Of Mice and Men
The author of Of Mice and Men.
Who is John Steinbeck?
The author of Night.
Who is Elie Wiesel?
The author of The Things They Carried.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
The author of Maus.
Who is Art Spiegelman?
The most important part of your essay.
What is your thesis?
Of Mice and Men is this type of text.
What is a novella?
Night is this type of text.
The Things They Carried is this type of text.
What is a novel?
The author of ABC.
Who is Gene Luen Yang?
What the reader creates based on the author's tone.
What is mood?
The larger historical event in which this story is set.
What is the Great Depression?
The cruel Kapo.
Who is Idek?
The larger historical event in which the story takes place.
What is the Vietnam War?
Both Maus and ABC are this type of text.
What is a graphic novel?
The short story featuring Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym.
What is "The Interlopers"?
The hand that Candy lost.
What is the right one?
The year in which the story takes place.
What is 1944?
The author argues that this is more important than the happening-truth.
What is the story-truth?
A tactic used to place blame on one that is not at fault.
What is scapegoating?
This type of characterization comes from a character's actions, words, or thoughts.
What is indirect characterization?
The author uses this literary technique throughout the story to hint at the ending.
What is foreshadowing?
Aside from the Jews, name two other groups of individuals targeted by the Nazis.
Who are the Roma/Sinti, Black people, Poles/Russians, communists, homosexuals, disabled, trade unionists, socialists, & Jehovah's Witnesses?
Themes are keys to understanding these.
What are lessons?
What is Antisemitism?
Mr. Macomber's favorite Disney movie.
What is Aladdin?