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Of Mice And Men Flashcards

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Refuge

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Forest

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Bible image (evil) represents=Lennie

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Snake

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Predatory nature of the world

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Heron

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Attains the dream in death

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Lennie

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Reality of migrant workers. Lonely, shapeless, dirty, empty and infertile

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Ranch

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Lennie’s murder=end of illusions and dreams. Similarities include: bullet wound location, considered burdens by those who don’t understand the need for friendship

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Candy’s dog’s death

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Helplessness

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Physical Isolation

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Loneliness

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Emotional Isolation

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Ignorance

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Intellectual Isolation

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Human need for companionship, desire to care for others

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Rabbits and puppies

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Makes life unbearable

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Loneliness

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Can make life meaningful

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True friendship between men/women

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Is controlled by strong unknowable forces, which makes free will almost non-existent. Is volatile and unpredictable

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Life

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Is impossible/card games

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Change

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A dream of an earthly paradise is as impossible to attain as Eden. Illusion will inevitably be destroyed

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The American Dream

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16
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Make a dream impossible

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Economic and social conditions

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Causes economic instability which leads to loneliness and isolation and finally dehumanizations (insensitivity)

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War

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Is defined in the novel as “the way life should be” to different characters-what they all wish for but can’t be found in life-only in death

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American Dream

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Will always be rootless, lonely, disconnected. They must learn to connect with themselves. Example: Slim

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Laborers

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Is the purging of emotions or to cleanse. Fix things gone wrong

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Catharsis

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What is meant by “practicing with the vicarious pains of tragic art”?

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Practicing with emotions actually felt by someone else but you felt as if it was yourself

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How are “brutality, racism, sexism, economic exploitation” to narrow conceptions of human life?

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Human tragedies occurs due to these things

23
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How are brutality, racism, sexism, economic exploitation “forces which frustrate the human spirit”?

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Discriminates everyone from understanding each other. They keep us from accomplishing happiness

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What is meant by the statement “Lennie and George have a noble dream”?

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Their dream is not greedy or selfish. They are noble=selfless

25
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Explain the statement “theirs is the American Dream: that thee is somehow, somewhere, sometime, the possibility that we can make our paradise on earth, that we can have our own self-sufficient little place where we can live off the fat of the land as peaceful friends”

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The drams wasn’t to have land, it was to be happy with friends and to be well off, they believe it was how to find happiness

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A way behind that behind that loneliness and meanness and fighting, a way to rise above our human limitation: to men who have nothing else, do have each other

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ennobling revelation

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How is the dream there, according to Scarseth, even in the “final defeat”

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They can’t have the dream of the farm so George achieves the brotherhood dream

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How was the “pain of life been [is] transmuted into the beauty of art?”

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Is a complex human world

29
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According to hadella, how does Steinbeck “physically associate George with mice”

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By describing him as small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features

30
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What does Hadella means by the statement that Lennie’s dreams have “edenic overtones”

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Parts of the story is compared to the story of Adam and Eve. Like Adam and Eve there is temptation, snake, illusion

31
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What is the central theme of of mice and men?

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Loneliness

32
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Owens argues that “although human beings are flawed and their hopes of regaining eden are illusory” there is something that is not flawed. What is it

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The characters commitment to the dream and to each other is not flawed

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How to George and Lennie represent a “desire to defy the curse of Cain and fallen man”?

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To break the pattern of wandering and loneliness imposed on the outcasts and to return to the perfect garden

34
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“Am I my brother’s keeper?”

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Other characters are affected by the commitment between George and Lennie

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Is suspicious of George and Lennie achieving the dream

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Curley

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Admires George and Lennie achieving the dream

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Slim

37
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Briefly participate in the brotherhood by looking after Lennie when George is not around

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Candy and Crooks

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What image does Steinbeck use to promote this “brother” image at the end of the novel

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Two men together as George and Slim walk away from the grove by the river where the story begun

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What global message is Steinbeck sending to you? How can we view this message on a global scale?

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We all need a companion, this can compare on the global scale because of all man kind needs someone by their side in order to survive

40
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The political, social, and economic idea that if a person works hard and obeys the rules in America he or she will be rewarded with financial wealth and other successes. Usually it supports the family unit, equal opportunity and the system of capitalism in the U.S. It generally includes the idea that one becomes more successful than one’s parent. These were values held by many early European settlers, and have been passed on to subsequent generations

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The dream

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How can we discover the writers purpose?

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By analyzing the characters, setting, symbols, tone, plot, word choice, and context

42
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The message will be universal and individual

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Themes

43
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Natural paradise

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Eden

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