Of Mice and Men Review

Because it was an awesome book

How to follow this awesome timeline

• This is called a positive/negative timeline.– Each event is from George’s point of view.

• #1-5 are from chapter 1• #6-11 are from chapter 2• #12-19 are from chapter 3• #20-24 are from chapter 4• #25-30 are from chapters 5+6

Questions to consider

1. What is the significance of the farm?2. What does the box in the beginning of

chapter 2 say about the living condition?3. What is the significance of Carlson shooting

Candy’s dog? What can we infer?4. What does Curley’s wife say to the three men

remaining in chapter 4?5. What do the “rabbit” and “Aunt Clara” tell

Lennie in the beginning of chapter 6?

Some other questions

• What topics are presented in the novel?

• Where did John Steinbeck get the title of the novel from? Do you think it’s more fitting than “Something That Happened”?

Robert Burn’s “To a Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plow” (1785)

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,In proving foresight may be vain;The best-laid schemes o’mice an ‘menGang aft a-gley,An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,For promis’d joy.