Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Of Mice and Men: Structure & Context
- Structure
- Chapters
- Crooks is the only character
with his own chapter
- Isolation from all the characters
- Story has a time span of 4 days
- Sense of inevitability
- First&Last chapter
- Have similar chapter openings
- Repeating itself
- Third person
- Given an unbiased view of
character so we are able to build
our own opinions
- Context
- Racism/Discrimination
- Civil Rights
- American Dream
- Meritocracy - If you work
hard, then you will be
rewarded
- Great Depression
- Wall Street Crash
- Men would travel to the west
to get work on ranches
- Women
- Limited rights
- Inferior to men