SETTING AND LOCATION Flashcards
(3 cards)
SALINAS RIVER
IDYLIC SETTING ACCENTUATES FLAWS OF HUMAN KIND AND CONTRASTS BUNKHOUSE ]
Place of safety for Lennie
cyclical return back to ‘brush’ shows inescapable flaws of Lennie but also human kind
STEINBECK SETTS IN A REAL PLACE TO CREATE AUTHENTICITY AND SHOWS REAL ISSUSE SOF 1930’S SOCIETY EXPLORED
‘A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green’
‘Yellow sands in sunlight’
‘golden foot hill slopes’
‘willows fresh and green’
‘hide in the brush’
‘Beaten hard by many fires’
mankind disrupt peace of place and destructive nature of man kind, monotonous agrarian lifestyle
BUNKHOUSE
Has bleak and dispensable features to show monotonous and cyclical agrarian work and lifestyle
Lack of light and hope
“the bunkhouse was a long rectangular building. Inside the walls were white washed and the floor unpainted ‘
‘small square windows’ (prison(
‘eight bunks’
‘burlap ticking’
‘nailed apple box … two shelves of of personal belongings’
‘Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunk house. Inside was dusk’
CROOKS ROOM
ostracised and views as an animal
‘his bunk in the harness room’
‘a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn’
‘a long box filled with straw’
‘blankets flung’
‘small electric globe threw a meagre yellow light’
attempting to add personal touch
‘for. both him and the horses’
