OMaM Theme Quotes Flashcards
I’d pet ‘em and soon they bit my fingers
and I’d pinch their heads and then they was
dead
- Lennie doesn’t know his own strength
- animalistic imagery
We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.
- George
- American Dream
Ain’t many guys travel around together
- ## lack of companionship and camaraderie in the 1930s
This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in
here but me.
- Crooks
- shows how territorial he has become and how little rights he has as a black man so he wants to hold on to the few rights he has
There wasn’t another colored family for miles around.
And now there ain’t a colored man on this ranch an’ there’s jus’ one family in Soledad
- Crooks
- Loneliness
- shows that black families weren’t welcome in America in the 1930s
If I was a relative of yours I’d shoot myself.
- George to Lennie
- exposes the limited knowledge on mental disabilities at the time as George doesn’t even want to be related to Lennie
Well, you keep your place then, N*****. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny.
- Curley’s wife to Crooks
- shows how little power black men had at the time
- shows the prejudice and the harsh reality for black men
Curley says he’s keepin’ that hand soft for his wife
- attitude towards women at the time were purely sexual
Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain’t no place for a girl, specially like her
- they think she doesn’t belong on the ranch with her
- men were seen as superior to women
- she would tempt and seduce them
Ya see the stable buck’s a n*****.
- before his name came the colour of his skin
- this is indicative of the time as they put race over the character of the person
If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won’t get no job
- George to Lennie
- this shows that people were not understanding of the mentally impaired
- they thought those types of people were crazy and not to be left in society
- so they were killed or they were sent to the booby hatch
