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You and your classmates are going to publish a final exam study guide for Of Mice and Men. In the comments section below, you will record TWO separate entries. Each entry will entail a SIGNIFICANT quotation from the novel. Follow the criteria listed below when writing your entries:
- one significant quotation from Of Mice and Men
- the page number of the quotation
- the speaker of the quotation
- to whom the quotation is being spoken
- a brief context of what is happening in the scene
- your name (to receive credit)
There are a few stipulations. First, no repeats. Second, first come, first served. Third, the more significant and important your quotation, the more helpful this study guide will become.
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ReplyDelete1. "Well, we ain't got any. 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"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 11)
3. George
4. Lennie
5. They are in the woods at night resting before they go to the ranch to work.
6. Jamie Kang
1. "S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody-to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. 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"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 72-73)
3. Crook
4. Lennie
5. Lennie comes into the barn where Crooks live and Crooks starts talking to Lennie about how lonely.
6. Jamie Kang
1. "'Ain't many guys travel around together,' he mused. 'I don't know why. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 35)
3. Slim
4. George
5. Slim and George have met and they are talking about people around the ranch.
6. Tijana Markovic
1. "I can do it if you want, Mr. Slim"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 50).
3. Crooks
4. Slim
5. When Crooks interrupts Slim to tell him the tar is ready.
6. Tijana Markovic
Also Crooks is a black man. Their is also racism and segregation.
Delete1. "By Christ's he's gotta talk when he is spoken to"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 25)
3. Curly
4. George but spoken about Lennie
5. At this point, in the book, they have just arrived at the Ranch and are meeting others at the ranch when Curly comes in and meets Lennie and George.
6. Trevor Lohre
1. "He would've went south, we come from the north, he ain't smart enough to go north"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 97)
3. George
4. Curly
5. At this point, Lennie already committed the crime and he has now run away from the ranch to where George told him to go if things get bad.
6.Trevor Lohre
1 and 2- "His voice grew soft and persuasive. S'pose George don't come back no more. S'pose he took a powder and just ain't coming back. What'll you do then?" (Steinbeck 71).
ReplyDelete3- Speaker: Crooks
4- To Lennie
5- Lennie said he had seen Crooks' light and he decided to come in and sit with him. They start to talk and then Crooks asks Lennie this question making him feel nervous because Lennie always follows George.
6- Joyce Park
1 and 2- "No, Lennie. Look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the place" (Steinbeck 106).
ReplyDelete3- Speaker: George
4- To Lennie
5- George and Lennie are talking about their dream again and then George tells Lennie to look across the river. George then kills Lennie when Lennie is looking across the river and after they finish talking about the animals they are going to own on their land.
6- Joyce Park
1 and 2. "Lennie-if you jus' happen to get in trouble like you you always done before, I want you to come right here an'hide in the brush"(Steinbeck15).
ReplyDelete3. George
4. Lennie
5. George is telling Lennie how to behave when they go the next day to work and he is telling him where to go and how to react if he gets in trouble.
6. Tina Mastoracos
1 and 2. "Yeah? Married two weeks and got the eye? Maybe that's why Curley's pants is full of ants"(Steinbeck28).
ReplyDelete3. George
4. Swamper
5. George and Lennie are learning everything about the people in the ranch and in this scene they are talking about Curley's wife.
6. Tina Mastoracos
1."What you gonna say tomorrow when the boss asks you questions?"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 15).
3.George
4.Lennie
5.Lennie and George are going to apply for jobs at a ranch.
6.Isabel Salvador
1."You got no right to come in my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 68)
3.Crooks
4.Lennie
5.George has left to go to town and Lennie is wandering around the ranch until he ends up in crooks's room
6.Isabel Salvador
1."I seen em' poison before, but I never seen no piece of jailbait worse than her. You leave her be."
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 32)
3.George
4.Lennie
5.This is when Curley's wife walks out of the barn and afterwards that is when George tells Lennie this.
6.Olivia Peters
1."Hope you get on my team. I gotta pair of punks on my team that don't know a barley bag from a blue ball"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 34)
3.Slim
4.George and Lennie
5.This is when George and Lennie first arrive at the barn and meet Slim for the first time.
6.Olivia Peters
1. "Ever'body gonna be nice to you. Ain't gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 103)
3. George
4. Lennie
5. Right before George shoots Lennie, he tells Lennie everything is going to be all right.
6. Mary Beth Zerwic
1. "He's my... cousin. I told his old lady I'd take care of him. He got kicked in he head by a horse when he was a kid. He's awright Just ain't bright. But he can do anything you tell him"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 23)
3. George
4. The Boss
5. When George and Lennie first meet the boss, and the boss is trying to get some background knowledge about them.
6. Mary Beth zerwic
1. "I'm gonna shoot the guts outta (lennie) myself, even if I only go one hand.)
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 98)
3. Curley
4. Slim
5. Lennie has just killed curley's wife and everyone has found out.
6. Joseph Kim
The moment Curley's Wife walks into the barn after Lenny kills the pup on accident. Curley's Wife: "I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely" (Steinbeck 86).
ReplyDeleteTroy Wilson
When George finds
ReplyDeleteGeorge: "Lennie in the brush.An' you get to tend the rabbits"(Steinbeck 105).
Troy Wilson
1. "No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad,an' i ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know."
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 106)
3. George
4. Lennie
5. Lennie is feeling guilty and george putting his mind at ease just before he kills him
6. Joseph Kim
1. "The way I'd shoot him, he wouldn't feel nothing. I'd put the gun right there[...] Right back of the head. He wouldn't eve quiver"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 45)
3.Carlson
4.Candy
5.Carlson is aggravated at candy's dog and wants him gone. He offers to shoot the dog for Candy and he agrees to the idea. This is also ironic because this is how George kills Lennie.
6.Brad Noxon
1."And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie's head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 106)
3. Narrator
4. Audience
5. This is when George shoots Lennie in the head and kills him exactly how Carlson killed Candy's dog earlier.
6. Brad Noxon
1. "When I think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts. I never get no peace"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 12)
3. George
4. Lennie
5. The night before they go to work for the first time at their new job. George is annoyed with Lennie and his childish ways
6. Macy McPhilliamy
1. "Guys like us, that work hard on ranches, are the lonliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don' belong no place"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 13)
3. George
4. Lennie
5. George is telling his story to Lennie that he tells him to make him happy and hopeful. George seems to be serious though while telling the first part of their unhappy miserable lifestyle.
6. Macy McPhilliamy
1. "I used to have a hell of a lot of fun with 'im. Used to play jokes on 'im 'cause he was too dumb to take care of 'im self. But he was too dumb even to know he had a joke played on him. I had fun. Made me seem God damn smart alongside of him. Why he'd do any damn thing I tol' him. If I tol' him to walk over a cliff, over he'd go. That wasn't so damn much fun after a while. he never got mad about it, neither. I've beat the hell outta him, and he coulda bust every bone in my body jus' with his han's, but he never lifted a finger against me"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 40)
3.George
4.Slim
5.Slim and George are playing cards in the bunkhouse and George is telling Slim stories about George and their life and what happened in the town Weed and how Lennie is very dumb and gets them in trouble a lot.
6.Nicole Volchek
1. "I can still tend the rabbits, George?"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 65)
3.Lennie
4.George
5.This is said just after the scene where Lennie breaks Curley's hand because George told him to, and he was wondering if he did anything bad that would take away his privileges to tend to the rabbits.
6.Nicole Volchek
1. "I ain't much good with on'y one hand. I lost my hand right here on this ranch. That's why they give me a job swampin'."
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 59)
3.Candy
4.George
5. This is said just after George and Lennie are caught talking about their plans to buy their dream house.
6.Daniel Bujnowski
1. "I was born right here in California. My old man had a chicken ranch, 'bout ten acres. The white kids come to play at our place an' sometimes I went to play with them, and some of them was pretty nice"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 70)
3.Crooks
4.Lennie
5.Crooks tells Lennie about his childhood home which turns out to be the same house George and Lennie want to buy.
6.Daniel Bujnowski
1. "We oughtta let 'im get away. You don't know that Curley. Curley gon'ta wanta get 'im lynched. Curley'll get 'im killed"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 94)
3. Candy
4. George
5. The ranch workers are in the barn deciding what to do about Lennie, after finding out that Curley's wife has died.
6. Mary Batrich
1. "She struggled violently under his hands. Her feet battered on the hay and she writhed to be free [...] 'Don't you go yelling,' he said, and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 91)
3. Lennie
4. Curley's wife
5. Lennie warns Curley's wife to not get him in trouble, as he accidentally chokes and kills her.
6. Mary Batrich
1. "Take off your hat Lennie, the air feels fine"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 104)
3. George
4. Lennie
5. George tells Lennie to take off his hat right before he shoots him in the back of the head, after Lennie killed Curley's wife.
6. Sam yazdani
1. "Yeah, he had your gun"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 107)
3. George
4. Slim
5. After George killed Lennie, he told everyone that Lennie stole the gun when it was really him.
6. Sam Yazdani
1. “Leggo his hand, Lennie. Leggo”
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 64)
3. George says the quote.
4. The quote is said to Lennie
5.This quote is said when Lennie is clutching on to and crushing Curley’s hand in a fight. Lennie is not smart enough to think under the stress of the fight and he will not let go.
6. Perry Adamopoulos
1. “I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny”
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 81)
3. Curley’s wife says the quote.
4. The quote is said to Crooks.
5. The quote is said after Crooks commands Curley’s wife to leave his room and stop bothering him. Curley’s wife threatens to hang Crooks on a tree and kill him.
6. Perry Adamopoulos
1. "He was just a mutt. You can get another one easy. The whole country is fulla mutts"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 87)
3. Curly's wife says the quote
4. Quote said to Lennie
5. Quote was said when the boys were playing outside and Lennie was in the barn alone. Curly's wife came to him because she was lonley and wanted to talk to someone. Lennie then explains how he killed a pup
6. Kevin Jeon
1. "An' I got you. We got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us," Lennie cried in triumph
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 104)
3. Lennie
4. George
5. Quote was said when Lennie ran away after he killed Curly's wife. George finds him and Lennie asks George to tell the story again.
6. Kevin Jeon
1.“Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart
guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.”
2.(Steinbeck 40)
3.George says the quote
4.quote said to slim
5.Slim and George are playing cards and George is telling stories about Lennie.
6.Patrick Szczerbowski
lennie says the quote to george
DeletePatrick Szczerbowski
1.“Well, that girl rabbits in an’
ReplyDeletetells the law she been raped. The guys in Weed start a party out to lynch Lennie.So we sit in a irrigation ditch under water all the rest of that day. Got on’y our
heads sticking outa water, an’ up under the grass that sticks out from the side of
the ditch. An’ that night we scrammed outa there.”
2.(Steinbeck 41)
3.George says the quote
4.quote is said to slim
5.George is talking about the time him and Lennie were run out of Weed.
6.Patrick Szczerbowski
1. "Well, I ain't told this to nobody before. Maybe I ought'n to. I don't like Curley. He ain't a nice fella."
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck89)
3. Curley's wife
4. Lennie
5. Lennie just killed one of the pups and Curley's wife just came to visit him.
6. Taylor Strong
1. " I want you to stay with me, Lennie."
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 13)
3. George
4. Lennie
5. George and Lennie just got to the pond and are eating dinner.
6. Taylor Strong
1. "Nobody can't blame a person for lookin'"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 31)
3. Curley's Wife
4. George and Lennie
5. This is the first time they meet Curley's Wife, and George realizes that she is looking for trouble. He is afraid that she will get Lennie in trouble.
6. Rose O'Grady
1. "He's alla time picking scraps with big guys [...] mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 26)
3. Swamper (Candy)
4. George and Lennie
5. This is after George and Lennie first meet Curley, and George realizes that he has something against Lennie.
6. Rose O'Grady
1."How long's it gonna be till we get that little place an' live off that fatta the lan' an' rabbits?"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 56)
3.Lennie
4.George
5.Lennie asks George how much longer they have to wait before they can accomplish their dream.
6.Gustavo Mejia
1."I ought to of shot that dog myself George,I shouldn't of ought to let no stranger shoot my dog"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 61)
3.Candy
4.George
5.Candy is regretting the idea of letting Carlson shoot his dog.
6.Gustavo Mejia
1."All kin's a vegetables in the garden, and if we want a little whisky we can sell a few eggs or something, or some milk. We'd jus' live there. We'd belong there. There wouldn't be no more runnin' round the country and gettin' fed by a Jap cook. No, sir, we'd have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunk house"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 63)
3.George
4.To Lennie
5.George is talking about every workers dream of owning their own farm.
6. Conrad Mordzinski
1."S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody-to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. 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"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 80).
3.Crooks
4.Lennie
5.Crooks is talking about how lonely he gets on the farm since he isn't allowed to play cards or do things with the others. This puts the racism of the time in perspective for the reader.
6.Conrad Mordzinski
1."I seen hunderds 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. Hunderds of them. They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' 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. Everybody wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head"
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 81).
3.Crooks
4.Lennie
5.This shows how many others have had the same dream as George and Lennie do. It foreshadows what happens in the book later on.
6.Conrad Mordzinski
1.“You . . . . an’ me. Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more
ReplyDeletetrouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ‘em.”
2.(Steinbeck 106)
3.George
4.Lennie
5.This shows how George is trying to calm down Lennie and make him feel calmer because George knows he must kill him to protect other people.
6. Danielle Bayer
1.“Please don’t,” he begged.
ReplyDelete“Oh! Please don’t do that. George’ll be mad.”
2.(Hansberry 99)
3.Lennie
4.Curly's Wife
5.This shows how Lennie is aware that he gets himself into trouble and how he remembers Georges rules on what to do and how he cares for him
6. Danielle Bayer
1. "The hell with the rabbits. That's all you can ever remember is them rabbits."
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 18-19)
3.George
4.Lennie
5. This shows that George gets fed up with Lennie and snaps at him sometimes because he's very forgetful, and the only thing he seems to remember is dumb things like rabbits, which he wants.
6.Carolynn Iungerich
1."Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy."
ReplyDelete2.(Steinbeck 26)
3.Candy
4. Lennie
5. Curley proves to have a temper-mental reputation with bigger guys and Candy is telling Lennie about that because Lennie is so nice and oblivious as to why he was getting into trouble with Curley
6.Carolynn Iungerich
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ReplyDelete1."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."
ReplyDelete2.Steinbeck 74
3.George
4. Lennie
5. George is yelling at Lennie because he creates trouble and gets in the way of George's dream. Lennie creates obstacles for George to help him get out of, and is basically telling Lennie that without him he can live and easier life.
6. Jimmy Jang
1.We could live offa the fatta the lan
ReplyDelete2. Steinbeck 84
3.Lennie
4.George
5. Lennie is telling George about what their gonna do later in life. They plan on owning acres of land, and full of animals, especially rabbits. This quotes specifically shows that they first need land to do anything else.
6.Jimmy Jang
1. "I don't want no ketchup. I wouldn't eat no ketchup if it was right here beside me."
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 93)
3. Lennie
4. George
5. Lennie is trying to prove to George that he is mature after he complains that he doesn't have ketchup for his beans
6. Emily Weiss
1. "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."
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 89)
3. George
4. Lennie
5. George is explaining to Lennie how Lennie wants everything they do not have and how much easier life could be for George without Lennie.
6. Emily Weiss
1. "God, you're a lot of trouble"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 89)
3. George
4. Lennie
5. George tell Lennie that because Lennie is always in a lot of trouble, he is hard to take care of.
6. Ronnie Ohr
(Steinbeck 56)*
Delete1. "So you forgot that aw'ready, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I? Jesus Christ, you're a crazy bastard!"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 14)
3. George
4. Lennie
5. George tells Lennie how dumb he is because Lennie already forgot what he told him when he explained it to him before.
6. Ronnie Ohr
1-2. "Job was done" (Steinbeck 23).
ReplyDelete3. George
4. The Boss
5. The Boss is asking George why he quit in Weed.
Jake Biales
1-2. "Huh?" (Steinbeck 62).
ReplyDelete3. Lennie
4. Curley
5. Lennie is confused that Curley is yelling at him right before Curley starts to attack him.
Jake Biales
1. "They play cards in there, but I can't play because I'm black" (Steinbeck 68)
ReplyDelete3.Crooks
4. Lennie and george
5.Crooks wants to play cards with everybody but cant because of his skin color.
1. "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)
ReplyDelete3.George
4.Lennie
5. George confeses to lennie that hes never been mad.
1. "Ain't many guys ... travel around together," he mused. "I don't know why. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other,"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 179).
3.Slim
4. George
5. Slims is saying this to George when he is curious of the relationship between George and Lennie. This is near when the men first arrive on the farm.
6. Ryan Janczak
1."Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is,"
ReplyDelete2. (Steinbeck 25).
3. The Boss
4. George
5. The Boss grows wary of George because he goes to great lengths to make Lennie look good.
6. Ryan Janczak