...Lennie is a Goner George did the right thing by shooting Lennie because if he didn’t shoot him, Curley would’ve done something a lot worse. George knew Lennie would’ve been killed, being his best friend he would have wanted to kill him. However others might argue that Lennie didn’t know any better and it was an accident. If George didn’t shoot Lennie he might’ve gone to jail. He would’ve been treated terribly there because of his disability. Slim briefly sums up what would happen when he says. “An’ s'pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage” (Steinbeck). This proves he would’ve been treated terribly if George didn’t take matters into his own hands. George was just keeping his word when he told Aunt Clara that he’d look out for Lennie, he was doing that when he shot him. George knew that the chances of Lennie being killed were higher than being put into jail, therefore he probably would’ve wanted to be the one to kill him. When Candy’s dog was shot he was sad because he wanted to do it rather than someone else this is shown when Carlson offers to shoot the dog. “I’ll shoot him for you. Then it won’t be you that does it… He scratched the white stubble whiskers on his cheek nervously. “ I’m so used to him,” he said softly. “ I had him from a pup” (Steinbeck). This proves that Candy wasn’t to sure he wanted someone else to shoot his dog. Now some might think George shouldn’t have killed Lennie because he didn’t know what to do and he didn’t know better. Others...
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...2. The excerpt starts off with the depiction of two men dressed in the same outfits walking along a path. When the men are being described, their personalities are widely different. One of the men is described as slender and slim, with hard features. The other is described as broad and sluggish with soft, shapeless features. The sluggish man is also said to be walking behind the first man, which could mean that the first man may be more important or keeps the second man in order. In the book the first man is George Milton and the second is Lennie Small. George is very protective of Lennie and does not want him wandering off. He treats Lennie like he is worthless because of his troubled past. Lennie is seen as very optimistic and tries his hardest...
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...I believe that it is ok to pretend nice because for African-American’s it is essential in order to survive, continue your career, and follows the rules. In chapter 14 on page. 103 & 104 Reesa has to pretend nice to J.D Bowman at her juice stand. J.D Bowman called Reesa a Jew because of her prices for the juice 3 for $0.30. J.D Bowman believes that “anybody that advertises 3 glasses for a dime must be a Jew” he says to he said to her at the juice stand. Reesa even tells him that her family is Baptist but then he just calls her Baptist Jew Girl and goes to his truck with his 2 sons. Reesa didn’t say anything at all despite his displeasure and nervousness. Reesa knows after killing Marvin and then shrugged it off when he heard it was the...
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...Rising just above the peak of the mountains is the burning hot sun, getting ready to start the day. The day was becoming warmer and the shadows in the valley were starting to turn to a blueish grey and in the distance, the sounds of men shouting to one another can be discerned. The men belting deafening screams at each other, trying to pinpoint Lennie’s location and take him down. In the book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, one of the main characters, Lennie, gets into a multitudinous amount of trouble and ends up paying for it all. Lennie is a mentally disabled, middle aged man, who is traveling with George, a fellow companion, who is trying to keep him away from these harmful encounters. George is not able to protect Lennie from the crimes he commits and ended up needing to shoot Lennie to prevent him from any further trouble. Lennie Small’s being shot was a mercy killing and not a murder....
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...Of Mice and Men couldn’t be extremely thoughtful given the clearly views of those two text. Both novel and film have highlight the most powerful theme, scene, character and relationships between each major and minor character. Gatsby is one of the main character in The Great Gatsby who have been symbolize the American Dream. Lennie and George have fulfil the Great American Dream with incident case of murdering a women. Thirdly, Gatsby have a good reputation and wealthy but Lennie and George haven’t dream of. The major characters of The Great Gatsby have represent the American Dream in many different ways. Gatsby becomes a wealthy person after the war ends. After the war ends, Gatsby gets help from Meyer Wolfsheim, and enjoys a peaceful luxurious life in his great and luxurious mansion. Gatsby also have a long lover relationship long times ago in the past. His relationship in general is very important compare to Of Mice and Men because two text have similar long story truth love relationships. In the situation of Gatsby, his dream to achieve a truth love with Daisy is tainted by the failure to understand the truth of relationship. Tom...
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...Of Mice and Men “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” This quote from James Truslow Adams “The epic of America”, states one of the themes in the novella Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men, deals with the topic of living through the great depression, as the readers follow the story of two migrants workers and their wish to fulfil their American Dream. Steinbeck’s inspiration for his novella can be linked back to his own life, as he was both born and raised in Salinas Valley, the most productive agricultural region in California. This essay will cover Of Mice and Men’s setting, the characterisation of major characters and the key themes identified within the novella. Two protagonists, Lennie and George, travel around together to obtain work. Within the novella, Steinbeck has presented two obvious settings, and focused on the contrast between them. Nearing the beginning of the book, the two men spend a night in a small, secluded glade near the river. The description of the nature area could be compared to heaven, just a beautiful place as described in this quote: “On one side of the river, the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Galiban mountains” (page 1, line 5), where the nature is described as majestic, strong and even golden. However a contrast is formed with the two men entering the setting...
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...1. Discuss the relationship between George and Lennie. The friendship that George and Lennie share forms the core of the novel, and although Steinbeck idealizes and perhaps exaggerates it, he never questions its sincerity. From Lennie’s perspective, George is the most important person in his life, his guardian and only friend. Every time he does anything that he knows is wrong, his first thought is of George’s disapproval. He doesn’t defend himself from Curley because of George’s stern instruction for him to stay out of trouble, and when he mistakenly kills his puppy and then Curley’s wife, his only thought is how to quell George’s anger. He has a childlike faith that George will always be there for him, a faith that seems justified, given their long history together. George, on the other hand, thinks of Lennie as a constant source of frustration. He has assumed responsibility for Lennie’s welfare and has, several times, been forced to run because of trouble Lennie has inadvertently caused. Life with Lennie is not easy. However, despite George’s frequent bouts of anger and frustration, and his long speeches about how much easier life would be without Lennie, George is clearly devoted to his friend. He flees from town to town not to escape the trouble Lennie has caused, but to protect Lennie from its consequences. The men are uncommonly united by their shared dream of a better life on a farm where they can “live off the fatta the lan’,” as Lennie puts it. George articulates this...
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...Michelle Stewart Literature Review Landis FN340 30 April 2015 Introduction Fructose, commonly known as fruit sugar, is a major component of sweeteners such as table sugar, honey and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)1. Fructose is a simple monosaccharide that has been used as a sweetener in food and drinks, and current estimations suggest that sweetener consumption in the U.S. has increased to an average of 477 kcal/person, or approximately 24% of a typical 2000 kcal/day diet2,3. An increase in the consumption of sweeteners containing fructose has occurred in parallel with the increasing prevalence of obesity, suggesting that increased consumption of fructose may contribute to the current epidemic of obesity-related metabolic disorders, including increased incidence of the metabolic syndrome2. The metabolic syndrome (MetS) consists of a syndrome of insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, abdominal obesity, and elevated blood pressure (BP), and often precedes the development of diabetes4. In some studies, humans and animals that have been administered fructose have developed these symptoms, however they have not been observed with glucose or starch-based diets. Fructose and glucose are metabolized quite differently, and it has been hypothesized that this differentiation is the key factor in the development of pathologies associated with MetS5. Additionally, ingestion of fructose does not stimulate the release of the hormones insulin and leptin, nor does it suppress the secretion...
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...Reading File – Class 5 1. Summary Retell the story in your own words or attach a good summary from the internet (mentioning your source)..... The book Of Mice and Men is about two poor guys, George and Lennie, who travel together to find work. Lennie is a big, clumsy man, who doesn’t know his own strength and he is also childlike, simple and easily forgetful. Lennie goes through life with his fellow George, a smart guy and hard worker who takes care of Lennie. The book starts with them walking down a road, they ran away from their job in Weed because the stupid, innocent Lennie touched a ladie’s dress (because Lennie likes soft things). Lennie and George have a shared dream: having their own farm, where they can keep all kinds of animals, and can live from their harvest when they have saved enough money. When they on their way to a ranch, hoping to find work, they sleep in the clearing (a place near a river) for one night. The next day they come to the bunkhouse and they get a job. Soon they meet the other workers on the ranch, including Curley, the son of the boss. Curley is mean, aggressive and a lightweight-boxer. Because he is so small he doesn’t like big guys, he feels threatened by them. So an aggressive look and a rude attitude is his first reaction when he sees big Lennie. The next day when Curley comes into the room, Lennie is attacked by Curley. But strong Lennie defends himself and crushes (accidentally) the hand of Curley, because he tried to stop...
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...Although it is important to note the similarities between James Joyce’s “A Little Cloud” and Lord Byron’s “Prisoner of Chillon,” the stories are also largely different from one another. Explicit references are made to Lord Byron’s poetry in “A Little Cloud,” but the linguistic and literary parallels between it and “Prisoner of Chillon” are numbered, and are ultimately overshadowed by their differences. The primary theme that persists through both works of literature is imprisonment. As Clarice Short points out in “Joyce’s ‘A Little Cloud’,” “During the dungeon days of both Byron’s and Joyce’s characters they came to some sort of terms with the smaller life about them”. “Little Chandler [sees] the children that [squat] like mice,” just as the Prisoner of Chillon “[makes] friends with spiders and [watches] the mice playing in the streaks of moonlight” (276). Both characters find ways of passing the time that are hardly mentally stimulating. Each develops a means of coping with the sad reality that their lives have inevitably become. Another similarity that becomes evident after reading both works is the idea of epiphany, an element that is consistently employed by Joyce in all of his compositions. “Both characters were brought to consciousness, or heightened awareness, by the advent of a visitant from the outside world” (Short 276). As Little Chandler walks to meet Gallaher, “A light [begins] to tremble on the horizon of his mind” (Joyce 46) just as the Prisoner of Chillon...
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...way the writer presents the relationship between George and Lennie in “Of Mice and Men” Of Mice and Men was written in the 1937 by John Steinbeck, he other well know books as the Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, h also received a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. This book is set in the 1930s and set in California, his home region. During this time, the USA was suffering from a great depression, this meant that it was hard to find job because the economy was very weak, so to find job the men were disposed to go anywhere and the bosses would exploit their workers. The itinerant ranch workers where very lonely people because they had to move from place to place and tis meant that they could set up a stable life with a wife and children. Another reason that suggests to us that they are lonely is that at the end of each month they take their money and they go to “cat house”. The character of George and Lennie are very unusual and contrasting, this is because they have a strong relationship between them and they also have a dream, a dream of buying a house and some land to become independent and to life together for the rest of their lives. But the reader knows from the beginning that this will not happen and it will have a tragic end, and this is suggested in the title “Of Mice and Men” that comes from a from Robert Burns poem “The best laid schemes o’mice an’ men/ Gang aft agley” and it means: the best laid schemes of mice and men/ often go awry. As soon as the reader starts...
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...predominant sources of CLA are from ruminant animal fats (cow, dairy, sheep, goat, and deer). Over the past 20 years, CLA supplementation has produced positive effects in animal studies, such as significant body fat reduction, anticarcinogenisis, antiatherogenesis, immune modulation and improved bone health. Conversely, human studies have not produced all of the aforementioned results. Nonetheless, there have been many human studies supporting a minimal but significant body fat reduction. These results have been mainly attained with a 50:50 mixture of cis-9, trans-11 and trans-10, cis-12 of purified CLA isomers at various doses. There is evidence indicating that a dose of 3.0g CLA/day may lead to fat loss, whereas the average Canadian consumes between 0.1-1.5 g CLA/day. Therefore, a supplement may be warranted in the future, once further research has been completed on the efficacy and safety of CLA supplementation. Implications to dietetic practice: Clinical dietitians involved in research should experiment with various doses and isomers, but they should particularly investigate the long-term implications of such supplementation. Community dietitians should teach community members how to select natural health products, avoiding inconclusive products like CLA. Administrative dietitians should continue to plan menus based on Canada’s Food Guide, while ignoring CLA claims. Recommendation: In terms of policy, natural health product regulations should be revised, where products sold in Canada...
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...On a literal level, Of Mice and Men is about two friends looking for work during the Great Depression; however, like most pieces of literature, this story delves much deeper than simply what is seen on the surface. Each setting serves as a major role in George and Lennie’s lives whether the place itself is real or imaginary. Steinbeck communicates Lennie’s true character by subtly comparing and associating him with multiple animals. The description of the pool in the first paragraph of the novel symbolizes a sanctuary for George and Lennie, far away from any kind of society. The pool consists of “warm water” and “yellow sands,” best of all, there are no “scary things” for Lennie. In the beginning, this pool is a refuge, an escape when everything goes wrong. This is why George tells Lennie to meet him back there if anything were to happen like what happened in Weed. At the end of the novel, this sanctuary is where George makes everything right. This place of safety will be where Lennie goes to his own sanctuary....
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...‘Of Mice and Men’ is written by John Steinbeck, published in 1937. The novel is set in the 1930s during the great depression in California. The two protagonist characters, George and Lennie are farm workers who have a dream of one-day owning their own ranch. They find work in a ranch near Soledad, after escaping from Weed because of George’s incident. They are met by different characters on the farm that all have a dream. To be lonely means to lack friends or companionship and to feel isolated. Most of the characters are lonely and the only thing that keeps them alive is their dreams. Some of the loneliest characters they meet are Candy, an old man with only one hand, Crooks, a black cripple and Curley’s Wife, a woman who has no identity, she is lonely even though she is married. Although they are all on the ranch together, they are lonely because of who they are and their history. ‘Of Mice and Men’ is an emotional story with many different themes and characters. This essay will describe the way loneliness is portrayed in ‘Of Mice and Men.’ George Milton and Lennie Small are friends who travel together. They both share the same dream, which is to one day own their own ranch. George is quick-witted and intelligent. He takes the parental role of looking after Lennie, a simple-minded man who in the book is described as a giant. Lennie is kind hearted with huge physical strength. He does not know how powerful he is and likes to pet animals. The other men on the ranch find their relationship...
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...human health, the researchers planned to conduct a study using makopa, a native Philippine fruit, to be a component of a natural medicine for diabetes. Makopa (Syzygium samarangense) leaves have been found to have antihyperglycemic properties. The researchers thought of another way to produce the same result by using the fruit instead of the leaves. The fruit was put into a food processor, to separate the liquid extract and from the pulp. The retrieved extract was filtered using cheesecloth to remove impurities. The pure extract was put into a vial. The pulp of the fruit was sun dried, powdered using a blender. The resulting powder was combined with the pure extract. The extract from the pulp was the tea that can be orally taken by the mice through regulated feeding. Having produced two products, the researchers were able to come up with a pure makopa extract, and be able to apply current discoveries and studies to produce a medicinal product from makopa. Background of the Study The study was conducted to prevent and cure diabetes through makopa. Also, the study was driven by the medical history of diabetes in the families of two out of three researchers. Because of diabetes’ horrifying effects on human health and it is continuous effect on a larger population, this study aimed to produce a natural cure and prevention for this illness using a native fruit, makopa. Though makopa is found to have antihyperglycemic flavonoids, it has not been applied so this project...
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