Mice and Men: Ch. 1 "Save the Last Word" passages by Sarah Maldre https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1 Period 1- Post the passage that led to the MOST engaging discussion in your group. For everyone's benefit (now... and later, hint, hint), please include the MLA citation after the quote. en-us 2017-12-05 05:44:16 UTC 2025-10-07 21:07:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Of Mice and Men ks19090 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213286503 "You crazy son of a bitch you keep me in hot water all the time...an' let you have fun. (Steinbeck 11) Kevin S, Eli, Jordan ]]> 2017-12-05 14:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213286503 Of Mice and Men nm19168 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213287331 "Uh-uh jus' ...  along," s aid Lennie" (Stienbeck 5-6). 
Nick M, Nick R, and Colby]]> 2017-12-05 14:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213287331 Of Mice and Men rg19251 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213288114 Pg.11]]> 2017-12-05 14:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213288114 "If I was alone I could live so easy. I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want." p.g 11 kr19245 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213289618 2017-12-05 14:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213289618 Of Mice and Men gm19136 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213290477 “Whatever we ain't got, that’s what you want. God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want...” (11)]]> 2017-12-05 14:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213290477 ar19207 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213290538 "Well, we ain't got any......shoot pool" (11)
Anna Jesus Kevin P

]]> 2017-12-05 14:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213290538 "Well, we ain't got any..... shoot pool" (11) ar19207 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213293447 Anna Jesus Kevin P

]]> 2017-12-05 14:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/213293447 Racism and strengths/weaknesses smaldre1 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214094972 “Yeah. Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him. The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn about that. He reads a lot. Got books in his room” (Steinbeck 20).]]> 2017-12-07 13:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214094972 Brotherhood nr19235 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214101843 “… I told his (Leenie) old lady I’d take care of him.  He got kicked in the head by a horse when he was a kid.  He’s awright.  Just ain’t bright.  But he can do anything you tell him.”  (22)]]> 2017-12-07 13:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214101843 Chapter 3 Quote - American Dre https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214101959 "...If   I   was   bright,   if   I   was even   a   little   bit   smart,   I'd have   my   own   little   place, an'   I'd   be   bringin'   in   my own   crops,   'stead   of doin'   all   the   work   and   not getting   what   comes   up outa   the   ground." (Steinbeck 39). -Nick ]]> 2017-12-07 13:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214101959 Weaknesses https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102003 “George said, “He’s my… cousin. I told his old lady I’d take care of him. He got kicked in the head by a horse when he was a kid. He’s awright. Just ain’t bright. But he can do anything you tell him.”’ (22)

]]> 2017-12-07 13:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102003 Derogatory ks19090 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102022 “Listen to me, you crazy bastard,” he said fiercely. “Don’t you even take a look at that bitch. I don’t care what she says and what she does” (32)

]]> 2017-12-07 13:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102022 American Dream jk19241 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102214 “If we can get jus’ a few dollars in the poke we’ll shove off and go up the American River and pan gold. We can make maybe a couple of dollars a day there, and we might hit a pocket” (33). Josh K]]> 2017-12-07 13:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102214 eb19276 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102255 Lennie smiled to himself. “Strong as a bull,” he repeated. George scowled at him, and Lennie dropped his head in shame at having forgotten.(22)

]]> 2017-12-07 13:52:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102255 rg19251 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102517 Ch.2“A little stocky man stood in the open doorway. He wore blue jean trousers, a flannel shirt, a black, unbuttoned vest and a black coat. His thumbs were stuck in his belt, on each side of a square steel buckle. On his head was a soiled brown Stetson hat, and he  wore high heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man.”
Ch.3 “Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.”
]]> 2017-12-07 13:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102517 Sexism/Gender Roles gm19136 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102843 George said, "She’s gonna make a mess. They’s gonna be a bad mess about her. She’s a jail bait all set on the trigger. That Curley got his work cut out for him. Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain’t no place for a girl, specially like her."]]> 2017-12-07 13:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214102843 jt19275 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214104688 "Seems like Curley is cockier'n ever since he got married."
"Maybe he's showin' off for his wife." 

]]> 2017-12-07 13:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214104688 "I forgot. I tried not to forget. Honest to God I did, George." yh19147 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214107501 2017-12-07 14:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214107501 Title https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214108220 ¨A little stocky man stood in the open doorway. He wore blue jean trousers, a flannel shirt, a black coat. His thumbs were stuck in his belt, on each side of a square steel buckle. On his head was a soiled brown stetson hat, and he wore high-heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man¨]]> 2017-12-07 14:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214108220 "She’s gonna make a mess. They’s gonna be a bad mess about her. She’s a jail bait all set on the trigger. That Curley got his work cut out for him. Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain’t no place for a girl, specially like her." dk19262 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214108473 2017-12-07 14:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214108473 Sexism jb19119 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214108751 "George looked around at Lennie. Jesus, what a tram, he said...I see 'em poison before.. showin' her legs, you wasn't lookin' the other way, neither."]]> 2017-12-07 14:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214108751 Sexism kp19192 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214113000 ¨ George looked around at lennie, Jesus, what a tram, he said... I see ´em poison before... showing her legs, you wasn't lookin  the other way, neither 

]]> 2017-12-07 14:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214113000 jg18279 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214113102 ¨A little stocky man stood in the open doorway. He wore blue jean trousers, a flannel shirt, a black coat. His thumbs were stuck in his belt, on each side of a square steel buckle. On his head was a soiled brown stetson hat, and he wore high-heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man¨]]> 2017-12-07 14:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/214113102 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215004210 "I seen... Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land....They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head" (74)]]> 2017-12-11 13:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215004210 ks19090 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215004568 "You don't know that got our own ranch to go to, an' our own house. We ain't got to stay here. We gotta house and chickens an' fruits an' a place a hunderd time prettier than this" (79)]]> 2017-12-11 13:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215004568 kr19245 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215004875 Crooks said gently. "Maybe you can see now. you got George. you know he's going to come back. S'pose you didn't have anybody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunkhouse and play rummy' cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody---to be near him"He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long as he's with you. I tell ya." ~ p.g 72-73

]]> 2017-12-11 13:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215004875 lf19063 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215005715 Crooks said gently, "Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he's going to come back. S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain;t no good. A guy needs somebody--to be near him." he whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya." he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too long an' he gets sick."]]> 2017-12-11 13:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215005715 eb19276 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215005794 "S'pose George don't come back no more. S'pose he took a powder and ain't coming back." ]]> 2017-12-11 13:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215005794 jg18279 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215006862 Candy's face had grown redder and redder, but before she was done speaking, he had control of himself. He was the master of the situation. "I might of knew," he said gently. "Maybe you just better go along an' roll your hoop. We ain't got nothing to say to you at all. We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not." (page 105]]> 2017-12-11 13:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215006862 "I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their head. Hundreds of them. They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of em' ever gets it. Just like heaven" (74). -Josh K jk19241 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215008039 2017-12-11 14:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215008039 "to a bunch of bindle stiffs- a nigger an' a dum-dum and a lousy ol' sheep-an' likin' it because they ain't nobody else." jb19119 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215009915 2017-12-11 14:05:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215009915 Crooks said gently, "Maybe you can see now. You got George. You now he's goin' to come back. S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into a bunkhouse and play rummy 'cause you was black."..... "George gonna come back," Lennie reassured himself in a frightened voice. "Maybe George come back already. Maybe I better go see" (72-73). yh19147 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215013706 2017-12-11 14:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215013706 dk19262 https://padlet.com/lisle202/Mice_Men_Ch1/wish/215018414 Everybody wants a little bit of land , not much. Jus' somethin' that was his. Somethin' he could live on and there couldn't nobody throw him off of it pg 76

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