Steinbeck's message about dreams is that dreams create hope and gives people motivation.
For example on pages 13 and 14, Lennie and is telling George about their dream farm and how when they make enough money they are going to live how they please.
“They dream of roots, stability, and independence.”
Answer:
stealthily
Explanation:
surreptitiously means in a cautious manner, in attempts to avoid attention
If this is the excerpt:
The land’s sharp features seemed to be
The Century’s corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
<span>Was shrunken hard and dry…
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Then the imagery Thomas Harding is using from "The Darkling Thrush" is DEATH IMAGERY.
The use of the words CORPSE, CRYPT, DEATH-LAMENT, SHRUNKEN represents death.
In the winter you are most likely to see oak tree leaves still on the tree as many oak trees are evergreens, while almost all of the maple drop their leaves in the fall