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These are my course notes on Of Mice and Men while touching a bit on the IB writing style and paragraphing. This will give you a detail analysis and a overview of the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck!

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  • July 6, 2024
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Of Mice and Men
Context Chapter 1-3
♡ Prescriptive and Literary devices
♡ Main points a writer will use to structure a novel - Themes
♡ Writer’s choices themes and ideas - Reading the novel
♡ Comparing characterization, how is the character shaped and design



Characterization Setting Plot Context Language

♡ Voice, What ♡ It is linked ♡ What happens? ♡ Words create
language do to context ♡ Conflicts in the images every
they use because the novel? writer has their
♡ What other setting time ♡ A short story is a unique style. The
character of place and simple event but genre of the play.
thinks about of people a novel with ♡ Stage directions
them. who live multiple plots and dialogue
♡ Description there Descriptive
of how they provide language writer
are dressed or contextual creates a scene
what they do? points



Themes - Of mice and men

♡ Racism
♡ Prejudice against women
♡ 1930’s America
♡ Dreams to motivate you to keep going
♡ They work on farms, have no families they move around in different seasons. Hired
for the temporary position.
♡ Isolation
♡ Gender expectation
♡ Men who were trying to survive
♡ People have dreams Lenny and George had a dream to keep them going
♡ These men want a home, settle in one place stability
♡ In a raisin in the sun, only a house and all live comfortably

, ♡ Of mice and men is having a home their piece of land not to get kicked out being
independent
♡ Problem with money lack of food and hunger
♡ Uneducated, depressed city and farmland
♡ Slightly before a raisin in the sun, the majority of people are suffering

Analytical writing - evidence from the text
Symbolism, use of language
How does the beginning or the end reflect the themes of the novel

The story begins with a setting, the ending last final emotions



Chapter 1 - George and Lennie

- Water symbolizes life
- The water is warm too
- Lush beautiful refreshing themes
- Nature, symbolic of life
- All animals based along the woods
- Men working on ranches
- A sea of men desperately moving around
- Rural scene - Trampy carrying everything on your back
- Nature = peace
- Simile - “On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as grey little sculptures” pg 4
- Sensory imagery - “Footsteps on crisp sycamore leaves”
- Predatory rabbits hiding because they are scared
- Symbolically

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♡ They are going to work on a new farm and they just stopped
♡ Bus - try to take advantage of bus drivers but fail cheap form of transport
♡ Pathos, characterization George has to take care of Lennie, Lennie makes George less
lonely but Lennie is a burden
♡ Rabbits, symbolic to Lennie
♡ Child-like tone Lennie
♡ Artinerte worker's bus ticket work cards
♡ He wants to hold a furry mouse like a toy
♡ Escape - committed crime at weed
♡ One moment of freedom before he goes to the ranch pg 9
♡ Bindle is like a backpack

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