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        <title><![CDATA[I will try to identify about seven songs that hit many of the themes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I will try to identify about seven songs that hit many of the themes Steinbeck drives home, but also are a bit off of the beaten path, so you might have to forge some more links on your own, if you choose to use them.
1.  "America" by Simon and Garfunkel- The song speaks to much of what American sojourners are in search.  "I've come to look for America."  Certainly, George and Lennie are in search of America.
2.  "Everybody Hurts" by...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Since Woody Guthrie was an itinerant folk singer during the Depression...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since Woody Guthrie was an itinerant folk singer during the Depression who suffered as so many had, he seems a likely choice for your soundtrack to illustrate the setting, themes, and characters of "Of Mice and Men."  On the jacket of the cd, perhaps a picture of a solitary man, dusty from the lonely road he has traveled, looks mournfully at the camera.  Or one of the famous photographs from the Depression taken by Margaret...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:20:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Here are lines from the men in "Of Mice and Men" that express the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here are lines from the men in "Of Mice and Men" that express the terrible alienation of itinerant men.  Steinbeck was most concerned with the importance of brotherhood as a means of giving meaning to the lives of lonely men who are helpless by their isolation:

'I ain't got no people,' George said. 'I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone.  That ain't no good.  They don't have no fun.  After a long time they get mean.  They...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Candy and George are two characters in a very situation: both are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Candy and George are two characters in a very situation: both are responsible for looking after their 'best friend', respectively, the dog and Lennie.  The only freedom either can find is in the death of their respective best friends, however, the freedom is only superficial because the death of those friends will haunt them always. Candy is haunted by the fact that he was a coward, in his eyes, because he let someone else put his dog out of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:35:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[George and Lennie are both "free," in the sense that they move about the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[George and Lennie are both "free," in the sense that they move about the country at will, traveling wherever they choose. They are not really free, however, in that they are trapped by their poverty, homelessness, and lack of education. They lack the economic freedom to determine their own lives, always depending upon whatever work they can find as itinerant farm hands in order to survive. Both are hard workers. Lennie's mental capacities are...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:26:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Of Mice and Men, how are George and Lennie related in terms of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Of Mice and Men, how are George and Lennie related in terms of freedom, responsibility, work, and caring for others?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:41:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Of Mice and Men, media does not play a role, but if the migrant...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Of Mice and Men, media does not play a role, but if the migrant workers (and all the outcasts) on the ranch had had access to the media, perhaps it would have served as a connection for the outcasts.  If they had a media which represented the common man--as Steinbeck hoped to do through his novels--perhaps the strong would be more sympathetic to their plight, and perhaps the "weak" would realize that they have more options than just...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:29:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the novels Of Mice and Men, Night, and Animal Farm, how can media...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the novels Of Mice and Men, Night, and Animal Farm, how can media help prevent the strong from subjugating or controlling the weak?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:41:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[With a backdrop of Depression-era destitution, Steinbeck's novella, "Of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With a backdrop of Depression-era destitution, Steinbeck's novella, "Of Mice and Men," presents a tableau of desperately lonely and alienated men, separated from their homes as they search for work outside of Soledad [which means "solitude" in Spanish] California.
Some are further alienated by their color, such as Crooks who is relegated to the stable, or by their age, such as Candy.  They suffer even more than the others.  When Candy...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:02:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Give an account of the different kinds of suffering presented in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Give an account of the different kinds of suffering presented in the novel, considering Steinbeck's attitude to the victims.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:59:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Choose two characters from Of Mice and Men, and compare their ideas...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Choose two characters from Of Mice and Men, and compare their ideas about freedom, responsibility, caring for others and work.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:49:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The story of George and Lennie is remarkable and disturbing for its...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The story of George and Lennie is remarkable and disturbing for its ultimate lack of hope and optimism in regard to life as it is experienced in their world. They are poor and homeless in a land of plenty, clinging to a dream that will never be realized. They are hopeful of one day living a better life, owning a piece of land, and establishing a home for themselves, but the economic cards are stacked against them in a society in which they...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:37:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Of Mice and Men, does John Steinbeck shows any hope or optimism about...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Of Mice and Men, does John Steinbeck shows any hope or optimism about life? How are dreams crushed by reality?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:53:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #3:I raise the question: was it really necessary to kill...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #3:I raise the question: was it really necessary to kill Lennie?In the beginning of the novel, it is said that Lennie and George were lynched out of Weed because Lennie had "raped" (touching the red dress) a woman there. They escaped together, in spite of the lynching squad of men and dogs that trailed them. Wouldn't it have been possible to do the same, if George had truly loved Lennie?While it is true that the situation is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:46:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[dear pepperbabby, Here are some significant quotes from Of Mice and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[dear pepperbabby, Here are some significant quotes from Of Mice and Men:
"Guys                    like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the                    world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. . . .                    With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody                    to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit                    in no bar room blowin' in our...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:35:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would add as well that, in the story, the symbiotic relationship of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would add as well that, in the story, the symbiotic relationship of George and Lennie also suffered the sad incidents caused by Lennie that directly led to them a) having to change what "their dream" was- having enough money to lead an independent life,  and b) giving it up when George ended up shooting Lennie to avoid the lynching that was coming to him for accidentally killing Curley's wife.
The conflict in this case is the many ways that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:26:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The conflict between George and Lennie arises because George has been...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The conflict between George and Lennie arises because George has been taking care or Lennie and looking after him for most of their adult lives.  At this point in George's life he truely wishes that he could rid himself of Lennie and lead his own life, however George would never tell Lennie this nor would he purposely try to get rid of him.  It was a childhood prank that made Lennie the way that he is and because of this, George feels...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 05:38:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the conflict between George and Lennie in "Of Mice and Men"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the conflict between George and Lennie in "Of Mice and Men"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 7 Jun 2009 21:17:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Of Mice and Men," after Lennie tries to quiet Curley's wife from...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Of Mice and Men," after Lennie tries to quiet Curley's wife from screaming when he strokes her hair too hard, he inadvertently breaks her neck as he struggles with her to cover her mouth.

When she didn't answer nor move he bent closely over her.  He lifted her arm and let it drop.  For a moment he seemed bewildered.  And then he whispered in fright, "I done a bad thing.  I done another bad thing.'

With the death of Curley's wife at...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:14:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Of Mice and Men," what is George or Lennie's epiphany, or their...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Of Mice and Men," what is George or Lennie's epiphany, or their insight to the world?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 18:25:35 PST</pubDate>
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