...Not Today Is it possible to befriend or work with the mentally ill? Thanks to John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, we are able to get an idea of what it is like being friends and working with the mentally ill. This exact situation happens in the novella Of Mice and Men we have two main characters George and Lennie, George is known as the brains of all of the operations although he is small, he is smart. Our second main character is Lennie he is known to be really big, but not as smart as George and can be described as being mentally ill. In Of Mice and Men the three most important moods are peaceful, uneasy, and suspenseful. In the beginning of Of Mice and Men, the mood is peaceful. In the beginning they explained “the water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool” (Steinbeck 1). I believe in the quote above it symbolizes a gentle and calm setting. Because, it talks about the water being warm twinkling over...
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...Of Mice and Men In the novella Of Mice and Men, George kills Lennie. There is question whether or not George was validated in his decision. Provided Lennie did not have malicious intent, George was justified in his decision to shoot Lennie because Lennie caused trouble and burdened George. To begin, Lennie caused many of the conflicts in the novella. In chapter three, Slim and Carlson were giving Curley a hard time about his wife's carelessness. Lennie is smiling during this event. Even though Lennie is thinking about the ranch, this is not the time nor place to be smiling. Curley says brutally, '"What the hell you laughin' at?'" (Steinbeck 62). In this quote Curley shows he is heated. He is also putting all of the blame for the situation with his wife on Lennie. This tends to be a theme throughout the book causing more trouble. After Curley confronts Lennie, he becomes very aggressive. "Curley was balanced and poised. He lashed at Lennie with his left, and then smashed down his nose with a right"(...
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...Through the entirety of the classic novella ‘Of Mice and Men’, John Steinbeck uses a variety of dramatic techniques and stylistic devices to convey a clear message of: hopes, dreams and reality. Steinbeck’s placement of such techniques allows him to effectively create a causal loop within the narrative, subsequently applying heavy foreshadowing; whether Steinbeck used this consciously or not. The main plot explores the themes of idealism and more prominently- realism, Steinbeck connects a lot of his novella to real life issues currently happening in his time. Through the course of the narrative, Steinbeck used many literary techniques of which effectively drove the tale to become circular in its events. Steinbeck relied on events that had happened previously- before the narrative had taken place. Through doing so the author creates a vivid sense of ‘déjà-vu’ when a similar event takes place, of which happened quite frequently as the book progresses....
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...John Steinbeck was a famous man whom made great additions to literature. Writing classics such as “Of Mice and Men,” “Once There Was a War,” and others. All of his stories were quick to talk about human nature of some sort. Then in 1962 when he received the Nobel Prize, he openly expressed his opinion on what a writer should be making its readers feel. Mankind can either win or lose the battle internally as well as externally. Humans can conquer anything when we rule out fear, even though from time to time many all get lonely needing something to remind us of our homes. Steinbeck’s ideas were that a writer should be able to show the reality of life; to show that life is a war for every single person. In every single story mentioned from Steinbeck, he has shown that the real war is internal. Internal of course being inside of us, he showed that fear and any sort of emotion can make something so much harder to decide the next step. In that book the only person who seemed to understand the internal stirring was Slim. Who clearly said “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda.” Also, the understanding was very clear in the movie as well. As the men rode to look for Lennie, Slim looked at George and they both nodded at each other in a very knowing manner. George was trying to figure out how to protect Lennie while retaining the safety of the others around him. In Of Mice and Men at the very end of the book George had to make a serious decision that would affect him for the rest of...
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...OF MICE AND MEN READING GUIDE Use these questions to guide your reading and understanding of the novel. Preview the questions before you begin to read each chapter of the book. List your responses in the space after each question, or write more complete answers in your notebook. Chapter 1 1. In what part of the country does the novel take place? The story takes place near the Salinas River in California. 2. List words that describe Lennie. Childish, slow, childlike, immature, huge, follower, simple, forgetful 3. List words that describe George. Quick, wiry, muscular, caring, frustrated, small, leader 4. To what animal is Lennie compared? Lennie is compared to a bear. 5. To what animal would you compare George? weasel, tiger, raccoon, badger 6. Why were George and Lennie run out of Weed? - Lennie touched a little girl’s dress and grabbed it when she tried to get away. He was only trying to pet it like a mouse, but the people of Weed thought he was trying to molest her. 7. What things does Lennie do and say that make him like a child? Keeps forgetting, pets mice, asks over and over again about the ketchup, copies all of George’s movements 8. Does George really want Lennie to go away? Explain your answer. No, but he is very frustrated with him and has had to leave places because of him. George loves Lennie, but is tired of changing his life to...
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...Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men Steinbeck uses Crooks and Curley’s wife to portray Loneliness for minority people working on Ranches in the 1930’s; he uses precursors; light and dark to shape our response to these characters. One of the first precursors in the book is the tittle. Steinbeck has taken this from Robert Burns’ poem which says ’the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley’. This translates to the best laid plans of mice and men do often go awry. This tells us that Steinbeck has intentions to place bad things in the book to throw everyone off the trail they wish to follow or achieve. A person who Steinbeck has almost made clear from the start who is a trouble maker is Curley’s wife. From the moment we meet her in the book Steinbeck says she has ‘she had full rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her finger nails were red.’ Steinbeck writes it out to show she is a warning sign. He has made her all dressed up in red to show this. Steinbeck then focuses on her actions. He first focuses on her voice ‘her voice had a nasal, brittle quality. This says that she is trying to put on a tone for the new boys to try and get noticed. Then Steinbeck writes ‘She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward.’ This is also showing that she wants to be noticed. Steinbeck has done this to show that she has been lonely and that she really wants to be noticed. She then starts to talk playfully with George and...
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...a) How does Steinbeck present Curley’s wife in the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’? Use details from the text to support your answer. Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife’s life on the ranch as being a miserable one, and a life she didn’t expect to lead with her aspirations of being a movie star. She evidently isn’t ready for life on the ranch, as Steinbeck describes her as a “girl”, suggesting that she’s young, immature, and possibly quite quick-tempered and impetuous as she “flared up”. This suggests that she makes very quick, rash decisions, which is supported by the fact that she married Curley the night she met him. Her bad temper also has strong links to the colour red, which is often thought of as being quite a brash, angry colour, and is a recurring theme throughout the novel when it comes to Curley’s wife. She is described as wearing red mules and lipstick, and having red nails which she admires frequently. This could link to Steinbeck’s use of a hand motif throughout the story. Curley’s wife asks “what happened to Curley’s han’?” after complaining about being stuck with him for a husband, suggesting that she doesn’t have a happy married life, even though they’re only 2 weeks into their marriage. She’s extremely sarcastic when referring to her husband – “swell guy, ain’t he” – because of how she’s treated. Everybody thinks less of her as she’s a young woman (or possibly even in her late teens) in the 1930s, which was very much a male dominated society. Steinbeck uses Candy’s reluctance...
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...karigian “of mice and men” book summary The novel opens with two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, walking to a nearby ranch where harvesting jobs are available. George, the smaller man, leads the way and makes the decisions for Lennie, a mentally handicapped giant. They stop at a stream for the evening, deciding to go to the ranch in the morning. Lennie, who loves to pet anything soft, has a dead mouse in his pocket. George takes the mouse away from Lennie and reminds him of the trouble Lennie got into in the last town they were in — he touched a girl's soft dress. George then reminds Lennie not to speak to anyone in the morning when they get to the ranch and cautions Lennie to return to this place by the river if anything bad happens at the ranch. When he has to take the dead mouse away from Lennie a second time, George chafes at the hardship of taking care of Lennie. After calming his anger, George relents and promises Lennie they will try to find him a puppy; then he tells Lennie about their dream of having a little farm where they can be their own boss and nobody can tell them what to do, where Lennie will tend their rabbits, and where they will "live off the fatta the lan'." Lennie has heard this story so often he can repeat it by heart. And George emphasizes that this dream and their relationship make them different from other guys who don't have anyone or a place of their own. They settle down and sleep for the night. The next morning at the ranch...
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...and the beginnings of the Great Depression, there was an ideal called the American Dream that suggested that by talent, intelligence and a willingness to work hard, you could go from owning nothing…to gaining riches. This “dream” eluded many people, such as poor citizens from California and surrounding states and migrants suffering from the economical downfall from all parts of the world. It gave them false hopes and dreams of becoming wealthy and prosperous, when in reality, America was in the clutches of the most extensive and most profound economical/social depression ever known. The American Dream fooled endless people into believing that becoming successful is possible, no matter what your situation is. The victims of this fallacy, men and migrants, who owned nothing but the clothes on their backs, would end up living in squalid camps or wandering around the California Dust Bowl, searching for a job so they could make a meagre living. Despite all that was going on around him, each man would have his own small dream in his head of becoming a future success. Miller and Steinbeck were inspired by these dreamers and featured them in many of their books/plays. John Steinbeck was born on February 27th 1902. By the age of fourteen he had made up his mind to become a writer. He completed his first novel, Cup of Gold, in 1929. What is considered to be his finest, most ambitious work is The Grapes of Wrath, which was published in 1939. The book tells the story of a disposed...
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...between George and Lennie in “Of Mice and Men” Of Mice and Men was written in the 1937 by John Steinbeck, he other well know books as the Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, h also received a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. This book is set in the 1930s and set in California, his home region. During this time, the USA was suffering from a great depression, this meant that it was hard to find job because the economy was very weak, so to find job the men were disposed to go anywhere and the bosses would exploit their workers. The itinerant ranch workers where very lonely people because they had to move from place to place and tis meant that they could set up a stable life with a wife and children. Another reason that suggests to us that they are lonely is that at the end of each month they take their money and they go to “cat house”. The character of George and Lennie are very unusual and contrasting, this is because they have a strong relationship between them and they also have a dream, a dream of buying a house and some land to become independent and to life together for the rest of their lives. But the reader knows from the beginning that this will not happen and it will have a tragic end, and this is suggested in the title “Of Mice and Men” that comes from a from Robert Burns poem “The best laid schemes o’mice an’ men/ Gang aft agley” and it means: the best laid schemes of mice and men/ often go awry. As soon as the reader starts reading Chapter 1, he or she will immediately...
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...Champion for the Common Man Born with the hand of a writer, John Steinbeck’s career sparked great political controversy, and greatly influenced the writings of his time. Widely considered one of America’s greatest novelists, his books are still frequently studied in school. Among his many accomplishments is the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature. With notable works such as The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, he expressed his dissatisfaction with capitalism and his sympathy for the struggle of the common worker in a way that captured the world’s attention – which resulted in some of his work even being banned. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck explores the pervasive theme of loneliness and illustrates the fallacy of the American Dream. Widely considered his masterpiece, however, is The Grapes of Wrath which depicts the struggle of a family of Oklahoman farmers who are forced into a migratory existence due to the drought and dust storms following the Great Depression. When considering both The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, it is clear Steinbeck drew from his own personal experiences as a laborer when writing each of these novels. On February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California, John and Olive Steinbeck welcomed their third child and only son, John Ernst Steinbeck. John Ernst Steinbeck, Sr. was a county treasurer and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck was a schoolteacher. By all accounts, Steinbeck enjoyed a happy childhood. It was his mother’s influence...
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...Year group: Title Extended Reading Language Unit 3 A Of Mice and Men 10 Unit description Candidates must make reference to the whole text. Tier ( Higher) Candidates must produce work totalling about 1200 words in a period of up to four hours CA task: Explore the ways sympathy and dislike of ‘Curley’s Wife’ is created in ‘Of Mice and Men.’ CA = Week starting 20 October 2014 (All 4 lessons this week) (Possibility of starting one lesson early at the end of week 6). Level or Grade A*-C Differentiate appropriately for the group that you teach and for individuals within that group th Length 7 weeks (To include CA) Learning objectives AO3 (See mark scheme for band descriptors) Interpretations of texts/understanding significant meanings of the text Engagement with writer’s ideas and attitudes Interpretation of ideas supported with evidence Understanding of features of language and structure Learning outcomes Close analysis of text extracts leading to development of reading skills Consideration of context and writer’s intentions/themes and ideas Speaking and Listening to show understanding of issues and empathy with character Writing a draft essay and set targets for the assessment Produce an analytical essay for CA (New Acronym = SMILE (Structure, Meanings, Ideas, Language, Evidence) Prior knowledge (Enter pre-requisite knowledge and skills.) Analytical essay – Year 9 KS3 reading skills National Framework for Secondary English Strands National Framework for...
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...Morgan Hollindale Of Mice and Men- Steinbecks presentation of Crooks Crooks is a supporting character in the book "Of mice and men" by John Steinbeck. He is a stable buck with a broken back. Also he is racially abused by virtually everyone because of his black skin. Due to this, he has developed hatred towards white people and spends all of his time alone in his room. In this era (1930's) it was seen as normal to be abusive to black people or to treat them as lesser people or even animals. Crooks is first mentioned in chapter 2 (Pages 40 and 41). Candy mentions that the boss would "Give the stable buck hell". In response, George asks "Give the stable buck hell? questioning why someone would be given hell, and Candy replies with "Sure, ya see the stable buck's a nigger". George then replies with "Nigger, huh?" indicating he understands why the boss would "Give the stable buck hell" and that George himself believes that it is alright to take your anger out on him because he has black skin. The next thing that Candy tells us about Crooks is that "They let the Nigger come in that night. Little skinner by the name of Smitty took after the Nigger. Done pretty good, too. The guys wouldn't let him use his feet, Smitty says he woulda killed the Nigger. The guys said on account of the Nigger's crooked back, Smitty can't use his feet". This informs me that the guys used Crooks as a punching bag for entertainment and humour, something that no one would do to an animal, suggesting that Crooks...
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...film that has various interpersonal relationships (chapter 7 & 8) • Watch a film from the list provided by the instructor • Paper must be in correct APA/MLA format • Outside research is suggested • 3-4 pages in length • 15% List of Appropriate Films (In no particular order) 1. The Family Stone (2005) 2. Six Degrees of Separation (1993) 3. Of Mice and Men (1992 or 1939) 4. American Beauty (1999) 5. Remember the Titans (2000) 6. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 7. Lost in Translation (2003) 8. The Social Network (2010) 9. Fools Rush In (1997) 10. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 11. Lord of War (2005) 12. The Graduate (1967) 13. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) 14. The Color Purple (1985) 15. Thelma and Louise (1991) 16. The Kids are Alright (2010) 17. Children of a Lesser God (1986) 18. Home of the Brave (2006) 19. He’s Just Not that Into You (2009) 20. Stand and Deliver (1988) 21. Silver Linings Playbook (2013) 22. The Master (2013) 23. The Descendants (2013) 24. The Help (2011) 25. The King’s Speech (2011) 26. The Fighter (2011) 27. Biutiful (2011) Description: This paper is designed for you to get your feet wet in interpersonal communication terms, concepts, and ideas. The first part of the assignment is to select one communication concepts from the interpersonal communication chapters (7 or 8) of your textbook (i.e. conflict, romantic...
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...John Dover’s thesis, beginning with the different views on the war in “Patterns of War”. This chapter is an introduction to the book and racist ideas going on throughout the war. Dover Then dives into the Frank Capra documentary’s and films in “Know Your Enemy” that, mentioned in the above paragraph, discovered the idea of stereotypes during the war and helped further Dover’s thesis. “War Hates War Crimes” focuses on why America saw the Japanese worse than the Germans throughout World War II. John Dover then focuses on how the Japanese were viewed by the Americans throughout the different chapters which primarily helped validate his thesis on the racial disputes during the war and how the world war was fought primarily as a race war. In “Apes and Others” John Dover describes how Japanese were referred to or identified with animals by Americans during and even before World War II. Dover even went into details regarding the Nazis and how Americans only referred to the Germans as Nazis during the war. Dover wrote how the Japanese were viewed as “reptiles, or insects (monkeys, baboons, gorillas, dogs, mice and rats, vipers and rattlesnakes, cockroaches, vermin…” (Dover 81-82) Within the chapter “Lesser men and Supermen” Dover focuses on the difference on the views of the Japanese before and after Pearl Harbor describing the difference as “subhuman to superhuman.” (Dover 99). In the next chapter “Primitives, Children, and Madmen”, supplies the reader with more of the American views for...
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