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    barn until I could see who was inside. There were crooks‚ Candy and Lennie. I tried to stay quiet but as I tiptoed near the horses they all got alarmed and gave away my position. Their heads all turned in synch. “Curly ain’t been here‚” Candy Immediately hissed at me. Why does no one ever want to talk to me. A slight rage was starting to build up inside me. Like I didn’t know where Curley had gone. I looked around at their faces. Candy and crooks kept looking down at their feet. Meanwhile lennie

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    "My Last Duchess" is a splendid poem achieve within the format of the dramatic monologue‚ a poetic form in which there is only one speaker. Because there is only one speaker‚ we the reader must wonder carefully what the Duke is telling us‚ and we often have to read between the lines in order to keep an objective perspective on the what is happening in the poem. This paper will discuss how the use of the dramatic monologue makes the subject (the Duke) tell a story while‚ at the same time‚ unintentionally

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    Character – Shannon‚ Sabrina‚ William‚ Zach Consider the characters and how they are characterized so far in the text. How are they represented? What struggles do they have? How would you characterize them? Have any of the characters undergone any significant changes so far in the text? George: takes responsibility for Lennie‚ “Lennie!’ he said sharply. “Lennie for God’ sakes don’t drink so much.’…‘Lennie. You gonna be sick like you was last night.” (p.3)and he is also like Lennie’s mentor/role

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    used these in operas. Handel in Water Music and Bach in Mass in B Minor and Brandenburg Concerto No.1 also used these hunting horns in the 18th Century‚ which was what they were known as then. Then there were improvisations. The crooks were invented and added. Crooks are pieces of different-sized‚ coiled tubing that are attached to the lead pipe of the horn. They alter the pitch to a desired key. These were the horns that were used extensively by classical musicians such as Haydn‚ Mozart‚ and Beethoven

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    CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT Crooks lie motionless on his straw filled box‚ staring up at the cracked ceiling of the stable. His light is flickering in the opposite corner of the cramped room. Moonlight shines through his small‚ square‚ four paned window- the only view of the outside world. Gleaming stars twinkle above in the American sky and the misery on Crooks’ face is indescribable. All is silent. Crooks: Guys like me‚ we ain’t treated the same (frowns with anger and frustration) as the other

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    Crook’s Monologue: I hate my life. Every day I suffer. Everyday I’m hurt. Everyday I’m discriminated against because I’m black! I just can’t take it anymore! Why do they treat me like this? I’m a human being just like they are! Just because I’m black they think they can be horrible to me and treat me like an animal. Nobody has got the rights to do that! Underneath‚ I’m exactly like everyone else! I have feelings – I can be happy‚ sad‚ and angry too. But no‚ to them I’m just a nigger. A worthless

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    ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning As A Dramatic Monologue: Dramatic Monologue: The Dramatic Monologue was a popular form of poetry in Robert Browning’s time. It is a form of writing in which the speaker in the poem is a dramatized imaginary character. The monologue is cast in the form of a speech addressed to a silent listener. Its aim is character study or psycho-analysi. In a dramatic monologue‚ the person who speaks is made to reveal himself and the motives that impelled him at some crisis

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    Robert Browning was an English poet whose mastery of dramatic verse‚ especially dramatic monologues‚ made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. “My Last Duchess” is one of his best known dramatic monologues in which the speaker reveals his character to a silent listener. This poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonso‚ the Duke of Ferrara‚ who lived in the 16th century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem. He tells us he is entertaining a representative who has come to settle

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    In this group are four people‚ each with their own problems‚ stories and hopes‚ this actual event occurs in Crook’s room where crooks‚ Lennie and candy are talking about their dream of owning a small farm and “live on the fatta the lan’.”. Before Candy enters‚ Crooks denies lennie’s dream‚ telling him “nobody gets no land.” But when Candy defends Lennie and tells Crooks “we got the money right now” Crook’s mind is changed completely when he realises they might be able to get this land‚ “if you…guys…would

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    passage‚ how does Steinbeck present Crooks? Refer closely to the passage in your answer. From this passage we can learn a great deal about Crooks‚ through the many way in which Steinbeck presents him. Through the brief description at the start‚ Priestly presents Crooks as a literate and intelligent man‚ shown through his large collection of books‚ including a ‘ mauled copy of the California code for 1905’. Here Priestly is showing that not only is Crooks aware of his rights as a black man

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