Our main characters) George and Lennie’s dream to get a farm and to “Live off the fatta the lan’” (p.15). As there
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Loneliness is the feeling of isolation and no hope or dreams in your life-which is what Steinbeck achieves by portraying this theme effectively through key fictional characters in Of Mice and Men. By living in the town of ‘Soledad’ (Spanish for loneliness)‚ the audience gets an overwhelming sense of the depressing environment that the migrant farmers are living through by their repetitive lifestyle and the consequences they face through the Great Depression and the Dustbowl. Yet another aspect of
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