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Read the following discussion and answer the question that follows. Student 1: I think the main theme of Of Mice and Men is loneliness, especially for characters like Crooks and Curley’s wife.Student 2: Yeah, they were both isolated.Student 3: I kind of agree. The book had sad parts.If you were Student 4, which of the following responses would best propel the discussion forward?
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I agree loneliness is a big theme, and I think we can dig deeper by looking at how Steinbeck shows it and how it interacts with other themes. For example:
- What specific scenes or quotes show Crooks’s and Curley’s wife’s isolation (think Crooks’s chapter where he talks about books and being shut out of the bunkhouse, and Curley’s wife’s “I coulda made somethin’ of myself”)?
- How does Candy’s loss of his dog and George and Lennie’s friendship provide a contrast to that loneliness?
- Could the American Dream or powerlessness also be main themes that cause or worsen loneliness?
Pick one character and point to a passage that supports your view, then we can compare whose loneliness is most tragic and why.
- What specific scenes or quotes show Crooks’s and Curley’s wife’s isolation (think Crooks’s chapter where he talks about books and being shut out of the bunkhouse, and Curley’s wife’s “I coulda made somethin’ of myself”)?
- How does Candy’s loss of his dog and George and Lennie’s friendship provide a contrast to that loneliness?
- Could the American Dream or powerlessness also be main themes that cause or worsen loneliness?
Pick one character and point to a passage that supports your view, then we can compare whose loneliness is most tragic and why.
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