Those Winter Sunday
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For the thesis and outline for the final exam, you need to have 1 quote as support for each body paragraph. You can have more than 1, but 1 at a minimum. Due Monday. For mice and men essay to be written in class on Monday for your final exam.
Thesis Loneliness is a dominant theme in Of Mice and Men. Most of the characters are lonely and searching for someone who can serve as a companion or just as an audience
Your first point: : Candy and his dog
Candy asked George and Lennie to share their dream he will not feel as lonely as he used to be. Now candy doesnt feel like an old dog that is waiting to be shot. Candy is an old man who is not much good to the farm which makes him one of loneliest people on the farm. “He dont do much anymore, except take care of his dog and do little work around the farm that a little kid could do. When they cant use me here I wisht somebodyd shoot me. But they wont do nothing like that. I wont have no place to go, an I cant get no more jobs.”
Point 2: Crooks
Spose you didnt have nobody. Spose you couldnt go into the bunk house and play rummy cause you was black. Howd you like that? Spose you had to sit out here an read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books aint no good. A guy needs somebody-to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody. Dont make no difference who the guy is, longs hes with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick. (80
Point 3: Curleys Wife
“I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”
“Whats the matter with me? Aint I got a right to talk to nobody?”
“Seems like they aint none of them cares how I gotta live”.
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Homework due Wednesday
Choose 2 from cause/effect, division analysis, classification, and process analysis. Write 2 thesis and outline pages. Turn 1 into a rough and final draft.