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  • Created on: 23-05-22 12:34
George`s name
means "husbandman" - a person who cultivates land
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George is associated with ...
-commitment
-brotherly love
-sacrifice
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1) George is...
2) George is a...
1) admired by Slim Candy and Crooks
2) careful decision maker and manages Lennie`s strength
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George learns responsibility when he
kills Lennie to save him from lynching... he protects him by being cruel
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"Restless eyes and sharp, strong features"
-sibilance - shrewd and cunning
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"I want you to come... an` hide in the brush"
-foreshadows Lennie`s mistake
-imperative sentence (George is in control)
-compares Lennie to an animal (is childish and simplistic) - Weed, ****
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"Guys like us... we are the loneliest guys in the world"
-superlative adjective "loneliest"
-(hyperbole)
-shows suffering of labourers in 1920`s and 30`s
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"We`re gonna have a little house"
-collective pronoun (friendship and closeness)
-"little"-small, modest dream : heart-warming
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"I got you to look after me and you got me to look after you"
-brotherly love
-depends on George
Not lonely
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"Get `im Lennie"
- George has authority even though weaker
-fatherly relationship
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`"we travel together" said George coldly.`
-stands up for Lennie
-(moves on to slim at end - was he using him???)
-people jealous of frienship
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"you gonna have trouble with that Curley guy"
-wise and has a strong ability to judge
-parental figure
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"no piece of ********* worse than her"
-paternal advice
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"George sat entranced with his own pictures"
-Dreams are powerful and motivating
-Perhaps Lennie is naïve though
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"I ain`t mad. I never been mad "
-fatherly attitude towards Lennie
-makes Lennie`s death heat wrenching
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"he was business like"
-Capitalistic idea
-used Lennie???
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Card 2

Front

-commitment
-brotherly love
-sacrifice

Back

George is associated with ...

Card 3

Front

1) admired by Slim Candy and Crooks
2) careful decision maker and manages Lennie`s strength

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

kills Lennie to save him from lynching... he protects him by being cruel

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

-sibilance - shrewd and cunning

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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