Someday— we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and——“. He was cut off by Lennie. Lennie finished George’s statement by saying, “An’ live off the fatta the lan’.”. I believe it gave Lennie hope. Later on in the story Candy, an aging ranch handyman with a missing hand, asks George and Lennie if he can help pay for the land George picked out and live there with them.
Snowball and Napoleon were debating, “…Snowball often won by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself between times.” (53). This quote proves that Snowball persuades the animals using what he knows. Orwell even said, “brilliant speeches.” Snowball also talks about making a windmill. He said that it “could be made to operate a dynamo and supply the farm with electrical power. This would light the stalls and warm them in winter, and would also run a circular sun, a chuff-cutter, a mansel-slicer, and an electric milking machine.” (Orwell, 54).
Moses the Raven said to the other animals that they could only go to SugarCandy Mountain if they worked hard. Moses the prophet told his followers that they could only get to Heaven if they prayed often and were nice to everyone around them, and just like Heaven, none of the animals know if there really is a SugarCandy Mountain, but they want to believe there is so they can all go there after they die. Squealer George Orwell chose the name Squealer for the pig from Animal Farm because
MURDER ? In "Of Mice and Men," written by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie are workers in California. They have a hard journey to the farm they are meant to work on. George has always had a dream of owning his own farm with Lennie and not having to work for someone else, but have laborers working for them. When they arrive at the farm, Lennie is automatically drawn to a very sneaky woman that remains nameless throughout the book.
The two main characters in john steinbecks novel of mice and men have two characteristics in common. The first characteristic is that they both have a big dream right now in the the book Lennie asked George to tell him why they're different from other ranchers so George said to Lennie, “Well, we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and...An live off the fatta the lan'...And have rabbits” (Pg,14-15).They are very loyal to each other, as well. George tells another,If I was alone I could live so easy. I could get a job an' work, an' no trouble...and when the end of the come I could take my 50 bucks and go into town and get whatever I want. But without Lennie, George would be alone and unhappy, he realizes: "Course Lennie's a nuisance most of the time, but you get used to going around with a guy and you can't get rid of him" (Pg.41).Lennie and George love one another; they know that their lives have meaning because they are friends.
After many hardships, adventures, and troubles, Charlie even sets out with the other children, including the Maywits, to build their own camp. This was to escape the stress and tremendous pressure that Allie puts on his entire town of Jeromino. In this camp called “The Acre,” the children learn survival skills, how it must have felt to be a normal child in America and how it feels to be Allie regarding building up a civilization and taking care of it. This area was the children’s paradise mainly because of Allie’s ignorance of its existence. Towards the end of the novel, “The Acre,” ends up saving the family because of its plentiful food and water supply.
Penguin Readers Factsheets T e a c h e r’s n o t e s level E 1 2 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3 4 5 6 ELEMENTARY S U M M A R Y eorge Milton and Lennie Small are two ranch workers, who dream of owning a small farm one day. George acts like a father to Lennie, who is physically large but intellectually slow. Lennie loves animals and soft things, such as mice and rabbits. But his physical strength causes problems, so George has to watch out for him. The two men have been traveling together in California and have just gotten a job on a ranch.
I’m really terrified that I won’t get to see my parents ever again, or I won’t get to see any of my friends ever again. We are back on the farm again to help fertilize the soil. I don’t know how us chickens can do such a thing but the farmers say they want our manure, which is our poop I think, before we go so they can get something useful out of us. Week six: They warned us about this, they warned us about being separated from our family, about never being able to be
Animal imagery was evident in both Of Mice and Men and “To a Mouse” by relating Lennie to the Mouse. Identification of humans with the animals was also reflected in both pieces of literature by dreams being shattered due to circumstances and the suffrage of men and animal was caused by society. Having seen how the title Of Mice and Men was borrowed from the poem “To a Mouse” Steinbeck skillfully used the characters to paint the connection between men and animal. He used metaphors to describe the characters. Steinbeck’s decision to compare Lennie to being the mouse gives the readers a more clear idea of how both men and animal are
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