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Flashcards by Lilac Potato, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lilac Potato
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Discrimination/Prejudice | * Lennie - mental disability * Crooks - skin colour * Candy - old * Curley's wife - woman seen as trouble & possession of Curley |
| Friendship | * George and Lennie * Candy and his dog * Crooks * Curley's wife |
| Dreams/Hope | * Lennie - comforting, simple dream * Candy - worried what will happen when he gets canned * Curley's wife - movie star * Crooks - says everyone has the same one, is lured in |
| Violence | * Curley - violent character * Carlson - insensitive, goes to watch violence, goads Curley * Lennie - unintentional violence, immense force |
| Futility | * Lennie - has physical power but not mentally able * Economically - little money, spend it one go * Crooks - other characters have power over him |
| Loneliness | * George - had companionship & will be lonely * Crooks - jealous of G & L's relationship, has memories of better times * Curley's wife - Nothing to do, tries to befriend weaker characters * Candy - loss of his dog, likes to gossip |
| Foreshadowing | * Woman in Weed - Lennie told to keep away from Curley's wife * Candy's dog - shot when it's better for it than being alive * Dead animals - destroys anything he touches |
| Animals | * Lennie - compared to animals * Candy's dog - like Lennie's outcome but George does it not someone else * Death of animals - foreshadowing death of Curley's wife.....Lennie * Rabbits - Lennie's dream, hallucination |
| Setting | * Contrasts from chapter 1 & 6 - set in same place * Barn - location for lots of negative events * Crooks' room - books, separate from everyone else * Bunkhouse - no personal touches |
| Relationships | * George and Lennie * Candy and dog * Curley and his wife * Crooks and Lennie/Curley's wife and Lennie |
| Power | * George - Has parental control over Lennie * Curley & the Boss - have power over the workers * Lennie - has immense physical power * Slim - has great authority over other men |
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