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Name two themes in OMAM
Loneliness and the American dream
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What started the Great Depression?
The Wall Street Crash
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Why did people follow the American Dream?
Because it kept your spirit alive and provided hope of a brighter future.
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What is Fascism?
It is where you only protect your very close family members and yourself to prevent pain and suffering from loosing them to lack of work or death.
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What is Capitalism?
It is where everyone look out for each other and people willingly help others in need.
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Name two effects loneliness can have
It isolates people creating a lack of trust and loyalty.
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What do the characters in OMAM represent?
The different characteristics found in people in 1930's America.
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Why are George and Lennie addressed by their first names?
Because they travel together so they know everything about each another. This gives them an identity.
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Why are the other characters addressed by monikers?
because no one has taken the time to get to know them are to ask their first names, so they have been stuck with a nickname based upon their appearance, social status or personality.
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What is the ranch used to represent?
The ranch is a microcosm of 1930's America.
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What aspects of 1930's America does George represent?
He represents the kind,caring and protective characteristics that are usually found within a mother.
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What aspects of 1930's America does Lennie represent?
He represents the innocence and childlike aspects of the time due to the unpredictable future ahead of all citizens.
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Why has Steinbeck used the character of Lennie in OMAM?
Lennie has been used to by Steinbeck to represent the innocence of the time as no one full knew what was going on and the lack of control they had over their futures.
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What is different about Lennie's version of the American dream?
It not only includes himself, but it includes George as well.
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What aspects of 1930's America does Slim represent?
He represents the firm, respected and reasonable characteristics.
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What does Slim symbolise?
The police and the law enforcing members of society.
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What aspects of 1930's America does Candy represent?
He represents the older, useless generation.
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What does Candy joining in on George and Lennie's dream show the reader?
That in the 1930's your age did not stop you from breaming of a brighter future.
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What aspects of 1930's America does Curley represent?
He represents the anger and aggression found within people at the time.
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What does Curley try to gain throughout the novel?
He tries to gain respect, power and control by using fear.
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What aspects of 1930's America does Curley's wife represent?
She represents the women and their place. She also represents the sexuality found within people at the time.
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Why is Curley's wife NOT a ****?
Because she only uses her looks to tease the other members on the ranch, not to sleep with them.
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In what chapter does Curley's wife present her nastiest side?
Chapter four.
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Why did she seek weakness in the other characters in chapter four?
Because she shared that she was dissatisfied with the way her life has turned out, which made her vulnerable. To create the façade that she had the upper hand in the conversation she seeked out the weakness in others.
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Why does Curley's wife experience loneliness?
Because she is the only female on the ranch and her husband does not connect with her but he makes sure she is not allowed to talk to the other male ranch workers.
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What does Curley's wife regret the most?
Not taking up a man's offer to be a movie star.
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Why does her dream make her naive?
Because the man probably only told her that she could be a movie star to be able to sleep with her.
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Why is is important that she she wore red ostrich feathers on her dress?
Because it links her to the girl in Weed.
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What aspects of 1930's America does Crooks represent?
He represents people who are of a different race and the way society has reacted to this matter.
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What does Crooks' bunk house reveal about him?
That he is very clever and he has a lot of knowledge due to the amount of books he has read.
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Why does Crooks feel isolated in the novel OMAM?
Because has his own bunk house due to segregation and he his unable to talk to others due to the colour of his skin.
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What aspects of 1930's America does Carlson represent?
He represents the average male american.
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Why is the nature used in chapter one a contrast to 1930's American society?
Because the nature described as clam and tranquil whilst the American society was in turbulence.
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How is foreshadowing used in chapter one?
George tells Lennie that if something bad happens he must return the that place, the brush.
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Why are the characters in chapter two like soldiers?
Because the have high morals and they are bonded together as a unit as they only have each other.
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What is the death of Candy's dog a metaphor for?
It is a metaphor for Candy's imminent death and for life in the 1930's as peoples quality of life was low, so should they just give up?
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How does Whit ease the tension in chapter three?
By engaging the other ranch workers in a causal conversation about a letter.
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What are the three main events that happen in chapter three?
The death of Candy's dog, the fight scene and Candy joining George and Lennie in their dream.
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In which scene is George presented as the most maternal and how does he help guide Lennie?
In the fight scene, he gives Lennie permission to fight Curley and then George cleans his wounds.
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What type of characters are in chapter four?
The most vulnerable characters.
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What is the main event that happens in chapter five?
Lennie kills Curley's wife
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How is Curley's wife described after she has died?
She is described as "Pretty and simple...sweet and young."
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What is the first thing that Candy says after finding Curley's wife dead?
"Then it's all off?"
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What is the main event in chapter six?
George kills Lennie
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What does George tell Lennie before he is shot?
He tells Lennie about their dream
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What does the plot structure represent?
The endless cycle of a ranch workers life.
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How is the method of nature used in the novel?
It is used before all of the major events in the novel and to describe Lennie.
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Name six uses of foreshadowing in the novel.
The use of the brush, the mouse, Curley's wife blocking out all of the light into the barn, the red ostrich feathers on Curley's wife's dress, Candy wanting to be with his dog and the death of Candy's dog.
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How is tension used the the novel?
To keep the pace of the story moving and to engage the reader.
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How did George change throughout the novel?
He became more like the rest of the ranch workers and by killing Lennie he is now on his own.
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