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www.podcastrevision.co.uk Knowledge of the book: It is essential that you are familiar with the content and characters of the book to enable you to make judgements and write about them. Use your revi- sion notes to help you decide on the key events for each chapter. These events could be a character’s first appearance, an important event such as Curley and Lennie’s fight etc. Chapter 1 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Chapter 2 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Chapter 3 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 1 Chapter 4 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Chapter 5 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Chapter 6 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 2 The purpose of this work book is to make you think about some of the language, themes and characters in Of Mice & Men To get good marks you need to write detailed answers that analyse and refer to the language of the novel; this booklet will help you to do this. For each quotation selected, your first task is to make notes around it to help you decide what Steinbeck is trying to communicate to the reader (you). This shows lots of different interpretations of the lines; one is no better than the others and there are probably lots more. Don’t be afraid to ex- periment and give your own views—you’ll get better marks. George said coldly “You gonna give me that mouse or do I have to sock you?”(26) “Coldly” suggests frustration. George takes responsibility for every as- pect of Lennie’s behaviour and almost treats him as his own child by offering both guid- ance and punishment if necessary. George threatens violence in a bid to get Lennie to listen to him. The reference to the mouse refers to the ti- tle of the novel—and the Burns poem “the best laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft agley (often go wrong). The fate of the mouse fore- shadows what will happen to Lennie at the end of the novel and symbolises the pointlessness of their dreams. 3 As with the poetry, you can use your ideas to write an extended PEE response. In other words to: write a lot about a little. Notice that this partial response hits most of the assessment criteria: • It deals with the text sensitively and in detail. • Alternative interpretations have been explored. • Textual evidence (quotes) has been used. • How structure contributes to the meaning of the novel has been explored. • How language contributes to the meaning of the novel has been explored. • The material has been evaluated in that the effect of the various devices have been mentioned. 4 Steinbeck illustrates the almost father-son relationship between his two main characters in the first chapter as the giant Lennie tries in vain to hide a dead mouse from his companion: “George said coldly “You gonna give me that mouse or do I have to sock you?””(26) The fact that George’s words are spoken “coldly” suggests frustration due to this being a familiar situation. He takes responsibility for every aspect of Len- nie’s behaviour and almost treats him as his own child by offering both guidance and violent punishment if necessary—again suggesting the frustrations of their day to day existence. The dead mouse links to the title of the novel—and the Burns poem “the best laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft agley (often go wrong). The fate of the mouse both foreshadows what will happen to Lennie at the end of the novel and symbolises the pointlessness of their dreams. Even at this early stage of the novel, Steinbeck sign posts the way to a tragic conclu- sion. 5 Lennie ...a huge man, shapeless of face, with large pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoul- ders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. (19) “Tell me—like you done before.” “Tell you what?” “About the rabbits” (31) Lennie growled back to his seat on the nail keg. “Ain’t nobody goin’ to talk no hurt to George,” he grumbled. (104) 6 Now choose one of your ideas and write about it. “I done a real bad thing” he said. “I shouldn’t of did that. George’ll be mad.” (128) 7 George "Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want" (28-29) George went on. “With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got someone to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all any- one gives a damn. But not us.” (32) George, on the lost dream: "-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" (131) 8 Now choose one of your ideas and write about it. “No,” said George. “No, Lennie. I ain’t mad. I never been mad, an’ I ain’t now. That’s a thing I want ya to know” (146) 9 Crooks "S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. (105) "I seen hunderds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it.” (106) He hesitated “...If you...guys would want a hand to work for noth- ing—just his keep, why I’d come an’ lend a hand. I ain’t so crippled I can’t work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want to.” (109) 10 Now choose one of your ideas and write about it. Crooks’ face lighted with pleasure in his tor- ture. “Nobody can’t tell what a guy’ll do,” he observed calmly. “Le’s say he wants to come back and can’t. S’pose he gets killed or hurt so he can’t come back.” (103-104) 11 “Know what I think?” George did not answer. “Well I think Curley’s married...a tart.” (50) (George) “Listen to me you crazy bastard,” he said fiercely. “Don’t you even take a look at that bitch. I don’t care what she says and what she does. I seen ‘em poi- son before, but I never seen no piece of jailbait worse than her. You leave her be.” (54) I tell ya I could of went with shows. Not jus’ one, neither. An’ a guy tol’ me he could put me in pitchers…” (111) Curley’s Wife 12 Now choose one of your ideas and write about it. “I get lonely,” she said. “You can talk to people , but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody?” (123) 13 Isolation and Loneliness Curley’s Wife “Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? Think I like to stay in that house alla time?” Candy—”They’ll can me purty soon...I won’t have no place to go to" George—”I seen the guys that go around the ranches alone. That ain’t no good” 14 Now choose one of your ideas and write about it. Crooks—”I ain’t wanted in the bunk house an’ you ain’t wanted in my room!” 15 Hopes and Dreams "'Well,' said George, 'we'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say the hell with goin' to work, and we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an' listen to the rain comin' down on the roof...'" (Crooks) - 'Seems like ever' guy got land in his head.' (Curley’s wife) - “Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes—all of them nice clothes like they wear. 16 Now choose one of your ideas and write about it. (Candy) - “S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an’ fifty bucks I’d put in. I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend the chick- ens and hoe the garden some. How’d that be?” 17 (Candy) “Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he’s mad at ‘em because he ain’t a big guy.” (48) (Carlson) “And he stinks to beat hell. Tell you what. I’ll uploads/Management/ omamrevision-guide.pdf