This post is for Freshmen only. The following assignment is due by Thursday, May 31.
In the comments section, record TWO entries that contain the following components:
- one significant quotation from Of Mice and Men
- the speaker of the quotation
- to whom the quotation is being spoken
- a brief context of what is happening in the scene
- the page number
- your name (to receive credit)
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Delete" Let's do it now. Le's get that place now" (Steinbeck 106).
ReplyDeleteThe person who is saying this quotation out of Of Mice and Men is Lennie. Lennie is saying this to George. Lennie and George are going over what they want to do later in life. Lennie wants to buy a farm and "tend" rabbits on it. George is frustrated with Lennie's antics and is just answering like he is going to actually fulfill Lennie's dreams. A little later on George kills Lennie with a gun.
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"Look across the river, Lennie, an' I'll tell you so you can almost see it" (Steinbeck 105). George is saying this to Lennie, right before he is going to shoot him in the back of the head. George wants Lennie to be happy before he gets killed, so he tells Lennie to envision the farm and to not turn around because George doesn't want Lennie to see it coming.
ReplyDelete"No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain'now. That's a thing I want ya to know" (Steinbeck 87-88). Geroge says to Lennie. He's reassuring Lennie hes not upset.
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DeleteSlim to George "A guy got to sometimes" (Steinbeck 107). George has just shot Lennie and George is attempting to comfort him.
ReplyDelete"well, who don't? Ever'body likes that. I like to feel silk an' velvet. Do you like to feel velvet" (Steinbeck 90). Curley's wife says this to Lennie when theyare talking alone in the barn about how Lennie killed the pup by petting too roughly.
ReplyDelete"Take a shovel" (Steinbeck 48). Slim says this to Carlson because he is about to kill Candy's dog cause it smells so bad. He mean that he should use the shovel to bury the dog after he shoots it.
ReplyDelete"le's go george. le's get outta here. it's mean here" (Steinbeck 33). Lennie is saying this to George because they just got to the new job and Lennie thinks the people there aren't good. This shows how innocent Lennie is.
ReplyDelete"I Had enough...You got no rights comin' in a colored man's room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Now you jus' get out, an' get out quick.If you don't, I'm gonna ast the boss not to ever let you come in the barn no more" (Steinbeck 80). Crooks and Curley's wife are in the barracks, where all the people live. Crooks said this to Curley's Wife.
ReplyDelete" Lennie. You gonna be sick like last night" (Steinbeck 3).
ReplyDeleteGeorge is saying this to Lennie when he is so called drinking too much. Lennie has problems that you later find out as you read along that truly illustrate how much of a father figure is to Lennie. Lennie does questionable things throughout the book and this is one of the examples where he must depend on another person to help make a decision for him.
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"Now he's got his eye on us. Now we got to be careful and not make no slips. You keep your big flapper shut after this" (Steinbeck 23). George said this to Lennie after he messed up their first encounter with the boss. He doesn't want to lose this job because it's all they've got. George wants Lennie to keep his mouth shut so they don't get fired.
ReplyDeleteSlim to George "I don't know why. Maybe ever'body in thw whole damn world is scared of each other" (Steinbeck 35). George and Lennie are new to the ranch and George is giving Slim their background. George is trying to explain that Lennie is a good guy, and people are just scared of him.
ReplyDelete"An' you ain't gonna do no bad things like you done in Weed,neither" (Steinbeck 7). This is George telling Lennie to not do bad things in this new palce because of what he did in Weed, they had to hide and run away from there.
ReplyDelete“I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him”(Steinbeck 45). George is speaking to Lennie and about loneliness. In this scene George is explaining that being lonely in this job they do is not something anyone should have to go through. He really respects Lennie and is fighting to keep him on the ranch with him.
ReplyDeleteThe Boss, on George and Lennie: "Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is" (Steinbeck 25).
ReplyDeleteThe boss was asking George why he does so much for Lenny. Lenny is always causing trouble for George, and George would live much easier without him. The boss is curious why George doesn't let Lenny go on his own.
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ReplyDelete"Don’t let him pull you in—but—if the son-of-a-bitch socks you—let ‘im have it" (Steinbeck 30). George tells Lennie. After explaining how getting in to a fight with Curely will cost Lennie and George their jobs, George doesnt want Lennie to no stand up for himself if Curley starts a physical fight.
ReplyDelete"Maybe you guys better go. 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" (Steinbeck 90).
ReplyDeleteCrooks was sitting in his room, when Lennie came and began to talk to him. Then he told Lennie this, because he knows that white people shouldn't be in the same room as a black person.
"You was gonna leave your big flapper shut up and leave me do the talkin'"(Steinbeck 23).
ReplyDeleteThis is George yelling at Lennie about the meeting with the Boss in the beginning of the book. This shows that George is really mean to Lennie and does not treat him fairly and exaggerates his mistakes.
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ReplyDelete"Damn right. We got most of it. Just a little bit more to get. Have it all in one month. George got the land all picked out, too" (Steinbeck 76). This was Lennie talking to Crooks about how him and George are gonna have a place to live with animals and hes telling him that they got the most of what they need to start their own farm.
ReplyDelete"Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want" (Steinbeck 11-12). This is George talking about life without Lennie. In this scene George expresses his feeling about leaving Lennie. His life indeed would be easier, but he means to much to Lennie and could not do that to him.
ReplyDelete"A colored man got to have some rights even if he don't like 'em"(Steinbeck 82). George and Candy were intruding on Crook's personal space after talking to Curley's wife. From Crooks to George and Candy
ReplyDelete"Yeah. He had your gun" (Steinbeck 107). This is George talking to Carlson. This is after George shot Lennie and Carlson had asked how he did it after he saw the gun in his hand.
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ReplyDelete"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. With us it ain't like that"(Steinbeck 7).
ReplyDeleteGeorge is talking to Lennie about his "ideal" life.
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Delete"Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want. Why, I could stay in a cathouse all night. I could eat any place I want, hotel or any place, and order any damn thing I could think of. An’ I could do all that every damn month. Get a gallon of whisky, or set in a pool room and play cards or shoot pool"(Steinbeck 11). George said this to Lennie out of anger. Lennie was being extremely annoying to George.
ReplyDeleteGeorge: "That ranch we’re goin’ to is right down there about a quarter mile. We’re gonna go in an’ see the boss. Now, look—I’ll give him the work tickets, but you ain’t gonna say a word. You jus’ stand there and don’t say nothing. If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won’t get no job, but if he sees ya work before he hears ya talk, we’re set." (Steinbeck 6).
ReplyDeleteGeorge is sure that if the boss realizes Lennie is mentally disabled, they’ll be judged and wont get the job. To George, Lennie’s mental disability is something that isn’t really that important – as long as he acts as if he doesnt have a disabilty to other people.
George is saying this to Lennie
Delete"I ought of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't have let no stranger shoot my dog" (Steinbeck 39). Lennie is saying this to George. He think he should have shot the dog himself because it was his responsibility, not some random stranger's.
ReplyDelete"Maybe you better go along to your own house now" (Steinbeck 77). Crooks said this to Candy. This was when Candy was in and checking out crook's room. This made him uncomfortable so he made this suggestion.
ReplyDelete"Lennie, for God' sake don't drink so much" (Steinbeck 3).
ReplyDeleteThis is tnear the beginning of the book about how George is telling Lennie not to drink so much water from the river. It shows how George takes care of Lennie.
"Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is" (Steinbeck 25). The boss is talking to George about how he backs up Lennie and protects him so much. The boss is curious.
ReplyDelete"Sure right now. I gotta We gotta" (Steinbeck 106). George says this to Lennie. This ends up being right before he shoots him.
ReplyDelete1."And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin’ to work, and we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof—Nuts!"(Steinbeck 14-15).
ReplyDelete2.George
3.Lennie
4.Telling Lennie about the farm
5.14-15
6.Sean McDonagh
"I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would" (Steinbeck 103). George feels lonely without Lennie.
ReplyDelete"No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know"(Steinbeck 106). George is about to shoot Lennie, but wants Lennie to know he is not mad at him.
ReplyDelete"Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick" (Steinbeck 80). This is said by Crook to George.
ReplyDeleteCrook is talking about a black mans lonliness.
"Guys don’t come into a colored man’s room very much" (Steinbeck 76). This is said by Crook. He is talking about prejudice and about the black man who works on the farm.
ReplyDelete1. “I get lonely. You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curly. Else he gets mad” (Steinbeck 86 and 87).
ReplyDelete2. Curley’s wife is the speaker of the quotation.
3. The quote is directed to Lennie.
4. Curleys wife in a moment of despair and loneliness decides to speak to Lennie. Lennie tells her he cannot to talk to her, for George’s told him not to but she persists. Moments later Lennie accidently kills her.
5. Page 86 and 87
1. “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda” (Steinbeck 107).
ReplyDelete2. Slim is the speaker of the quotation.
3. The quote is directed to George.
4. Slim, with aid and help in mind, comforts George, telling him certain circumstances forced George to kill his best burly friend, Lennie.
5. Page 107
1. "I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land" (Steinbeck 81).
ReplyDelete2. Crook is the speaker of the quote.
3. The quote is directed to Lennie.
4. After Lennie shares his future plans with George to buy a piece of farmland and raise rabbits, Crook tries to deflate Lennie's hopes.
1. "I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time" (Steinbeck 45).
ReplyDelete2. The speaker is George.
3. The quote is directed to Candy.
4. George tells the Candy about himself and what his life experience with Lennie have allowed him to observe.
1."You know what I can do if you open your trap?"(Steinbeck 80).
ReplyDelete2.Curley's Wife
3. She was saying this to Crooks.
4. Crooks had threatened to tell on Curley's wife because of the way she acts around the other men on the ranch. She made it pretty clear that there would be consequences if he were to do so.
5. 80
1."One day a bunch of guys were standin' around up on the SAcramento River. I was feelin' pretty smart. I turns to Lennie and says, 'Jump in.' An' he jumps. Couldn't swim a stroke. He damn near drowned before we could get him. An' he was so damn nice to me for pullin' him out. Clean forgot I told him to jump in. Well, I ain't done nothing like that no more"(Steinbeck 40)
ReplyDelete2. George
3. George is talking to Slim
4. He is explaining to Slim why he pays such close attention to Lennie and why he sticks around with him.
5. 40
1."You done it, di'n't you? I s'pose you're glad. Ever'body knowed you'd mess things up. You wasn't no good. You ain't no 2. good now, you lousy tart" (Steinbeck 95).
ReplyDelete2. Candy
3. Curly's wife
4. He is yelling at her dead body because he knows that everything is going to go downhill from here because Curly will want to murder Lennie.
5. 95
1."Well, you keep your place then, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny."
ReplyDelete2. Curley's wife
3. Crooks
4. She does not want Crooks telling Curly about how she acts around the guys because it would make her look bad and, she talks to Crooks like he is dirt because he is black.
5. 81
1."S’pose they was a carnival or a circus come to town, or a ball game, or any damn thing.” Old Candy nodded in appreciation of the idea."
ReplyDelete2.George
3.Candy
4.George is describing his vision of the farm to Candy, but when Candy offers his life savings to George his vision is almost real.
5.20
1.A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’, he don’t know whether it’s right or not. He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too."
ReplyDelete2.Crook
3.Lennie
4.Crook shows his vulnerability to Lennie and where he is on the farm, he also shows his want for a friend.
"I don't want no fights" (Steinbeck 55). Lennie says this to George after George exlains Curley's violent nature.
ReplyDelete"You guys comin' in an' settin' made me forget. what she says is true" (Steinbeck 82). This quote was said by Crooks to Candy about how Crooks should not get too acquainted with white folks and should continue to mind his business unless he wants to be hung.
ReplyDelete"I was only foolin', George. I don't want no ketchup. I woundn't eat no ketchup if it was right here beside me" (Steinbeck 12). Lennie says this to George after an argument, this is Lennie's way of apologizes for his part in the fight. Lennie just wants to be friends with George.
ReplyDelete"If you don' want me I can go off in the hills an' find a cave. I can go any time" (Steinbeck 12).
ReplyDeleteLennie is telling George if he want Lennie can stop being a nuisance. Lennie understands he gets in the way a lot and George is not happy.
"Well, a guy got to have some fun sometime" (Steinbeck 53). Whit says this to Lennie and Carlson because he is giving them advice to live a more free life. This show how different characters have different views on thing throughout the book.
ReplyDeleteThere wasn't another colored family for miles around...If I say something, why it's jus' a nigger sayin' it" (Steinbeck 70). Crooks was telling Lennie about his life and came upon a story on his own.He was always set aside because he was African American.
ReplyDeleteThe Boss: " Well ive never see one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is" (Steinbeck 25).
DeleteHe is saying this to Lennie about George.
Since page 1, the book has shown and reflected the type of relationship George and Lennie have. As the author protrays how the are walking in a straight line next to the river, it shows Lennie is obdient to George because he is the leader. The boss acknowledges this behavior and starts to question it.
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other" (Steinbeck 90). George was talking to Slim by the bunks where they were gossiping about Curley. They were trying to impress one another.
ReplyDelete"They play cards in there, but I cant play because im black" (Steinbeck 68). Crooks is saying this to Lennie after crooks was not allowed to play in a card game.
ReplyDelete"What's the matter with her?" (Steinbeck 94). Candy was saying this to George after Lennie killed curly's wife.
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