What's That Word?
Ready to fight
What is pugnacious?
(A great description of Curley)
"I didn' kill it. Honest! I found it. I found it dead."
Who is Lennie?
(Explaining to George that he didn't kill the dead mouse in his pocket)
The reason Candy is allowed to become part of Lennie and George's dream?
What is Candy's cash savings?
"The silence came into the room" is this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
(It created tension while the card players wait for the shooting of Candy's dog.)
He comforts George after Lennie is killed.
Who is Slim?
a person who runs the livestock and drives the wagons on a ranch
What is a skinner?
(Slim)
"God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. i could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble."
Who is George?
(Fantasizing about life without Lennie)
The character who will expose Curley's cowardice if he doesn't claim his hand was damaged in a machinery accident.
Who is Slim?
"(He) dabbled his big paw in the water" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
(Lennie is being compared to a large animal with paws.)
He delights in taunting Lennie with George's possible disappearance or injury.
Who is Crooks?
a person who gathers a grain harvest and loads it in wagons
What is a busker?
(George, Lennie, and most of the other ranch hands)
"Well, nex' time you answer when you're spoke to."
Who is Curley?
(When Lennie lets George do the talking)
These two characters have a parent-child type relationship.
Who are George and Lennie?
The following passage is this type of figurative language:
"...The Salinas River drops in close to the hillside band and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool..."
What is imagery?
The literary device Steinbeck uses most often to characterize Lennie.
What is dialogue?
preoccupied
What is bemused?
(Lennie is bemused by anything soft and petable: mice, puppies, rabbits, red dresses, shiny black hair...)
"I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog."
Who is Candy?
This character doesn't believe George and Lennie's dream can come true.
Who is Crooks?
"Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages" is this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
"...for Crooks was a proud, aloof man" is this type of characterization.
What is direct?
ridicule, mockery, making fun of
What is derision?
(Lennie, Candy, and Crooks are all treated with this by some of the others on the ranch.)
"I could of went with shows. Not jus' one, neither. An' a guy tol' me he could put me in pitchers..."
Who is Curley's wife"
(When she's angry about Curley going into town without her)
George knows from the beginning that this character is going to bring trouble.
Who is Curley' wife?
"I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog," is an example of this literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
This theme is symbolized by the ranch hands playing solitaire.
What is loneliness?