Of Mice and Men Review

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Of Mice and Men Review

• Because it was an awesome book

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How to follow this awesome timeline

• This is called a positive/negative timeline.
• Each event is from Georges 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 56

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Questions to consider

• What is the significance of the farm?
• What does the box in the beginning of chapter 2
  say about the living condition?
• What is the significance of Carlson shooting
  Candys dog? What can we infer?
• What does Curleys wife say to the three men
  remaining in chapter 4?
• What do the rabbit and Aunt Clara tell Lennie
  in the beginning of chapter 6?

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Some other questions

• What topics are presented in the novel?
• Where did John Steinbeck get the title of the
  novel from? Do you think its more fitting than
  Something That Happened?

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Robert Burns 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 omice an men
• Gang aft a-gley,
• An leae us nought but grief an pain,
• For promisd joy.

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