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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.
When Crooks makes this statement, he's talking about how the company and feeling of acceptance of another person is more important than the conversations passed between the two. Because Crooks is African American, he's discriminated and treated lesser than the other workers on the ranch. He longs for someone to tell his thoughts to when he states, "'A guy goes nuts if he ain't with nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you'"(p.72-73). Crooks's statement is agreeable because constant loneliness is a cause for insanity. It is important to the work as a whole because everyone on the ranch is able to talk or work with someone else to achieve the desired job. Crooks cannot do this because he is a different color than the rest of them. This is why he longs for a person's company and acceptance.
ReplyDeleteAgreeing with Marla's comment above, Curley fully deserved getting his hand broken by Lennie. Like Marla said, Curley continuously provoked Lennie and started the fight himself. Though George did encourage Lennie to fight back and stand up for himself, Curley had been warned beforehand not to mess around with Lennie. Additionally, Curley had been warned by others about Lennie's strength. Because of Curley's foolishness, he led himself to his own injury because he decided to ignore other people's warnings. Also, because Lennie does not not understand when someone is in pain, he panics when he crushes Curley's hand, but does not release it. Lennie did the same thing when he and George were in the town of Weed with the woman's red dress that he liked. “He was so scairt he couldn’t let go of that dress. And he’s so God damn strong, you know,” (41). Because Lennie was so scared to death when he had broken Curley’s hand, he still kept his grip upon it because he did not realize what he did was wrong. However, because Curley knew that provoking Lennie was wrong and he knew that there was something wrong with him, Curley got what he fully deserved because he brought it upon himself to get his hand broken.
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Ashley, was this comment intended for the other question? Feel free to move it, if so.
ReplyDeleteAshley, was this comment intended for the other question? Feel free to move it, if so.
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