Do all work by Friday please. Write two short paragraphs (50 to 75 words), one on the protagonist and the other on your assigned character.
For the protagonists, George or Lennie, explain one of either character's traits based on his dress, or a gesture or an action.
For your assigned character choose one of the topics below:
Write an interior monologue (what a character might be thinking) during a scene where the character is silent (speaks no dialogue for a period of time).
Give an example of any repeated actions or gestures made by the character and how these help to communicate a trait of character to the viewers.
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Lennie’s Dependence
In the scene at the boss’s office it is easy to see how dependent Lennie is on George. For example, when George removes his hat, Lennie does as well. Lennie looks at George repeatedly, searching for cues on how to behave. In fact, the unusual behaviour of Lennie (including his not saying anything) strikes the boss as odd and makes him suspicious of George’s intentions.—65 words
Lennie’s Power
In more than one scene, Lennie looks that he has a strong physical power though he is a dependent man. For instance, when Gorge encourages him to kill Curley, he shows to all that his hands are very harsh that they are about to kill Curley. Also, in the scene when he tries to put his hands on the mouth of Curley’s wife just to avoid her of screaming, we conclude that his power is very strong which makes the lady not to breath and die.
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Character assigned/ Crooks
Crooks is a crooked man whose name comes from his back problem. He can't do any work except working in the kitchen because he is a handicapped. Also, he is a black man which seems that most of those white people don’t like him for his colour. As a result, he is alone, and that loneliness made him unfriendly and away from people. His eyes telling people a lot about his personality and his mean behaviour. He always looks suspiciously to people and says some annoying things to them.
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George’s Friendship
As a good listener, and a patient friend, George always stands by Lennie however he creates many problems for him. Sometime he complains about Lennie’s, but he doesn’t mean it. Once he told Lennie that his life would be good without him, but he didn’t let him to leave because George also depends on Lennie and his unconditional friendship. He is his only buddy with whom he expresses his frustrations and loneliness.
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Character Assigned/ Slim
In many scenes, Slim as an understanding leader shows sympathy and supports with his hopeless colleagues. He is always aware of other’s feeling. After Curley’s wife was killed by Lennie, he came to George and had a very quick but meaningful look at him and left. He conveyed his message to George by his eyes and George understood that he knew his feeling and encourage him to do it and relief Lennie
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George’s Struggle
At the end of the film, the tragic scene, when George is struggling to make his mind of shooting, he lays his head on Lennie’s shoulder behind. He keeps talking about their dreams of future life with Lennie; George wants Lennie has a good and happy last moment. Meanwhile, George’s head and shoulder are uncontrollable twitching, which shows that his heart is bleeding, but he has to do a very last thing for Lennie.
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Curley’s Cruelty and Rudeness
The scene when Curley first appears in the film is that he opens the door abruptly and stares Lennie threateningly with hatred and evil in his face. Curley’s appearance in the film is not much, but every time he appears out of nowhere, and there are always something bad happens. The style of Curley’s appearance, abruptness and hostility, is strongly showing this character’s traits: cruelty and rudeness.
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Lennie’s Dream
In the scene where George and Lennie sit around a fire and talk about their dreams about having their own farm, Lennie can’t help reaching his arm and touching George’s shoulder now and again while he passionally ask George to tell the details about his rabbits in their farm. That reveals how much Lennie loves tending rabbits and petting them.
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The Loneliness of Curley’s Wife
The loneliness of Curley’s wife is obvious in this film. Almost in all scenes where she appears, she is always forward to talk with others, and while she is talking, usually she gets something in her hands to toy with such as the lace of her skirt, her handkerchief and so on. All these help to communicate the woman’s vacuity and desire of talking with somebody to the viewers.
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Lennie’s Frightening character
In a few scenes, Lennie appearances frighten other characters. For instance, the opening scene shows a woman who is horrified because Lennie touched her dress and won’t let go, running. Another example of this is when the black guy trembles from fear when Lennie tries to touch his head. From other characters reactions toward Lennie in some scenes, we can tell that Lennie is a fearsome character.
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Assigned Character: Slim
In this film, Slim is a friendly and selfless character. For example, in one of the scenes, he sits near George and Lennie and enters a free conversation as if he has known them for years. Furthermore, the scene that reveals his selflessness is the one he says “You can have any of pups you like, Candy.” From his actions and dialogue, we can conclude that Slim is a friendly and selfless character.
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Lennie is a big guy, tall and strong. Unfortunately, he is retarded and his mind is like a kid .As George throws his dead mouse away, he cries on a piece of wood like a baby. When George tells him he could own his rabbits and tend them, he is very happy and his eyes sparkle with joy and excitement. Although Lennie is sometimes slow in understanding, he still can be a good company.
Poor Candy
In the scene when one farmer suggests Candy killing his useless dog, it is easy to see how he loves his dog. He caresses it and repeats saying “I couldn’t do that”. As the dog is being taken out of the bunkhouse, he lies on his bed quiet, but his heart is bleeding. Candy is an old , one-handed lonely man ,but he has a tender heart.
Learning Film: Character By mice and men
Kenny Lee
Protagonist; Lennie's deadly defect
Lennie is a mentally handicapped person. He is an adult but he is a child in his thinking and action. He is a good and strong worker but he couldn’t be independent. Fortunately George is looking after Lennie as a supporter.
One of his deadly defect is that he has very strong power but uncontrollable. He likes soft and tender felling like touching fur by hands. That’s why he always kept mice or puppy and played with them. But his uncontrollable power makes them die often. In this story the defect causes murder of Curry’s wife.
Character assigned; Candy, old and pity man
Candy appeared a lonely and pity person in this story. He is very old and has only one hand but has tender heart. Therefore there is nothing to do in this ranch except worthless works.
He is living with a dog but too old dog which seems ugly and has bad smell. He couldn’t do anything except tearing in the bed when one of the workers pull the dog outside and shoot him.
Lennie and George
Lennie and George, both, are dependent. Lennie depends on George’s intelligence, and George depends on Lennie’s power in those economic depression days. He will help him to find job in the field because of Lennie’s huge figure. George and Lennie become friends until Lennie does a great mistake. Their relationship is stronger than George lets mad Curley tortures and lynches poor, childish Lennie. He decides to kill him by himself, making the journey’s end for Lennie comfortable.
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Curley’s Wife
She has no identity. All know her because she is Curley’s wife, and this fact made me sad. She is looking for communication, yet she doesn’t know any communication without using her sensual body to show. The men are in their world, some staring at her like Lennie, and some feeling pity like George and Slim or Candy. Her husband is a useless, senseless man that even doesn’t speak to her. She hangs on men to maybe means herself, but her loneliness never ends.
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George: an elder brother
At the beginning of the film, Lennie and George were escaping because someone were running after them. We can see that Lennie was not running as fast as George so had to stop and h.elp him. This scene shows us that George always protects Lennie like an elder brother and won’t give him up in such a bad situation even it will involve him into danger.
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Carlson: an unsympathetic person
Carlson didn’t appear many times in the film. Two main scenes for him are both about Candy’s old dog. He didn’t like the dog and forced Candy to kill it. Finally he killed the dog by himself though Candy felt so sad. We can know from it that Carlson is an unsympathetic person and ignores other people’s feeling.
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Lennie's child smile and mind.
Lennie is bigger and stronger than George and has the mind of a child. Of course he has a mental disease that he could not decide a good consideration, judgment, understanding then the other normal people. However, Lennie follows his friend George very much and George helps him too.Also lennie loves to talk with people.When he talk with someone, the beautiful smile will exist on his lips(W-69)
curley's dissatisfaction
During the movie time, I could not see Curley's smile. Curley always get angry from tha worker and always shout to the people.His wife does not love him ,so nobody likes him even his father. He always has dissatisfaction to everything. Nobody wants to talk with him, nobody likes his behaviors.(W-53)
Lennie’s character:
Lennie has characteristics of a child. The conversation between Lennie and George is just like a parent talking to his child. “I spend all my time telling you things, then you forget 'em.”George got frustrated about Lennie. He tried to tell him a lot of things that Lennie always forget except one single thing: the rabbit. Lennie loves small animal, he kept a dead mouse in his pocket and petted it. After George throw that dead mouse away and he cried. When George commend Lennie to the new boss “he is strong as a bull”Lennie could not help laughing during the job interview. Just notice here, Lennie’s full name is Lennie Small, and he actually is a big guy, the author tried to make the character a little more fun.
Carlson’s Character
Carson is the guy I dislike the most. He has a very cruel and lack of humanity and compassion. He is one insisting to shot the dog regardless of Candy’s cry that he has this dog since a puppy and they herded sheep together. The reason is only the “dog stinks”. Carlson is also pushy. When Candy suggested shooting the dog tomorrow, he took the gun and insisted to do it right away. He is also phony, he suggest that Candy can get new puppy from slim to pet, and he knew that Candy only wanted his own dog. Why a new born puppy is acceptable and old one isn’t. He also is a jealous guy. Since all the guys working on ranch are lonely and have nobody to give a damnn, but Candy has the dog as companion. It irritated Carlson.
English 11
February 18, 2009
A NEW LANGUAGE
Learning a new language is has been one of my goals in life. I began to learn English when I was in secondary school. Since then, I have continued studying English. I think I almost achieve my goal about learning English if I consider the past experiences in my classroom, the expectative I have now and how I visualize English will help me in my future.
English class was always my passion. When I was 15 year old, instead to have a party, I paid and English course in United States. The teacher was terrific, and I tried to do my best as a student. When the course came to the end, my classmates chose me to buy a present and a thankful card for our teacher. I went to the store, and I bought a beautiful card with a nice short legend, that I translated into Spanish: “friendliness to win everybody’s affection.” It was the perfect card for our teacher, I thought. When the day came, all my classmates signed the card and we gave it with the present to the teacher. At first, she was speechless and she blushed her face, than she began to laugh and said –it is the first time my students give a card like this- then, she read the legend out laud: “With Sympathy”. This was a shameful, but funny experience about my English classes. I would never forget it.
Pursuing my goal to learn English, I registered in English 11 course, where I expect to learn how to speak more fluent. It is easy for me to read and understand English, but not to speak fluently. Most of the times, while I am speaking, I began to structure the phrases in order to speak correctly. That makes me feel not confident about the way I talk. Besides, I expect to increase my vocabulary and the Canadian idioms. I expect to make different activities during the class with my classmates, where I can learn not only English, but about my classmate’s lives. Last, I would like to have fun; I always have thought that if we have fun while we are learning, we are not going to feel the class is hard and boring. I am positive that English 11 is going to improve my English and my life.
Although, learning English began as a hobby for me, it turned into a necessity in my life. When I came to Canada, I realized that if I want to succeed, not only professionally, but also socially, I needed to learn this idiom very well. I think the future caught up me, now I am living in Canada and is a priority to learn its language. The more I am training, more opportunity I have to find a good job in my professional field. As an architect, not only need to learn daily language, but technical terms. I am sure will be an asset to learn English as much as possible that will open me doors to have a better job and integrate into Canadian community where I live now.
As an immigrant, I thing the best way to succeed is learn the country language where you move into. Moreover, it the best way to be grateful with the country for receives us as immigrants, no matter where we come from. In this very moment, I am glad that study a foreign idiom was one of my goals in life since I was 15 years old. Ever since, I enjoyed English classes, and I had have the opportunity to continue learning something that passionately likes me and makes me happy, and most of all, English is, and it will be a great help in my near future, and one of my goals in life.
Maria de la Cruz
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English 11
February 17, 2009
LIFE AND DEATH
In this poem, “Return Baggage,” Wislawa Szymborska feels deep sorrow for the infants that could never accomplish what every body expects about life: to be born, to grow, to reproduce and to die. In more of her stanzas, she describe the things those kids would not be able to do and see because of their death. In the second stanza, she writes:
Here lie little Zosia, Jacek, Dominik,
prematurely stripped of the sun, the moon,
the clouds, the turning seasons.
Zzymborska writes about those kids who had an ephemeral life. She writes about their tragic deaths: a fatal accident or a deadly disease “The happiness of skating on the ice” or “A spoonful of bitter knowledge—the taste of medicine.” She makes us imagine two things in a moment: laughs and joy; and screams and pain, life and death.
Maria de la Cruz
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