...BOOK: OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinkbeck Learn: An introduction to The novella ‘of mice and men’ Keywords: -historical background -1930’s -cultural – ‘farming community’ –working on land –ranch, barn, bunkhouse, horses, donkeys – many words related to the farming community -characters -themes -1929 wallstreet crash – the great depression 1930’s -stucture – nature versus man (write these words in the exam ^^^ to have a A* or a B) Chapter1: opening paragraph -description of Soledad (loneliness) -Salinas River -Gabilan mountains -Sycamores (like helikopterblaadjes of a tree) -Soledad – Twinkling – Golden – Strong – Sloops – Jungle – deforest George Small, darkface, restless eyes, strong features. Lennie Shapeless of face, large pale eyes, huge man, dranks like a horse, like a child. John Steinbeck Born in 1902 in Salinas California his father owned a …. John describe farming life he was an intelligent student and at age of 14 he decided to become a writer. He did Stanford university, never complete his degree he went to NY and works as a construction worker. He later became a newspaper reporter. *1928 – cup of gold *1932 – pastures of heaven *1933 – to an unknown god *1935 – Tortilla flat *1937 – of mice and men The clearing by the river- Salinas begins by the river and ending by the river –full circle storyline Nature=Good Questions OF MICE AND MEN: * Physical environment * Infested environment * Racist environment ...
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...Cormac McCarthy effectively displays the world as he knows it thought the story of a father and sons struggle for survival in the post apocalyptic world. His comparisons of the old and new world convey the hardships that have become their reality. The roads allows the reader to both connect with the characters and see the struggle they encounter along their journey. His rhetorical device are a constant reminder of the destruction that struck the world. It is clearly seen through the eyes of the man that all moral value has been lost, following the apocalypse. Their are several mentions to the fact that people are dying all around him and his son, and that in order to survive, many people have turned to cannibalism. “The world soon...
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...emotions rather than intellect. For example, writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Washington Irving are representatives of this literary age because their works exhibit the Romantic ideals of the supernatural, a love for nature, and larger-than-life heroes and villains. In the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, he displays many characteristics of the Romantic Age such as supernatural occurrences and the character's use of emotion over logic. The mention of many ghost stories throughout the story indicates elements of supernatural events. Towards the end of the story the main character, Icabod, is riding home through the forest from his love, Katrina's, party when he recalls the tale of the Headless Horseman. Ichabod is paranoid with every sound he hears thinking that he is being...
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...The two works of art that I will be comparing in this essay are Aso Ebi by Sokari Douglas-Camp (2005) and Scramble for Africa by Yinka Shonibare (2000). Both works of art are not only similar in terms of style, but they are also similar in terms of the meaning. The first important aspect that I would like to point out about both works of art is the visual content. In Scramble for Africa there are headless figures sitting around a table with African cloth draped around their bodies. The bodies seem to be carved out of wood. All of the headless figures seem to visually depict the anatomy of a man. Also if one looks closely, one can see that all of the male figures are sitting with a different demeanor. Some of the figures hands are folded depicting either a content or happy demeanor, while others arms are folded depicting either an angry or defensive demeanor. In Aso Ebi, instead of using wood, Sokari Douglas-Camp has used scrap materials for her work of art. The visual content includes flowers that are supposed to depict women. The head and bodies of the women are green seeming to depict flower stems. There are pink hats on the women’s heads that depict the top of an actual flower. There are also pink cloths draped around the women’s waists. If one looks closely, one can see that the cloths seem to represent flowerpots. All of the women are standing up in the middle of a garden blending in with the other plants that are surrounding them. Some are tending to the...
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...Who is Ichabod Crane? He is a strict schoolmaster from Connecticut and a singer. He lives with his students moving weekly. Katrina Van Tassel is one of his students. Why does he like Katrina? It is mainly because of her wealth, but also her beauty. He compares himself to a knight in love. One problem is that Van Brunt or Brom is also in love with her. Brom is considered the town hero because he escaped the horseman. Brom ridicules and make fun of Mr. Crane in front of Katrina. One night the Van Tassels have a colossal party. The horse Mr. Crane is broken down and as a joke as Ichabod. The horse Brom is majestic but full of cruel tricks like his owner. One story was told of a Hessian soldier who lost his head. Every night he goes to the site...
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...In examining Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” alongside Tim Burton’s filmic adaption of the story, titled “Sleepy Hollow,” a number of fascinating similarities and differences emerge. Though elements of the characters and settings of Burton’s film borrow heavily from Irving’s text, the overall structuring of the film is significantly different, and representations of various elements are crucially re-imagined. Tim Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow” was released on November 19, 1999, a few months before the new millennium. Set in 1799, Burton’s film modifies the 1790 date that Irving’s text is set in, showing an acute concern with living out anxieties surrounding millennial change in the ‘safe’ formats of film and of established folk legend. Irving’s tale, written in 1820, also works with antiquity, but in a different manner: it lives out colonial cultural anxieties of Irving’s present, as he seems to be concerned with constructing archetypes of folk and with placing folk culture in the new American literary landscape. Examining the two versions of the tale, then, provides a fascinating peek into the transformation of concerns and values in America from Irving’s nineteenth century landscape to Burton’s twentieth (on the verge of twenty-first) century. Burton makes several significant moves that modify the basics of Irving’s tale, frequently at the cost of the folk elements of Irving’s version. The frame narrative of Irving’s story—the tale, part of a series titled...
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...Doctors in India stunned after delivering a boy with headless parasitic A pediatrician describes it as a 'rare case' The parasitic twin's heart, kidneys are also missing Doctors in India were stunned after the delivered a baby boy with a headless parasitic twin; which a pediatrician described as a "rare case." In an article written by two Mirror reporters, Helen Roberts and Jon Livesey, the baby boy is fully-formed while his parasitic twin only has hands, legs, bladder, anus, and excretory system intact. The twin do not have a heart and kidneys. The doctors said they will remove the arms and legs of the parasitic twin as soon as possible, providing that the boy's condition is stable enough. "It’s most definitely a rare case. We cannot yet...
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...Ichabod Crane of Brom bones?But Katrina Van Tassel's should find who would be the best man for her, but some of them will have different themselves, but today i’ll be doing similarities and differences between these men which the is story is Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Ichabod Crane, compared to Brom Bones, are alike in many ways like they both like Katrina very well, because of Katrina appearances. Then they were pretty mean to each other for Katrina, but they both are men, so many people think that ichabod Crane is weak, but I think they both can fight their own battles for themselves. They both were hanging out at the party to see Katrina but,she only picks one and that was Brom Bones. They are both competitive with each other with Katrina, but I know this because Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane are meeting each other every time they see each other. Then they both are so friendly to her, because like they might be mean to her but they still want to marry that’s what I think about these answers I just put....
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...hide the fact that he clearly favors Ichabod Crane over Brom Bones. Ichabod Crane is a somewhat geeky tall lanky man. He is a highly educated schoolmaster who travels from home to home teaching young children. "Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex". He clearly doubts himself with the ladies and appears to be a rather insecure character throughout the narrative. On the other hand, Ichabod Crane's adversary Bram Bones is quite the opposite. Bram Bones is a rather large robust burly and somewhat arrogant man. He is well known for his "feats of strength and hardihood. He is a confident man who expects his advances on a lady to be reciprocated. Bram Bones traveled with his gang of friends whereas Ichabod Crane seemed to be a loner who traveled by himself. Interestingly, both men were well known for their knowledge and skill in their own trades. Nevertheless, even their choice of vocation couldn't be more contrary. Bram Bones was known for his great knowledge and skill in horsemanship. His profession was a hands on job requiring great physical strength. Later in the story we learn that Ichabod lacks the necessary skills to ride a horse very well. Conversely, Ichabod Crane was clearly known for his knowledge and great wisdom. He was respected for his informative accounts of witch craft and the legendary superstitions such as the headless horseman. In terms of the author's favorite character, Washington is not shy about...
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...Authorities in Wyoming say they have been unable to locate the man's head or other unspecified body parts that were likely removed after death. An unidentified man whose headless corpse was found by duck hunters along a rural Wyoming roadside was determined to have been shot to death, and authorities sought public help on Monday in solving the deepening mystery over his killing. A man and his young son were on a duck-hunting outing on Jan. 9 northwest of Cody, near the border with Montana, when they stumbled on the dismembered body in a drainage ditch off a roadway, the Park County Sheriff's Office in Wyoming said. Investigators aided by cadaver dogs have scoured the sagebrush flats near where the body was found but have so far failed to locate the man's head or other unspecified body parts that were likely removed after death, Park County Sheriff Scott Steward said on Monday. An autopsy by a Wyoming forensic pathologist determined the man died of multiple gunshot wounds, authorities said. "The sheriff's office will continue to aggressively pursue this investigation with primary focus on identifying the victim and bringing his killers to justice," Steward said, adding his office was asking anyone with information that may assist the investigation to come forward. The man was wearing jeans, a decorative leather belt with ornamented buckle and top-of-the-line work boots when he was killed on or around January 7, he said. He was of medium height and stocky build and may have...
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...The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Nate Holbus Ichabod, the tall, slick, innocent man, anxiously rode his horse through the gloomy forest. Hard splashes of wet dirt throughout the forest produced a nerve racking echoing sound behind them. Ichabod’s muscles tensed up. Up the hill he traveled. The instructor started to become afraid, because he felt that someone, or something, was following him. Suddenly, he heard footsteps behind him, and they were becoming louder, and louder, and louder. Ichabod’s horse started running. Sweat ran down the bodies of Ichabod and the frightened horse. The terrified teacher struggled to position himself correctly as he became unbalanced on the horse. Ichabod then felt a hot, horrifying breath on the bone of his neck....
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...WRI 102 Argumentative Essay 21st March, 2013 Cloning The twenty first century has brought in many extraordinary breakthroughs one of which happens to be cloning. Cloning can be defined as the process of creating a cell, tissue line or even a complete organism from a single cell (Jane Maienshchein, 2001). Cloning was a mere dream that people in the past used to have and wish upon, where cloning has been seen to be an impossible desire that no man can achieve. However, nowadays technology has reached levels that people thought would never reach and spread into so many branches and depths that now it has become safe to say that nothing is really impossible. Breaking the impossibility, many questions are being asked and many arguments are taking place around human cloning. Cloning has been considered to not just human beings but to animals as well. When the sheep dolly was cloned, the issue of cloning became something familiar to read about in the news. Many headlines have helped the public consider about taking part in this serious issue that is human cloning. Questions start to rise regarding the possibility of human cloning, and of course technology, they are questions that never stop. What has started out as thoughts and ideas about human cloning written down on papers, are now ideas that are being turned in to live experiments preformed in the labs. Away from the different views of the religious organizations and people’s thoughts and disagreement, cloning can be considered...
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...AP Literature and Composition 14.9.14 The Road’s Question Critic Roland Barthes states, “Literature is the question, minus the answer,” which is present within the novel ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy, who depicts the story of a father and son in a post-apocalyptic world. As the novel develops and the characters grow, McCarthy’s use of imagery and symbolism help create the question of whether or not ‘humanity can survive in a world that has lost everything.’ The man and the boy attempt to find a place that is not overrun with ‘bad guys’ and journey to the south where their hope of warm weather and safety may or may not be found. On this journey, vivid images and events about the people who have survived are seen through their trip. Due to the apocalypse that has struck the world, a lack of food, water, and safety are equivalent, if not trivial to the rape, murder, and cannibalism that has become a certain norm for the remaining humans. Unfortunetly those lack of rights and crimes happen in society today which comes to show that humanity, at its very core, is not much better than it would be in the novel’s situation. However, in the book, the ‘bad guys’ take these crimes and lack of law to an extreme not seen in life today, as seen by the mother of the boy, “No, I'm speaking the truth. Sooner or later they will catch us and they will kill us. They will rape me. They'll rape him. They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you wont face it.” The fear of death and...
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...Rip Van Winkle Summary: “Rip Van Winkle” is an American masterpiece of the short story. It is based on local history but is rooted in European myth and legend. Irving reportedly wrote it one night in England, in June, 1818, after having spent the whole day talking with relatives about the happy times spent in Sleepy Hollow. The author drew on his memories and experiences of the Hudson River Valley and blended them with Old World contributions. “Rip Van Winkle” is such a well-known tale that almost every child in the United States has read it or heard it narrated at one time or another. Rip is a simple-minded soul who lives in a village by the Catskill Mountains. Beloved by the village, Rip is an easygoing, henpecked husband whose one cross to bear is a shrewish wife who nags him day and night. One day he wanders into the mountains to go hunting, meets and drinks with English explorer Henry Hudson’s legendary crew, and falls into a deep sleep. He awakens twenty years later and returns to his village to discover that everything has changed. The disturbing news of the dislocation is offset by the discovery that his wife is dead. In time, Rip’s daughter, son, and several villagers identify him, and he is accepted by the others. One of Irving’s major points is the tumultuous change occurring over the twenty years that the story encompasses. Rip’s little Dutch village had remained the same for generations and symbolized rural peace and prosperity. On his return, everything has...
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...However, in the film, Ichabod is shown as a well-built man with brown, wavy hair. He has a pale and hollow face. In Irving’s version, Ichabod is a schoolteacher, but his occupation doesn’t pay very well. He lives with his pupils, as he cannot afford a home. Proof of this occurs when Irving states that, “With these he lived successfully a week at a time; thus going rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief,” (Irving 10). His profession influences his beliefs. In the short story, as a well-read teacher, Ichabod becomes fascinated by the stories about the supernatural. The author mentions that, “His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spellbound region. No tale was too gross or...
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