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    Lennie Sympathetic

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    story of two friends by the names of George and Lennie‚ who are migrant workers. Steinbeck has succeeded in making Lennie a sympathetic and emotional character due to many occurring situations throughout the first few chapters‚ though he has not been very successful in turning Lennie into a dynamic character. To say the least Lennie is rather obedient/loyal‚ sympathetic and rather sensitive. We know this because throughout the last few chapters we have read Lennie has demonstrated these traits multiple

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    true friendship? George and Lennie had a true friendship in the book Of Mice and Men wrote by John Steinbeck. What length would you go to for someone and what would it take? George and Lennie would be considered true friends. George went over extreme lengths to take care of Lennie and always have his back no matter what the situation was. George always gets Lennie out of terrible situations and always has his back to take the blame. He doesn’t want to see Lennie get hurt. Lennie is a large‚ mentally

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    character. This pair of companionship‚ George and Lennie is very different from each other‚ nothing alike‚ no matter talking about their figures‚ personality‚ IQ‚ etc‚ except that they both carry the same American dream as they spend their hard days traveling together and working in the ranch. Lennie is portrayed as being childlike. He looks up on George as a parental figure: "Lennie ’s lips quivered and tears started in his eyes." Lennie seek reassurance from George like a child does from their parents

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    Eduardo Urdaneta Montresor and Fortunato are best friends who also work together. Montresor has been traveling a lot lately due to his recent promotion in his position. He has just received a notice from his boss that he must go attend several conferences in Spain for a month. Upon receiving the undesirable news‚ Montresor’s wife‚ Chardonnay gets very upset but eventually acknowledges that traveling this much is essential to the new position that he holds now. Montresor knows that these four

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    Gorge and Lennie

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    Relationship of George and Lennie The fact that George and Lennie‚ the two main characters of the book ‘of mice and men’ written by John Steinbeck‚ ‘string along together’ to fulfill their American dream is unusual in the world of ranch hands. George and Lennie know each other since they were kids‚ Lennie is attached to George and they are like brothers to each other ever since. Lennie isn’t really bright; however he was useful‚ that is why George a takes care of Lennie and takes Lennie with him to

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    Crooks and Lennie

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    John Steinbeck‚ Lennie and Crooks experience discrimination‚ Lennie experiences discrimination because of foolish‚ Crook experiences discrimination because he is black; they all have deformity‚ Lennie is a mentally disabled man and Crooks have rheumatism. First‚ Lennie and Crooks experience discrimination because of foolish and racial discrimination. For example‚ in chapters‚George told him lots of time that there should be Lennie hand in‚ but Lennie still can’t remember. so Lennie is foolish and

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    She appeared to be going out of her way to protect the offenders. Was it because they were aborigines and she would go to any lengths to protect them – even if it meant they would escape punishment for a crime they had committed? Or was she just so anti-police in her nature that cooperation with police was not to be considered‚ no matter what the circumstances? Whether it was her or whether her husband tired of being called out in the middle of the night but the matron relented and eventually allowed

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    Why Emily Killed Homer Barron In William Faulkner’s short story entitled "A Rose For Emily"‚ Emily Grierson kills her lover Homer Barron after being in love with him for about a year. She then sleeps next to the body in the upstairs bedroom of her home‚ loving it as if Homer were still alive. She then closes up the upstairs‚ never seeing the body again. There are three different motives that can be looked at as to why Emily killed Homer. She wanted to exercise power‚ she couldn’t accept that Homer

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    Lennie James

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    Outline: Prescribed question: “If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience‚ how and why might it differ?” My question: “If this text was an open letter in a Los Angeles or Salvadorian newspaper aimed at MS-13‚ how and why might it be different?” Title of the text for analysis: “This is No Way to be a Man” – Lennie James Part of the course to which the task refers: Part 3 – Literature: Text and Context My critical response will: • Comment on the

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    George and Lennie have a great friendship because they each care for each other and watch out for each other like George told Lennie if he gets in trouble to come to a certain spot and he will meet him there "if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before‚ i want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush." So what’s that is saying is that he has his back even if he gets in trouble and Lennie said "I got you to look after me‚ and you got me to look after you‚" They also talk about

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