The story opens with the description of a riverbed in rural California, a beautiful, wooded area at the base of “golden foothill slopes.” A path runs to the river, used by boys going swimming and riffraff coming down from the highway. Two men walk along the path. The first, George, is small, wiry, and sharp-featured, while his companion, Lennie, is large and awkward. They are both dressed in denim, farmhand attire.
As they reach a clearing, Lennie stops to drink from the river, and George warns him not to drink too much or he will get sick, as he did the night before. As their conversation continues, it becomes clear that the larger man has a mild mental disability, and that his companion looks out for his safety. George begins to complain about the bus driver who dropped them off a long way from their intended destination—a ranch on which they are due to begin work. Lennie interrupts him to ask where they are going. His companion impatiently reminds him of their movements over the past few days, and then notices that Lennie is holding a dead mouse. George takes it away from him. Lennie insists that he is not responsible for killing the mouse, that he just wanted to pet it, but George loses his temper and throws it across the stream. George warns Lennie that they are going to work on a ranch, and that he must behave himself when they meet the boss. George does not want any trouble of the kind they encountered in Weed, the last place they worked.
George decides that they will stay in the clearing for the night, and as they prepare their bean supper, Lennie crosses the stream and recovers the mouse, only to have George find him out immediately and take the mouse away again. Apparently, Lennie’s Aunt Clara used to give him mice to pet, but he tends to “break” small creatures unintentionally when he shows his affection for them, killing them because he doesn’t know his own strength. As the two men sit down to eat, Lennie asks for ketchup. This request launches George into a long speech about Lennie’s ungratefulness. George complains that he could get along much better if he didn’t have to care for Lennie. He uses the incident that got them chased out of Weed as a case in point. Lennie, a lover of soft things, stroked the fabric of a girl’s dress, and would not let go. The locals assumed he assaulted her, and ran them out of town.
A. Dictionary
When you look up an entry in a dictionary, you will find a lot of information besides just a word’s definition. In addition to the definition you will find a word’s part of speech (whether it’s a noun, verb, adjective, etc.), pronunciation, language of origin, syllable break up, prefixes (if any), suffixes (if any), and root.
In The Catcher in the Rye, we hear a lot from Holden Caulfield. This says something about his self-image or how he sees himself. Physically, he describes himself as having gray hair. Which means he thinks he looks old. He also thinks he is older mentally. Also, he feels like people neglect him which cause his struggles.
Answer:
D It shows how the entertainment industry used the Great Depression to their advantage.
Explanation:
During the great depression in the 1930s, Americans still continued to produce entertainment thereby making others happy. Radio was made free and President Roosevelt made regular speeches on the radio to reassure Americans if his new deals. New movies where also produced. The music produced during this period either recalled the good days of 1920s while some reflected the hard times.
Hey! i think you could maybe start with two animals that are best friends (for example a frog and a duck) one follows the other around where ever he/she goes. that one copies everything he/she does :)
the duck (in example) starts getting very angry that (we’ll use the frog in this case) the frog is coping everything he/she does
this creates conflict :)
some things that your character can do about this situation include
invading their house
coping everything they do
killing them
hope this helps :)
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