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    alvinayingh... Student High School - 10th Grade eNoter Up 3 Down Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife to present the theme of loneliness in Of Mice and Men. Her real name is never revealed in the story‚ showing that she has never been considered as a real person with an identity of her own. In fact‚ Steinbeck depicts women as troublemakers who bring ruin on men and drive them mad- Curley’s bad temper has only worsen since their marriage. Her purpose in the book is rather simple- she is a ‘tramp’‚ a

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    Of Mice and Men and Slim

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    Curley‚ the boss’ son‚ is an evil character in Steinbeck’s world. Even Lennie feels the sense of menace when Curley first comes into the bunkhouse. Curley is a "thin young man with a brown face‚ with brown eyes and a head of tightly curled hair." According to Candy‚ Curley is an amateur boxer and is always picking fights‚ especially with guys who are bigger than he is. Curley tries to prove his masculinity by picking fights. Another way to prove himself is by marrying a physically attractive woman

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    Write a summary of the novel. The novella‚ Of Mice and Men‚ begins in the Selina’s Valley‚ where 2 hoboes‚ Lennie and George arrived in a new ranch. They escaped from Weed because Lennie‚ who had a developmental issue‚ was wrongly accused of rape when he touched a woman to feel her soft dress. They met Candy and their prison-like narrow beds. Then they recognized Curley‚ Slim‚ who was the only person that George could treat him intently‚ Carlson and Curley’s wife‚ who was pretty but indelicate

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    Summary: Of Mice And Men

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    Jerks not knowing what he had done was very confused and apologized to the miniature people for offending them. Jerks slowly got to his feet making sure not to step on any of the mini people. Jerks was as big as an elephant and the people were mice at his feet. with one step he could pass 8 city blocks and with one swipe of his hand he could level half of the city. Jerks had lived under his mothers strict hand for his entire life and now finally he held the power he could do anything he wanted

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    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 for his books such as

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    tools‚ curved knives and needles...” However it shows us that he has more freedom then the other men as it says: “Crooks could leave his things about‚ and being a stable buck and a cripple‚ he was more permanent than other men...” This tells us that although he is excluded from the other men in the workplace‚ it shows us that he can have more freedom then the other men and also he works longer than other men do. In Chapter 3 when Crooks appears in the novel for the first time‚ we get some description

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    thought of as defining the plot and symbolism of Of Mice and Men‚ that theme is loneliness. In many ways‚ from the outspoken to the subtle (such as Steinbeck’s decision to set the novel near Soledad‚ California‚ a town name that means "solitude" in Spanish)‚ the presence of loneliness defines the actions of the diverse characters in the book. The itinerant farm worker of the Great Depression found it nearly impossible to establish a fixed home. These men were forced to wander from ranch to ranch seeking

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    different characters in the story are lonely by telling how and why each character is lonely. The author makes the story exactly how it would be if it were real. The story shows how people are lonely because of the conditions 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

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    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 is misunderstand by the people surrounding

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    pups because I knew Lennie was obsessed with them” Judge - “Upon entering the barn‚ what did you find?” Candy - “I saw what I thought was Lucile sleeping in the hay which I thought was crazy‚ I said to her I didn’t know she was in her‚ and when she didn’t answer‚ I stepped abit closer‚ to which I then realised she was dead to which I then ran to get George” Judge - “I now call George Milton to the stand.” George - *Places hand on bible* “I swear to tell the truth‚ the whole truth so help me

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