That’s why they give me a job swampin (Steinbeck 58) Explanation: Don’t need much of an explanation… says it right there Direct Characterization: another direct characterization is that Candy is old. It’s stated several times in the book Quotes: “Old Candy turned slowly turned over. His eyes were wide open” (Steinbeck 56) “It was almost dark outside now. Old Candy, the swamper, came in and went to his bunk, and behind him struggles the old dog” (Steinbeck 43) Explanation: All these people are
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LJ Higgins Professor Shock Critical Reading and Writing I 15 September 2016 Prosperity After Despair Steve Harvey was living out of his car at the time and making $50 a week. “All I knew was that I could make people laugh,”(Smithsonian Magazine) he told the magazine. Harvey shared the moment he hit rock bottom. According to the Smithsonian, “I sat down and started crying, but a voice said, ‘If you keep going, I’m going to take you places you’ve never been,’ “ he said. “It was like God said,
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In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout learn that people always have reasons for what they do, which is evident in the Mad Dog Episode when Atticus shoots the dog with such precision, but never mentioned his talents to Scout and Jem before. After the Mad Dog incident, Jem and Scout are talking to Miss Maudie about Atticus’s precise shooting and Jem says “I reckon if he’d wanted us to know, he’da told us. If he was proud of it, he’da told us (Page 130).” This shows the reader that Atticus
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"Disclosure" opens in a specialist's holding up room where Ruby Turpin is holding up with her spouse, Claud. As she regularly does, Mrs. Turpin relaxes by classifying the other holding up room occupants by class—"white rubbish," working class (like her), et cetera. This is the segretated South, so there are no dark individuals here, yet Mrs. Turpin is glad to judge them, as well. She recognizes a wonderful looking lady as one of her own class, and they start an unmoving discussion that focuses
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In our performance, we are going to be doing the story of Julio, an immigrant who has been deported from the United States seven times and has snuck back in just as many times to small Central Valley farming town. In his story, Julio relates how during one of his treks back to the States he finds himself lost and stranded in the middle of the Mojave Desert and had to survive all the way back to civilization. The audience is going to be laying down in our performance. They will be representing the
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In the novella of Mice and Men and the TV show Fargo, the idea of masculinity and its surrounding ideas are played with allot. From the idea of a male partnership to animal symbolism, these texts show similar events happening to similar collections of people, however, these two texts are different in the audience that they are appealing towards. In Steinbeck’s novella, it is very much a piece of its time, being centered around the great depression and a man's struggle to find work in these hard times
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Lennie and crooks is the most sympathetic characters in mice and men because he is slow, and not smart with the outside world, also only has one person to understand his disability. And crooks is separated from everyone because he's black, and lives in a barn all by himself. So these are some details that i can provide you about Lennie and Crooks and how they both should have the most sympathetic in the book of mice and men. Lennie is a sympathetic character because he is treated badly because of
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Curley’s wife started to be a flirt for being so lonely and not allow to talk to anybody, “ I get lonely. she said , You can talk to people but I can’t talk to nobody but curley “ (Steinbeck 86,87), referring those words to Lennie, one of her husband's workers and one of many other guys she tries to flirt with. The fact that Curley's wife doesn't even have her own name explains a lot about her decisions and how lonely she is , she is
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First off the only person on the ranch that Curlys wife can ever talk to to is Curly or else he gets mad. He’s always trying to start fights with whoever encounters her, even if she’s the first one to talk to them. All the men on the ranch know not to talk to her certainly because she’s the wife of the bosses son. There is a quote in the book that proves her statement, “I get lonely” she said. “you can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but curley. Else he gets mad. how’d you like not to
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Even though Lennie does not have the mental capacity to understand it, he poses a danger to those around him. Lennie is unable to decipher right from wrong, hence why he doesn’t understand his own strength hurts others whether it may be an accident or not. One example being the puppy which Lennie cared for. To Lennie, the puppy was “soft and nice”, until the puppy showed aggression to Lennie and he hit it too hard causing it to die. Lennie often retaliates to “aggressive” behavior throughout the
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