OMAM big ideas and quotes Flashcards
(16 cards)
1
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3 big ideas for slim
A
- slim vs curley (respect)
- treatment of marginalised characters
- understands the value of friendship
2
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3 big ideas for george
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- friendship
- dreams
- attitude towards woman
3
Q
3 big ideas for lennie
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- friendship with George
- dreams
- the combonation of his power and disability (the negative impact)
innocence and vaunrability
4
Q
3 big ideas for curleys wife
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- loneliness
- gender and objectification
- dreams
5
Q
3 big ideas for curley
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shows how power should not be used
treatment of marginalised characters
* violence
6
Q
3 big ideas for candy and his dog
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- cruelty of ranch life
- loneliness
- dreams
7
Q
3 big ideas for crooks
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- cruelty of ranch life (racism)
- loneliness
- dreams
8
Q
3 big ideas for carlson
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- symbolic of the avarage ranch worker
- reflects toxic masculinity
- lacks emotional understanding
9
Q
What are the quotes for Slim?
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- ‘Slim’s opinions were law’
- ‘Slims A real skinner. He looks out for his team.’
- ‘Candy looked helplessly at slim’
- ‘Maybe you better stay here with your wife’
- ‘He ain’t mean. I can tell a mean guy a mile off.’
- ‘Ain’t many guys travel around together… I don’t know why. Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other’
- ‘You hadda, George. I swear you hadda’
- ‘Funny how you and him string along together’
10
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What are the quotes for George?
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- ‘I want you to stay with me, Lennie’
- ‘Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you’
- ‘We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us’
- ‘Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world’
- ‘Jesus, what a tramp’
11
Q
What are the quotes for Lennie?
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- ‘I didn’t mean no harm, George’
- ‘Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water’
- ‘Tell me about the rabbit, George’
- ‘He’s as strong as a bull’
- ‘I did a bad thing. I done another bad thing’
12
Q
What are the quotes for Curley’s Wife?
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- ‘I get lonely. You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to anybody but Curley’
- ‘You bindle bums think you’re so damn good. What are you anyways? Ain’t a thing’
- ‘She had full, rugged lips and wide spaced eyes, heavily made up.’
- ‘Tart’
- ‘He says he was gonna put me in the movies’
- ‘I coulda made something of myself’
13
Q
What are the quotes for Curley?
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- ‘Like the boss, he wore high heeled boots’
- ‘His hands went into closed fists. He stiffened and went into a slight crouch’
- ‘Well next time you answer when you’re spoken to’
- ‘He glanced coldly at George and then at Lennie.’
- ‘Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys’
- ‘I’m gonna shoot the guts out of that big bastard myself’
14
Q
What are the quotes for Candy?
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- ‘I ought to have shot that dog myself’
- ‘He ain’t no good to you or himself’
- ‘When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me’
- ‘S’pose I went in with you guys’
Looked at slim helplessly
15
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What are the quotes for Crooks?
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- ‘They play cards in there but I can’t play because I’m black’
- ‘If I say something, why it’s just a nigger saying it’
- ‘A guy needs somebody to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.’
- ‘I tell ya a guy gets too lonely, and he gets sick.’
- ‘If you…you guys want a hand to work for nothing just his keep, why I’d come and lend a hand’
- ‘I didn’t mean it. Just fooling. I wouldn’t want to go no place like that.’
16
Q
What are the quotes for Carlson?
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- ‘He ain’t no good to you, Candy. An’ he ain’t no good to himself.’
- ‘Why’n’t you shoot him, Candy?’
- ‘The way I’d shoot him, he wouldn’t feel nothing.’
- ‘Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?’
- ‘You come for me, an’ I’ll kick your God damn head off.’
