‘Of mice and men’. Meanings of: • Bucking Barley- Throwing large bags of Barley grain onto the back of a truck. • Jerkline Skinner- A jerkline is a single rein that runs to the lead animal in the team of mules or horses. The skinner controls the jerkline. • Ranch Hand- A hired hand on a ranch. Info on: • Life working on farms/ranches in the 1930’s America. If you were a farmer in the Midwest and Southwest during the 1930s‚ you had seemingly everything against you--from the Great Depression
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Of Mice and Men Characters: George George Milton. A migrant worker who travels from farm to farm with his mentally impaired friend Lennie during the Depression. Lennie Lennie Small. A gigantic‚ mentally disabled man‚ Lennie is simplistic and docile. Candy An old‚ crippled man who has lost his hand‚ Candy is the swamper at the ranch. He remains attached to his aging dog‚ who has become so weak and sickly that it depends entirely on Candy to survive. Curley The son of the ranch owner‚ Curley
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How are dreams presented in Of Mice and Men? During the 1930’s in America‚ at the time of the Great Depression‚ John Steinbeck‚ an ordinary migrant worker wrote perhaps the shortest but well known novel – Of Mice And Men. I think Steinbeck was influenced by the poem “To A Mouse”‚ because the novel and poem are slightly alike. They both have dreams and determination but in the end‚ both are destroyed. In the novel‚ Steinbeck shows us that dreams are futile. You only have the dream because you are
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The importance of minor characters might not have been truly understood until John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men. Minor characters allow the author to have an event take place without going to deep into the characters background and back story. There are three extremely good examples of minor characters from Of Mice and Men‚ they are Curley’s wife‚ Crooks‚ and Carlson. Curley’s wife allows for one purpose to be shown through the text. The purpose of Curley’s wife is to ruin the American dream
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Explore the ways emotions are shown in the text you have studied. Steinbeck uses a wide range of techniques to explore emotions shown in of Mice and Men. Specifically in section 5 + 6 where three characters emotions are shown in contrast to what they had been interpreted as at the start of the novel through their emotions. George’s emotions dramatically change throughout the novel from a person who was seen as the brave man to the hesitant boy at the end. The abusive language George used was
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Romeo and Juliet: Act III Study Guide Scene 1 1) At the beginning of the scene‚ Benvolio thinks he and Mercutio should leave. 2) Tybalt hopes to fight with Romeo. 3) Tybalt calls Romeo a villain. 4) Romeo won’t fight Tybalt because they are now family since he married Juliet. 5) Mercutio gets stabbed when Romeo stands in front of him and Tybalt accidentally stabs him under Romeo’s arm. 6) Mercutio keeps repeating “A plague o’ both you houses” because he knows his death
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Of Mice and Men is a novella[1][2] written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937‚ it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small‚ two displaced migrant ranch workers‚ who move from place to place in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in California‚ USA. Based on Steinbeck’s own experiences as a bindlestiff in the 1920s (before the arrival of the Okies he would vividly describe in The Grapes of Wrath)‚ the title is taken from Robert
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Explore some of the ways Steinbeck leads up to George’s final decision to shoot Lennie in Of Mice and Men Loneliness and companionship is imminent throughout the book. It starts from the beginning when George sets the tone by repeating to Lennie that life on a ranch is the loneliest life there is‚ for example Steinbeck states “Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world’. This shows us that men on a ranch rarely have any companionship or safety however George and Lennie
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- Of Mice and Men – Chapter 2 questions 1. George and Lennie arrived at the ranch at ten o’clock in the morning local time due to there night in the wilderness. 2. Candy is the old handyman‚ aging and left with only one hand as the result of an accident‚ worries that the boss will soon declare him useless and demand that he leave the ranch. Of course‚ life on the ranch—especially Candy’s dog‚ once an impressive sheep herder but now toothless‚ foul-smelling‚ and brittle with age—supports
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Of Mice and Men Throughout history‚ women have been seen as inferior. During the Great Depression‚ women were not granted the same rights and freedoms as men. Curley’s wife experiences many of the same injustices that women did during that time. The negative perception of women develops in Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men due to the fact that Curley’s wife is not given a real identity or a purpose throughout the novel. She is consistently seen as a sex object rather than a human
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