Did he die too? So many questions, and no answers! George went inside the house, and saw a flat iron stove, with Candy bent over it cooking. Candy didn't speak. He winked at George, and smiled.
The rabbits appeared to dance in the air, leaping into a distant fog, Aunt Clara was calling, in his mind he ran towards her following the rabbits….then all was silent. George’s eyes glazed over, Curley said, ‘good riddance to the crazy bastard, he’ll kill no more women now’. George stood up, ‘this was never ‘bout your wife, you don’t give a shit about anything but yerself, he showed you for what you are, a pigshit small man with a two bit mind, Lennie might not’ve bin smart but inside he was better than either of you, now git the fuck outta my
The family moves into the upstairs room, which they nickname “Italy” because it is warm and dry. Angela goes to the butcher’s to get meat for Christmas, but all she is able to obtain with her grocery dockets is a pig’s head. As they carry home the meat, Frank’s classmates see them and laugh at their poverty. Frank’s father is disgusted that Frank had to carry the head home. He considers carrying things through the streets undignified, and refuses to do it himself.
Their deaths and Lennie’s eventual death result in the unfulfillment of the dream, leaving everyone lonely and without purpose. Dogs, both old and young, are a comfort to those with otherwise very lonely lives. Candy, the ranch worker, had grown attached to his old sheepdog, which he had had raised from when it was a puppy. His fellow ranch workers despised the dog, as it was useless and smelled bad, and eventually convinced Candy to have it shot. The dog, while of no working value, was a faithful companion to Candy.
Here are a few that stood out. In the book, Scrooge’s pajamas are plain white. In the movie, his pajamas are vertically striped. In the beginning of all three versions Scrooge is a horrible, greedy man, and realizes that he was wrong to have so little compassion. In the movie, when he is visited by the ghost of Christmas Future, he runs away from the ghost and shrinks while running into a drain pipe.
In the novel, Candy used to work on the ranch, however, because of an accident, he lost one of his hands. He dose not have any ability to do heavy works, so he has to work as a swamper on the ranch. Coincidentally, after meeting George and Lennie, he is drawn into George and Lennie's dream, and wants to have a similar dream as George's. In the novel, once George tells their future plan to Lennie, Candy thinks it is wonderful to have a own house and do not have to do what they would rather not do, so he tells George that he can contribute to buying a house with his money in order to make George agree to take him together. As shown above, different people might have different backgrounds, different beliefs or different habits.
Jus’ milk the cow and sling some grain to the chickens an’ go to her” (Steinbeck61). To the modern day reader this does not seem like much because they are used to such freedoms; however, in the 1930’s for the men working on a ranch it was nothing but their most treasured desire. To George, Lennie, Candy, and Crook the farm was their ticket to a paradise for men who want to be masters of their own
As a matter of fact, the “Hannaford” grocery store in the town where I attended school from 2nd – 12th grade used to be a “Shop n’ Save”, which brought forth actual memories from my childhood. Other than that, I was quite confused when I read the introduction at first and tried to comprehend it from a very literal viewpoint. I thought to myself, where is the thesis statement regarding eating a guava? Then I remembered that Dr. Dutton mentioned that there was some good symbolism in this piece, which I was completely unable to ascertain by reading the introduction alone. Like the introduction, I also found the conclusion to be effective in its description and imagery.
They are not born with the knowledge that poodles and Great Danes are both dogs, or that watermelons and blueberries are both fruits. On the surface, concept learning seems a fairly simple process: A child needs only to attach the verbal label to an object. In fact, early research into concept learning focused on very simple concepts where a single attribute or characteristic defined the concept. Up until the 1950s, most researchers supposed that learning a concept was no different from learning a word. (Cullinan, 1991) We give very young children concept books – books about colors and shapes, about finding and identifying common objects, about numbers and counting.
If they start reading fairy tales at a young age, they have a headstart for their future. Reading helps in every way for everyone, may it be children, teenagers or adults, by building up a child’s grammar, syntax, word order and spelling. If a small child reads fairy tales, it will build up a good habit for their future. Furthermore, fairy tales teach. Stories like “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” teaches us that we shouldn’t lie.