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Of Mice and Men
Regents Review
Question | Answer |
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John Steinbeck | Author of Of Mice and Men |
George Milton | Short, quick, smart, responsible |
Lennie Small | Big, bear-like, strong, impulsive, mentally challenged. |
Candy | Old, slow moving, scraggly |
Crooks | Intelligent, bent spine |
Curley | Pugnacious, bully |
Curley's Wife | Pretty, young, flirtatious |
Slim | Self confident, authoritative |
Carlson | Big, unfeeling, |
Candy's dog | Old, smelly, scraggly |
Misfits | People who do not fit into the world they live in. |
Foreshadows George killing Lennie. | Candy's dog is killed just because it has become a problem to the others. |
Ripples in the water | symbol of the far-reaching effects of one thing |
George and Lennie's dream | They want to buy a place of their own where Lennie can raise rabbits. |
Loneliness and isolation | Two themes from the novel |
Salinas, California in the 1930's | Setting of the novel |
Motif | The recurrance of Lennie touching and hurting or killing soft creatures: mice, girl in red dress, puppy, Curley's wife |
Imagery | Description of the wooded area by the lake in the first and last part of the novel |
George playing solitaire | Symbol of his isolation because of Lennie. |
Lennie "...dabbled his big paw..." | Diction used by the author to characterize Lennie as being like an animal. |