Chapter 3 short answers: 1. Lennie slept in the barn because he wanted to be close to the puppies. 2. White and George talk about the merits of old Susie’s place over Clara's, it being cheaper and having nice chairs. George decides to go out with the boys.
Steinbeck presents the bunkhouse as a lonely place but also where all the dreams are held. Steinbeck presents dreams in the bunkhouse as the bunkhouse is described with ‘small square windows.’ This shows the lack of light what is coming into the room what could suggest the lack of positivity but also light represents hope what shows the limited amount of hope the migrant workers had in that period of time. This is ten linked to the ‘the walls are whitewashed and the floor unpainted’ for Steinbeck saying this shows the simplicity of the migrant workers life. In and out of the beam flies ‘rushing stars.’ Steinbeck is representing the men following the small amount of hope. But this quote could also link into the theme dream as ‘rushing stars’
AP English Literature January 29, 2013 “Sunshine” Even though he is attacked by something he knows as his loving pet, the young boy from Christopher Fisher’s essay “Scars” -on the topic of “Sunshine”- is left feeling guilty, despaired, and mournful for his late rooster, Sunshine. His father unsympathetically executes his pet and his mother briskly prepares him to be cooked for dinner by "plucking Sunshine in the kitchen sink, dropping fistfuls of bright yellow feathers,” which left the boy in a state of sorrow to “slouch[ed] off to his bedroom to cry.” He promises himself that he will not eat, calling it “cannibalistic” and “obscene,” that outlines his dedication to his departed friend. But, when he sits down at the table and watches his family “feast on mashed potatoes, peas, corn, hot biscuits, and fried Sunshine,” he feels hunger arise inside of him, showing that despite his feelings for his pet, he is lured by his appetite. “Don’t give in! He was your friend!” he tells himself in an attempt to subside his cravings for his pet, but it is to no avail.
“ I thought back to times we’d sat still for afternoons , never moving a muscle, just shifting our weight along the ground, talking to whoever sat with us, watching things. He’d always had a joke, then, too, and now you couldn’t get him to laugh, or when he did it was more the sound of a man choking , a sound that stopped up the throats of other people around him” (Erdrich 112-113.) Lyman and Henry’s brotherly relationship had taken a turn for the worse. While Henry was gone Lyman purchased a television set for the family, which he he regretted not having when Henry started to watch it. “ He sat in front of it, watching it, and that was the only time he was completely still.
Essay The two main characters in the novel, Of Mice and Men, are George Milton and Lennie Smalls. George is a small, intelligent man who cares for and acts as a sort of guardian for Lennie. Lennie is a very large, muscular man whose mind is very slow and is almost childlike. Both characters are traveling ranch hands, going from town to town in search of work. George’s and Lennie’s characters are round, evolving throughout the story.
The voice of the speaker suggests throughout that he is feeling resentment towards the ""ridiculous tank-top"" of the younger brother and his ""six-year-old views"". The aspiration to be older and do "what grown-ups do" is apparent through the poem. In the first stanza, the older children discuss football and are dismissive of the younger boy as if they are wiser. n line 9 the speaker sees age as an advantage: ""His smile, like mine, said I was nine and he was ten"". The speaker is reflecting the naively superior feelings of the older boys.
Adam has finally has his father and son moment with one of his children that he is grateful to express himself to his son Cal. By saying he trusts Cal he has gain even more love and forgiveness for not being with his children for many years. Plus, Adam is able to not be like his father but instead be the opposite with just one of his children. Cal – “He though sardonically of telling him about his mother, to see how he would handle I, but he withdrew the though quickly. He didn’t think Aron could handle it at all,” (Steinbeck 586).
Alexander J. Weissend English 10 Mrs. Ricci 20 March 2012 Of Mice and Men Essay When two men try to fulfill a dream hardship, and sorrow followed by a devastating end to a journey long traveled. Based in California in the 1930s, a few miles south of Soledad. George and Lennie discover the reason most men like them don’t make it to their dreams. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck use emotionally vivid setting, informal language, and undermined and flawed characters to express how these men may to work their hardest but the America dream was just too out of reach. In Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck uses visual details and life like descriptions to create vivid emotional setting.
They had smoked salmon, and milk. The cream on the milk was so creamy that they had to use a knife! This was the life that George had wanted for years, and he had it. He enjoyed the next week lounging around, picking alfalfa, watching Lennie feed the rabbits and eating the delicious food Candy was preparing. There was no Curley, no Tart to get them in trouble, No dead puppies, no running from anybody.
The Comfort of Strangers Commentary In the excerpt from The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan uses diction, syntax, characters and mood to explore the encounters and naivety of a young boy named Robert. As he is left at home by his parents with his two sisters, Eva and Maria, Robert experiences different feelings ranging from pure excitement to confusion, ending with tension and intimidation. From the detailed account being told from the perspective of Robert, a young boy, McEwan highlights the confusion felt by him through the utilization of diction as the passage is filled with short and precise sentences. Apart from the straight-to-the-point sentences, Robert’s description of his sister’s actions displays the awkwardness felt as he is not fitting in through phrases like “they pulled their hairs from their eyebrows,” and also when his sisters “told [him] to shut [his] eyes while they took off their white socks and put on stockings from [his] mother’s drawer”. It is normal for a boy to not know things related to girls such as makeup and fashion which explains why Robert “was shocked because [they] were not his sisters, [they] were American film stars,” after the their transformation.