George

Question 1

Topics

Answer 1

• character
• status
• friendship
• dream

Question 2

Topic sentence for character

Answer 2

Steinbeck presents George as a cautious character

Question 3

Quotations - character

Answer 3

• ‘small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes’
• ‘snapped moisture off’
• ‘nervously’ / ‘sharply’

Question 4

Topic sentence for status

Answer 4

Steinbeck highlights the status of George as an itinerant worker

Question 5

Quotations - status

Answer 5

'tight blanket rolls' 
'dressed in denim trousers and in denim coats'
'soap/razor/comb'
'bottle of pills/liniment'
'work for little money' 
' necktie'
'magazines'

Question 6

Topic sentence for friendship

Answer 6

Steinbeck presents George and Lennie’s friendship as a leader-follower relationship

Question 7

Quotations - friendship

Answer 7

‘one stayed behind the other’
‘think I’d let you carry your own work card’
‘you always forget’

Question 8

Topic sentence for dream

Answer 8

Steinbeck highlights that George aspires to American Dream

Question 9

James Truslow Adams - Declaration of Independence

Answer 9

’ a dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone’

Question 10

Quotations for dream

Answer 10

‘Guys like us got no fambly’
‘ we’d belong there’
‘smoked salmon/thick cream’
‘sat entranced by his own picture’