Reading Assignment: Finish Reading Of Mice and Men
Writing Assignment: Please write a paragraph explaining why Crooks goes out of his way to torture Lennie on pages 70-72. What do you think is his motivation? Why does he suddenly switch gears and become nicer to Lennie? As always please open with a reference to the book and author.
This is a tougher assignment than usual because it has several parts. You have to describe what Crooks does to Lennie. Then* you have to explain why he does what he does. (That's the motivation part) Finally,* you have to explain why Crooks suddenly switches gears (changes his behavior)
** Then and finally are are both transitions. Notice that the previous sentence doesn't have any transition. That's because it comes right after the word "parts." I'm expecting readers--that would be you--to automatically make the right connection, "Oh that must be one of the parts." But the farther I get away from that opening sentence, the more I use transitions so that my readers--again you--understand the relationship between the new sentences and the first one in the paragraph.
I have included a photo of Crooks and Lennie from a stage production of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, although this is not how I pictured either. What about you?
