Homework for Class #21: Jacob Have I Loved

Lola:

I think Of Mice and Men is a very good book and I learn a lot from it. We can divide it into two parts. First of all, we can talk about its content. The story happened in a dark generation with most of the people didn't treat black people and female well. So it set the main emotion of this book, be sympathetic to these victims and appreciate their spirit of still insisted in achieving their dreams and did not give up. And I think it is also a quality that the writer wanted us to learn from. This story developed so unpredictable that the end of the story made everyone surprised. This turning point also attract readers attention and made the story more interesting. The words and grammar was strange because it even didn't make sense. But it let us feel sensible as the main characters were all workers, so they didn't get high education. And that is a thing that helps the writer make the characters real. Second, we may take a look at the descriptive technique. There are lots of things that actually hint Lennie‘s death, such as the puppy and the mice. So if we are going to write a story or something like that, we might be able to use these skills to improve our writing ability.

Shirley:

LIFE AND DEATH

In the book, it seems strange that somebody died but they were just like alive, but somebody are alive, they just like they are dead. There were two character in the book give a very deep impression—Lennie and Curley’s wife. 

Lennie is the kindest character in the book—maybe just in my mind, but sometimes he will be crazy and couldn’t control himself. Luckily, he had George, George and Lennie are just like real brothers. George loved Lennie so much! But at the end of the book, Lennie made a mistake that George can’t solve that, every workers want to kill Lennie. George had to make a difficult decision—killed Lennie or just let him be caught. George didn’t want to see Lennie get tortured by Curley, so at last, he killed Lennie by himself. Sadly, at the last second of Lennie’s life, he still believed George. The truth let him got on the road to the heaven. But, did Lennie really disappeared from George’s mind? No, George can’t stop to remember Lennie—the only true friend of him. So even Lennie was dead, in George’s mind, it looks like he is still alive.

Another character is Curley’s wife, she was a poor woman, and we don’t even know her name! Every men didn’t want to talk with her, just because in Curley’s mind, she was a bad woman, yes, she was. Because she was dead—killed by Lennie. She was lonely and upset every day. When Lennie came, she may thought her life will be more interesting because Lennie can talk with her. Poor woman! In the farm everyone treat her just like she is invisible, so she was alive but it is the same as she is dead.

The book tell me the longest distance in the world isn’t your friends died, is you killed your friend by yourself. The book also shows a dark, unfair world, in that community, women are been treat very bad. I learnt a lot from this book. And the end of this book incredible and a little bit sad.