Quotes on Of mice and men Flashcards
George, on life without Lennie:
God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an no trouble.
George, on loneliness
I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone.After a long time they get mean.
Crooks, on a black man’s loneliness:
S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunk house and play rummy ‘cause you was black.A guy needs somebody-to be near him.
Crooks, on George and Lennie’s dream:
Everybody wants a little piece of lan’.”
Crooks, on human rights:
I ain’t sure I want you in here no more. A colored man got to have some rights even if he don’t like ‘em”
Curley’s wife, on men:
If I catch any one man, and he’s alone, I get along fine with him. But just let two of the guys get together an’ you won’t talk.”
Slim, on George’s killing of Lennie and the dream:
Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes”
Who made the novel Of Mice and Men? And when is it set in?
John Steinbeck it is set in the 1930’s
Foreshadowing in the beginning
“Go down this creek and hid in the bush”