How does Steinbeck use details in this passage to present the bunkhouse and its inhabitants?

Description

English Literature (Of Mice and Men) Mind Map on How does Steinbeck use details in this passage to present the bunkhouse and its inhabitants?, created by KCZ on 27/04/2013.
KCZ
Mind Map by KCZ, updated more than 1 year ago
KCZ
Created by KCZ almost 11 years ago
5422
0

Resource summary

How does Steinbeck use details in this passage to present the bunkhouse and its inhabitants?
  1. Introduction
    1. Paragraph 1
      1. Narrators Imagery to depict lifestyle
        1. nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk
          1. They have little to nothing
            1. Poverty
              1. Lonliness
              2. How the impersonal, harsh – almost formal – nature of the bunkhouse is created, e.g. ‘rectangular’, ‘square’, ‘straight up’, ‘boxes’
            2. Paragraph 2
              1. Lack of privacy
                1. Against the walls were eight bunks
                  1. Lowly status of the workers
                    1. Status
              2. Paragraph 3
                1. Lack of concern for living standards
                  1. ‘Say. What the hell’s this?
                    1. Geroge's outburst at lice
                      1. Status
                    2. Paragraph 4
                      1. The need to escape
                        1. Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe
                          1. Dreams are essentially an escape mechanism
                            1. Dreams
                          2. Conclusion
                            Show full summary Hide full summary

                            Similar

                            Of Mice and Men Plot Overview
                            Landon Valencia
                            An Inspector Calls Revision Notes
                            Noor Sohail
                            The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team
                            Summer Pearce
                            Hamlet - Character Analysis
                            Jess Watts
                            Sheila Birling Quotes
                            Joe Blockley
                            Of Mice and Men practise question 1
                            little_miss_01
                            The Duchess of Malfi Critics Quotes
                            Biha Saeed
                            The Merchant of Venice - Act 1 - Plot
                            bill fingleton
                            The Merchant of Venice Relationships
                            Antonia Blankenberg
                            Relationships in Pride and Prejudice
                            Antonia Blankenberg
                            Macbeth Act One - scene summaries
                            Ashleigh Huddart