Techniques That Steinbeck Uses To Present George & Lennie and Their relationship leading up to the Dream. Leading up to their dream Steinbeck builds up a clear image to who Lennie and George are. Immediately the main point is made to us that George is an intelligent‚ curious man who is portrayed as a motherly character who looks after Lennie and shows him what to do. Lennie is portrayed as the complete opposite as he is compared to a horse (huge‚ powerful) and a bear (massive‚ powerful‚ clumsy and
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Within the extract‚ Niffengger uses a variety of the possible presentations of speech and thought‚ mainly including Indirect‚ Free Indirect and Narrative Presentation of Speech/Thought Acts. Due to the novel making use of a heterodiegetic narrator‚ there are also many narrative report of action clauses (NRAs). NRAs are described by Simpson (2003) as maintaining ‘the ongoing action of the story as well as providing an external framework around which the strands of speech and thought are woven’ (p24)
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WORDS How has Golding used silence and language to enhance the story? Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies ’ is a novel where silence and language is used as a medium to communicate among the boys on the island. Language is used as a form of civilization but as the days go by the language starts to depreciate person by person along with the need of civilization. Language and silence are also used to foretell future events in the novel. ‘The conch was silent.’ Here Golding uses irony
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Shania Reid Ms. Milliner EES21QH - 03 10/20/16 Margret Atwood uses language to show many factors in the novel the “The Handmaids Tale”. In the Gilead age power was wanted be everyone. Which lead people to do anything for power. Women were deprived of their freedom‚ making language the means of escape. This novel was portrayed from a young woman’s life named Offred. Living in Gilead dealing with various restrictions towards women. With this mindset of society different roles were set for women
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In Of Mice and Men‚ Steinbeck presents Curley’s Wife having an amazing look. Steinbeck writes that‚ ‘she had full‚ rouged lips‚her fingernails were red‚she wore red mules. The repetition of the colour red here maybe symbolizes the fact that Curley’s Wife is confident about her appearance. The thing which stands out about her is when he refers to her as ‘good looking’. This might show that Curley’s Wife is confident about her looks and femininity because her dream is to be a film star. This might
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minorities to get a leg up.” -Bill Gates. In John Steinbeck’s novel‚ Of Mice and Men takes place during The Great Depression is 1937. In Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck uses some of his characters to show discrimination. The characters that i’m choosing to tell about the discrimination are Curley’s wife‚ Crooks‚ and Lennie. Steinbeck’s focuses are showing how discrimination was used during the early 1900’s from slavery‚ gender‚ or just people that are disliked. Curley’s wife was discriminated from talking
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Language In Catch-22 Catch-22 is a witty novel written by Joseph Heller that covers many aspects of World War II that usually go untouched. Unlike most war novels‚ Catch-22 shows the irrationality of war and its negative affects felt by soldiers. It is not the usual novel where hero’s are marked by rank and kill counts. Two themes that Heller covers are that of capitalism and free enterprise. He does so by using language‚ style and the character Milo Minderbinder. In the novel‚ Milo assumes the
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How does Steinbeck present the character of Crooks in “of mice and men?” Throughout the novel “Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck presents Crook as being lonely‚ intelligent and hopeless. He is in a minority group and is discriminated against because he represents the black community in 1930’s America. Indeed‚ it is because of this discrimination that Crooks attempts to draw whatever limited amount of power he can from his surroundings. “Well I gotta right to have a light”. This implies Crooks is defensive
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John Steinbeck 1. How does Steinbeck show the power of dreams and dreaming in the novel? 2. Explore why the relationship between George and Lennie seems so special in the novel. 3. How does John Steinbeck show the influence of ranch life on the behaviour of the characters in the novel? 4. Explore some of the ways in which Steinbeck presents disadvantaged characters in the novel. 5. “Guys like us are the loneliest guys in the world”. How far does the relationship between George and Lennie challenge
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Curley’s wife is also another character who would very happily settle for the attentive ear of a stranger. She admits to Lennie that she is unhappily married when she says “I ain’t told this to nobody before. Maybe I ought to. I don’t like Curley. He ain’t a nice fella”. In fact the only reason why she married him was to rebel against her mother as she thought that her mother hid the letter that would’ve led her to her dream of being a famous movie star. As well as crooks‚ Curley’s wife also links
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