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   gbeatty Teacher
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   To answer your question, consider two things: what belongs in an essay, and what points you want to make about the relationship between George and Lennie. Start with the points you want to make. Review the book, and the eNotes study guide on the characters. Pull out everything you can about the two men individually, and about how they interact. Then group them into clusters. Those would be your body paragraphs. The introduction should contain the thesis, which should emerge from this process. You'd want to craft a single clear sentence to close the introduction, one that sums up their relationship, something along the lines of "In the relationship between George and Lennie, readers can see the possibility and the perils of friendship." Then maybe one paragraph on their differences, one paragraph on the positives, and one on the negatives (for example). The conclusion would sum everything up and tell its meaning.

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   Posted by gbeatty on Saturday November 1, 2008 at 7:40 AM