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when George finds out Lennie killed a mouse, another would be when they shoot Candy's dog and finally, when Lennie killed Curley's wife. The first example of this imagery takes place in the first few pages. Steinbeck describes a beautiful river in great detail. This perfect scene helps us as readers to not be affected by the tragic events that unfold next. Lenny is discovered to be caring and petting a dead mouse, we know Lenny has some kind of disability but we still feel for that poor mouse…

example of this idea. Lennie is a slow minded but extremely strong, he is more than capable of handling tasks out on the field but because of his lack of intelligence Lennie doesn’t understand the world around him much less during the brutal era of the Great Depression. To help him survive in this harsh world, Lennie travels with his friend and caretaker George, even through hardships Lennie is powered by the idea that one day he and George could find a large area to settle down and live off the…

Nathaniel Hollaway Summer Reading Assignment 2017 The Great Gatsby Nathaniel Hollaway 9-6-2017 Table of Contents DATE TITLE PAGE # TO PAGE # 7/23/2017 The Great Gatsby 1 26 7/23/2017 Vocab 1-5 7/23/2017 Journal Entry #1: Setting/Occasion Character Entry #1: Journal Entry #1: Setting/Occasion Title: The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald August 23, 2017 Setting/Occasion The book, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set…

The tale of the Cucuy is a scary humped back man who listens to children who misbehave and can hear children very well due to him having one big red ear. The Cucuy also known as the bogeyman will come down the mountain to carry bad children away. This story is about two lazy sisters who refuse to help their younger sister do their chores, causing their father to call upon the bogeyman who takes them abruptly from the dinner table. The Cucuy carries away the two lazy sisters and places them in…

John Steinbeck was and is one of history’s greatest American writers because of his great writing works. Since Steinbeck was a naturalist, many of his works had a main theme of nature, the human attempts to compromise with nature, and human connections. For example, in Of Mice and Men, his book of the two migrant workers and their endeavors portray how hard it was to get a job during the Great Depression and keep it. It also showed how people who had a job, struggled to make a living. It showed…

hard life was during the great depression. Times were very rough and not many people had an easy time making it through that dilemma. The central theme that was portrayed in my reading was that humans are evil. You can be sitting on the street, starving, and people will just pass you by like you mean nothing to them. Especially in this time era where it was a “all men for themselves” type of situation. The time period in which this story takes place is during the Great Depression (1920-1945).…

all the way back to the 1920s and in the plot of The Great Gatsby, people are not always who they appear to be, however they will go to drastic measures so that others believe that is the kind of people they really are. Likewise places can also be deceiving. They may give off a certain persona when looked at from the…

The Great Dream Though often marketed as a romantic story, The Great Gatsby was written as a commentary on the American dream and as a cautionary tale for those pursuing it. It shows that only those who are born into exceptional wealth are able to achieve it, while those from the lower class trying to attain it, such as the Wilsons or Gatsby, who work hard their whole life end up dead. Finally the Buchanans, born into wealth, who do achieve the dream it are disliked by all around them. So The…

because the brown color makes him ineffable. Descriptions are injustice to this kind of beauty, but I will try. This horse has amazing color، he has three colors consistent together. Brown shiny what bright with sun lighting makes a beautiful and great view on the desert, and Black color around his black eyes…

some have always wanted. In the book Of Mice And Men Steinbeck constantly talks about George and Lennie’s dream to always live on a farm. With the struggle they had to endure in the story they were forced to take alternate routes. Because of the great depression George and Lennie had a very complicated time trying to find the funds to buy their dream farm. Dream are significant in the story of Mice And Men because they are used as motivation, focus and protection. Because George had a…