Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Final Exam Review - Of Mice and Men

This entry is for boh periods 6 and 8 students.


In the comments section, record an entry the contains the following components:
  1. one significant quotation from Of Mice and Men
  2. the speaker of the quotation
  3. to whom the quotation is being spoken
  4. your name (to receive credit)
There are a few stipulations. First, no repeats. Second, first come, first served. Third, the more significant and important your quotation, the more helpful this study guide will become.

This assignment is due by the start of class Thursday.

64 comments:

  1. "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". George. chapter 15.

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  2. Anthony IvankovichMay 26, 2010 at 2:11 PM

    " I could get along so easy and so nice if i didn't have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl". George, Page 7.

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  3. Anthony IvankovichMay 26, 2010 at 2:14 PM

    " By Christ, he's gotta talk when he's spoken to. What the hell are you gettin' into it for? ". Curly, page 25.

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  4. "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 each other." Slim says this to George. Page 35

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  5. "Never did seem right to me. S'pose Curley jumps a big guy and licks him. Ever'body says what a game guy Curley is. And s'pose he does the same thing and gets licked. Then ever'body says the big guy oughtta pick on somebody his own size, and maybe they gang up on the big guy. Never did seem right to me. Seems like Curley ain't givin' nobody'a chance."
    Speaker: The Old Swamper
    Audience: George and Lennie.
    Ben Kraus (Period 6)

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  6. Anthony IvankovichMay 26, 2010 at 2:17 PM

    For my first quote George is talking to Lennie, and for the second one Curly is talking to George.

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  7. We're gonna have a dog an' rabbits an' chickens. We're gonna have green corn an' maybe a cow or a goat." Lennie page 76

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  8. For the quote of The Old Swamper talking to George and Lennie about Curley, it is on page 26.

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  9. Sorry for my quote Lennie is talking to Crooks.

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  10. "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." page 72
    Audience:Lennie
    Speaker: Crooks

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  11. "He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon's he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it." Curley's wife says this to Lennie.

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  12. "An live off the fatta the lan'," pg. 14 This quote shows Lennie speaking to George about how much he wants to live in a new home and tend the rabbits.

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  13. "I think you got your han' caught in a machine. If you don't tell nobody what happened, we ain't going to. But you jus' tell an' try to get this guy canned and we'll tell ever'body, an' then will you get the laugh." Slim says this to Curley.

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  14. "The hell with the...rabbits. That’s all you can ever remember is them rabbits." George says this to Lennie.

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  15. "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." Ch. 1 This quote is said by George to Lennie

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  16. "You got no rights comin' in a colored man's room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Now you jus' get out, an' get out quick." page 80
    Audience:Candy and Lennie
    Speaker: Crooks

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  17. "But not us! An why? Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." George says this to Lennie.

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  18. "Tell me what it gonna be like George, 'bout the rabbits!"
    From: Lennie
    To: George

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  19. "Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is." From: The Boss thinking about George and Lennie. Page 25.

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  20. "Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes." page 117.
    From: Slim
    To: George

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  21. "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." Crooks said this to Lennie, Pg. 72

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  22. "Ain't nobody goin' to talk no hurt to George,"
    Speaker Lennie
    Audience George Crooks Curley

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  23. "The way I'd shoot him, he wouldn't feel nothing. I'd put the gun right there." He pointed with his toe, "Right back of the head. He wouldn't even quiver." Carlson says this to Candy on page 45.

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  24. "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." George says this to Lenny.

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  25. "Why do you got to get killed?" Lennie said this to the puppy

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  26. "I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know"
    George Says to Lennie, right before he's about to shoot him.

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  27. Chelsea JerominskiMay 26, 2010 at 6:14 PM

    "Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is." -The Ranch Boss to George

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  28. Chelsea JerominskiMay 26, 2010 at 6:14 PM

    "Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want... 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." -George to Lennie

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  29. "George won't do anything like that. George is careful. George won't get hurt. He ain't never been hurt 'cause he's careful" Lennie says that to Crook

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    1. This is really good! I love your insight! stellar student. amazing. 10/10. incredible.

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  30. "An' i got you. WE got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us."
    Lennie says to George Pg. 104

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  31. "come on, George. Me an, you'll go in and get a drink" Slim says it to George

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  32. "I seen hundreds 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 . . . 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. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land." This is Crooks speaking to Lennie

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  33. "Jus' the usual thing. We go in to old Susy's place. Hell of a nice place. Old Susy's a laugh-always crackin' jokes. Like she says when we come up on the front porch las' night. Susy opens the door and then she yells over her shoulder, 'Get yor coats on, girls, here comes the sheriff. She never talks dirty, neither. Got five girls there." Whit says this to George

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  34. "I said s'pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more." Crooks says this to Lennie

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  35. "I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him."
    Goerge to Slim(im pretty sure, ill double check)

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  36. "S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house 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."
    Crooks to Lennie -Ch4

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  37. "It ain’t so funny, him an’ me goin’ aroun’ together," George said at last. "Him and me was both born in Auburn. I knowed his Aunt Clara. She took him when he was a baby and raised him up. When his Aunt Clara died, Lennie just come along with me out workin’. Got kinda used to each other after a little while."

    George to Slim

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  38. "A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shallows." Said by the narrator. Spoken to the reader.

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  39. "Run and hide in the Brush" George to Lennie

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  40. "What you supposin' for? Ain't nobody goin' to suppose no hurt to George"' Lennie said to Crooks

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  41. "I ought to of shot that dog myself George, ...ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog" ~Candy says to George

    sorry it was late i was sick and didnt know about this

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  42. An' why? Because...because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why."
    sender: Lennie
    Receiver: George
    "Carl's right, Candy. That dog ain't no good to himself. I wisht somebody'd shoot me if I got old an' a cripple."
    ok so the receiver's obvious but the sender could be multiple people when you look back on this scene.
    sender:Slim
    receiver: Candy

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  43. George to Slim:

    "Couldn' we maybe bring him in an' they'll lock him up? He's nuts, Slim. He never done this to be mean." (page 97)

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  44. George to Lennie:

    "No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' i ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know."

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  45. "Come on. You big bastard. Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch gonna laugh at me. I'll show ya who's yella."
    page62
    Curly to Lennie

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  46. "Well, you keep your place then, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree soeasy it ain't even funny."
    page 81
    Curley's wife to Crooks

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  47. "You never give a thought to George. He been doin nice things for you alla time. When he get a piece of pie you always get half or more'n half. An' if there was any ketchup, why, he'd give it all to you."
    p. 101
    "Aunt Clara" to Lennie

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  48. Maybe he ain't bright, but I never seen such a worker. there ain't nobody can keep up with him.

    George to Boss

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  49. George to Lennie

    "Don’t let him pull you in—but—if the son-of-a-bitch socks you—let ‘im have it."

    chapter 2

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  50. "'I got you! You can't keep a job and you lose me ever' job I get. Jus' keep me shovin' all over the country all the time. An' that ain't the worst. You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to get you out.'"
    George to Lennie page 11 chapter 1

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  51. "an' you aint gonna do no bad things in weed, niether" - George says this to Lennie

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  52. "I didn't forget, you bet, god damn. Hide in the brush an' wait for George." said Lennie to himself

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  53. 1. "I guess maybe I'd like to see this. Curley's just spoilin' or he wouldn't start for Slim. An' Curley's handy. God damn handy. But jus' the same, he better leave Slim alone. Nobody don't know what Slim can do."
    2. Whit
    3. Candy, Curley, and George
    page 54

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  54. •"All kin's a vegetables in the garden, and if we want a little whisky we can sell a few eggs or something, or some milk. We'd jus' live there. We'd belong there. There wouldn't be no more runnin' round the country and gettin' fed by a Jap cook. No, sir, we'd have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunk house."
    lennie to george

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  55. “Used to play jokes on ’im ’cause he was too dumb to take care of ’imself. But he was too dumb even to know he had a joke played on him.”- George

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  56. "You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me."
    This was said by Crooks to Lennie.

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  57. "This ol' dog jus' suffers hisself all the time. If you was to take him out and shoot him right in the back of the head--" he leaned over and pointed, "-right there, why he'd never know what hit him",(page 45)

    Carlson said this to Candy.

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  58. "I oughtta of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't oughtta of let no stranger shoot my dog",(page 61).

    Candy said this to George.

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  59. "She's gonna make a mess. They's gonna be a bad mess about her. She's a jail bait all set on the trigger. That Curley got his work cut out for him. Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain't no place for a girl, 'specially like her."
    George said this to Whit.
    page 51

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  60. "S’pose George don’t come back no more, S’pose he took a powderand just ain’t coming back. What’ll you do then?
    Crooks to Lenny

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  61. "Guys dont come into a colored man's room very much. Nobody been here but Slim. Slim an' the boss."
    Audience:Candy and Lennie
    Speaker: Crooks

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  62. "No, Lennie. Look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the place."
    Audience: Lennie
    Speaker: George

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  63. "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 us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no somebody to talk to that gives a damn about place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us."
    Audience- Lennie
    Speaker- George

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