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| Setting | 1930's Depression; Soledad, CA |
| Migrant Farm Workers | transient because harvesting time is ephemeral (short-lived) |
| Murray and Ready's | work camp |
| Lennie | mentally chanllenged, braawn laborer, barley bucker, likes to pet soft things |
| George | small, quick thinker, surrogate mother to Lennie |
| Weed | where Lennie touches the girl's red dress |
| What kind of literary term is "hide in the brush if you get in trouble"? | foreshadowing that Lennie will get in trouble |
| anomaly | abnormal- George and Lennie travel together |
| surrogate mother to Lennie | George |
| First caretaker of Lennie? | Aunt Clara |
| American Dream- George and Lennie | to own their own piece of land; "live off the fata the lan" |
| Curley | antagonist; skinny; handy; boxer; high heeled boots |
| Idioms | tart; blow your jack; pants rabbits |
| Boss | Setson hat, high heeled boots with spurs; |
| Slim | Prince of the ranch; Stetson har, jerkline skinner |
| What does George mean? | husbandmen |
| What does Leonard (Lennie) mean? | Lion-hearted |
| What does Soledad mean? | solitude |
| What is ironic about Lennie's last name? | Lennie is not small |
| What is the allusion in George's last name? | Milton's paradise lost |
| Candy | Old Swamper, useless, one hand; buys into their dream |
| Candy's dog | old, stinks, dirty, useless, killed by Carlson |
| Crooks | Negro; allowed to play horseshoes; lonely; lashes out at Lennie; handicapped |
| Smitty | fought Crooks; tanked up; legs tied, lost fight |
| Andy Cushman | San Quinten, got in trouble over a tart |
| Whit | plays euchre with George while waiting for gunshot |
| Whitey | OCD; used George's bunk before him; bug spray |
| William Tenner | letter to the editor; drove a cultivator |
| Carlson | kills Candy's dog with a Luger |
| Curley's wife | no name; possession of Curley; antagonist; looloo, tart,rat trap, jail bait |
| Old Susie's place | preferred, don't need to flow; nice chairs |
| Euthanasia | mercy killing- Carlson kills Candy's dog and George kills Lennie |
| Femme Fatal | "deadly woman"= Curley's wife |
| Irony | George becomes exactly what he doesn't want to be, a bindle bum |
| Differences between movie and novel | train, Weed scene, barn scene |
| Handicapped Characters | Curley's wife, Crooks, Candy, and Lennie |
| What is the significance of the title? | poem, "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns - "the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray" |
| Significance of barn scene | all are handicapped and lonely |
| Crooks' speech | lonelines; dreams "no right to dream because no want get to heaven" |
| Lennie's hallucinations | giant rabbit and Aunt Clara |
| Point of View | third, omniscient |
| Foreshadowing | touches dress- touches hair; kills mouse- kills pup; kills pup- kills Curley's wife |
| John Steinbeck | know your highlighted info |
| Symbiosis | George needs Lennie and Lennie needs George |
| Climax | Lennie kills Curley's wife |
| Protagonists | George and Lennie |
| Antagonists | Curley, Curley's wife |
| Symbols | mice,pup, the clearing or brush, the Lugar, Candy's dog |
| Theme | relationships, dreams, man's inhumanity to man |
| Motifs | Euthanasia, power of women, American Dream, loneliness |
| Animal imagery | similes/metaphors to imagine the scene |
| Why does Curley fight Lennie? | small man complex |
| American Dream for all | equality for all to be self sufficient and reach their true potential |
