red - curley's wife, shows warning signs to workers, lust, foreshadows her death; blue - denim colour, workers, represents solemness and sadness
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Imagery and Symbolism
Lennie- description of a bear, animalistic language; Curley- descibed as 'pugnacious', 'lashed'-animalistic, aggresive, lash=slice like a sword, high heeled boots=power; Curley's wife - imagery of red, lust, warnings, violence
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Metaphors/Similies
People - compared to animals, L=bear, G=quick, small, C+CW=compared to fish, C's arm+CW's dead body, CW hair='sausages'?
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Light and Dark
lowkey have no idea for this one
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Assonance
also clueless
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Repitition
People being described as animals; dying - characters, animals, candy's dog was shot=L being shot; repeated moments and descriptions
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Language
descriptive language - landscape; animalistic description fo characters (mainy L); main focus on speech instead of description; metaphorical language
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Speech
Colloquiel - Ranch workers, most people in the novella; Crooks - intellect, educated background, owns a dictionary and a copy of his rights; correlation between power and speech: speech level lowers with more power?
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Landscape
Circle of life - beginning and end of novella shows the snake eaten by heron; Ranch layout - Crooks alone, ranch workers together, Curley and his wife alone-areas indicate power differences; Ranch is contridiction to wildlife and start and end
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Cyclical
Cycle of life - things being killed, animals killing prey, L killing people; moments being repeated - shooting, killing animals
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Juxtaposition
G+L descriptions; ranch and wilderness; Lennie being shot peacefully vs Curley's wife dying violently
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Motifs
Hands-Curley's glove, getting his hand crushed, desciption of George+Lennies hands, Lennie crushing animals and people with his hands; Animals - companionship, small animals represent people (death); Rabbits - freedom, shows desires
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Card 2
Front
Lennie- description of a bear, animalistic language; Curley- descibed as 'pugnacious', 'lashed'-animalistic, aggresive, lash=slice like a sword, high heeled boots=power; Curley's wife - imagery of red, lust, warnings, violence
Back
Imagery and Symbolism
Card 3
Front
People - compared to animals, L=bear, G=quick, small, C+CW=compared to fish, C's arm+CW's dead body, CW hair='sausages'?
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