H/W Of Mice and Men Epilogue 1st November 2013 10 years later… The orange and yellow painted sun was setting over the little Milton house, a humble cottage-like structure, not six miles south of the Salinas River. The slightly brisk, mid-November weather left the few acres of land the family owned bare and empty, fresh from the year’s fruitful harvest. In the distance the cow bells could be heard from the cattle beginning to reside and alfalfa plants danced in the wind to the chirping of cicadas. On the ranch front sat George Milton, rocking in his chair and smoking his pipe. He still had the same small frame and wiry face he had a decade ago.
The bunkhouse is a main place for the ranchmen to relax, play cards and sleep, despite its drawbacks. Steinbeck uses details about how the bunkhouse looks. He also gives us readers a brief insight of what the ranchmen are like and what belongings the ranchmen have left with them. We also get a description of Candy, the ‘old man’ on the ranch. The bunkhouse is shown to be a ‘long, rectangular building’ with ‘whitewashed’ walls and the floor ‘unpainted’.
Crooks Monologue Stage Direction; A table at the front of the class and on top of the table there will be a dairy and a pen. (Walking in the classroom holding his crooked back and with his disturbed face) Oh...Just remember to write in the dairy (sits on the chair, reaches for his squared shape spectacles and grabs the leaking fountain pen). So what I did today was nothing but Today two white men entered my room, a Negros room other than the slim or the boss. Today was stupid and “Crazy”. People on this bloody ranch have no respect for a negro, “a single negro”.
In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Lennie Small is a large, young at heart man with a mental disorder. Although Lennie is among the principal characters in Of Mice and Men, he is perhaps the least dynamic. He undergoes no significant changes, development, or growth throughout the story and remains exactly as the reader encounters him in the opening pages. Simply put, he loves to pet soft things, is blindly devoted to George and their vision of the farm, possesses incredible physical strength and even obliviousness to how serious death is(causing much trouble throughout the story) Nearly every scene in which Lennie appears confirms these and only these characteristics. From the moment we learn why Lennie and George are on the road (Lennie’s dress-petting incident in Weed, mentioned on page 41), we realize that Lennie’s combination of small thinking and big body is bad news.
Questions on Section 4 1. Why does Steinbeck present Crooks to have a room of his own in the barn and does not sleep with the other men in the bunkhouse? In Chapter Four, Steinbeck gives Crooks a thorough introduction, particularly in describing Crooks himself and his living quarters. Since Crooks is black, he is forced to live apart from the other white workers; clearly, racism was part of this culture and era. Crooks lives/sleeps in a shed attached to the barn.
Crooks is a African American man from Southern California. He is on the farm in Northern California that Lennie and George are working on. Crooks is segregated into his own room in the barn because he “smells” but in all honesty between the characters it is because of them discriminating against the colour of Crooks’ skin. In the early 1930’s in which this story takes place the African American people were still very much discriminated against even a century after slavery was abolished. The farm that the story is set on is with a significant number of white males along with Curley’s wife.
On each side are the apartments of his wives, who have also their separate day and night houses. The habitations of the slaves and their families are distributed throughout the rest of the enclosure. These houses never exceed one story in height: they are always built of wood, or stakes driven into the ground, crossed with wattles, and neatly plastered within, and without. The roof is thatched with reeds. Our dayhouses are left open at the sides; but those in which we sleep are always covered, and plastered in the inside, with a composition mixed with cowdung, to keep off the different insects, [Page 17] which annoy us during the night.
Michael Coburn Ms. Jones Grade 11 English, Period 6 October 29, 2014 All Alone During the Great Depression, there were very little jobs to be had. People were forced to travel where ever work was. In order to live this way, they had no families, no friends, and no one to talk to. The life of a migrant worker during the Great Depression was a lonesome one. In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two men, George Milton and Lennie Smalls, travel together as migrant farm workers.
There were no windows, just two narrow shafts Of gilded motes, crossing, from air-holes slit High in each gable. The one door meant no draughts’ Both ‘Barn’ and ‘Follower’ use first person narrative with the speaker referring to themselves as ‘I’. For example in ‘The Barn’, ‘I lay face down to shun the fear above’ and in ‘Follower’, ‘I wanted to grow up and plough’. ‘The Barn’ is made up of five Quatrains, or four line stanzas, that are all of regular line length. ‘The Barn doesn’t
Most characters in the novel are timid and lonely and ‘chicken out’ of doing something and then go and do something drastic and then have to fight to prove they are men. The inspiration for this book came from a poem by Robert Burns – ‘To a Mouse’ which begins with the line “The best-laid plans of mice and men’. This poet shows how the plans of men are no more secure than those of the mouse and this is the point of the book title. In the novel Crook is the only black man. Crook works on a farm, he is quite intelligent and he can read.