Of Mice And Men

Question 1

Refuge

Answer 1

Forest

Question 2

Bible image (evil) represents=Lennie

Answer 2

Snake

Question 3

Predatory nature of the world

Answer 3

Heron

Question 4

Attains the dream in death

Answer 4

Lennie

Question 5

Reality of migrant workers. Lonely, shapeless, dirty, empty and infertile

Answer 5

Ranch

Question 6

Lennie’s murder=end of illusions and dreams. Similarities include: bullet wound location, considered burdens by those who don’t understand the need for friendship

Answer 6

Candy’s dog’s death

Question 7

Helplessness

Answer 7

Physical Isolation

Question 8

Loneliness

Answer 8

Emotional Isolation

Question 9

Ignorance

Answer 9

Intellectual Isolation

Question 10

Human need for companionship, desire to care for others

Answer 10

Rabbits and puppies

Question 11

Makes life unbearable

Answer 11

Loneliness

Question 12

Can make life meaningful

Answer 12

True friendship between men/women

Question 13

Is controlled by strong unknowable forces, which makes free will almost non-existent. Is volatile and unpredictable

Answer 13

Life

Question 14

Is impossible/card games

Answer 14

Change

Question 15

A dream of an earthly paradise is as impossible to attain as Eden. Illusion will inevitably be destroyed

Answer 15

The American Dream

Question 16

Make a dream impossible

Answer 16

Economic and social conditions

Question 17

Causes economic instability which leads to loneliness and isolation and finally dehumanizations (insensitivity)

Answer 17

War

Question 18

Is defined in the novel as “the way life should be” to different characters-what they all wish for but can’t be found in life-only in death

Answer 18

American Dream

Question 19

Will always be rootless, lonely, disconnected. They must learn to connect with themselves. Example: Slim

Answer 19

Laborers

Question 20

Is the purging of emotions or to cleanse. Fix things gone wrong

Answer 20

Catharsis

Question 21

What is meant by “practicing with the vicarious pains of tragic art”?

Answer 21

Practicing with emotions actually felt by someone else but you felt as if it was yourself

Question 22

How are “brutality, racism, sexism, economic exploitation” to narrow conceptions of human life?

Answer 22

Human tragedies occurs due to these things

Question 23

How are brutality, racism, sexism, economic exploitation “forces which frustrate the human spirit”?

Answer 23

Discriminates everyone from understanding each other. They keep us from accomplishing happiness

Question 24

What is meant by the statement “Lennie and George have a noble dream”?

Answer 24

Their dream is not greedy or selfish. They are noble=selfless

Question 25

Explain the statement "theirs is the American Dream: that thee is somehow, somewhere, sometime, the possibility that we can make our paradise on earth, that we can have our own self-sufficient little place where we can live off the fat of the land as peaceful friends"

Answer 25

The drams wasn't to have land, it was to be happy with friends and to be well off, they believe it was how to find happiness

Question 26

A way behind that behind that loneliness and meanness and fighting, a way to rise above our human limitation: to men who have nothing else, do have each other

Answer 26

ennobling revelation

Question 27

How is the dream there, according to Scarseth, even in the "final defeat"

Answer 27

They can't have the dream of the farm so George achieves the brotherhood dream

Question 28

How was the "pain of life been [is] transmuted into the beauty of art?"

Answer 28

Is a complex human world

Question 29

According to hadella, how does Steinbeck "physically associate George with mice"

Answer 29

By describing him as small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features

Question 30

What does Hadella means by the statement that Lennie's dreams have "edenic overtones"

Answer 30

Parts of the story is compared to the story of Adam and Eve. Like Adam and Eve there is temptation, snake, illusion

Question 31

What is the central theme of of mice and men?

Answer 31

Loneliness

Question 32

Owens argues that "although human beings are flawed and their hopes of regaining eden are illusory" there is something that is not flawed. What is it

Answer 32

The characters commitment to the dream and to each other is not flawed

Question 33

How to George and Lennie represent a "desire to defy the curse of Cain and fallen man"?

Answer 33

To break the pattern of wandering and loneliness imposed on the outcasts and to return to the perfect garden

Question 34

"Am I my brother's keeper?"

Answer 34

Other characters are affected by the commitment between George and Lennie

Question 35

Is suspicious of George and Lennie achieving the dream

Answer 35

Curley

Question 36

Admires George and Lennie achieving the dream

Answer 36

Slim

Question 37

Briefly participate in the brotherhood by looking after Lennie when George is not around

Answer 37

Candy and Crooks

Question 38

What image does Steinbeck use to promote this "brother" image at the end of the novel

Answer 38

Two men together as George and Slim walk away from the grove by the river where the story begun

Question 39

What global message is Steinbeck sending to you? How can we view this message on a global scale?

Answer 39

We all need a companion, this can compare on the global scale because of all man kind needs someone by their side in order to survive

Question 40

The political, social, and economic idea that if a person works hard and obeys the rules in America he or she will be rewarded with financial wealth and other successes. Usually it supports the family unit, equal opportunity and the system of capitalism in the U.S. It generally includes the idea that one becomes more successful than one's parent. These were values held by many early European settlers, and have been passed on to subsequent generations

Answer 40

The dream

Question 41

How can we discover the writers purpose?

Answer 41

By analyzing the characters, setting, symbols, tone, plot, word choice, and context

Question 42

The message will be universal and individual

Answer 42

Themes

Question 43

Natural paradise

Answer 43

Eden