Of Mice And Men: Style, Language, Imagery and Structure
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- Created on: 06-04-13 19:06
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- Style, Language, Structure and Imagery
- Style
- Story develops through dialogue
- There is two main locations: The ranch, and Salinas
- Descriptive
- Dramatic
- Language
- Slang/colloquial
- Lennie uses short, simple Language
- Lennies sentences are childlike
- Uneducated and simple
- Imagery
- Reference to light and dark sets atmosphere
- Uses image as symbols to things in life
- Lennie is compared to animal, meaning physical strength
- Wildlife described in the opening and closing senes contrast between the cycle of nature and a humans temporary apperance in a scene of life
- Structure
- Action starts and ends the same
- Start of the novel raises the issue in George and Lennies friendship, at the end of the novel it ends in the same location , which reaches the conclusion of friendship
- River at the beginning is sen to be dangerous, men chasing them, and George says that 'it would be a nice place to sleep' which is ironic considering were he dies
- Circular formation: starts and ends the same
- Style
- Of Mice And Men
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