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Karteikarten von Greta Westwood, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
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Erstellt von Greta Westwood
vor mehr als 11 Jahre
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| Frage | Antworten |
| Crooks lives all alone because | he's segregated from all the others because he's black. |
| Why does Crooks find it hard to enjoy another person's company at first? | Because he is used to loneliness |
| When is the only time we see Curley with his wife? | When Curley's wife is dead |
| Why are the men on the ranch like orphans? | Because they 'got no family' |
| Crooks and Candy's attempt to grab hold of George and Lennie's dream lead to... | Bitter disappointment |
| Lennie (for companionship) holding his animals, holding the girl's skirt in Weed and holding onto Curley's wife lead to | Tragedy |
| Curley's wife trying to get a bit of companionship by flirting and talking to the ranchers lead to... | A disaster for her- she gets the opposite of companionship |
| Most of the ranchers comment on how strange it is that Lennie and George travel together because... | It's unusual for ranchers to make friends. |
| Does Steinbeck offer a solution to Loneliness? | No, Loneliness appears to be part of human nature |
| Is loneliness something the characters can change? | No |
| The novel emphasises loneliness of others to... | reflect on the importance of George and Lennie's companionship |
| The pessimism in the novel shows... | The reality of the attitudes in the 1930s (when it was published-1937) Having been through the Great Depression in 1929. |
| During the Greta Depression there were high levels of | Unemployment, poverty and homelessness |
| Does George every really seem to think that his and Lennie's dream will come true? | Although there are brief moments where he seems to believe it, realism snaps back at him and he knows that it won't happen. |
| Animals only provided a temporary solution to loneliness because... | He killed all the animals he got |
| Candy's dog provided a solution to loneliness for Candy, but this didn't last because... | Carlson shot his dog. |
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