Of Mice Chapter 2-3 Summary

1. An understanding of chemistry is important for an understanding of biology because biology needs the models of chemistry to better describe life.

What truly is the “American Dream”? Furthermore, during the Great Depression, even the concept of the “American Dream” was not readily available and was no more than a fallacy at the time. For the 2 protagonists in Of Mice And Men, their dream, like many others, was to “live off the fatta the land” and become independent. However, this was not such an easy task at the time, not just because of the rough economic times, but because people of that era still had World War 2 still very fresh in their minds, with the harbored hatred and untrust that came along with it. Nevertheless, for the millions who died in the course of the war, this “American Dream” was not only something worth living for it was something dying for too. However, in the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the author emphasizes that the dreams and hopes were delusions and has a grim outlook on living life in search of a dream.

Achieving “The American Dream” is a great desire for all but rarely does it ever come true (website). Discrimination is a major theme in Of Mice and Men. Most of the characters are discriminated against for various reasons. Another major theme is male friendship. Friendships are symbiotic relationships, where people share their talents and qualities to help each other through life (website). An important additional theme is loneliness and companionship. Most of the characters are lonely for the reason of they are working on a ranch with no companionship. Steinbeck illustrates how the characters respond to discrimination, male friendship, as well as loneliness and companionship.

In chapter one, the main events that happen where: I. In the beginning of the story, the author describe over the details of the Salinas River and he wants to explain that his main characters George and Lennie will have a sense of the setting. The author says, "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool." (1) This shows how the author gives the description of Salinas River, how the valley runs down green, hillside banks and yellow sands.

This is immunity in an organism that’s a result from the production of antibodies or lymphocytes after an antigen is identified in the body.

According to ¨The Genetic Basis of Adaptive Melanism in Pocket Mice”by Michael W. Nachman, Hapi E. Hoekstra, and Susan L. DÁgostino in their article addresses the differences in melanin frequencies from a population of pocket mice. The authors state how in the environment light coloration of mice were original best fit for the environment. This is because the light fur coloration allowed them to be more camouflaged into the ground of the environment thus not allowing predators to visually hunt them. An environmental changes occurred when a volcano erupted and the dark lava spread over the environments floor. The predators were now able to easily spot out the light fur mice.

Both the novella and the poem include two characteristics who portray vulnerability. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Lennie Small is mainly vulnerable to emotional pain. On the other hand, in the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns, the mouse is portrayed to be vulnerable by physical pain. In the novel Of Mice and Men and “To a Mouse”, both authors use characters to display the characteristic of being vulnerable.

Cece wants to be like everyone else, she wants to have friends, crushes, and do everything that all of her peers are doing. She never lets her disability define who she is. Instead, she turns to her alter ego to discover what she needs and what she wants out of life. Her alter ego helps her to discover what she needs in a friend, what she wants from her peers, and the power, strength and perseverance that has been inside Cece all along. Towards the end of the book Cece discovers who she is and that is when she realizes that “I may be inside the bubble of loneliness…

Cat and Rat and Cat and Mice I will be comparing and contrasting the stories Cat and Rat Legend of Chinese Zodiac and How cat and mice became enemies. The mice tricked the cats into jumping off of the buffalo. I’m going to explain how they are alike and also different. I’m going to say how they were friends from the start and ended up being enemies. They made it all about winning instead of having fun so when they tried to win that came in between them.

In the article “A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse” by Stephen Jay Gould, Gould brings to light the neotenic characteristics that Disney portrayed through the first fifty years of the famous cartoon character, Mickey Mouse. From debut in 1928 in the film “Steamboat Willie” to the character as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in “Fantasia” in the 1940’s, Mickey’s cranial features as well as behaviors were silently altered. Mickey’s character in “Steamboat Willie” was an adventurous noisy mouse with a musical imagination that would fearlessly swing a cat by its tail while rhythmically bang on various farm animals body parts to then-popular tunes. By the 1940’s and 1950’s as Mickey’s popularity grew, he transformed into a less obnoxious adult (that

    When Robert Burns wrote To a Mouse as well as To a Louse, he had to have been thinking about it pretty hard, because the messages of each text connect to one another in many ways. In both of these texts, he used little critters that might gross some people out. He didn’t really use a creature that very many people found cute in any way. It was a very creative way to go about, because he decided he would use a animal/insect that people don’t really pay too much attention to. There was a very genius reason to why he decided to use pests as the main topic of his texts, and that’s because it made all of the messages more clear to the reader. Robert Burns was a really known author, and many people thought very highly of him. According to Brooke A. Stopford, “His greatest power, that which made him

Mice and humans are very similar. For example they have similar organs, bone structure, and they are both mammals. Mice have similar organs such as the stomach, liver, heart and many others that make it a good model organism. The bone structure of both include a vertebrate, legs, and even arm. Also as both are warm blooded, have body fur, and they breath so another similarity is that they are both mammals.

“The Mouse” is a short story written by H.H Munro. The main characters are Theodoric, the mouse, and the blind lady. The author Munro writes the story in third person and uses an omniscient view. The setting of the story takes part in the vicarage, the stable, and the ends in train compartment. The tone used by the author to engage his readers is an exciting, thrilling fast paced tone that bring the characters to life. To strengthen the thrilling exciting tone, the author uses phrases such as: “he was not even alone in his own clothes. “A warm, creeping movement over his flesh betrayed the unwelcome and highly resented presence, unseen but poignant, of a strayed mouse.” After reading the quote above, I as the reader was drawn into the

Discrimination is a problem that plagues those whose qualities are vulnerable. There are many examples of discrimination in the novel, Of Mice and Men. The characters face discrimination in many different ways including racial, age, gender, and disability. Crooks, the black stable buck, is the victim of racial discrimination. Candy, the old swamper, is a victim of the age discrimination. The victim of gender discrimination is Curley's wife because she is a woman. Life of the victims is hard because of the things they have to go through. Lastly, Lennie is mentally handicap so he discriminated against because of that.

The novel Of Mice and Men takes place in a western ranch full of hard working, burly, and vicious men, which is of similarity to the rural farm setting of the poem “To A Mouse”. Similarity between the two works is also shown in the motif of the mouse in Of Mice and Men in which both the mouse and Lennie are being controlled by a greater force. More similarities between the two works include conflicts, characters, and theme.