SYMBOLS

Lennie’s Puppy
Lennie’s puppy is one of several symbols that represent the victory of the strong over the weak.
Lennie kills the puppy accidentally, as he has killed many mice before, by virtue of his failure to recognize his own strength.
Candy’s Dog

The farm that George constantly describes to Lennie, those few acres of land on which they will grow their own food and tend their own livestock, is one of the most powerful symbols in the book.
Candy is immediately drawn in by the dream, and even the cynical Crooks hopes that Lennie and George will let him live there too.

Candy’s dog represents anyone who has outlived his or her purpose. Candy’s attachment to the animal—his plea that Carlson let the dog live for no other reason than that Candy raised it from a puppy—means nothing at all on the ranch. Although Carlson promises to kill the dog painlessly, his insistence that the old animal must die supports a cruel natural law that the strong will dispose of the weak. Candy internalizes this lesson, for he fears that he himself is nearing an age when he will no longer be useful at the ranch, and therefore no longer welcom

INDEPENDENT SERVICE LEARNING HOURS MOVIE

ABOUT INDEPENDENT SERVICE LEARNING

What I learned from independent service is that when you give to your community to feel better about yourself and the people you helped. I also learned that you will get something back in return even when your not looking forward to your reward someone always notice your outstanding work or achievement.

INDEPENDENT SERVICE LEARNING HOURS

The independent hours that I did was at the boat race with Ballard Spharr Law Office. I did 8 hours with that. Also I did service learning hours at Evolve Spa. The service learning hours that I did helped out my community by showing my peers my age kindness and generosity.

Service Learning Reflection APRIL 21- MAY 2

Mr. Romero group was successful because we finished our movie. Also we are doing another movie outside when it get warmer outside. Mr. Romero group is the perfect group to be in because you learn, have fun, and you will enjoy being around the environment with Mr. Romero and the group that he have.

The challenges that I had was filming the movie, but there is a good side to that because when you are finished the movie you will feel proud of yourself that you accomplished your goal.

The role that I will play is to act out the bad person that shows the worst student. Also I will write down all the things that will be done by the future students that repeat history. What I mean about that is that I am positive that the students will do what we did because the 9th graders did it.

my movie

Idioms For Of Mice And Men

1.flapper- mouth
2.poking your big ears into our business-listening into our conversation.
3.picking scraps- provoking fights, starting arguements
4.poison- what we would today call a bad girl. like the song "poison"(that girl is poison)
5.rattrap- when your in a bad situation.
6.shove off- to leave
7.take the rap-taking the blame
8.get the can- t get fired
9.drink hearty- to drink well.
10.scrappy- aggressively

Service Learning Reflection 5/1/08

Last week for service learning with Mr.Romero we pretty much did the same thing as the week before. Also, I had written a e-mail to all staff saying about how we should extend service learning time to the way it was last year. I was trying to convince Mr. Romero to allow this and bring it up to the rest of the staff, by saying that we really don't have that much time to do what we have to do. Especially for groups who go outside of the building lke ours. We also, tried to finalize a schedule so that we could rotate between visiting the elderly and tutoring ESL students. Over all, last weeks service learning was very helpful because I got a better understanding as to what my group will be doing throughout the rest of this year.

Service Learning Reflection 4/17/08

Last Friday at our service learning group we discussed what we are planning to do since our group was kind of confused about what exactly we were doing. We decided that instead of teaching english we are just going to focus on spending time with elderly people in general. Also, we discussed where we could go and what we could talk about while we was there. We went threw how we would get there and the activities we could do towards the end of service learning.
Tommorrow I want to focus on actually getting started and figuring out where we can go and what we could do with them

Service Learning Reflection 4/25/08

Last Friday at service learning we talked about our future plans for what we can do on the upcomming weeks of serice learning. We decided on an alternating schedule between visting the elderly and tutoring the ESL people next door. We also assigned designated jobs to people, such as who takes the notes and who facilitates the conversation. I was rersponsible for taking notes on the smart board last week, I also helped facilitate the conversation. We had a good conversation about why we should do both tutoring and visiting elderly people, because at first we were just going to do one, but then we thought that it would be better if we did both.

Themes For Of Mice And Men

There were many themes in the story Of Mice and Men, but the theme that stood out to me the most was the theme of the fraternity of brotherhood. In this book they portray this so called fraternity of brotherhood as a group of men who come together and help each other. For example, they come together to get their work done, to kill Lennie, and to protect each other, and also to kill candy’s dog. But truthfully I think that this so called fraternity of brotherhood only exists in books and in movies, because I do not think that men can always get along like that.
In the beginning of the book, after Lennie and George first got to the farm the men united to get their work done. This showed when the men were all working together to help each other to get the work done faster and done right so that they can all get their fifty dollars at the end of the month and all keep their job.
The men or so called “fraternity of brother hood” also united to help protect Lennie from Curly when Curly was hitting Lennie because Curly thought that Lennie was laughing at him. But the real reason was to prove himself since Lennie was so big and Curly was so short and little. But then “the fraternity of brother hood” turned around and then united to kill Lennie, for the revenge of Curly’s wife. Even though not to long ago they tried to help him.
The final example of this brother hood was when they united to kill Candy’s dog. This was an example because they all agreed with Carlson when he wanted to kill the dog. Also, the brother hood all came together once Slim didn’t say no to shooting the dog.
In conclusion, I believe that his was the theme that stood out to me the most in this book, since you can see that there are flaws in this theme, and it is also kind of hypocritical. I also still believe that there is no fraternity of brother hood and the only place that it actually exists is on pages in books and on the screen in movie th

Motifs For Mice And Men

In the story Of Mice and Men, there were many motifs that stood out to me, but the one that stood out to me the most was the motif of honesty. Throughout the story there wasn’t that much honesty between the characters. So what was Steinbeck trying to tell us? Was he trying to say that nobody in this world is honest and that we all tell lies to get ahead of the person next to you, or was he trying to say that telling a lie hear and there won’t hurt you or nobody around you, or was he trying to tell us that we shouldn’t lie at all and that it will always backfire and something bad will always happen, or was he trying to go all the way back to the lessons we all learned about Lock and Hobb’s opinions on human nature and say that our human nature is naturally bad. Well truthfully I believe that he was trying to say that nobody in this world is ever completely honest and that we all tells lies hear and there, whether to help ourselves or to help the well being of others. In this book many people lie whether to help each other, to hurt each other or to protect each other, the persons behavior in this book is reflected in the lies they tell.
In the begging of the book the bus driver lies and tells Lennie and George that the farm was just a “stretch down the road” when it was actually a long way down the road. He did this not to help them but to help himself and also to hurt them. The bus driver didn’t drive them all the way to them farm because he was too lazy. But he actually helped them because if he would have never lied to them then Lennie would have never knew where to go and hide if something bad happened.
Also, crooks lies to Lennie in the middle of the book, bye telling him that George wasn’t coming back and that something bad happened to him. He did this to hurt Lennie and to feel better about himself. Instead of trying to befriend Lennie so that they both wouldn’t be lonely, he lies to make him unhappy, and so that he can take pleasure in his misery. If he would have never lied, they might have actually both been happy, but then again if the whole book had a happy beginning, middle and end who would want to read it?
In the end of the book, George lied to Lennie to help him, even though he ended up killing him, he wanted him to die with happy thoughts. He lied by telling him that they were going to get the farm and be happy, when in the end he ended up killing him, to protect him. So see George ended up lying to help and protect Lennie and even though what he did was wrong he was right by doing it.
So see there many people who lied in this story for numerous reasons, and I still believe that Steinbeck was trying to show that even though people lied in this story most of them lied for good reasons and for others happiness. I don’t believe that lying makes you a bad person, I think that why you lie is what makes you the bad person, because if you lie, just to lie and just for self interest then that shows who you really are.