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(v.) to adjust
Agitate
(v.) to shake up; to provoke;
Alien
(adj.) foreign; (n.) foreigner;
Conform
(v.) to correspond to; to follow;
Constituency
(n.) people represented by an elected official; voters;
Despotism
(n.) government under an absolute ruler;
Evoke
(v.) to call forth; to bring to mind;
Fragility
(n.) state of being easily broken;
Hostility
(n.) unfriendliness; ill will; warfare;
Infinite
(adj.) boundless; vast
Merge
to join together; to unite
Naïve
(adj.) unsophisticated; gullible
Posterity
(n.) füture generations
Reflexive
(adj.) pertaining to a quick, automatic, or habitual reaction
Sprawl
(v.) to spread out; to stretch out
Subsequent
(adj.) following; coming after;
Tenuous
(adj.) slender; flimsy; weak
Uniform
(adj.) having the same form; consistent; (n.) dress worn for group identification;
Undulate
(v.) to move in waves
John Steinbeck
Mice of Men Author?
Southwestern United States, Salinas River Valley
Setting; Mice of Men ?
The impossibility of the American Dream, The importance of fraternal relationships/companionship, and The predatory nature of humanity
Theme: Mice of Me?
symbols
George and Lennie’s farm
Represents the American Dream and its impossible nature
Small, fragile animals
Their fate represents the fate of migrant workers (figuratively, not literally).
George
Migrant worker; caretaker of Lennie; has a dream of a farm.
Lennie
Migrant worker; big and strong yet childlike in mannerisms; has a dream to tend rabbits on a farm with George
Candy
Aging ranch hand who joins George and Lennie’s “dream”.
Slim
Head ranch hand on the farm; represents the ideal “man”.
Crooks
African American stable buck
Aunt Clara
Lennie’s aunt; appears only as a hallucination to Lennie
Curley
The son of the boss; cocky, mean-spirited; wears a glove on his hand to keep it soft for his wife
Curley Wife
Nameless wife of Curley; formerly aspiring actress
They are having one more night of freedom before they start working for the boss. They are forced into doing this because the bus driver kicked them off of the bus.
Why are George and Lennie camping out before going to the farm
Their dream is to have their own farm.
What is George and Lennie’s “American Dream”?
Lennie wants to tend to rabbits
What does Lennie want to do when George and Lennie attain their dream?
George keeps Lennie’s work ID card.
What does George keep for Lennie?
They had to flee Weed because Lennie scared a girl when he touched her dress and wouldn’t let go when she recoiled
Where are George and Lennie coming from? Why did they leave
George tells Lennie to remain silent.
What does George instruct Lennie to do when they meet the Boss
There is a can of bug killer on his bunk.
Why is George angry when he sees his bunk?
George instructs Lennie to stay away from two people, Curley and his wife
Who does George instruct Lennie to stay away from?
George tells the Boss that they are cousins.
How does George explain his relationship with Lennie to the Boss?
George confides in Slim.
Who does George confide in and tell the truth about his relationship with Lennie?
Carlson shoots Candy’s dog after pestering him that the dog is too old and is of no use anymore
What happens to Candy’s dog?
Curley’s hand is crushed by Lennie while Lennie was defending himself from an unprovoked attack from Curley
How does Curley break his hand? .
Crooks lives by himself because the other ranch hands won’t sleep under the same roof as him because he is African American.
Which farm worker lives by himself? Why?
She says that she could have him lynched.
How does Curley’s wife threaten Crooks?
Candy wants to be a part of George and Lennies dream
Which farm worker wants to be a part of George and Lennie’s dream? .
Curley’s wife believes that she could have been an actress
What does Curley Wife’s believe she could have been?
She had begun screaming because Lennie wouldn’t stop stroking her hair
What happens to Curley’s wife? Lennie accidentally breaks her neck after attempting to smother her screams.
He returns to the pond that he and George had camped out at before their first day at the farm.
where does Lennie run to after he kills Curley’s wife?
Lennie is shot and killed by George in order to save him from the lynch mob. He sees a giant rabbit, his Aunt Clara (both are hallucinations), and George before he dies.
What happens to Lennie at the end of the novel?
Who all does he see before his fate?
Slim is the only character that consoles George.
Who is the only character to console George?
Arthur Miller
Author: The Crucible?
1692 Salem Massachusetts
Setting: The Crucible?
McCarthyism/Red Scare of the 1950s
Inspiration:The Crucible?
House Un-American Activities Committee
what does HUAC stands for?
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Political leader who led HUAC
Danger of Hysteria; Importance of Reputation
The Crucible Theme?
Rev. Parris
Reverend of Salem
Rev. Hale
Reverend from Beverly who investigates witchcraft?
Betty Parris and Ruth Putnam
Characters sick at the beginning of the play?
Dancing naked, summoning/conjuring spirits
Activities that the girls were doing in the forest
Betty Parris
Character seen flying over a barn
Ann Putnam
Character who’s lost almost all children during childbirth
Abigail Williams
Character who is the ringleader of the bewitched girls
Rebecca Nurse
Character who is seen as a matriarch of the Salem church/community
Thomas Putnam
Character who has many property disputes with his neighbors
Giles Corey
Character who has been in court 33 times as a plaintiff (the one who sues/alleges wrongdoing)
Martha Corey
Character who raises pigs, reads “strange books”
66 pounds
Amount of Reverend Parris’s income
Tituba
First character accused
Danforth
Deputy Governor of Massachusetts, leading judg
Hathorne
Non-doubting supporting judge
John Proctor and Abigail Williams
Characters that have an affair together:
Abigail Williams
Character fired from the Proctor’s house
Mary Warren
Employee of the Proctor’s who is an “official of the court”:
Knowing their Ten Commandments, girls accounts of being “bewitched”
Evidence used in court against accused witches
To question the Proctor household on its holiness.
Reason for Reverend Hale’s visit to the Proctor’s
Preaching for gold candlesticks; he sees no light of God in the man.
Reasons for Proctor’s dislike of Parris:
He helped build the church roof and door.
Evidence used by Proctor to prove his purity:
He doesn’t attend church (go to Sabbath); didn’t get his youngest son baptized by Parris. .
Evidence used by Hale to show Proctor’s spotty record:
Adultery Characters who come to arrest Elizabeth:
Commandment not remembered by Proctor:
Accused by Abigail of sending out her spirit and stabbing her with a needle
Marshal Herrick and Ezekiel Cheever Reason for Elizabeth’s arrest:
reading strange books, bewitching/cursing neighbors.
Reason for Giles Corey Wife’s arrest:
Killing Ann Putnam’s babies
Reason for Rebecca Nurse’s arrest:
Abigail: Mary Warren
Character who says she will testify against
Giles Corey
Character who Danforth compliments on his legal skills:
contempt of court (refusing to snitch on his source)
Reason for Giles Corey arrest:
Hale
Reverend who supports Mary Warren and John Proctor
She is pregnant
Reason for Elizabeth Proctor’s safety from execution:
He had an affair with Abigail Williams
Fact John Proctor tells Danforth to prove his case
She never lies
Fact John Proctor tells Danforth about his wife: .
He didn’t cheat on her
Lie Elizabeth Proctor tells the court about John:
She acts like she is being bewitched by Mary Warren, seeing her familiar spirit as a bird, being forced to copy her speaking
Manner in which Abigail wins support in the court
God is dead.
Assertion said by Proctor at the end of Act III:
Hale
Reverend, who quits the court at the end of Act III?
Sarah Good and Tituba
Characters imprisoned together at the beginning of Act IV
Barbados
“Destination” of those characters
He’s doing “the devil's work”.He’s counseling Christians to lie and confess to witchcraft so that they won’t be hanged
Reason for Hale’s return to Salem.
Pressed to death
Fate of Giles Corey.
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