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of mice and men Flashcards

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lennie small

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  • mentally handicapped
  • large and very strong
  • depends of george
  • pleasure of petting soft things
  • dreams of owning a farm
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george milton

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  • protects and cares for lennie

- dreams of someday owning his own land

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slim

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  • leader of the mule team
  • becomes an ally to george
  • has compassion and insight
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candy

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  • the swamper
  • old handy man that lost his hand
  • afraid he will be fired when he’s useless
  • convinces george to let him join their dream
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crooks

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  • black table worker who cares for the horses
  • symbol of racial injustice
  • isolates from others
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carlson

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  • insensitive ranch hand
  • wants to shoot candys dog
  • owns a luger
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curley

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  • son of the ranch owner
  • mean little guy who picks fights with bigger guys
  • married and jealous of any man who talks to his wife
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curleys wife

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  • curleys possession
  • taunts and provokes ranch hands
  • portrayed as a female tease
  • lonely and restless
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exposition

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setting

  • salinas valley
  • the ranch
  • great depression
  • george and lennie are travelling the countryside for work. after being run out of weed they receive work cards to work on a ranch
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initiating incident

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  • we find about the incident in weed

- foreshadowing of the future difficulties when george tells lennie to hide in the brush

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main character

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  • george and lennie
  • story is ultimately about their dream and friendships
  • lennie: drives conflict/ remains static
  • george: dynamic character when realizes he must kill lennie
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antagonist

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  • curley: creates conflict by antagonizing lennie and fights him
  • society: cruel predatory nature of the strong victimizing the weak
  • lennies strength and childlike mind
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internal conflicts

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  • lennie kills the pup
  • george must decide what to do to lennie
  • george decides to euthanize lennie
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turning point

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  • lennie accidentally kills curleys wife
  • beyond repair
  • lennies actions cause george to abandon the dream and make his hard decision
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climax

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  • george reunites with lennie at the salinas river

- plan described earlier jncnov

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falling action

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-after george kills lennie, the men hurry on to the scene and are impressed but disappointed

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conclusion

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  • slim consoles george reassuring humans that he had no choice
  • curley and carlson are oblivious to george’s emotional state
  • death of innocence
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point of view

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-third person limited omniscient

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nature of human existence

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  • slim drowning his pups
  • candys dog shot when no longer useful
  • lennie killed time prevent suffering
  • lennie a pup killed by strength
  • crooks and curleys wife’s isolation
  • bear vs sheep
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acceptable use of violence

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-carlson luger used to prey upon weak
-curleys fights
-ranch hands watch lennie and curley fight
the ranch hands leave to kill lennie

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victimization of women

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  • curleys wife labelled as a tart

- curley is in town cheating on his wife and sees it as normal

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friendship

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  • george and lennie form the centrepiece
  • lennie and george(travelling and caregiver)
  • lennie george and candy (dream)
  • candy and dog (caregiver and affection)
  • crooks and lennie (ear for crooks)
  • slim and george (sympathetic ear for george)
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power

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central action in the story

  • authoritative: boss, slim, curley, george
  • physical: lennie, curley, violence
  • influential: slim, george
  • powerless: crooks, candy, curleys wife
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loneliness

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  • curleys wife: seeks attention
  • crooks: believes white people want nothing to do with him
  • candy: loses his only friend and dream
  • george: loses best friend and dream
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loyalty and sacrifice

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-loyalty: george staying beside lennie
protects him and guides him
-candy loyal to his dog

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dreams

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  • outlet for characters to rise above troubles is a shared dream of a better place
  • ranch: lennie, george, candy, crooks
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social responsibility

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  • doing the right thing for the benefit of the person/ animal or for society
  • george and candy faced with same decision
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title significance

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-poem by robert burns “to a mouse” about how we should appreciate all life no matter how big or small and to be sympathetic to the outsiders
-even the best of plans often go wrong
mice work and their plans are ruined by humans
george and lennies dream was ripped apart

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genre

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historical fiction and tragedy

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two dimensional characters

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-flat, only know a few things ex: curley, candy, slim

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three dimensional characters

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-round, fully developed, shared emotions ex: lennie and george

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foil

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  • character that provides a contrast to the protagonist
    ex: george and lennie are foils for eachother
    lennie: strong and dumb
    george: small and smart
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6 ways of characterization

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action, speech, thoughts, other characters speech, names, direct description

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dynamic character

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  • has a significant change throughout the story

ex: george: realistic, accepting the end of the dream

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static character

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  • does not change throughout the novel

ex: lennie: dreams of the ranch until his death

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man vs man

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-lennie vs curley

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man vs machine

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curley and his incident with the machine which resulted in him losing his hand

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man vs society

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  • crooks and discrimination

- curleys wife’s isolation

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man vs animal

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carlson wanting to shoot candys dog for his own benefits

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man vs conscience

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george deciding if he should kill lennie

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man vs decision

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george deciding if he has to kill lennie

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man vs moral

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george knowing lennie is capable of hurting others

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foreshadowing

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  • incident in weed
  • lennie petting mice until they die
  • hide in brush if anything happens
  • slims pups: anything weak shouldn’t have to live
  • candy wishing he killed his dog
  • curley will get hurt if he messes with lennie
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motif

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dream ranch

  • talk about it in the darkest times
  • calms lennie
  • creates hope and optimism
  • thinking about a better life
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what is to blame for the failure of the dream ranch

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  • lennies unknowing strength and childlike mind
  • never trying to hurt anyone
  • liked to touch soft things: hair is soft
  • when he’s scared he grabs tighter
  • did not understand the consequences
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was it just for george to kill lennie

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yes

  • mercy killing: curley was already angry and would pick fights
  • curley already creates a plan to make lennie suffer: george killed in a merciful alternative
  • lennie is a threat to others: does not know his own strength and will always be a danger
  • wanted lennie to die happy, knowing george is not mad
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lennie sig

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  • ironic because lennie is a large man and his last name is small
  • lennie is small minded, not as intelligent
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george sig

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  • milton is a character in paradise lost who gets lost from the garden of eden and wants to get back
  • how george wants to veg back to his own dream life
  • george likes to dream big
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slim sig

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  • he’s quiet and keeps things to himself (slim with what he reveals, when he does speak everyone listens)
  • he is the head driver; leader of everyone else
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crooks sig

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  • his back is crooked from getting kicked by a horse

- only black man on the ranch: Crooks is a derogatory term that showed discrimination towards him

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candy sig

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  • sweet and kind like candy
  • canned because of his age
  • discriminated against on the ranch
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curley sig

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  • has curly hair

- wound up tight like his curls: picks fights with bigger guys

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curleys wife sig

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  • we don’t know her name: shows how women were discriminated
  • curleys wife was alone and isolated

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