1. Warming up with some of the smart things you said about cyclical structure
In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses the cyclical structure of Chapter 4 to illustrate the hope and dreamer that is inside of all of these men including Crooks.
In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses the cyclical structure of Chapter 4 to illustrate how difficult it was for a black man, even with an opportunity or a little hope, to have friends, live well, and start a life of his own.
In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses the cyclical structure of Chapter 4 to illustrate the hopelessness of Crooks because he starts alone, gets a glimpse of a better life, and then he is back alone.
In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses the cyclical structure of Chapter 4 to illustrate how easily power seems to come, yet most of the time the amount of power never actually changes.
Follow up questions:
Based on Chapter 4, what prediction would you make for George, Lennie, and Candy in terms of their chance of achieving the dream? Why?
2. Recapping the beginning of Chapter 5
- Reread pages 88 and 89.
- Which details contradict our previous impressions of her as a bully?
- Why do you think Steinbeck offers us this information about Curley's wife?
3. Acting out the rest of Chapter 5 and completing your Chapter 5 reading journal
Thesis of the day:
The puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes ______________ because _____________.
OR
The death of Curley's wife symbolizes ________________ because _______________.
4. Trying out Subject-Verb Agreement, Part 2 on www.noredink.com
HW:
1. Please finish Subject-Verb Agreement, Part 2 tonight.
2. Finish your Chapter 5 journal entry/annotations if you did not finish in class.
3. Friday, September 26 is the end of 6 weeks; if you have any make-up work or revisions to complete, please do so before then. Also, if you'd like to retake any grammar quizzes, you can do so on Friday during class.
The puppy that Lennie kills in chapter 5 symbolizes Lennie's innocence and ignorance. It also shows that he doesn't mean to do what he does.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes the beginning of the end for the dream because Lennie ends up running away and the tension is even higher than before.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes the future on how he will innocently kill Curley's Wife because very close after he kills the puppy he kills Curley's Wife who is just as innocent as a puppy after she explains where she comes from.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curley's wife symbolizes that when life is good and you think it can turn out great it just turns in a weird direction because Lennie has intention of these actions but it still happens and it's bad.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes the ending of the dream that Candy, Lennie, and George always talked about because there is no longer a way that Lennie can be normal and not be a problem. Everything he touches breaks, literally.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes how harmful Lennie is towards soft and fragile things because if there is anything soft like the mouse and the dog he ends up killing it somehow.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 represents the end of Lennie's innocence, as from there on he gets angrier and angrier and eventually kills Curley's wife.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes the death of the dreams that George and Lennie had early on because earlier George promised Lennie a puppy, he got it and killed it. He then killed Curleys wife's dreams and lastly he killed his own dream of feeding rabbits. (He is a dream killer?)
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes the dying of innocence, because he killed an innocent thing, so it could be foreshadowing something for later in the book.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curleys wife symbolizes that Lennie has done lots of very bad things but i didnt want to do them because this is the real first example in the book that you see lennie do something really bad.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curley's wife symbolizes the fact that many things were not very happy back then because there are a ton of bad things happening.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes dreams being destroyed because through out the story George and Lennie have their dream and although it is altered it never really dies until death comes into the story.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curley's wife symbolizes the end of the road or dream for Candy, George, and Lennie because now that she is dead Lennie is in trouble with Curley and now the boss after that.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curley's wife symbolizes the death of a dream. Because when she died, so did any hope of her going to Hollywood. and any chance ofGeoge and Lennie getting a little plot of land.
ReplyDeleteSadly, the death of Curley's wife leads us to lean towards the side of the other men that want to kill him because it shows that even through his innocence, he is uncontrollable, and a danger to others.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curley's wife symbolizes the death of Lennie because he took her life and the price shall be his own
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curly's wife symbolizes loss of innocence because Steinbeck uses the back story of Curly's wife to make her look better in our eyes because she has hopes and dreams like us, and when Lennie kills her accidentally and then describes her while she is dead, her beauty makes her seem innocent, thus the loss of innocence.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes the mice that Lennie killed earlier in the book because it shows that George was right about Lennie not being able to handle a puppy.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curleys wife symbolizes the fact that Lennie killed Curleys wife and the guys are gonna come after him and try to kill him, and not be so nice as to just lock him up like George wanted.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curley's wife symbolizes that Lennie can not control himself when he gets scared because when the dog wanted to play with Lennie he had scared Lennie and he had killed him. This also happened when Curley's wife scared him and he killed her as well.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curly's wife symbolizes that their dream is coming to the end of the road because now the whole plan is falling apart and everyone is after lennie
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in chapter 5 symbolizes the broken dreams in the story because the more Lennie kills the further away their dreams are to reach.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in chapter 5 symbolizes his own self because the rabbit represents innocence, but yet still receives violence and death, which is exactly the position Lennie is in.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curley's wife symbolizes the death of their dream because now Lennie is probably going to get killed and George will be accused with helping Lennie.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes how innocent something can be and still die because Lennie can't control his own strength.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curley's wife symbolizes that Lennie cant control himself when he is startled or when someone yells at him because both times he has been startled he ends up killing whatever scared him.
ReplyDeleteThe death of Curley's wife symbolizes that when dreams and hope all fails and when you start to think that life could be better you kind of die just like forgetting everything that just happened. Its like the death of dreams.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes his ignorance of his own strength because he doesn't know when to be gentle with fragile things.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in Chapter 5 symbolizes how he doesn't know the power he has.
ReplyDeleteThe puppy that Lennie kills in chapter 5 symbolizes the death of Curley's wife because Lennie can't control himself when panic sets in.
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