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Animal Imagery - comparing a character to an animal to suggest their characteristics.
Metaphor - using an object to represent something else. Color symbolism - the use of a color to symbolize an emotion or idea.
Simile - describing something or someone using like or as to compare them to something else.
Foreshadowing - literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

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“'I get lonely' 'You can talk to people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley, else he gets mad. How'd you like not to talk to nobody?’ (said by Curley's wife)
‘You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I whist somebody'd shoot me...’. (said by Candy).

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George gets a job on the ranch.

George meets Slim.

George tells Lennie to protect himself from Curley.
The shooting of the dog.

Candy says he will pay for part of the farm.

George shoots Lennie.

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George
Lennie
Curley
Curley's wife
Carlson
Crooks
Candy
Slim

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Curley's wife - she is avoided by others due to her gender, the ranch workers are forbidden to talk to her, she is extremely lonely.
Crooks - is discriminated by others due to his race. no one on the ranch really like him and therefore Crooks too is lonely and isolated.
Candy - Carlson shot his very close friend: the dog, this made Candy lonely. also he is disliked by others due to his disability and age, which makes Candy think that he is useless.

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John Steinbeck was an American author best known for his novella OMAM, and his novel The Grapes of Wrath that won him a Pulitzer Prize. He was born on February 27th, 1902 in Salinas, California.

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The great depression was the worst economic downturn, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. many people became poor and had less money.

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the key themes in omam are: -isolation/loneliness
-friendship
-dreams
-companionship

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the American Dream is an idea of freedom and success. it motivates people to not give up, and to try their best to do everything. the American Dream brings people hope for a better future.