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Please take some time to post two responses to Of Mice and Men before you return to class on January 4. Each post should be at least 100 words long and should include direct references to the text you are discussing. Even if you are responding to a quote in the prompt, you should bolster your own response with other references. Those references should include internal citations to note where you are in the book (p. #). When you make a post, please read all other posts for that question so that you are participating in a conversation. Please do not repeat what other students have already said. There are many questions from which to choose, so you should be able to discuss your ideas somewhere without being redundant. Remember to make some post-it notations about symbols and archetypes, along with any other ideas you would like to discuss when we get back to class.
Feel free to respond to as many prompts as you would like. If you respond to more than two, please asterisk the responses that are NOT for evaluation. Be sure your name appears on each comment, so I can see who you are. I think you will need to log in to your Google account as you work. If you can, please post with your school Google identity. If you post as "Anonymous" without your name, you will not be able to receive credit for your work, so be sure your name appears within the comment if you do that.
They didn't report Curley's wife to the boss because they knew that they wouldn't be believed over her. Curley's wife would have told a completely different story but their boss would believe her over a black man and his workers. When Crooks told her to get out of his house, she backfired and said "'You know what I could do to you if you open your trap'...' I could get you strung up in a tree so easy it ain't funny'"(80)to Crook. She knew she had a fairly substantial amount of power, so she was using that to her advantage. Candy knew that if he were to go to the boss, Curley's wife would do everything she could to make them pay. And it wouldn't have been very difficult for her to kill Crook. I believe the reasoning that they did not report her was because they were afraid, and Candy did not want to be responsible for the death of Crook.
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ReplyDeleteThe reason the men do not report Curley’s wife’s behavior is because the men fear what Curley would do to them. While the men are talking badly about Curley, Candy says, “Don’t tell Curley I said none of this. He’d slough me. He just don't give a damn. Wont ever get canned ‘cause his old man’s the boss" (27). Curley has gained a reputation that makes the men fear him. Curley’s superior reputation is enhanced by the fact that his father is the boss, which eliminates Curley’s worries of being fired. This reputation transfers over the men is a negative way and forces the men to act differently than they otherwise would in a safe environment. Overall, the men are forced to stay quiet because they do not want to get on Curley’s bad side.
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