English Quotes- Mice and men Flashcards
(19 cards)
The motif of the darkness that is portrayed in the bunkhouse
“Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dusk.
Racism and Prejudice to Crooks.
“I could get you strung up on a tree so easily it ain’t even funny”
Foreshadowing to the end of the book
“I ought to shoot that dog myself”
Racism and Prejudice towards crooks .( 2).
“Cause I’m black. They often play cards in there, but I can’t play because I am black.”
End of the dream, motif of the rabbits.
“Now I won’t get to tend the rabbits”
Loneliness and lack of friendship in the novel (migrant workers)
“Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other”
George and Lennie’s special friendship
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. With us it ain’t like that”
Loneliness
“A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody”
The realism of the American dream
“Nobody never gets to heaven and nobody gets no land”
American Dream
“We could live of the fatta of the land”
Prejudice
“Crooks face lighted with pleasure in his torture”
The reality of the American dream
“Every damn one of em got a little piece of land in his head”
Constant reminder of danger (colour red) Theme for something bad
“red dress”
Foreshadowing and saying that good stuff doesn’t last
“Why do you gotta get killed”
Standing up for lennie
“He dumb as hell but he aint crazy”
Loneliness in the time period
“Guy don’t need sense to be a nice fella”
Curley’s wife seductive nature
“I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her
Lennie’s innocence
If you don’ want me I can go off in the hills an’ find a cave. I can go away anytime”
Pros and cons of their relationship
“I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail”
