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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.
George means that he should have known that something bad was going to happen to Curley’s wife and Lennie was going to be the culprit. Curley’s wife was Lennie’s temptation and weakness and led to the destruction of his and George’s idea Eden-like dream of owning their own land. In a sense, she is Eve and causes everyone’s ultimate downfalls. Being so close to achieving their goal, George knew that Lennie was bound to accidentally mess it up with his childlike curiosity and innocence. When Candy asks if the plan is still on, he responds, “—I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would” (94). Their dream was too idealistic to become real. George knew that being able to own land peacefully with Lennie was a situation that was highly unlikely to happen.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with the last statement. The idea of George and Lennie and then Candy getting their own piece of land was just an idea to give them hope and to have something to look forward to. It gave their life a purpose. At the beginning of the book George tells Lenny, "Lennie--if you jus' happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an' hide in the brush" (15) George did know that Lennie eventually would mess up, but he thought he could protect Lennie and cover up his mistakes. I don't think Curly's wife was the one and only thing that was Lennie's weakness. When Curly came into the picture George told Lennie to stay away from him and when the puppies were born George constantly reminded him not to kill them. Lennies simple mindedness was a weakness in itself, and it put all the pressure on George. George not only should have known Lennie was going to mess up, but he should have known there was no way he could have prevented it.
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