Scott Hackney

Scott Hackney

The Return of the King

J.R.R. Tolkien

Fantasy

Challenge

46

1. I am currently at the beginning at the novel so not much has happened in the book. What has happened in the novel is, after separating from the rest of the group Pippin and Gandalf arrived in Gondor.  After being interrogated by the Lord of Gondor Pippin is shown around the city by one of the soldiers. After being shown around the city they hear that other people are arriving to help with the up coming battle.  Then the story shifts to the other half of the company.  Where they have just regrouped after a battle and have to make a decision on what way they go to Gondor.

2. I feel like the book has lots of detail, most of the time too much detail. Most of the book is details so it takes a while to read. It takes a lot of will power to read the book, but when you finish a chapter or a big scene you remember it well. This book gives you many details but it is hard to remember them all. IF it wasn’t for the details I think that people wouldn’t remember the series as well and so many people wouldn’t read it. I also think it is one of the characteristics that make the novel what it is.

3. I think the theme of the book is separation. The group has been separated and they are making plans that they might separate again. The whole book revolves around the fact that the company has been separated. If the group wasn’t separated the reader wouldn’t know what the people in the company was thinking and how the other countries are preparing for the upcoming war.

4.  My favorite character in the novel is probably Aragorn. He is a natural leader and helps the group in battle and decide where to go. If it wasn’t for Aragorn I think that the company wouldn’t have survived for as long as they did. Aragorn helps the group decide what paths to take and he protects the group very well. Aragorn also helps the group make decisions, when they cant make up their mind Aragorn always knows what the right thing to do is and leads them on.

5. My least favorite character is The Lord of Gondor. He is very over powering and he doesn’t want to give up the throne for the real king. He wants his son to continue to be the Lord of Gondor after him.  When Gandalf and Pippin where talking to the king the king interrogated Pippin about the rest of the company and the job of the company. I feel like that the Lord of Gondor tries to control other people too much.

6.  What I think will happen next is, The company that is trying to get to Gondor will separate and one half will go the slower way and the other half the faster and more dangerous way. I think that Aragorn will lead the group that is leading the more dangerous way. I think he will do this because he is willing to sacrifice himself to help save the rest of the company. If that means sacrificing himself on the more dangerous path to get the others back to safety he will do that.

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Hannah Keavany

Of Mice & Men

John Steinbeck

Fiction

"Just Right"

Finished

1. At the end of Of Mice and Men, George shoots Lennie in the back of the head because George doesn't want Curly to torture him.  Curly wants kill Lennie because Lennie keeps on killing things fo instance when Lennie kills Curly's wife. George steals Carlson's gun and follows Lennie back to the riverbank where the book started.  Lennie asks George to tell him about the future again, like how he can tend the rabbits on their land.  George tells Lennie to look out across the water as he tells Lennie the plan.  After George shoots Lennie, the other guys from the ranch come running in through the bushes.  George tells Carlson that Lennie had the gun, when he did not. 

2.  This book was boring and pushed me away.  The details were too complicated, this made it hard for me to figure out the theme.  I think the theme of this book is having dreams.  If you have a  dream, it may not work out and you have to come up with something new.  The dream Lennie and George had was having a farm.  This theme really showed itself when George killed Lennie at the end when he is repeating the plan they had together.  The dream died with Lennie.  John Steinbeck is a new author to me. 
3.  The theme of dreams appears within the characters of the book.  For example, at the begining George and Lennie talked about a plan they had to buy a farm and rabbits.  It appears at the scene where Lennie is in Crook's room and Lennie tells Crooks about their plan and Crooks tells him that he had a dream to work but it won't come true because he is old and crippled. 
4.  My favorite character is Lennie because he has differences and I also have differences.  For example in the book when George does all the talking for Lennie, sometimes I feel like others do the talking for me too. Lennie is a very nice person and tries not to hurt others.  

5 .My least favorite chacter was Curly becasue he wasent a very nice person. He would always blame things on Lennie and i thougth that it wasent very fair. It seemed like Curly dident really caer a whole lot about his wife. He never did really respected her as a human. 


6. When I figured out that Lennie was slow but strong and accidentally killed things, I 
Predicted that Lennie would die in this book.  When Lennie killed the puppy and when th ey had to leave weed beause he wanted to feel a girl's dress.  Lennie dident mean to hurt the puppy or to have the girl think he would attack her. The part of the ending that suprised me was that George was the one that kills Lennie.  I thought George would be like Candy and stay at the ranch and have Curly and the rest of them go and kill Lennie. 

Emma Hanmer

Emma Hanmer
Of Mice And Men
John Steinbeck
Historical Fiction
Just Finished
Just Right

1. I just finished the book Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck. This book had a very surprising, twisted ending. After I read it though, I went back and noticed all of the foreshadowing that led up to it.
The end starts out with all of the guys being in town. Lennie was left at the ranch with one of Slim's pups, which he had accidentally killed because of how strong he was. Curley's wife sat and talked to him about her dreams. She let him feel her soft hair, which Lennie feel head over heals for. He grabbed her hair and wouldn't let go. She struggled, and tried to scream but his hand had clasped over her mouth. All he was thinking about was that he wasn't going to be able to tend the rabbits if someone heard them. Curley's wife died a few seconds later. He had broken her neck by shaking her so much. Lennie knew this was an extremely bad thing, so he fled to the clearing by the river where George had told him to go if he ever got into trouble. When George, Lennie's closest thing to family, saw the lifeless woman, he knew exactly who had done it and where he was. George also knew that Curley would kill him if he found him, but George couldn't run away with Lennie because this was something very bad that he had done. George knew what he had to do. He took Carlson's luger and headed for the clearing, unnoticed. He talked to Lennie and made him feel comfortable before he peacefully ended his life. It was an extremely difficult thing to do, but he did what had to be done. George did all that he could to try to help his friend, but in the end he was too much of a danger to all that surrounded him.

2. Overall I liked this book. I really respect books that don't have the everything's perfect and everything worked out kind of ending. I like the ones that leave you pondering and puzzled. When George killed Lennie I was astounded! I thought that they might actually get the little place with the rabbits and chickens, but that just shows the reality of the people back then. The American Dream was just a fantasy for everyone. For all of the books that I can basically guess the ending and it can bore me a lot of the time. This book was totally different and new and exciting because I had no clue that George would give up and end Lennie's path of destruction. John Steinbeck is an author that I've never read before but I'm definitely interested in reading more of his work.

3. A strong theme that I see in this book is love and sacrifice. I see this through the characters in the novel. At the end of the novel George has to sacrifice Lennie's life for the safety of others even though he loved him. It was something that had to be done or else Lennie would have endangered everyone around him. George and Lennie were a non-traditional family, depending on each other and being there for each other, and they loved each other very much. George basically sacrificed Lennie because he loved him. Lennie wasn't a murderer, he was just thinking about the rabbits when he was with Curley's wife and then he had just shoved her too hard so she died. He didn't want to kill her, it just happened. Still though, it wasn't right and Lennie almost knew it because he went to the clearing. George did the right thing, even though it was painful. Another example of love and sacrifice was Candy and his dog. Candy and his dog had grown old together, and were best friends. His dog was in a lot of pain at his old age and it was getting to the point where he couldn't provide for himself anymore. Candy reluctantly agreed to put the dog out of it's misery because he had had it since it was a puppy. He had to sacrifice the dog, because he knew it wasn't right to keep him living through his pain.

4. My favorite character in the book is George. He is a kind and protective little man! The way he agreed to take Lennie in, care for him, and guide him is heart warming. He always says that he could have so much more and be so much better if he didn't have Lennie, yet he never leaves him. That shows that he's a devoted and loving person. He formed a family-like relationship with Lennie, making them like brothers traveling on the road together. When I think about George I think about a nice guy that's generous and giving. He's also a very mentally strong person because he was able to make the decision of ending Lennie's dangerous ways.


  5. My least favorite character in the novel is Curley. He is a jealous, ungrateful person. It seems like anytime he's around anyone who's bigger than him he's trying to pick a fight, even if the guy has done nothing wrong. He's the boss's son, so if he picks a fight the other men are cheering him on, but when someone fights back the men go on Curley's side. I don't like it when people get everything they want whenever they want, which is basically who Curley is. He's also ungrateful because he has a family and lives with them, while the other men don't even know what being in a family's about. He doesn't pay any attention to and is mean to his wife, who gets left out and hated. The other men can't even meet a girl because they are working so much. Family is a very large part in this book, and I don't like how it is taken advantage of by Curley.

6. The ending of the book was nothing like I expected. The author took me by surprise when Lennie ends up dying, and it made me really interested to go back and find what led up to it. I originally thought that George and Lennie would get the house with the little piece of land, but Candy would die after he gave them the money. I've always anticipated that it's all going to work out in the ending (like I've been brainwashed by reading holiday books). When I went back I could see how the real ending could have happened. First, in Weed Lennie starts out with a small dress mishap. Then, it escalated to killing the mice. His strength was too much for animals, even the puppies. At the ranch he killed the pup that Slim gave him, because he whacked him too hard. Right after killing the pup, he accidentally killed Curley's wife. The problems got bigger and bigger in the story until finally the worst thing possible could have happened, human death. 

Caroline Bennett

Caroline Bennett
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Historical Fiction
Challenge

1) The ending of Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck was different than any other books that I've read. There was a lot of foreshadowing in this book that lead up to the ending. In the end of the book, Lennie kills Curly's wife. However, Lennie kills her by accident. This is like a lot of other times in the book when Lennie does something bad without meaning to. For example, Lennie was watching the puppies and when one of the puppies looked like he might bite him, Lennie hits him on the head and kills him. Lennie didn't mean to hurt the puppy, he was just scared. Just like he was scared around Curly's wife. Lennie was touching her hair and when she said not to, he grabbed tighter and ended up breaking her back which killed her. After Lennie killed Curly's wife, he went to the safe place George had told him to go to. After Curly and the other men found out what Lennie had done they grabbed their guns and set out after Lennie. George didn't want Lennie to be tortured so he went to the river bank and told Lennie to look out at the river and think about the great life they would have together. Then George shot him.

2) I really didn't like this book. I know it is a classic and supposed to be really well written but I feel the plot is boring. Their wasn't much to the plot and it was pretty simple. The characters were well developed but they didn't have very interesting lives. I didn't really think about the themes until we talked about them in class. And I didn't realize how significant they were until other people pointed them out to me. I think people read way too much into the plot and try to pick out themes that aren't there. I found it hard to focus on the book when the author got into so much detail about the setting. I have not read this book before and I don't think I have read any other books by this author.

3) There were many themes that stood out to me throughout this book but the one that stood out the most would have to be family as a curse. Although George does care about Lennie, Lennie is a little bit of a curse on George. If George didn't have the responsibility of taking care of Lennie, he might have gotten more in life. George wants to own land and Lennie holds him back because of his disabilities. George and Lennie are family although they are not directly related, they still care about each other and live with each other. And Curly is a curse on his wife. Curly's wife wanted to be in show business and when she married Curly the idea was no longer a possibility. Curly's wife feels that if Curly and other people didn't hold her back she could have done something more with her life. And that they are a curse.

4) My favorite character is Lennie. I really like Lennie because he is so kind. Lennie has some mental disabilities but he is a very loving and kind person. I feel that even though no one is really friends with Lennie, except George, he is still the most likable person. Even though Lennie has made many mistakes, he never means to hurt anyone and he always has everyone best interest at heart. I was very upset when Lennie was killed because I liked his character a lot.

5) My least favorite character is Curly's wife. She isn't as mean as some of the other characters in the book but she is still a mean person. I think one of the worst things Curly's wife did was to flirt with Lennie. That was really awful of her to do because I think she knew what she was doing and was trying to get Lennie in trouble. Curly's wife is a very sneaky character. She also thinks she is better than everyone else which bothers me. For example, she kept talking about how she was going to be a movie star and how everyone else was holding her back.

6) I already knew what was going to happen at the end of the book because I watched a show called The Middle and they said the ending of the book. I think if I hadn't seen that episode of The Middle then I wouldn't have known exactly what would happen. There was a lot of foreshadowing that helps you get an idea of what might happen in the end. I can't say for sure if I would have seen the foreshadowing and known that George would kill Lennie, but I would've had a general idea that Lennie would do something bad.

John Bailey A block, of mice and men

John Bailey
Of Mice And Men
Jerry Steinbeck
fiction
just right
finished

 1)           Through out the whole book steinbeck uses fore shadowing. At the begging of the book George tells Lennie he cant have any more pet mice because he keeps killing all the ones he gets. To make Lennie feel better George tells Lennie, the first chance i get ill get you a nice pup. At the farm George meats a man named slim who tells George he has some fresh born pups, and George asks if he can have one for Lennie. Slim says, you can have any pup you'd like Lennie. Lennie loved playing with the pups, but he could'nt play with them too much because they where young and needed to stay with there mother. One day when Lennie was playing with the pup, the pup tried to bite him so Lennie smaked it. Lennie was in the barn when Curleys' wife came in. Lennie quickly hid the dead pup in the hay. Curleys' wife saw him hide it. she sterted flirting with Lennie, but Lennie knew Gerorge did not want him talking to her, so he tied to avoid her. Lennie got on the topic about how he like soft thing and then Curley wife offered for him to feel her hair.when lennie was feeling her hair she wanted him to stop but he didnt, and he got scared so he clenched on her hair. Curley wife started screeming so Lennie covered her mouth and stared wiping her around untill she stopped moving. Then Lennie relized that he killed her so he ran to the river side and hid in the grass as george told him. George found out what Lennie had done so he ran down to the river to meet Lennie. when George saw Lennie at the river he was not mad at george just dissapionted in him. George had Lennie get on his knees and look into the woods. George started talking about how they were going to have rabbits and chickens and all these nice things on there farm that they were going to buy. Then to savw lennie from being torchered by Curley he shot Lennie in the back of the head without him knowing. After a little while Slim found George and offered to take him to get a drink.

     
  2) I thought this was a very good book. this was the only book i have read where you need to read it a million times to get all the details. This book was also the only book with as much foreshadowing as it had.

3) The theme in the book that i had noticed is love over sacrafice. I really noticed this theme in to parts of the book. the first part was when Candy had to kill his dog. I thought this theme applied because Candy had the dog for so long but at the age it was it wasnt living a very nice life. The second but main part is when George has to shoot Lennie. I thought this applied because George loved lennie but had to shoot him so that Curley could not get to him and give him a pain full death.


4) My Favorite character is Slim. He is my favorite because he does not show up as a main character in the book more as another worker and Georges soon to become freind. Slim is always there for George even though you dont see him that much. I like how at the end after George shoots Lennie Slim is the only ony who offers to take him out for a beer.

5)My least favorite character is Curley. Curley is my least favorite because he alwaysed had a problem with Lennie just because Lennie was a lot bigger than him. Not only he did not like Lennie he had to get in a fight with hid to show that just because he is small he is still bigger than every one. I also dont like how he married his wife but does not spend any time with her, and isnt nice to her.

6) The ending is not what i thaught at all. I thought George and Lennie were going to try to run away together again. I also had a feeling Curley was gonna get Lennie and insted of George killing Lennie he would kill Curley in an efort to save Lennie. I also thought they where gonna get the farm they wanted.

Sean Dougherty Block A

Sean Dougherty

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Realistic Fiction

Just Right

Just Finished

1.     The book Of Mice of Men by John Steinbeck is about the non-traditional family of George and Lennie. George and Lennie are ranchers during the Great Depression looking to reach the American Dream. However an action of Lennie’s has set that goal as good as done. Lennie is mentally crippled; he has bad memory and panics when others yell at him. So one time when George and the others ranchers were in town having a good town, and Lennie was all by himself in a shed, he was greeted by Curley’s wife. Curley is the boss’s son; he is very short and jealous about others. Curley’s wife wanted to be an actress, but never got the letter, so she married Curley who she even says in mean to her. She starts to talk to Lennie who refuses the conservation, eventually gives in. Curley’s wife notices the puppy that Lennie killed and supports him by telling him it is just a mutt, no big deal. She approaches him and begins to flirt with him. Lennie explains that he likes to feel nice and soft things. So she lets him feel her hair. Lennie won’t let go and messes up her hair, she starts to yell. Lennie panics, covers her mouth, and looses control. He breaks her neck and kills her. Lennie flees to the brush near the river where George told him to go if he got in any trouble. Back at the ranch, the word gets out. All the ranchers go out to find and kill Lennie, including George. George goes ahead to try and find Lennie before the ranchers do. He succeeds, but his plan soon changes. He talks to Lennie about the place they were going to have and how Lennie could tend the rabbits. He tricks Lennie to look around the river. Then, George shoots Lennie in the back of the head where Lennie won’t even feel it.

2.     When the book ended, my feelings totally changed. I used to think of the book poorly, but know I feel like the plot all tied in to the unsuspecting ending. However this made me think a lot. What George did to Lennie was just an act of love and compassion. Right then I really enjoyed the book. The plot had me at the unsuspecting death of Curley’s wife            and what could possibly happen next. But when George killed him, I just put the book down and stared at the wall for a short time. Also, the contrasting characters played a huge part in how I felt about this book. I was just fascinated about how Lennie’s mind works and how the other characters mix in with him. George is part of his family, Curley wants his size, and Candy’s dog is his equal. Candy is like George, always taking care of his dog that is like Lennie who Candy had to give up to die for his own good.

3.     The finishing act of the book led me to believe that love and compassion was the theme of the book. At the end of the book, George shoots Lennie to save him. George knew that if he didn’t shoot Lennie, the other ranchers would capture him and force a slow, painful death. I was an act of love and compassion to kill Lennie so he wouldn’t feel anything. Also, Lennie and George have a dream to own their own piece of land. But Lennie especially wants to tend the rabbits on their farm. That is his happy place and George probably wanted to take him their. Achieving the American Dream back during the Great Depression is nearly impossible. So sending Lennie to heaven was the only way to have him tend the rabbits. After all, George and Lennie always supported and loved each other as one non-traditional family.

4.     My favorite character would have to be George. In Lennie’s case, overprotection in never enough and George really tried to shield Lennie for the possible self-afflicted damage on the ranch. I feel like George is just a good person, I’m sure not that many people would stick with Lennie after knowing who he is and what he did in Weed. But George was extremely   faithful and believed that Lennie could live a happy life. However, George’s hope runs thin when he figures out that Lennie killed Curley’s wife and that nothing will ever be the same for them. He knew Lennie had no way out of this one, so he did the right thing and sent Lennie to a better place in an act of love and compassion.

5.     My least favorite character in this novel would have to be Curley. He is jealous and mean when he really doesn’t want to be. First, Curley doesn’t except himself. He thinks he is different just because he is small compared to his father. He uses anger to make up for his lack of height. This of coarse doesn’t work, it just make him be smaller and farther away from others. Also, since he is the boss’s son, he doesn’t really have a place with the other ranchers. Basically, he has no friends. However he has brought that upon himself. His wife said it herself, he is mean to even his wife.

6.     The ending being George killing Lennie threw my past prediction way off. At the beginning of the book when George was explaining to Lennie about their piece of land they were going to have, I believed George. I thought that all these books would end happily, that was until I remembered how old I was. Soon I caught notice of the way Steinbeck was using foreshadowing, especially when George told Lennie to hide in the brush if something bad happened. After that I made a new prediction that something bad was going to happen that would change the entire dream of the novel. Something bad did happen, Lennie killed Curley’s wife and Lennie did go hide in the brush. Steinbeck wouldn’t have put that in there if it wasn’t going to happen. For me, foreshadowing really gave the book away.

Alex Dombrowski

Alex Dombrowski

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Just Right

Just Finished

 

 

1.      The workers are having a horseshoe game while Lennie is sitting alone in the barn. He is petting his dead pup. He killed it by accident; it bit him and then he hit it. Lennie is so strong that hitting the pup killed him. He worried that George will get mad at him for murdering pup and won’t let him tend to the rabbit at the place they are planning to buy. Curley’s wife comes into the barn and starts talking to Lennie. She tells him about how she wanted to be a star. All Lennie wants to talk about is rabbits. She asks him why and he responds by saying he likes to pet soft thing. She tells him how soft her hair is and Lennie proceeds to pet it. Curley’s wife tells him to stop but he gets nervous and won’t let go. She screams, which makes it worse. Lennie tries to shake her to make her stop, but  he ends up breaking her neck because he is so strong. He realizes she is dead and runs away to the “safe place” which is a where that George told him to go if he ever does something bad. All of the workers now want to torture and kill Lennie. George knows what they are going to do to his friend so he goes to the safe place. There he finds Lennie who feels bad about what he did. George understands it was an accident but, has to kill him to prevent the workers from making his death painful. George shoots Lennie in the back of the head so he dies without feeling a thing.

2.      I enjoyed Of Mice and Men. It was a very short book but told a good story. Steinbeck used a lot of foreshadowing with Lennie, It made the book very exciting. I also wanted to know what he would do next. For example when Lennie and Curley first met, Curley didn’t like Lennie because he was big and threated him. This told me that the two would probably to get into a fight. Lennie and George were interesting characters, Lennie was massive but not very bright and George was just an average guy. Steinbeck made them travel together because they were like a family. They were different from the other workers because the others had no family or someone they traveled with.The chemistry George and Lennie had made the book more interesting.

3.      I think the theme is love and sacrifice. I see this in the book when George kills Lennie. Si George and Lennie are like a family, they love each other. After Lennie kills Curley’s wife George knows what the guys are going to do to Lennie so he kills him. sacrifices Lennie out of love because he doesn’t want the workers to make his death painful. Another example of this is when Candy gets his dog put down.. He had the dog for a very long time and he wasn’t in good shape anymore but he still loves him. The rest of the workers don’t like the dog because it smells bad, so they put it down. Love and sacrifice is a common theme in Of Mice and Men.

4.      My favorite character in the novel is Lennie. I like him because he was a very simple character and generally straightforward. Also he is the nicest person at the ranch. Even though he had a tendency to kill things, it is always by accident and he feels bad about it afterwards. Lennie only wants what the other workers want; a nice piece of land of their very own to live on. Sometimes I feel bad for Lennie because he is helpless. He is sheltered by George to keep him out of trouble, it restricted him a lot.

5.      My least favorite character in the novel is Curley. I don’t like him because he is a really nasty man. He is short so anyone larger intimidates him. When he gets intimidated, he tries to fight. As soon as he meets Lennie, he didn’t like him just because he is big. Eventually he gets mad and does fight Lennie. Even Curley’s wife says he is not a nice man. None of the works like Curley because he is so nasty to every. Curley tries to control his wife too. He makes her stay in the house all day.

6.      I am surprised George ended up killing Lennie because I thought they would have just ran away. I didn’t notice anything foreshadowing George killing Lennie. Maybe if Candy had killed his own dog it would have occurred to me that George would kill Lennie, I did expect Lennie to kill Curley’s wife though. There was a lot of foreshadowing leading up to that event. When Lennie killed the mouse and the pup I expected him to kill something else which would cause him to go to the safe spot. However, none of the events in the book prepared me for the way the story ended.

SethNovitch A block

Seth Novitch
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
realistic fiction
easy
just finished

1. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck it starts out with two guys named George and Lennie. They are to guys that are on the run from trouble and have been together for a long time and they have a dream to own there own land and this is called the american dream back in the 1930s. eventually they show up at a farm and start working there with some other guys and one of them is named Candy and he asks them if he can join there dream and he allowed. So now they are working together to make enough money to get to there goal. Along the way they meet some others like the black man Crooks with a bad back and he is just thorn in a horse stable and poorly treated because of racism. Then Lennie soon meets Curly's wife who he was told to look out for but then they get a little to close and Lennie kills her. He also had done some things to lead up to that like when he killed the mouse and a puppy. Then everyone gets mad with Lennie especially Curly who starts to look for a gun to kill Lennie. Next George goes out and finds Lennie thinking about the good things in life like his family and his dream. So now George knows what he has to do, he has to end this madness for everyone and for Lennie. So George goes and kills Lennie and later him and Slim leave for a new dream.

2. I thought that this was a pretty good book just from the start especially from the beginning mostly because of the detail and how he just set the scene for me in the beginning of the book. The beginning was how we met the main characters and that told us a lot about them and there dream. Also it was the beginning of when the foreshadowing happened with Lennie killing that mouse. As the book progressed it still stayed consistent and thats what kept me interested. When they introduced each character with each different personality that every character had a dream or a desire. then at the end it just became really powerful and it was a very good ending. When George had to kill Lennie to only help him and do what he had to was really well done.

3. I think the theme of this book is love and sacrifice because of the many examples of it in the book and how they are really alike. The first one is when Candy has the dog that he has had for ever and has cared for a long time and how the dog has always been there for him. Until now that the dog is just to old and can't keep going so eventually they decide its time and they have to sacrifice him. Another example is with Curly and his wife and how even though he doesn't always act like he doesn't love his wife. In the end he really does love her and I think most of the reason why he didn't was because of him being short and since his dad is the owner. Then she dies and he gets really upset and tries to avenge her. my final example is with George and Lennie and how they have always been together ever since Lennie's aunt told George to look after him all the way until George had to scarifies Lennie only for his own good.

4. My favorite character is George because he is a really good person for many reasons. One is because he takes such good care of Lennie even when he's tired and done with him he is still always there. Hes also a good person to the people he meets like the farm owners and most other random strangers. He is also really good to himself like how he is really tolerant about his size unlike Curly and how he gets mad all the time.

5. My least favorite character is Curly because he treats every one rally poorly. Mostly his wife because he never lets her out of the house and just uses her to make him look good. He is also mean because his dad is the boos and owner of the farm so he is not really given any respect like the other employees. He is also really mad because of his size especially because when he sees Lennie and how big he is he gets really mad.

6. Originally I thought that someone would get to there dream and I also thought Lennie would get in really bad trouble. But I did not expect this ending because at first I thought that Lennie would just be thrown in jail or something for doing something but I did not expect george to have to go and kill him. I was right about someone getting to there dream because George was able to keep moving on even without Lennie but with Slim instead.

Oliver Morton

Oliver Morton
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Realistic Fiction
Just Right
Finished

1.I just finished the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The ending of the book was a very sad one. In the ending of this book you find out that Lennie has killed Curly's wife. George knows that enough is enough and goes to find him. He knows where he is because in the beginning of the book George tells Lennie to go to a special place when he got in trouble. So when everyone on the farm finds out about what happens they all go after Lennie. George steals Carlson's gun and shoots Lennie. First he reassures Lennie about their farm and the land but then he kills him. After, George walks off with Slim to another farm, and to live another day.

2.  This book had a lot of detail. There was never a point when you didn't know what was going on in the story. Steinbeck did a good job of using detail to get the reader to understand the book. There was a lot of explaining to do in this story because many things happen in a very short amount of time. How would you have known about Lennie's mental disabilities without further explanation? His mental disabilities makes him slow in the brain so it is harder to think for him. This comes to play because later in the story Lennie is feeling Curley's wife's hair and when she starts screaming, he immediately puts his hand over her mouth. He then breaks her windpipe and she dies. Steinbeck also explained very clearly about how Lennie has a history of killing things. For example when Lennie finds a mouse and pets it. It then bites his fingers and he squeezes its brain until it dies. Steinbeck also explains how George saves Lennie from bad situations and takes care of him because Lennie can't do it himself.

3.The theme in this book is Loneliness. I think this is the theme because in the book a lot of people are lonely. For example in the book there is a character named Crooks. Crooks is a black man and a cripple. Just because he is black he cannot go into the bunkhouse at the ranch, and has to live in the barn. His room is not that nice and he lives right behind the horses, so there is manure outside hi window. Another person who is lonely is Curley's wife. She isn't treated the same. In a way she is like Crooks. She isn't talked to that much because everyone knows that she is Curley's. No one wants to mess with her. Also in the book she has a scene where she is talking to Lennie and she talks about how she is lonely.

4. My favorite character in this book is George. He is my favorite character because he is noble. He always has an idea on how to get out of the trouble. He saves Lennie multiple times. In this book Lennie is the character that gets in the most trouble. The reason is mostly because Lennie has a mental problem and because of that he doesn't know what to do in uncomfortable situations. Also George takes care of Lennie and I like how he makes sure Lennie's needs are satisfied before his.

5. My least favorite character in the book is Curley. He is my least favorite character because he is always getting people into trouble. He does this because he is small and wants everyone to know he is important. He also is a mean person. I don't like people who are mean, especially to women. You find out that he is mean to women because in the book his wife says that he doesn't love her and he is mean. Curley also makes her feel lonely. I think Curley should except he is little and he isn't going to get bigger. He is also mean because he is insecure.

6. I thought that the ending of the book was going to be a lot different. I thought this until someone told me the ending and ruined it for me. Overall though it was a sad ending. Steinbeck gave a lot of detail in this book to foreshadow the ending. The clues that were given were about Lennie at the Weed. The Weed is the ranch that George and Lennie came from. Lennie grabbed a women's dress that makes them have to escape to leave. 

Turner Garland

Turner Garland
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Historical Fiction
Just Right
Just Finished 105

1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a novel about the hardships of two friends during the great depression. The two friends, Lennie and George abandoned their last work spot and have traveled together to work at a new farm. Lennie has disabilities, and without the guidance and support from George he would not be able to live properly. George is always trying to keep Lennie out of trouble. Even though George keeps a close eye on Lennie, he always seems to do something wrong. The end of the book is when Lennie really messes up.  Lennie loves to feel soft things, so when he is in the barn alone, a co-worker's wife joins him. After Lennie asks, the wife tells him that it is fine that he feels her hair. Lennie can't control his extreme strength and ends up breaking the wife's neck, killing her. Lennie knew that he had screwed up big this time and he remembered what George had told him. George had said to go to a spot in the woods and hide away if anything ever went wrong. The only chance Lennie had, was to run away and hide at this spot. So Lennie toke off leaving the dead wife lying on the barn floor. The other workers and George find her body and decide to go and hunt Lennie down. Grabbing their guns they set off to avenge the dead woman. George knows Lennie too well and knows exactly where Lennie went off to. George ran ahead of the rest of the men with a pistol that he had stole from one of the workers. He neared the spot and as he expected Lennie was sitting right there, crying at his wrongdoing. If the other men catch Lennie, George is sure that they will kill him and he will have a slow painful death. With not much of a choice George decides that a painless death is better, so he pulled the trigger of the luger and shot Lennie right in the back of his head.

2. John Steinbeck is an author that is new to me. I have never read any of his other books, but after reading Of Mice and Men, I found that I really like his style of writing. Foreshadowing is a key aspect of Steinbeck's writing that I really liked. To me, having hints and clues of what is going to happen later in the story is important. Foreshadowing makes the book more interesting and definitely makes you want to keep reading. Another part of Steinbeck's writing that I like a lot was the way he described the characters. He made sure that the reader understood George and Lennie from the beginning all the way to the end. This made me really feel like I knew them. Steinbeck described the relationships between each characters, like Lennie and George, or Candy and his dog. The relationships between them where very strong and a key part of the plot was based on the relationship between the characters.  The themes that Steinbeck illustrated were strong and very powerful. Love and compassion was a main theme. Also, non-traditional families played  a large role with many of the characters. After reading this book I know that I will be reading more from John Steinbeck.

3. The non-traditional family theme shapes the entire plot of this novel. George and Lennie are a non-traditional family. They travel together, they live together. Almost everything they do, they do together. The reason they do basically everything together is because they need each other. Although lennie gets lots of help from George they both need the support of each other Without Lennie, George might go out and spend all his money on alcohol and at the whore house. Without Lennie, and Lennie's dream to someday buy a little house and have their own land, George would probably waste the money. Another place that the theme of non-traditional families appears strongly, is with Candy (an old co-worker) and his old dog. Candy and his dog share a bond just like George and Lennie. They both support each other and care for each other. Candy's dog needs Candy for food and a home, and Candy needs his dog for the comfort and also the fact that his dog has been around him for so long that the dog is a part of Candy. In a non-traditional family they need to support each other and it befits everyone. I think that non-traditional family is very important to this story and without it this novel wouldn't be the same.

4. John Steinbeck introduced a lot of characters in this book but my favorite one was George. George's character is very well developed and I could put myself in his shoes. I really liked George because he had the heart to take care of Lennie. Because of Lennie's disabilities, George had to watch everything he did and make sure he wasn't getting into trouble. This would be extremely hard especially during the Great Depression. I really like how George had the drive to do this. Another reason I like George a lot is because he could see into the future very well. He knew when he had to do something. He always could tell when someone or something was trouble. Every time he warned Lennie to stay away from something or not do something and Lennie didn't listen, Lennie ended up in trouble. Although there were a lot of great characters, George stood out to me and was my favorite.

5. My least favorite character was Curley. Curley is a short, mean man, always picking fights and causing trouble. Curley's dad is the boss of the whole farm, and that makes Curley think he can do whatever he wants. It seems that because he is short this makes him want His overall attitude is something that I just don't like. In the story he is always mad at someone or blaming something on someone else. In the book even Curley's wife says that he is a mean man. This book shows the imperfections in life and Curley definitely adds those imperfections.

6. Authors try to create a path for the reader and foreshadow events to lead them to what is going to happen in the end. John Steinbeck did this very well. He gave me clues of what would happen in the end. Steinbeck gave me hints that in the end Lennie would be killed because he did something bad. The author did this by taking the time to describe the event when a worker killed Candy's dog to put him out of his misery. Candy agreed to let his dog be killed for his own good just like George killed Lennie for his own good in the end of the book.  Lennie is so strong he kills things that he doesn't mean too. Steinbeck foreshadows the ending when Lennie kills Curley's wife by describing the times when Lennie kills the mice. While Lennie is feeling the soft fur of the mice he kills them because of his strength. Then later in the story he kills his pup. All these events lead the end when he kills Curley's wife. 

Hank Reinhart

Hank Reinhart
Of Mice And Men
John Steinbeck
Realistic Fiction
Just Right
Just Finished

  1.                  Lennie is in a farm house petting a pup. It is dead. Like most things Lennie pets, he either gets scared and crushes them or just crushes them by petting them. He is a very strong guy. Lennie also has a mental disorder which makes him not think correctly but can still understand what to do. While he's in the farmhouse, Curly's wife sneaks up to him and sits with him. Now George (Lennie's friend) told Lennie earlier in the book to stay away from her because she's trouble, so this foreshadows something bad will happen. When Curly's wife sits down Lennie says he is told not to talk to her but Curly's wife changes the subject by saying how lonely she is. This conversation then leads to another where Curly's wife talks about all the dreams she has had and how they didn't come true and how she's trying to make them come true. After all that Lennie starts talking about the dream him and George are going to have. Like how they are going to own land and how Lennie gets to tend the rabbits, like he has talked about all story. Curly's wife says he's nuts. Then both of them start talking about soft things because Lennie likes to pet soft things. Curly's wife says her hair is soft and offers Lennie to pet it. That's where the trouble begins. When Lennie starts petting it Curly's wife tells him to stop because he's messing her hair up, but Lennie doesn't. She starts thrashing her hair away but Lennie hangs on panicked. She starts screaming and Lennie gets scared because if George hears her then Lennie won't get to tend the rabbits. So Lennie gets mad. He starts shaking Curly's wife violently telling her to stop because he'll get in trouble. When he lets go Curly's wife is still because Lennie broke her neck because of his strength. Lennie soon realizes he has done a bad thing and runs to a brush George told him earlier in the story to go to if he got in trouble. A few hours later George and the rest of the workers go to the farmhouse to see Curly's wife is dead. Instantly George knows Lennie killed her and heads to the brush by the river. When he gets there Lennie is by the river. George takes Carlson's gun and walks up to Lennie. But because George and Lennie have been friends for a long time so George tells Lennie about their dream to get Lennie distracted and to save a memory. After he  finishes George shoots Lennie in the neck and he dies. After George walks back to the bunkhouse with Slim.

2.                     This was a really fun and interesting book to read. The reason was there was a lot of foreshadowing and very time I reread something I find something I didn't see before. John Steinbeck's style in this book was liken other I've seen before. Because the book was taken place in California back in the 1920's he used words that they used back then. There was a lot of slang and words shortened like "ain't" or "takin'". At first it was hard to understand and get used to but it got easier as I got further in the book. The plot was also very good. For me it was about George and Lennie forfilling the American dream. There could have been a lot of different plots based on how you read the book, but I thought the plot was based on the American dream. Throughout the book George and Lennie kept talking about their dream of having land, a family, and money. This dream was a major part in the book because it changed the character thoughts and how they wanted to join the dream. Another thing I liked about the author was the foreshadowing that lead up to Lennie killing Curly's wife. The first part was when they talked about why they left their old job in Weed. The reason was that Lennie pet a girl's dress because it was soft and they got accused of rape and chased out of town. The second part was at the beginning of the book When George told Lennie if he got in trouble he should got to the brush by the river. That foreshadowed something bad was going to happen. The third was Lennie's strength. He was so strong that he killed a mouse, dog, broke Curly's hand, and killed Curly's wife. The last foreshadowing was when George told Lennie not to talk to Curly's wife because she's dangerous. this foreshadowed if Lennie talked to her something bad would happen. Overall I thought this was a gripping tale and it was exciting. Only the author of this book could have made the plot as exciting as it was and make the story great.

3.                      The theme of this book was loneliness. I chose this theme because it was portrayed throughout the book. All of the characters felt loneliness except for George and Lennie because they were together as a family. Candy felt loneliness after his dog died because it was his closest friend and family member. Curly's wife felt loneliness because she had restrictions from Curly. She wasn't allowed to leave the house often and she couldn't talk to anyone but Curly. Crooks felt loneliness because he was discriminated. Because he was black he wasn't allowed to play games like cards with the workers. Also no one visited his shack because he was black. He was also made fun of and called names by the workers. Loneliness also changed the characters actions. One example would be that after Candy's dog died he wanted to join in on George and Lennie's plan to for-fill the American dream. Because of all this evidence I chose loneliness as my theme.

4.                      My favorite character was Lennie. One thing I liked about Lennie was that he was really strong. Despite the fact that his strength killed things it was also a positive thing. It helped him work hard at his job and helped out George a lot. Also he could fight for himself. In the story, Curly picks a fight with him and when Lennie grabs his hand he crashes it so all the bones in Curly's hand are broken. Another thing I liked about Lennie was his personality. Lennie was really obedient, especially two George. In the beginning of the story Lennie was petting a mouse and George asked him to hand it over. Even though Lennie liked the mouse, he handed it over. Lennie was also really nice. In the story, I think Lennie was the only nice person to Crooks because he visited his shack. Also after the fight between Curly and Lennie, Lennie never meant to hurt Curly, he just got instructions from George to defend. These reasons are why Lennie is my favorite character.

5.                      My least favorite character was Curly. One reason Curly was my least favorite character is because he fought Lennie for no reason. Curly was only intimidated by Lennie because he was big and Curly wasn't. Curly is a real jerk because he hates all big guys. Also Curly was really cocky because his dad was the boss of the ranch. Curly was also really mean to his wife because of all the restrictions he put on her. Curly's wife even said she didn't like him because he was so mean. Even though Curly wasn't in the book that much, I still didn't like him.

6.                       The ending was nothing like I excepted. When Curly's wife came into the farmhouse something bad would happen because of all the foreshadowing that had happened. But I never thought Lennie would kill her. Also when George met up with Lennie at the bush I didn't think George would kill Lennie. I excepted George and Lennie to flee like they did in Weed. Also if anyone was to kill Lennie I thought it was going to be Curly because it was his wife. This shows you even with all the foreshadowing in the story, the ending will never be what you predict.

Cloe Grace

Cloe Grace
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Realistic Fiction
Just Right
Finished

1. In the ending of the book Lennie is in the barn with Curley's wife while the others are playing horseshoes. Curley's wife finds out that Lennie has killed his pup. Then they start talking about their dreams and how Lennie is going to tend the rabbits and Curley's wife wanted to be a actor but her mom said no. Then they start talking about how Lennie likes to pet soft things. They talk about this little piece of velvet that Aunt Clara had given Lennie but then he lost it. Next, Curley's wife talks about how soft her hair is. Curley's wife puts Lennie's hand on her head which wasn't a good idea. Of course then Lennie wants to pet Curley's wife's hair. Lennie just can't seem to stop petting it. When Curley's wife tells Lennie to stop, she pulls away causing Lennie to panic. Lennie then grabs her hair even harder and then she screams. Lennie tells her to stop screaming but she won't. Then, Lennie shakes Curley's wife so hard that he breaks her neck and she falls to the floor. Lennie realizes that he has killed her so he says to himself that he needs to go hide in the brush. Later Candy and George find Curley's wife dead and realize that Lennie did it. Later, Curley and the other men come in the barn after finishing the game of horseshoes. Curley is furious, so furious that he orders all the men to kill him. They find that Carlson's gun is missing because George has it but they all assume that Lennie has it. They all ask George where he thinks Lennie is because he knows him the best. They all go off searching for Lennie with George in the lead. While the men are looking for Lennie, Lennie starts imagining  things. He thinks he sees his Aunt Clara telling him how good George's been to him and he didn't treat George well. Next he thinks he sees a rabbit. He starts screaming at the rabbit until George finds him. George starts talking to Lennie about the place that they're going to have. George gets out a gun and shoots Lennie in the back of the head. Lennie falls to the ground dead. After George goes off with the rest of the men not knowing his future.

2. I thought that this book was okay. This book didn't have a lot of action in it except for the very end when Lennie kills Curley's wife. I thought John Steinbeck really did an amazing job at describing the setting and the characters. If you really payed attention to all of the foreshadowing you could have guess that George would have killed Lennie. I thought the author made this book as interesting as it could have been. I would have liked this book better if there was a different plot because it wasn't interesting for me. I just didn't like why Lennie wasn't mentally stable and it just got annoying and boring at the end. I guess this book's plot and storyline just wasn't for me.

3. I think one of the themes in Of Mice of Men was hopes and dreams. This theme showed up in most of the characters. Curley's wife dreamed of becoming an actress one day but her mother crushed it. If she became and actress she would had nice clothes a nice house, friends, and respect. One of the biggest dream that was brought up the most was George, Lennie, and Candy's dream of owning a house with lots of land with rabbits and alfalfa. Crooks wanted to be part of that dream but instead he backed out because he faced reality and how he could never do something like that because he's black.

4. My favorite character was Crooks. I liked Crooks a lot because he was kind, quite, and polite. I liked how he asked so politely if he could live with George, Lennie, and Candy. He also let Lennie come in his room so they could talk which was unusual. When I was reading the book I wanted to tell Crooks that he really would be appreciated if he stayed with George, Lennie, and Candy when he backed out. I  also feel badly about his childhood. He was mistreated a lot. Crooks just has the overall feeling of a shy nice person that gives a positive feeling to everyone.

5. I really like the ending. I was really surprised about it. After I read it made a lot of sense because of all of the foreshadowing.  I knew the ending because I overheard other classes talking about the ending.  I really was surprised when I heard it though! I was a little confused a little on how George got the gun though. I wonder when he stole. Was it a while ago? A couple minutes ago? I liked how George killed Lennie peacefully though. Overall, John Steinbeck's ending was really good and surprising.

Sam Hartley

Sam Hartley
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Just right
Just finished


1) I thought that the ending of the book was really well played out since of the foreshadowing that the author did to show Curley's wife's death. I thought it gave just enough to help show the different actions that Lennie did that lead up to Curley's wife's death. Also the ending of the book was very sad and surprising  because it was really sad and surprising to see George shoot Lennie. I never saw that coming and I don't know how George was  able to pull that trigger. I understand it was to save George from being captured and tortured but I don't see how he was able to do it, I wouldn't do that since I would never kill any who I've been with for so many years and have do so much stuff with.

2) I thought it was an okay book with many good and bad things about it. I thought that the author did a great job putting foreshadowing in with the incident at Weed, the mouse, and the pup. Also I thought the Author did a great job with adding a lot of detail Sometimes I felt some times that was really there standing next to George as he played cards. Also the author did a amazing job at giving the characters a life and making feel like they are really real. One thing that I thought the author could have done better was making some of there conversations a little better because sometimes it was hard to follow it.

3) I Thought the main theme of this book was Isolation. I saw this in Curly's wife main because she was the only girl one the ranch. Also no one ever talked to her because everyone knew that she was trouble. Also Curly didn't like anyone talking to her. Another reason was Lennie and George because they were the only ones that understood what it was like to have a family and been a family. they relied on each other to get their American dream of having their only property and farm. Compared to Everybody else who is just there for the money.

4) My favorite character would probably have to be George since with out him Lennie wouldn't know or do anything. George does so much for Lennie, he is always giving Lennie everything he needs to be happy. Also he is able to put up with Lennie's actions and not get mad. George is always soothing Lennie with stories about how they will live out on a farm with animals and not have to work for someone else. So over all i think George is the best since he really makes Lennie who he is.

5) My least favorite Character would probably have to be Curly. I think that Curly is really mean to his wife since he is always telling her what to do and that she can't talk to anybody but her. I think its awful that he does that and its not appropriate. Also he is very raciest to Crooks, which I think is the worst thing you could probably do. Its not right in the least bit and it just makes me mad when I have to read it. Another thing is that he is mean to Lennie just because he is talk and strong. I understand that Curly is jealous but I don't think you should hate someone over that.

6) I was really surprised by the ending that I never saw it coming. I kind a saw Curly's wife being killed but I couldn't see Lennie being killed. I was just in so much shock when I read about George killing Lennie. I wonder how George was able to do it.  Also there were a few way that gave away Curly's wife dying. One was in the beginning of the book when they had to run away from Weed since Lennie was accused of rape even though you only wanted to feel her dress. Another thing was when they came out of the forest to a little stream and George told them that if anything bad happened that they should meet here. Another thing that gave it away was when George told Lennie not to go near or talk to Curly's wife.

Louie Parizeau

Louis Parizeau
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Historical Fiction
Holiday
Just Finished

1.      In the end of the book, Lennie was "petting" Curley's wife's hair. He liked it because it was soft. But things started to get out of hand when Curley's wife told Lennie to stop and start panicking. This made Lennie panic, and as a natural reaction, he grasped onto her hair tighter. Lastly, he started shaking her to stop and snapped her neck because of his uncontrollable strength. He knew he had done a bad thing, so he ran to the  safe place he and George had talked about in the begging in the book by the river. When the other men came back, including George, they would Curley's wife dead. They knew it was George. Curley said that he wanted to blow Lennie's guts out, and they all also thought that Lennie had Carlson's gun. While they went on a search for him, George ran to the safe place he and Lennie had talked about, and Lennie was there. Lennie was very scared the George would be mad at him and not let him tend the rabbits. But instead, George was told him not to worry, and changed the subject to their new farm they were going to buy. George was trying to be very nice and calm with Lennie to make him happy, and Lennie was. "Lennie giggled with happiness. 'An' live on the fatta the lan'"(105). When Lennie wasn't looking, George took out the gun he stole from Carlson, still talking about this land, and shot Lennie in back of the head before Curley could get there to shoot him.
2.      I liked this book. I thought that it was very interesting, especially the characters. I liked how each character was unique in his or her own way. I also liked the plot in this book and how there was exciting and calm parts in it. I liked the part where Lennie crushes Curley's hand. Lastly, I liked the foreshadowing in this book. It was cool how there where hints of what would happen in the book throughout the book. If I could rewrite this book, the one change I would make would be to add more exciting parts in it too make it more interesting.
3. One theme in this book I noticed in this book is love and sacrifice. Love is shown, for example, as the connection between George and Lennie. They love and support each other is different ways. But when George has to kill Lennie, this is Sacrifice because he knows that it is for the better. If he hadn't killed him, he would have been torched by Curley. Love and Sacrifice is also shown between Candy and his dog. Once the dog gets to old and blind, Candy decides to put him down because the dog suffers in his everyday life because of all his disabilities.
4. My favorite character in this book is Lennie because he was a nice and thoughtful character. He interested me because he didn't understand many simple things. This happens when Curley starts beating him, and he doesn't do anything about. He doesn't know he can fight back because George told him not to. This is interesting because most people would fight anyways.
5. My least favorite character in this book is Curley. I don't like him because he is very self conscious, grouchy, and mean. He is self conscious because he is very mad about how small he is.    He is mean to Lennie because of this. He is jealous that Lennie is so big, so when he fought him he was trying to prove that just because he is small he is still tough and better than Lennie. He is always grouchy and mean too. He has a grumpy tone to him where ever he goes, like when he looks for his wife, he asks people with a "mad vibe". Throughout the book, he was never positive or nice.
6. I was surprised by the ending of this book. I didn't think that it would end with Lennie killing George. I always thought that in the end Lennie and George would get the house they always dreamed about, and one of the main themes would be something like, "work hard and you can go anywhere." But although I didn't predict the ending, I still thought that is was a good ending. After reading it, I realize that there is some foreshadowing leading up to it. For example, when Candy's dog gets killed, Candy has to let go of a loved one for the better. This is the same withe George, he had to let go of Lennie for the better.