Of mice and men

Week 10
In the story, what do the other men think of Lennie? Use examples from the text.

I think that the other men thinks that Lennie is a very kind man, in the text they say that he`s not so bright, but they have never seen a so fast,handy and good worker before. They thinks he is stupid, because Gorge talks for him all the time, but that’s just because George don’t wanna let the other men know that Lennie is a little back standing and not like every other normal people.

Of mice and men.

Chapter one. – Question.

In the part of the story we have read, i can tell that Lennie and George have known each other for a long time. All the stories,dreams they have together. By the way they talk to together on, I can hear that they have know each other for a long time, its like they were brother. I think that even if they aren`t brother, they look at each other like brother. George is the overprotective big brother that is taking care of her big retarded little brother Lennie. George acts like a brother to Lennie, he says that he annoys he so much and stuff like that. It`s not strange that it sounds like they`re brothers.

Caught in a viscious circle

Question 1:    Write a list of all the characters in this story and describe what type of person they are.

Elaine: Elaine is the main character in the story. She seems to be a good and caring person. Elaine is more like the hero in the story. In the start she was stupid enough to get fooled by Cordelia, but after a while she understood that she was mean and were treating her bad. Now she`ve got her own meanings and thoughes back.

Carol: She is really a good girl, inside her heart. but she try to act cool and impress Cordelia and Grace. But after all she is a good and descent girl .

Grace: Deep down inside she also is a good girl, but she likes Cordelia to much to show this and she acts cool and mean just so Cordelia should like her. She where friend with Elaine before Cordelia came in the picture, but now she dumps her. 

Cornelia: She is new in town and  she wants very bad to be friend with Grace, Carol and Elaine. After a while she gets this “boss” status in the gang and strating to boss over the other girls, telling them what to do, or not to do, and Treating them badly.

Question 2:    What is the theme of this story?  What is the author trying to get across to the reader?

 I think the theme f this story is about taking your own decisions and not listen and do as everyone else does. Stand for what you mean and think. If you only do what your friends does,it can effect you in a bad way. Some friends can have a bad influence on you, and the story is one good example of how it can go then. Everyone should be glad of having friends, and take good care of them and treat them nicely.

Question 3:    What did you like/dislike about this story, please be specific! 

I liked the story, i liked the nice ending when Elaine finally understood that Cornelia haven`t been treating her very nice and that she stood up and thought for herself and not for everybody else. Good that Elaine decided to find some new friends that dosen`t have bad influence on her. Good example of this times youth! Trying to be cool, and just do that there friends does. That’s very stupid.

John Steinbeck.

1.  Which one of John Steinbeck’s novels won a Pulitzer Prize?

The Grapes of Wrath.

2.  Where and what year was he born?

 He was born on the 27th of February 1902 in Salinas Valley, California.

3.  Name three of John Steinbeck’s books that were made into Hollywood films?

“Of Mice and Men”, “The Grapes of Wrath” and “East of Eden”.

4.  In what year did John Steinbeck write of Mice and Men?

 John Steinbeck wrote “Of Mice and Men” in 1937.

5.  What did John Steinbeck do during WWII?

In Second World War, he served as a war correspondent for New York.

6.  What US President awarded Steinbeck the United States Medal of Freedom.

 US President Lyndon B. Johnson awared Steinbeck with an Medal of freedom.

7.   What is John Steinbeck’s Museum called?

 The National Steinbeck Centre.

8.  How old was Steinbeck when he died?

 Steinbeck was 66 years when he died.

9.  What does the novel “The Moon is Down”, have to do with Norway?

It is much like the German occupation of Norway during World War II.

 Short summary.

“Of Mice and Men”s two main characters is George Milton and Lennie Small. George is very smart man, while Lennie is retarded. Lennie is not so very smart, but he’s very strong. The two men is dreaming about having their own farm. Lennie likes animals, and loves to stroke them. Lennie kills a woman because he strikes her hair to hard. That’s very bad because she was the wife of the farmer’s son, at the farm he works on. He gets accused for endeavoring a rape because he touched the woman’s dress. George kills Lennie at the end, with a gun.

Huckleberry Finn.

Select five characters that Twain does not admire in Huck Finn. Name and describe the specific traits that each possesses that makes him or her not an admirable person.

• Huck Finn`s Father: He was very mean to Huck, and he came back only to get Huck`s money.
• Miss.Watson: She 2was the boss over Jim, she was mean to his and tried to make Jim read the bible just so he could be an better person. ( when he alredy was a good prson)
• The two confidence tricksters: They where liers,cheaters and bad persons. They lied and tricked people just to get money or more.

Select five characters that Twain does admire. Name and discuss the specific traits that each possesses that makes him or her admirable.

• Huck Finn: he is an good boy, he only wants people best. He helps Jim, even when he knows that it is unlegal to help runaways. He likes Jim to, and thats one of the reasons why he helps him.
• Jim: he is an good person. He has been treaded bad by Miss. Watson.. and that why he runs away. He likes Huck very good because he helps him.
• Tom Sawyer: He is an good boy, and a friend of Huck.
• Mrs.Douglas: She is a very nice lady. She takes Huck in to here house and takes care of him when his father is mean. She has a big heart.

 

SHORT ANSWER

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in:

1884.

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can best be described as: an dramatic novel.

3. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer each received 6000 dollars when they found money that the robbers had hidden in the cave.
4. Huck’s father returns because he: wanted Huck Finn`s money.
5. When Jim first sees Huck Finn on the island, he thinks Huck: is someone what is looking for him, and want to take back to Miss. Watson.
6. Jim runs away from Miss Watson because: he didn`t want to be a slave anymore.

 

Mark Twain

• His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but he is most known as his pen name Mark Twain.
• Samuel was an humorist,satirist,lecturer and a good writer.

• Samuel was born in Florida November the 30 in1835 and he died in Redding, Missouri April the 21. He was then 74 years old.
• Samuel was the sixth of seven children. Only three of hes siblings survived the childhood.
• When Samuel was 11 years old, his father died of  pneumonia.
• Samuel published over 30 book.
•  His most famous novel was Huckleberry Finn and the adventure of Tom Sawyer.
•  Samuel got fallen in love with Charles Langdon`s sister Olivia. Olivia and Samuel had three daughters together. ( Susy,Clara and Jean) The marriage lasted in 37 years, until Olivia`s death in 1904.
•  In the last twenty years Samuel worked against the development that made the large nations and global companies more and more dominating in the world.
•  Samuel got rich and had an up and down life with allot of depression and bad investmenst but also some good years. In 1910 Samuel Langhorne Clemens died of a heart-attack.

Lennie

I think Lennie is a boy with a very big heart, and he don`t want to do anyone no harm. He likes animals very good. Lennie is probably a little retarded.. he is very strong, but he can`t control his strength because he don`t know how strong he really is. Curly know all this about Lennie and he is afraid that Lennie would hurt a human, maybe that`s way Lennie cant talk to Curly`s wife. They can help him with maybe get him someone that could take care of him, someone that can watch out for him a lot so he dosen`t hurt anyone.

Cinderella

Once upon a time there was a girl named Cinderella. She lived in a huge house with her step-mom and her two step-sisters. Her father was unfortunate dead. After her father died, Cinderella had the power in the house. She forced her step-mom and her step-sisters to do all the dirt work in the house. Cinderella was really inside a very bad girl. She used to force them to all sorts of things. They had just one day free in the week. One day there a invitation in the mail, an invitation the the princes prom. Cinderella had been waiting for ages to this. She was very happy.

She went downtown and bought all sorts of fabrics in all sorts off colors,and all the other things she needed to the big prom. She did not said something about the prom to her “servants”, but she made them sew her dress. Ofcourse they had heard about it in there free-day, but they had no money and no dress to wear.

The prom day came and she enter the prom in a very nice dress, and she got a dance with the prince and they talked a little bit. After two hours he had used long time on this one girl, Cinderella had seen this girl but she coulden`t put the finger on where. The prom was over, and then she saw who the girl the prince had been with all night was. it was one of her step-sisters! She pulled out a gun from her purse and shoot both her and the prince down, and killed them. She left the country and her Step-mom took over the house. Her step-mom hide a hitman to chase Cinderella down and kill her, but how that ended will we never know.. THE END

10 sentences using a preposition in each sentence.

- Next year we are going to drive all across USA.

- Everyone is against me.

- Everyone is done with their homework, except me.

- I don`t want to get between you two.

- Look at this boot, i got it from my grandma.

- Jump into the river, now! 

- What have you been doing, during this week?

-  He is heading towards you.

-  You can`t get you present, until you have the money.

- The day after tomorrow is my birthday.

I`ll rather be happy!

 

I`ll rather be happy then have a lot of money because i believe that you can be as much as happy when your not rich as you can when you are rich. Many rich people are very unhappy and sad even if they got a big house with tennis track and pool and all the things they want. But me as a normal person of money are happy even thou i don`t got a tennis track, pool or a huge house with maids and stuff like the rich people have.

The people that have that kind of money are often very selfish and they do only think of they status as a celebrity. Maybe not everyone but many of the celebrity’s think like that. If one day I have that kind of money I would donate a big part of the money to Africa and places where people really need it, like poor people with HIV Aids.