English Flashcards
The process or fact of Being alone / apart from others.
Isolation
Sadness because one has no friends or company.
Loneliness
is the belief that people of some races are inferior to others, and the behaviour which is the result of this belief.
Racism
The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.
Segregation
A person who moves from one place to another in order to find work or better living conditions.
Nomadic
Occurring in cycles; recurrent.
Cyclical
A system in which members of an organisation or society are ranked according to relative status or authority.
Hirearchy
To exclude a group of people means to make them feel isolated and unimportant.
Marginalised
The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American,
allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.
The american dream
A long and severe recession in an economy or market.
The great depression
An area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust
and eroded, especially because of drought or unsuitable farming
practice.
The dust bowel
Why is lennie compared to so many animals throughout the book?
His size and low intelectual level
How are lennie and george stuck in the cyclical nature of existence?
Because when they go to a ranch, lennie does a bad thing, they run away, they go to a ranch……etc
What is marginalisation?
To marginalise people is to make them feel alone or unimportant
