In the comments section, record an entry the contains the following components:
- one significant quotation from Of Mice and Men
- the speaker of the quotation
- to whom the quotation is being spoken
- your name (to receive credit)
This assignment is due by the start of class Friday.
The Boss, speaking to George about his friendship with Lennie.
ReplyDelete"Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is," (Steinbeck 25).
Crooks speaking to Lennie about playing cards.
ReplyDelete"They play cards in there but I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me." (Steinbeck 68).
"Maybe you better go along to your own house now. We don't want no trouble."
ReplyDeleteCrooks speaking to Curley's wife about going home instead of causing any trouble.
Forgot to put page number (steinbeck 76)
ReplyDeleteSlim speaking to Curley about his broken hand.
ReplyDelete"I think you got your han' caught in a machine. If you don't tell nobody what happened,we ain't going to" (Steinbeck 64)
"Look across the river, Lennie, an' I'll tell you so you can almost see it." (Steinbeck 102)
ReplyDeleteGeorge to Lennie
From Aunt Clara to Lennie:
ReplyDelete"'You never give a thought to George,' [Aunt Clara] went on... 'He been doin' nice things for you alla time. When he got a piece of pie you always got hallf or more'n half." (Steinbeck 101)
Lennie interrupting George while having a lengthy conversation about their relationship.
ReplyDelete"An' why? Because...because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, that's why," (Steinbeck 14).
Candy talking to George while Candy talks about his dog getting shot.
ReplyDelete"I oughtta of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't oughtta of let no stranger shoot my dog" (Steinbeck 61).
George is reassuring Lennie of their friendship, and that they are special.
ReplyDelete"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us" (Steinbeck 13-14).
George speaking to Lennie: "Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want" (Steinbeck 11-12).
ReplyDeleteGeorge whispering to himself: "Right in the back of the head," (Steinbeck 107)
ReplyDeleteIn this comment Slim says,"Well, I guess we got to get him. Slim continues,"Where you think he might of went? Slim here was talking about how they had to go after Lennie for what he did to Curly's wife. If they didn't do anything he would just be a walking detriment to anyone.Slim here was talking to a thinking George. This comment was truly significant
ReplyDeleteSlim to George:
ReplyDelete"Ain't many guys travel around together," he mused. "I don't know why. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of eachother" (Steinbeck 35).
Slim says to George at the end of the book,
ReplyDelete"Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes" (Steinbeck 117).
Also, this was the part right after George had killed Lennie.
ReplyDeleteLennie to George:
ReplyDelete"An' why? Because...because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." (Steinbeck 14).
This qoute is when Crooks and Lennie are in the barn talking about George.
ReplyDeleteCrooks talking to Lennie, " You got George" and you "know he's goin' to come back". Crooks goes on to say that a man "needs somebody-to be near him" and if not, the guy will "go nuts if he ain't got nobody".
Lennie is lucky to have a friend like Geroge.
The page number is (Steinbeck 72)
ReplyDeleteGeorge talking to Lennie about having to take care of him all the time.
ReplyDelete"You can't keep a job and you lose me ever' job I get. [...] You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to get you out." (Steinbeck 11)
Lennie talking to himself while he's waiting for George to meet him in the brush.
ReplyDelete"I di'dn't forget, you bet, Got damn" (Steinbeck 100).
Crooks speaking to George and Lennie, "I seen hunderds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Everybody wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head" (Steinbeck 81).
ReplyDeleteCrooks speaking to Lennie about his loneliness.
ReplyDelete"Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he's goin' to come back. S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunkhouse and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose 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 ain't no good. A guy needs somebody-to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick." (Steinbeck 72-73)
Slim said to George after he had shot Lennie to cheer him up in a friendly way...
ReplyDelete"You hadda, George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me."(Steinbeck 107)
"We could live offa the fatta the lan’."
ReplyDelete(Steinbeck 57)
Lennie talking to George about their future whilst repeating his dream and goal to him.
George is talking to Lennie after they have an encounter with Curly's wife."don't you even take a look at that bitch. i don't care what she says and what she does."(Steinbeck 32)
ReplyDeleteGeorge is explaining to Lennie what their house will be like on the fatta the lan', with the rabbits.
ReplyDelete"O.K. Someday-we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and-" (Steinbeck 14)
George is talking to Lennie when they are at the river.
ReplyDelete"Guys like us got no family. They make a little stake an' then they blow it in. They ain't got nobody in the worl' that gives a hoot in hell about 'em" (Steinbeck 104)
This quote is when Lennie is talking Crooks and it shows how much Lennie relies on George.
ReplyDelete"George gonna come back, Lennie reassured himself in a frightened voice." (Steinbeck 73)
This quote is Lennie talking to Aunt Clara.
ReplyDelete"I know, Aunt Clara, ma'am. I'll go right off in the hills an' I'll find a cave an' I'll live there so I won't be no more trouble to George." (Steinbeck, 101)
George to Curley's wife as he killed her.
ReplyDelete"Oh! Please dont do nane of that. George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't goona let me tend no rabbits."
(Steinbeck 91)
Roderick Pahati said...
ReplyDeleteThis quote is when George is talking to Lennie.
"Well, look. Lennie- if you jus' happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an' hide in the bush."(Steinbeck 15)
George to Lennie before he killed him.
ReplyDelete"Well have a cow," said George. "An' we'll have maybe a pig an' chickens...an' down the flat we'll have a...little piece of alfalfa-" (Steinbeck 105)
George talking to Lennie
ReplyDelete"Guys like us got no family. They make a little stake an' then they blow it in. They ain't go nobody in the worl' that gives a hoot in hell about us"
George says to Lennie, "Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta" (Steinbeck 106).
ReplyDeleteGeorge talking to Lennie in the forest after murder of Curly's wife:
ReplyDelete"If I was alone I could live so easy. I could get a job an' not have no mess." (Steinbeck 103)
Carl talking to candy about his dog
ReplyDelete"Well, you ain't bein' kind to him keepin' him alive."(Steinbeck 45)
Lennie speaking to George:
ReplyDelete" George, how long's it gonna be till we get that that little place an' live on the fatta the lan'-an' rabbits?" (Steinbeck 56)
Whit talking to George about Curly's wife.
ReplyDelete"Shes got the eye goin all the time on everybody."
sry my cowlin i forgot to put (Steinbeck 51)after my quote.
ReplyDeleteCurly is talking to George for not letting Lennie talk about himself.
ReplyDelete"Let the big guy talk"(Steinbeck 25).
"He's jes' like a kid, ain't he." (Steinbeck 42)
ReplyDeleteThe person who is talking in this specific part of the book is Curly and he is talking to George about Lennie being a little kid.
"An' we'll have maybe a pig an' chickens... an' down the flat we'll have a.. little piece of alfalfa-" (Steinbeck 105). George was speaking to Lennie
ReplyDeleteLennie talking to Crooks about his relationship with George.
ReplyDelete"George wun't go away and leave me. I know George wun't do that." (Steinbeck 73)
Slim is speaking when George and Lennie first come to the ranch. When slim says "she," he is talking about his dog.
ReplyDelete"She slang her pups last night, nine of 'em. I drowned four of 'em right off. She couldn't feed that many" (Steinbeck 35)
Curley's wife speaking to Lennie.
ReplyDelete"Why can't I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely" (Steinbeck 86).
They left all the weak ones here.
ReplyDeleteCurly's wife to George and Crooks