Who said...
"Why you got to get killed? You ain't so little as mice."
Lennie
George and Lennie's farm
The failure of the American dream.
An unattainable fantasy.
Doesn't understand his own strength.
Lennie
Was he suspected for communism?
Yes
Why did many Americans move to the western states like California?
Big companies taking over their agricultural land.
Carlson
Marginalization
Glove full of Vaseline.
Curley
With which wife did he have kids?
the second one
Was Steinbeck a good husband according to his second wife Gwyn Conger?
No, he was a womanizer.
"He ain't no cuckoo. He's dumb as hell, but he ain't crazy."
George
The rabbits
Lennie's hope to be free from society, but also from his own limitations.
Dreams of becoming a movie star.
Curley's wife
which 2 groups did he focus on in novels like Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden?
migrants, proletariat
What does the title Grapes of Wrath mean?
the people tended to the fruit/ overripe grapes- bursting of anger
"A guy needs somebody- to be near him."
Crooks
"The best laid schemes of Mice and Men, go oft awry."
The unpredictability of human life. Our plans often go wrong because it is impossible to know what the future holds.
Shoots Candy's dog.
Carlson
which state was the one that inspired his work the most?
California (Salinas Valley)
What was his main goal in writing Grapes of Wrath and In Dubious Battle?
point out the unfairness to the lower classes/ show what American dream really is
"You hadda George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me."
Slim
The weak and the strong.
A society that only values strength, is doomed to fail.
Characters are helpless in their own isolation, yet they aim to destroy the weaker.
Appears in Lennie's hallucination (not the animal).
Aunt Clara
Which book won him the Pulitzer Prize?
Grapes of Wrath
What did the Hebrew word "timshel" mean in East of Eden?
Thou Mayest/ You may