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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.
Lennie had felt secure that Crooks was not telling the truth because he believed in George. What I mean by that is simply that Lennie had been with George so long, he did could not bring himself to think that George would just leave him. He cited, “He won’t do it, George wouldn’t do nothing like that. I been with George a long time. He’ll come back tonight.” (71). Because Lennie had been with George for such a large chunk of his life, I believe that he doubted George would just get up and leave him. Also, George sacrificed a lot of his life for Lennie, and Lennie knew that George would do anything for him, without abandoning him because George had never abandoned him before, and refused to allow for him to run off and live alone. He also reassured himself by saying “George is careful. He won’t get hurt. He ain’t never been hurt, ‘cause he’s careful,” (71). Crooks was trying to use George getting hurt as an example of George not returning to Lennie, but Lennie knew that George would not get himself into trouble because throughout the story, George had always protected Lennie. George was too careful with their situation; he had to be careful when taking care of Lennie, and although Lennie did not know the reason for George’s cautious attitude, Lennie convinced himself that George would return from the bar that night. Additionally, Lennie continuously remembers the promise that George had always promise him: taking care of the rabbits. He murmurs to himself about the “alfalfa for the rabbits” and the “berry patch” (73), and this completely reassures Lennie that George will return. Because of the promise of land and a life with just the two of them, Lennie was able to erase the doubts that Crooks was trying to instill with him, saying the George would not return. Lennie knew in his heart that George would return because not only did he believe in him, Lennie loved George like a brother, and he knew the feelings were reciprocated.
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