Schneider 1 Natalie K. Schneider Mrs. B English 1 H, P2 2013,1,22 Just another casualty Mercy killing is a very taboo, controversial subject. In the novel of mice and men by john Steinbeck George and Lennie are each other’s only family so they always travel together. George is a small but smart man where Lennie is a big stupid man. They both go to work at a new farm after an incident in their old town caused them to go find work in a new town. Lennie has always caused them trouble but this time it’s serious, he killed the bosses son, Curley’s, wife and Curly is out for blood.
Just a Simple Outsider The novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck takes its’ setting in the 1930’s during The Grwat Depression. In this novel there’s two main characters Lennie and Geroge. These two men are on their journey to accomplish their dream but, they stumble on their way to achieve it. Lennie is mentally disabled and does as George tells him to. George is the dominant male in the relationship , because of Lennie’s disability it causes they both very much trouble back in Weed and on the ranch they arrive too after escaping.
The boys set a trap for the shark and waited until the next day to find the buoy twenty feet underwater. Sonny was chosen to retrieve the buoy and while doing that he found a shark on the line. Once the shark was finally caught the boys put a note in every lunch box of the whole film crew in hope of the old man would find the note to come see the shark. The man did not show so the boys let the shark go. This part of the chapter seemed hard to believe, only because of the timing between letting the shark go and when the old man talked to him.
An example of so is, "... go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause he is black." However, once a year around Christmas time, "They let the nigger come in..."Crooks could not do anything because he felt mistreated and powerless. So rather than immediately defending those who hurt him, he resulted in cruelty towards Lennie by betraying him. During this 1930’s, mental disabilities were not well studied, understood, and therefore unaccepted. In this novel, Lennie has a mild mental disability.
That made Daniel furious so he hurled the bowl at the Romans face and dashed away but while he was running he got nicked with a spear and hid in house for a while. He knew he had to get to Joel’s otherwise he would not live. When he got to Joel’s he passed out and they hid him for weeks and then when he got better he told Joel about being a spy. Secretly he pretended not to be able to walk but practiced it when Joel and Thacia were not around and one night when he thought he was good enough he left and made it back to the base of the mountain. From there Samson carried him up the hill
The boy has tried to burn down the house as revenge toward his father who has beat him. Rufus’ father is not so nice of a man. After conversating for a while Dana realizes she is in the 1800s where most black people are slaves and Rufus’ father is a plantation owner. As Rufus is telling Dana his last name and all the details about a girl he knows named Alice she realizes that Rufus
3. Link Deas give Helen a job and on her way to work Bob Ewell was harassing her as she walked by 2. Link Deas gives Helen a job because he feels bad about Tom and he noticed that she was walking from the wrong direction on her way to work and found out it was because Bob Ewell was harassing her so he goes and talks to Bob and tells him that if Bob doesn’t stop harassing Helen he will charge him with assault 3. The special event planned for Halloween is the school pageant and Scout plays a ham in the pageant. Chapter 28 1.
Comparison and Contrast: Barn Burning Sartoris Snopes is a young boy with a major conflict in his life; “be true to his blood”? or tell the truth. His father, a shady character with very cruel intentions has had to relocate his family because he is a “barn burner”. After one of Sarty’s fathers pigs gets loose for the second time, one of his neighbors tells him he can have it back for a dollar fee which angers the father so much that he burns down the neighbors’ barn. So Sarty’s father is asked to appear before the Justice of the Peace to settle the matter.
Only a teenager can really relate to this because Holden was not straight with his parents, every teenager has lied to their parents at some point. This is a bad choice because as a minor Holden is hurting his future by smoking that young. Another thing that is not a good idea is buying a prostitute, “five bucks a throw. Fifteen bucks the whole night” (p.91). Holden was bored and wide awake in his hotel room in New York.
Later he gets told by his bestfriend Banco that his manager has been stealing money from the register for awhile. After Mac hears that he goes and tells the owner of the restaurant Duncan about it and Duncan fires the manager. Mac becomes the next manager but this is still not enough. While walking home one night Mac runs into two stoners who take him to a third stoner that is an oracle. They tell him of a system that makes it so you don’t have to get out of your car to order, the drive-thru.