Quote Bank Of Mice and Men
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Themes in the Novel
Friendship
Chp1 – “Give it here.”
Chp 2 – “Whyn’t you get candy to shoot his old dog.”
Chp 6 – “The hand shook violently…then he pulled the trigger.”
Chp 6 – “Come on George, me and you’ll go in and get a drink.”
Dreams
Chp 1 – “We will have a big vegetable patch, rabbit hutch, and chickens.
Chp 3 – “George sat entranced with his picture…”
Chp 5 – “Another time I met a guy he was in the pitchers…He says he was gonna put me in the movies.
Chp 4 – “The white kids come to play at our place…Some of them were pretty nice.”
Tragedy
Chp 5 – “He shook her and her body flopped like a fish, for Lennie had snapped her neck.”
Chp 6 – “The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred and settled slowly forward to
the sand.”
Poverty
Chp 2 – “There were 8 beds, five of them made up of blankets.”
Chp 3 = “Suppose I went in with you guys, that’s three hundred and fitty bucks.
Chp4 - “They left all the weak ones here.”
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Characters in the Novel
Crooks
Chp 2 – “Give the stable buck hell?...Sure, you see the stable buck is a nigger.”
Chp 4 – “If I say something, why, its just the nigger saying it.”
Curley’s wife
Chp 4 – “Awright…You bindle bums think you’re so damn good.”
Chp4 - “An’ a guy tol’ me he could put me in pitchers.”
Chp 5 – “She was very petty and simple, and her face was sweet and young.”
Curley
Chp 2 – “Well next time answer when you’re spoken to.”
Chp 2 – “ Have you seen my wife.”
Chp 3 – “Curley followed and slugged him in the face.”
Candy
Chp 3 – “Carlson insisted and he stinks to beat hell. Tell you what I’ll shot him for you.”
Chp 3 – “An’ Candy sends hundred dollars to bind her.”
Chp5 – “Oh Lennie he called again. And then he stopped, and his body stiffened.”
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Characters in the Novel
Lennie
Chp1 – “ I ain’t gonna say nothing…I ain’t gonna say nothing…”
Chp 3 – “Get ‘im Lennie, don’t let him do it.”
Chpt 5 – “Why did you go get killed? You ain’t as little as mice.”
Chp – “She struggled violently under his hands…George gonna say I’ve done a bad thing.”
George
Chp 6 – “Then george raised the gun and steadied it…”
Chp 3 – “George sat entranced with his own picture…”
Chp 1 – “We will have a big vegtable patch, rabbit hutch and some chickens.”
Chp 4 – “Get ‘im Lennie.”
Slim
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Structuring your response
A key moment for the theme/character of
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significant because_______________________.
An example is; “_________________________.”
Analysis – 2/3 interpretations – re quote key words,
language features, symbolism, literary devices etc.
What does the reader learn about the topic?
How does this reader react?
Context – This moment reflects_____________
because________________________.
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