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A Levels (Of Mice and Men) English Mapa Mental sobre Language, creado por chrishenry97 el 28/04/2013.
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Writing Style is simple
Beginning of each Chapter is a description of setting
Most of the novel is dialogue between characters
Only short paragraphs and sentences of discription
Wants to give the impression hat characters are telling their own story
Giving a voice to men who would be powerless in reality
Message is that everyone's lives are equally important
Describes important/serious events simply
'And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her nick'
Lennie 'jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand
Make the events more shocking as they are described so bluntly
Realistic Language
Words and phrases used in the 1930s
Makes it more realistic
Racist references to Crooks
Nigger
Curley's wife is called a 'tart' and a 'bitch'
Carlson says she should stay at home 'where she belongs'
Isn't Steinbeck trying to be offensive
Captured a moment of time in which people use racist and sexist language
Describe the nature and the ranch
Nature
Descriptive language, 'golden', 'twinkling'
Alliteration, 'slipped', 'sands', 'sunlight'
Ranch
Matter of fact language, 'rectangular', 'unpainted'
Simple descriptions
Short broken up sentences
Makes nature sound much more appealing than the ranch
Characters Names
Lennie Small
Ironic as Lennie's 'a huge man'
'Small' in the brains department so true in a sense
George Milton
Real surname which makes him seem as more of a normal guy
Tells us nothing about his personality
Curley
Curly Hair
Tense and wound up, tight like a spring
Slim
Tall and elegant
Describes him as a God
Challanges the idea that ranch hands were stupid with no authority
Crooks
Crooked back
Insulting
Usually called nigger
Curley's wife has no name
Wants recognition, attention, her own identity and her own life
To emphasise this she has none of them currently, not even a name
Candy's dog has no name
Suggests that both of them belong to someone else
Place Names are meaningful
Soledad the local town
Means solitude or loneliness in Spanish
All the characters are lonely
Weed
Where Lennie did a bad thing
A plant you don't want
The memory of Weed spoils their new life
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