ENGLISH: THE MASTER COLLECTION

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“we’re training and conditioning a whole new generation of people that when uncomfortable or lonely…. we have a digital pacifier…”

example of metaphor

digital pacifier quote. (socdil)

“we are all lab rats.”

example of metaphor.

lab rat quote. (socdil)

“if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.”

example of repetition and metaphor.

product quote. (socdil)

“how much time can we get you to spend?”

example of a rhetorical question.

spending quote (socdil).

suicide rates of preteen girls have increased by “151%” since 2009.

example of logos, statistics, pathos ?

girl suicide rates quote. (socdil)

“they’re controlling us more than we’re controlling them.”

example of repetition and personification.

controlling quote (socdil).

advises

affects

alludes to

amplifies

argues

articulates

builds

clarifies

compels

confirms

connotes

considers

constructs

contradicts

conveys

creates

criticises

deepens

denotes

depicts

describes

determines

demonstates

displays

echoes

embodies

emphasises

encourages

establishes

evokes

exaggerates

examines

exemplifies

exhibits

expands

explains

explores

exposes

expresses

forces

foreshadows

foretells

forms

highlights

heightens

hints

illustrates

impacts

implies

indicates

informs

introduces

juxtaposes

mentions

perceives

personifies

persuades

portrays

presents

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recognises

refers

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relates

represents

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signifies

symbolises

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supports

underlines

a water snake slipped along the pool

snake a biblical symbol ? it appears when lennie and george have arrived, symbolising that misfortune has continued to follow the two men.

…were small, square windows… solid door with a wooden latch… lice, roaches and other scourges.

setting description of the bunkhouse. juxtaposes how the lake was described. the bunkhouse feels suffocating and strict. the addition of referring to insects make it feel dirty and underkept.

LENNIE CHARACTERISATION

is characterised as childlike and throughout the book is described using zoomorphism. he is the representation of mentally handicapped peoples.

lennie looks to george for “instruction”.

like a child looks to their parent when faced with the unknown, they look to someone else to tell them the right way forward.

lennie “imitated” george exactly.

a child will mirror the actions of the adults around them, as they feel that is right to do.

lennie’s focus on “tending” the rabbits and touching “soft” things. his dream to live off the “fatta’ “ the “lan’ “.

he has a childlike focus on his dreams, weaving it into everything. many times, characters are talking to him, and he isn’t focused at all on the topic at all, interjecting with his talk about living off the land and having a couple of acres.

aunt clara and a massive rabbit appearing to lennie, as if they were really there in front of him. “you do bad things.”

this can display how firstly, the novella is a tragedy and is structured more similarly to a play, rather than being a realistic fiction. it also portrays lennie’s childlike imagination. how lennie is told off by these delusions similar to how a child imagines their parents scolding them is also indicative of his childlike nature. they do not scold him for literally killing someone, but rather for not listening to george (representing the parent in this dynamic). his understanding, shown by how aunt clara just adresses lennie as doing a “bad” thing, is lacking. he knows what he has done is bad, but he doesn’t know why, similar to a child knowing what they did is wrong but only because they got told off.

lennie “put” his hands “over” his ears, as the rabbit is telling him that george will leave him.

childlike behaviour once again. portraying george as the parent emphasises lennie’s mind as that of a child. a child, what is most important to them is their parents by their side. to children, losing their parents is the equivalent of death,

lennie “dipped” his whole head “under”.

does not consider at all that the water may be unsafe to drink. dipping his whole head under like a “horse”.

GEORGE CHARACTERISATION

george is characterised as being a short-tempered and agitated man, but also lennie’s protector, and can be a representation of the working class. figuratively though, george can be a symbol of human compassion. he can be a representation of the hope that americans possessed during the great depression. george destroys the claim that all men had to be alone and reject any companionship.

george is described as the ”first man”, lennie is the “follower”.

power dynamic established and is repeated through the novella.

george tells lennie to “stop” drinking so much, or he’ll be “sick”.

showing george has best interests for lennie. scolding him like a father.

george regularly calls lennie a “crazy bastard”. says he goes “nuts” thinking about the “crazy” time he’d have ”without” him.

portrays how short-tempered he is, but makes the reader ponder his parental role. it can also symbolise the amount of pressure george is under by protecting lennie and staying by his side. they is constantly put in hot hater due to lennie’s actions.

george controlling lennie through fear, examples through how lennie knows he is in trouble because he disobeyed george, he isn’t “gonna” let him “tend” the rabbits, and referring to how george will be “mad”.

this portrays the societal context that of mice and men falls in. not knowing how to deal with mental disabilities, society would use damaging techniques to try to ‘control’ the individual. this is seen with george, who controls lennie through fear. his temperament to lennie can also be a representation of how mentally handicapped peoples were treated in the 20th century, being seen as a ‘burden’ to society.

george continuously playing “solitaire” throughout the novella.

although george has lennie, he still feels loneliness. since he acts over lennie as a sort of parental figure, this may be the case. but this can also be seen as foreshadowing when george has to accept that he must kill lennie.

george has lennie to “look after [him]” and lennie has george to “look after [him]” as well.

interdependency, they both need each other to repel loneliness and have some kind of companionship. although george has lennie, he is still voiced as being very lonely.

george and lennie only having “ten bucks” between them, while earning 100 a month.

calls into question george’s actual desire to get their own ranch. another reading of george is that he is still like the other workers and spends all his money as cat houses. the dream may be impossible not because of the economic system but due to human nature.

“now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them.”

quote from carlson, last line of the novella. it separates slim and george from the other ranch workers. carlson especially is seen to have no moral capability, while slim supports george in a time of loss and moral ambiguity.

CURLEY’S WIFE CHARACTERISATION

characterised as a modernised woman in the 1930s, being more promiscuous than the traditional woman. she is hated among the cast and is blamed for her death. it portrays the overall treatment of women in the time period. can also be a symbol of eve.

curley’s wife’s body was “thrown” forward. she has “rouged, full” lips.

in the context that the novella is set in, this presents curley’s wife as scandalous and even ‘asking for attention’. she presents herself well and wants to be seen. steinbeck is trying to characterise her as someone whom wants to alure men in.

she is called a “tart”, “poison”, “jail bait”

called names throughout the entire book. no-one wants to talk to her except slim. she is obviously lonely, shown by how we never see her in her own house. emphasises the inequality of women during the time period.

curley’s wife is always described as “looking in” or “looking for curley”.

can be symbolic of how lonely she feels. she looks in, out of the world of men and so is therefore quite lonely as she feels she is excluded.