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1. None of the chapters in Of Mice and Men are given titles. Your mission is to create those chapter titles. Select one chapter. Then…
· Summarize the chapter using at least 3-5 sentences. (Include the actions that take place and the characters involved.)
· Choose one quote from the chapter that you feel is representative of the entire chapter. (Be sure to put a page number for your quote!)
· Creatively name the chapter based on your summary and your quote. (Titles like “Chapter 1”, “The Ranch”, and “The End” are NOT creative!)
· Write at least one sentence explaining why your title is appropriate for the chapter.
2. Classic literature is a term generally applied to written works that contain some artistic quality, enrich the human mind, have universal appeal, reveal a deep understanding of or truth about the human condition, and stand the test of time. Given this loose definition, why is Of Mice and Men considered a classic? Respond in 5+ complete sentences, and use examples from the text to support your answers.
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1. Chapter 6
In this chapter Lennie talks to himself while hiding in the bushes. He "sees" and talks to his Aunt Clara, and a giant rabbit. He talks with them about how bad he has been and how George will be angry at him. George finds Lennie and says that he carries no anger toward him. They talk about their dream of living of the fatta the land one more time as George shoots Lennie in the back of the head with the Luger. The friendship ends there.
Quote: "Ever'body gonna be nice to you. Ain't gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from 'em."
My title: The True Friend
This title is appropriate for the chapter because George does something that he has to do to prevent Lennie from being killed like a dog. George cares for Lennie and that is why he decides to kill him instead of letting the others do it.
1. Chapter 5
In this chapter Lennie starts out mourning the death of his puppy and fearing the anger of George. Then Curley's wife comes in and she reveals what she wanted to do with her life to Lennie. She lets Lennie touch her hair and when she starts to pull away he panics. Lennie breaks her neck and when she stops struggling he realizes he does something bad and he runs. Candy and George come in and they find the body. They realize what has happened and come up with a plan to help prove George's innocence. Candy then gets the other men and they set off after Lennie.
Quote: "Please don't. Oh! Please don't do that. George'll be mad."
Title: The puppy, the Lady and the Accident
This title is appropiate for the chpater because it is a short summary of what the chapter is about. Thats what a chapter should be a short simple and to the point.
2. I think that Of Mice and Men could be considered a classic because it reveals a little bit of how human nature is. Even though it is set in a certain time period and the racial comments are there, one can accept them because that is how it really was. There is also a lot of artistic quality throughout the book. It is original and uses great imagery to show what is going on. This also shows the setting clearly. I have read a few of the "classics" and this is similar, although shorter than most I have read, I do consider it to be a classic.
1) Chapter 1
In this chapter the reader gets to meet the unusual pair, Lennie and George. The author shows the unusual relationship and the way it functions. The reader finds out that George is the leader and the brains of the two, and Lennie is a big dumb guy that listens to everything George tells him. They arrive at a little pool and spend the night, for in the morning they will go to work.
Quote: "Slowly, like a terrier who doesn't want to bring a ball to its master, Lennie approached, drew back, approached again. George scapped his fingers sharply, and at the sound Lennie laid the mouse in his hand."
My Title: A Boy and his Dog
This title explains the relationship between George and Lennie.
1. Chapter 5
In chapter 5, Lennie sits in the barn petting a puppy that has died. He is afraid George will find out and not let him tend the rabbits, so he tries to hide it. While doing so, Curley's wife comes to talk to him. As much as Lennie tries to avoid her, they end up sitting down in the hay and talking. Curley's wife confides in Lennie and tells him the story of her life. When Lennie tells Curley's wife he likes to pet soft things, she wants him to touch her hair. He does so, but does not let go and ends up panicking and shaking her to death. He runs away as the other men discover her body and embark on a manhunt to find Lennie and shoot him.
Quote: "I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing." (pg. 91)
Title: Hair and Lost Hares
I think this would be an appropriate title because Lennie killed Curley's wife after touching her hair out of fear that she would tell on him and get him in trouble and he would not be able to tend the rabbits. Curley's wife's hair was part of the reason that the dream of George, Lennie, and Candy's little piece of land could never come true and Lennie would never get to tend any rabbits.
1. Chapter 1
After being run out Weed Lennie and George are heading for a farm in the Salinas River Valley. They stop on the bank of a river for the night. After eating a simple dinner of beans, they talk about their dreams and hopes of owning a little farm together someday.
"O.K. Someday-we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and-"
"An' live off the fatta of the lan'," Lennie Shouted. (page 14)
A Journey for a New Beginning
This is appropriate for this chapter because Lennie and George were forced to leave Weed. Now they are traveling for a fresh start in a new place.
Chapter 5:
Lennie has accidentally killed his puppy while playing with it. All the men are out playing horseshoes when Curley's wife comes in and talks to Lennie. Lennie hesitates, but then she tells him about her life, and all the things that have gone wrong in it. Lennie explains how he gets in trouble, because he likes to touch soft things, and she offers to let him touch her hair. He becomes confused, and accidentally breaks her neck. Candy finds her, and Curley vows to kill Lennie.
Page 88: "Seems like they ain't none of them cares how I gotta live. I tell you I ain't used to livin' like this. I coulda made somethin' of myself."
Title: Mistakes and Accidents
This title is good for the chapter because it focuses on all the mistakes that the characters have made during their lives, such as Curley's wife marrying Curley and not following her dream, and Lennie accidentally ruining things that he loves.
1. Of Mice and Men is a classic. It is a timeless tale that captures a moment in time and puts its story into words that are brutle and honest if need be. It has powerful uses of foreshadowing. Lennies death was foreshadowed by the death of Candy's dog, every aspect of it. When his dog begins to reek of death, the boys want to put it out of its misery. Candy pleads in a nonobvious way to let his dog live. After his dog is shot in the back of his head by Carlson, Candy realizes he should have been the one to put him down. This sticks with George and foreshadows his reasoning in the end when he shoots Lennie in the back of the head. The story is not only interweaving real personalities in a real situation, but it also shows the beautiful state of nature around them as they roll through the problems and solutions that make up their lives. "Already the sun had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes of the Gabilan mountains, and the hilltops were rosy in the sun." Of Mice and Men not only incorporates the simple, yet spectacular moments in nature but also the daily moments you observe and can relate to when it is written so easily into a story."At about ten o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam shot flies like rushing stars." All of these combine to make a classic, and all of these things are present in Of Mice and Men.
1. Chapter 5:
In this chapter, Lennie had killed his little pup. After killing the puppy Lenny says, "Why do you got to get killed? You ain't so little as mice." Then Curly's wife had snuck into the barn with Lennie and began to talk to him. He wasn't supposed to be talking to her and he did a good job of doing this, but she eventually got him to talk to her and then he had accidentally killed her. He buried her in the hay and ran away. The other men found her body later and George went to get Carlson's luger. They decide that they need to find Lennie and shoot him so he doesn't hurt any more people. The title that I would choose for this chapter is "Lennie's Accident." I would choose this title because Lennie makes numerous mistakes that all eventually pile up to his death at the end. First he killed the pup and didn't want George to find out. Then he had talked to Curly's wife even though he wasn't supposed to be talking to her. And finally he had killed her and tried to hide the body and ran away.
1. "Confrontations"
George and Lennie arrive at their new job location and are confronted by several characters. They are immediately confronted by an old man who is not happy they are late. Then they are confronted by the boss who is suspicious and questions George's motives for being with Lennie. Curly is also suspicious of the couple. He is very cocky and obnoxious. In this chapter they meet all the ranch hands.
Quote: "You the new guys the old man was waitin' for?"
The title is appropriate because George and Lennie were confronted by numerous people in the chapter.
1. "Confrontations"
George and Lennie arrive at their new job location and are confronted by several characters. They are immediately confronted by an old man who is not happy they are late. Then they are confronted by the boss who is suspicious and questions George's motives for being with Lennie. Curly is also suspicious of the couple. He is very cocky and obnoxious. In this chapter they meet all the ranch hands.
Quote: "You the new guys the old man was waitin' for?"
The title is appropriate because George and Lennie were confronted by numerous people in the chapter.
2. Many pieces of classic literature are social commentaries that authors write about the world around them; this is also true of "Of Mice and Men." Steinbeck wrote this novella to narrate the prejudices, dreams, and reality of the 1930s. Steinbeck is not a afraid to unleash the brutal truth about society during his life. He reavels the hardships of the minorities during the great depression. This story can be considered a classic for many reasons: it's old, it's survived this long, we have to read it, but more importantly because it provides an education to the reader.
1. Chapter 6:
summary: Lennie is hiding in the bushes that George told him to wait in if anything bad happened when his Aunt Clara and giant rabbit appear to him. Aunt Clara is angry at him for getting into so much trouble and for causing George so many problems. The rabbit tells him that George will beat him and then leave him because he is tired of cleaning up after Lennie's mistakes. George finally appears and tells Lennie that he is not upset with him. Lennie then asks to hear the story of their farm. George tells him while Lennie's face is turned toward the river. George then shoots Lennie in the back of the head with Carlson's Lugar that he took. The quote that I think best describes the chapter is on page 104: "Guys like us got no fambly. They make a little stake an' then they blow it in. They ain't got nobody in the worl' that gives a hoot in hell about 'em---"
"But not us," Lennie cried happily. "Tell about us now."
George was quiet for a moment. "But not us,"he said.
"Because---"
"Because I got you an'---"
"An' I got you. We got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us," Lennie cried in triumph.
My Title: The Terribly Humane Act.
I chose this title because although what George did at the end of the chapter was heartbreaking and must have been very hard for him to do, it was a very kind and humane act of friendship at the same time. George ended Lennie's life quickly and painlessly because he truely cared about him, and because it was the right thing to do.
Chapter 1
In this chapter we get to meet and find out things about them. One thing we find out about them is their physical appearance. Then we find out how they are mentally. We also get to find out the relationship these two have, and this I think is an important factor. When you here about to dude like them you think they are brothers,cusins, some type of family but they aren’t an I think that makes their relationship a lot better an different.
Quote:
George said, "I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus christ, somebody'd shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself. No you stay with me. Your Aunt Clara wouldn't like you running off by yourself, even if she is dead. "
( page 13, third paragraph )
My title: A Good Friend
This title is good because thats what George is to Lennie. If he wasn't a good friend he wouldn't put up with all Lennies problems. He could let Lennie do his own thing, making him survie on his own, but he doesnt he puts up with it for Lennie an for Lennie's aunt.
1. Chapter 1
George and Lennie are introduced and their close relationship is highlighted as they leave Weeds to their new ranch job near Soledad. George's dissability and dependence on Lennie is discovered that they were run out of town because George wanted to feel the texture of a woman's dress but it was mistook as attempted rape and that he regularly squishes mice as he tries to pet them. Lennie leads the duo and decides to spend the night in the woods to avoid work the next morning. While setting down for bed, he talks to George about their goals and dreams of owning their own land (and rabbits) but warns that if anything bad happens again like in Weeds, George is to go straight to the campsite they are currently in and hide in the brush until Lennie comes for him.
Quote:
"An' have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we're gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. Tell about that, George."
Title: "Soft Velvet"
My title "Soft Velvet" not only hints at the obsession that George has with soft things but forshadows the subsequent events that leads to his death. Also, it symbolizes the smooth George and Lennie originally future together.
1. Chapter 1
Summary: George and his childlike companion, Lennie, are travelling through California during the depression to work on a ranch. The reader learns that Lennie likes to pet mice because they are so soft. When George gets frustrated with Lennie, Lennie is frightened, and even offers to go away to a cave. George assures Lennie that he doesn't want him to go. George then recites the plan of the two obtaining a farm of their own.
Quote: "I wish't we'd get the rabbits pretty soon, George. They ain't so little."
My Title: With Dreams of Rabbits
This title is appropriate for the chapter because it is when the reader first learns of the farm with the rabbits the two are aiming for, and how excited Lennie gets about the plans.
1. Chapter 5
In this last chapter of the book, Lennie kills the puppy. He gets mad at himself for doing this to the pup and then gets mad at the dog. Lennie later on kills Curley's wife because he has a problem of touching things and ends up choking her. Towards the end of the chapter, the men, who were outside at the time, come in to find Curley's wife dead. At the same time, Lennie leaves and the hunt is on. "I done a real bad thing. I shouldn't of did that. George'll be mad. An' hide in the brush till he come..."(page 92)
Chapter title: Who would of known?
This title is appropriate because in the book, the reader never would of thought Lennie would be the one to do anything to hurt someone.
2. I think that Of Mice and Men can be qualified as classic literature because it fits into all these categories. This book makes you think about the human mind, and human nature. In this book you have to understand how each of the characters feel and you get an idea of how each of their minds work. Of Mice and Men has withstood the test of time, and although there are racial slurs and dated language, this book is still widely read, which means it must have a good message. If a book can last through as many decades as Of Mice and Men, it should definitley be qualified as a classic.
1. Chapter 6
This chapter starts out with Lennie hiding/waiting in the bushes for George to find him. While there he talks to himself and imagines and talks to his Aunt Clara, he also talks to a giant rabbit. In his conversation he explains repetitively how he has done a bad thing and that George will be mad at him. When George finds Lennie he comforts him and tells him he is not mad and they will still get their own land (with rabbits). And as he says this George shoots Lennie in the back of the head with the Luger, to save him from Curley's punishment/torture.
Quote: "No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now." (page 106)
Title: Allusions
I would use this title because in the last chapter about 90% of all the dialoge is Lennie talking to Lennie. Even though he thinks he is talking to others the only person with him is him.
2. Given this loose definition, why is Of Mice and Men considered a classic?
Mice and Men is considered a classic because it refers to life back in the day, and how people were really treated. It has a lot of racism in it, but it's understandable because that's how it really was then. I think that the author explains the settings very well. He really paints the picture in your head, and he makes it easy to understand. I would definatly consider this a classic.
Of Mice and Men is a classic becauseof many things. The imaery used in the book, for example, "the water is warme too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands before reaching the narrow pool," give it an artistic quality. The book is very thought provoking, raising questions such as whether George was a good friend to Lennie, and how prejudice affects people. It reveals a deep truth about how everyone makes grand schemes but no one ever acheives them. It has withstood the test of time thus far, and will continue to do so.
2. Of Mice and Men is a classic because it touches the reader heart and everybody can connect with it. Everybody can see how george takes care of Lennie and loves him like a brother even though he always gets them into trouble. And i dont think anybody can say theyweren't sad when george had to kill Lennie. I think that ties bake to when Candy ssays he should have shot his own dog. George would rather shoot lennie and be with him in his last moments than let someone else kill him cruelly.
1.) Chapter 5: Alone in the barn, Lennie contemplates his now dead puppy. Having apparently killed the dog by accident, Lennie shifts from panic, to sorrow, then to violent anger, and finally to self-pity. Curley's wife enters the barn and attempts to engage the single-mindedly woeful Lennie in conversation. Lennie, following George's instruction, treats her with caution, but she charges on, eager for a listener. Curley's wife explains her loneliness and frustration at her husband's possessiveness while Lennie imagines the consequences of his actions; each is oblivious to the other's comments. Lennie reveals his love of soft things and their feel, and Curley's wife (in a moment born more of vanity than generosity) offers up her hair. When she realizes Lennie may "muss it up," she tries to jerk free, but Lennie becomes fearful and characteristically keeps his hold. Reacting first with panic at her screams and then anger, he unwittingly breaks her neck. Lennie remembers his directions to hide in the brush "if he done another bad thing" and creeps from the barn. The body is soon discovered by Candy, who notifies George, who returns to the bunkhouse, seemingly to ensure his own innocence. The rest of the ranch organizes a lynch mob against Lennie, a sorrowful George bringing up the rear.
"...[Lennie] whispered in fright, 'I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing.'" (91)
My title: "Meanness"
This title illustrates the irony in the deaths of the puppy and Curley's wife at Lennie's hands, which were not carried out in cruelty but still led to the formation of the lynch mob and, later, the story's violent conclusion.
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