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    Sierra Villanueva Mrs. José English II PAP 4th 8 November 2011 Of Mice And Men : An Annotated Bibliography "Book Review: Of Mice & Men." A Novel Menagerie. Novel Menagerie‚ 2009. Web. 7 Nov 2011. <http://anovelmenagerie.com/2009/02/18/book-review-of-mice-and-men/>. The author of this review focuses on the life of Lennie. She sympathizes with the hard times Lennie had to go through as a character. The author describes Lennie to the readers as an innocent‚ childlike character who

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    “Lennie asked timidly”. “snorting into the water like a horse”. Lennie sees George as a role model – “Lennie‚ who had been watching‚ imitated George exactly”. Lennie is told in chapter that if he is in trouble‚ he is to return to the brush – “hide in the brush till I come for you”. Lennie gets in trouble all the time – “Like what happened in Weed Lennie acts as a child – “he’s jes’ like a kid”. Curley’s wife quotes Curley’s wife has “full rouged lips and wide-spread eyes”. Curley’s wife threatens Crooks

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    Euthanasia is a serious issue‚ but is what George did to Lennie considered as euthanasia? The character Lennie from John Steinbeck book “Of Mice and Men” had been suffering from a developmental delay for all of his life and this eventually led to him murdering a woman and several animals.When Lennie tried to run he found himself cornered on a mountain top over a river. Another one of Steinbeck’s characters‚ Lennie’s best friend George‚ had to choose between killing Lennie himself or letting the

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    Explore the ways that Arthur Miller and John Steinbeck use dreams in Of Mice and Men and Death of a Salesman – Dreams are used throughout Death of a Salesman and Of Mice and Men. Both authors Miller and Steinbeck use dreams but from different perspective‚ different context and different backgrounds. John Steinbeck‚ before he became an author worked in a farm as a farm labourer and also worked at a sugar plant and a was a fruit picker in the West of America‚ in California‚ where most of his inspiration

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    they have. They all have a problem that causes them to be lonely. Thesis- Steinbeck shows several of his characters as lonely‚ including Lennie‚ Curley’s Wife‚ and Candy because they all have different people that leave them and make them lonely. The first character that I will talk about is Lennie. Lennie is traveling with George but Lennie is slow and George thinks Lennie is not good for anything. George goes off and leaves Lennie at the ranch where he causes trouble. He thinks George is trying to

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    Chapter 1 1. Why does Steinbeck describe the setting with such detail? He describes it in such detail because he wants to describe the setting in a way that appeals to the reader. Opinions may vary‚ but when I read the first page I automatically thought of a place abundant in greenery and animals. Maybe even a forest with a running river. But then later on in the book he describes the setting in a very opposite manner. 2. What is the relationship between George and Lennie? George and Lennie

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    ‘Of Mice and Men’ and two poems by John Agard Oppression is the act of a person in a position of power controlling the less powerful in cruel and unfair ways. These two authors present the theme of oppression in various different ways. John Agard is a mixed race poet‚ his poems‚ ‘’Half Caste’’ and ‘’Checking Out Me History’’‚ are written in non-standard English as he writes about what it is like being black and challenging racist attitudes. Likewise‚ John Steinbeck‚ the author of‚ ‘’Of Mice and

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    ones life taint the quality of existence‚ a fantasy setting in ones mind can create happiness. These ‘happy places’ that all individuals visit in their mind contrast slightly to the real world in regards to what they represent and invoke from the individual. In the short novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ by John Steinbeck‚ the significance of a fantasy place is exemplified through the struggles and hopes of George Milton and Lennie Small. While both are unfortunate individuals who rely on each others presence

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    Locke begins chapter six by saying that men suggest that all of the parental power is established in the fathers‚ but that the mothers have equal say in matters. He gives proof of this by quoting one of the commandments‚ Honor thy father and thy mother. Because of this‚ Locke says that a monarchy should rule the same as parents‚ together and with equal authority. One man should not have all the power. He does recognize that while he says all men are equal‚ that men who are older and more experienced

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    allowed to stay with the other men in the bunk house or allowed to do things with them. This is because he is coloured. Throughout the book it shows us how Crooks is being harassed and discriminated against because of his colour. In the novel Crooks tells Curley’s wife " you have no right comin’ in a colored man’s room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Curley’s wife was shocked that Crooks said this to her and she said back to him " listen nigger‚ you know what I can do to you if you open

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