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Question 1: Write a brief description of what your theme is (define it) ad how it relates to the novel

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Question 1: Write a brief description of what your theme is (define it) ad how it relates to the novel

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The theme ' Friendship' is a mutual relationship that is shared among a pair or group of people. It involves them having each others back like George and Lennie. Throughout the book, some of the men on the ranch have created friendships with the others in order to feel less lonely and more connected.

Lennie and George have the strongest bond on the ranch. Their friendship is what has kept them together after all those years. Through rough times like what had happened in Weed, they still stuck by each other. The two provide the sense of familiarity as they enter the ranch. Lennie gives George hope for a better future, whilst George is the role model for Lennie. Most importantly, they are friends, and friends will always support one another.

Their friendship allows the story to progress, and also allows the others on the ranch to feel apart of something special. Like Candy does when he was allowed to be apart of George and Lennie's dream.

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Question 2ab: List four quotes that you think best relate to your theme.

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Question 2ab: List four quotes that you think best relate to your theme.

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Quote 1: "I was only fooling', George. I don't want no ketchup. I wouldn't eat no ketchup if it was right here beside me."
"If it was here you could have some."
"But I wouldn't eat none, George, I'd leave it all for you. You could cover your beans with it and I wouldn't touch none of it." (End Of Pg. 13 - Start Of Pg. 14)
Analysis 1: At the start Lennie was saying that he was fooling around with George, and just like with most friendships they joke around with each other, and also Lennie does what he can for his friend, like giving George all the imaginary ketchup.

Quote 2: "With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us."
Lennie broke in. "But not us! An' why? Because… because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." He laughed delightedly. "Go on now, George!" (End Of Pg.15 - Start Of Pg.16)
Analysis 2: This quote proves that they are sticking together as friends, and they also take care and look after each other. As it says here "Because... because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you." This quote is very important to both George and Lennie. Since Lennie has remembered this, it shows that it is significant to him and that they will always have each others back.

Quote 3: "We travel together," said George coldly.
"Oh, so it's that way."
George was tense and motionless. "Yea, it's that way."
Analysis 3: Curley is really pathetic to accuse George and Lennie of being gay and it just shows that he doesn't understand their friendship or any friendship, since he doesn't have any friends on the ranch. He is trying to be superior over everyone at the ranch, which makes no one like him.

Quote 4: "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to."
Analysis 4: It's hard to work in those ranches, and the author is saying that the loneliness is worse than being poor, and like Lennie and George, you can bear more if you have a friend beside you than being lonely.

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Question 3: Write a paragraph arguing why your theme is the most important in the novel (include specific evidence - quotes/literary devices if possible).

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Question 3: Write a paragraph arguing why your theme is the most important in the novel (include specific evidence - quotes/literary devices if possible).

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The theme friendship is one of the most important themes in the book. "Of Mice ad Men" is written with the view of the men of the ranch. To the men on the ranch, friendship is one of the most important things to them. " Like Candy and his dog, George and Lennie, Crooks and Curley's wife, they all need a friend to talk to. The friendship between the characters allow each other to feel less lonely and apart of something important. Candy had the dog "since he was a pup" (pg.45) and has many memories with him like "Herding sheep with him ."(pg.45)  Without their friends, life would be like Crooks and Curley's wife. It would be lonely, due to the lack of people to talk to.

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Question 4: Write at least 1 question related to your theme to encourage further thinking, analysis and discussion.

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Question 4: Write at least 1 question related to your theme to encourage further thinking, analysis and discussion.

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who would George be without Lennie?

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Question 5: Provide a text (in written, visual or media form) that relates to your theme and justify your choice. (The text could be a poem, song, movie, image or passage from another novel.) 

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Question 5: Provide a text (in written, visual or media form) that relates to your theme and justify your choice. (The text could be a poem, song, movie, image or passage from another novel.) 

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True Friendship - William S. Tsoukalas, SR.
The feeling of friendship from the start
Is that special feeling in your heart
A feeling from deep down inside
A feeling that no one should hide
A friend is there through good and bad
They make you happy when you're sad
they brighten up your darkest day
Just by the simple thing's they say
Now friendship can't be bought or sold
It may get tarnished, and may get old
You can over come your greatest fear
Just look around and it is there
Now friendship's one and only cost
Is to make sure that it's never lost

"Because… because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." (pg.16) This is what Lennie says to George after they had their little conversation, and Lennie remembered this and also remembered that they will always have each others back. This poem is a reflection of George and Lennie's friendship and all the hardship they have gone through together. Overall the poem is describing something that people on the ranch want, since there aren't many close relationships there.