OMAM

Question 1

John Steinbeck

Answer 1

Author of OMAM

Question 2

Novella

Answer 2

A short novel

Question 3

Great Depression

Answer 3

A time of utter economic disaster; started in the US in 1929

Question 4

Soledad, California

Answer 4

Setting of OMAM

Question 5

TCEEL

Answer 5

Topic S, Clarifying S, Example, Explanation, Linking S

Question 6

Theme - Dreams

Answer 6

OMAM in essence is a story about the nature of human dreams and the forces against them. It shows how without dreams life is an endless drivel with no true meaning or connection.

Question 7

Theme - Loneliness

Answer 7

Loneliness is a very prevalent theme throughout the novella. Curley’s Wife is lonely because her husband forces her to not socialise. Crooks is isolated from others because of his race. The ranch workers regularly go into the town to ease their loneliness and Lennie is often found confiding in Crooks.

Question 8

Curley’s wife quote for loneliness

Answer 8

“I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”

Question 9

Bunk house description loneliness quote

Answer 9

“Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunk house, inside it was dusk.”

Question 10

Friendship quote Lennie to George

Answer 10

“Because your there to look after me and I’m there to look after you.”

Question 11

George quote for friendship

Answer 11

“Guys like us, that work on ranches,are the loneliest guys in the world… With us it ain’t like that.”