https://padlet.com/bbryant8/5rj7hpnuu3ez By: Mike Alsac en-us 2019-04-24 17:54:58 UTC 2019-04-29 17:51:56 UTC hello@padlet.com bbryant8 https://padlet.com/bbryant8/5rj7hpnuu3ez/wish/353857295 1. Curley is a prime example throughout the entire novella. He is always picking on someone trying to get in a fight. He is always truly cruel and selfish. But other characters in the novella are not like him. In fact some are quite opposite, like Slim. "Curley stepped over to Lennie like a terrier. "What the hell you laughin' at?" (Steinbeck Chp 3)

2. If you look at Slim and compare him to Curley it is kind of funny. Slim is the exact opposite, he isn't selfish and cruel like Curley, he is wise and smart.   "He was a jerkline skinner, the prince of the ranch, capable of driving ten, sixteen, even twenty mules with a single line to the leaders. He was capable of killing a fly on the wheeler's butt with a bull whip without touching the mule." (Steinbeck Chp 2)]]> 2019-04-24 18:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/bbryant8/5rj7hpnuu3ez/wish/353857295 bbryant8 https://padlet.com/bbryant8/5rj7hpnuu3ez/wish/353857800 1. In chapter 3 George and Lennie talk of getting their own place. Candy over hears them and wants in on it. This is the idea of the American dream. Nature is almost against it, especially in this time of the "Great Depression" "Jus' as soon as I can't swamp no bunkhouses they'll put me on the county.. I won't have no place to go an' i can't get no more jobs." (Steinbeck 60). That is Candy giving his reason for wanting to be in on the plan with George and Lennie. 

2. A dog is a thing of nature. Candy had a dog he loved very dearly, and it was taken from him. It is not natures wish for dogs to live forever. Thats why nature is not controlled by man. . " Well-hell! I had him so long. ..." (Steinbeck Chp 3.)

]]> 2019-04-24 18:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bbryant8/5rj7hpnuu3ez/wish/353857800 bbryant8 https://padlet.com/bbryant8/5rj7hpnuu3ez/wish/353857893 1. When Lennie and Curley get into it Lennie doesn't fight back until George tells him to. Most people would have the instinct to fight back and protect themselves, but Lennie didn't. "Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. I'll show ya who's yella." (Steinbeck 3)

2. In the book when Curley's wife is killed by Lennie, Curley's first reaction was to kill him. Just like any man would think if someone had killed a loved one of their own. "I'll kill the son-of-a-bitch myself." Says Curley. (Steinbeck Chp 5)]]> 2019-04-24 18:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bbryant8/5rj7hpnuu3ez/wish/353857893 bbryant8 https://padlet.com/bbryant8/5rj7hpnuu3ez/wish/353858816 1. We already know Lennie is a very strong person. In Chapter 5 he displays this by killing Curley's wife, on accident. Since he is mentally challenged he can't really help it. But Lennie's nature as a powerful man cannot be changed. Therefore Lennie cannot adapt. Lennie has been referred to throughout the novella as an animal, an animal in nature that cannot adapt. "He pawed up the hay until it partly covered her." (Steinbeck chp 5)
2. Another great point about survival is all of the ranch hands. Everyone on that ranch is working to survive and at one time had to adapt to that life style.  (Steinbeck Chp 1) 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." (1.113)]]> 2019-04-24 18:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bbryant8/5rj7hpnuu3ez/wish/353858816