SUMMARIZING
... to make a long story short....
Sometimes good things come in small packages.
Other times big things have to be stuffed into small packages.
Here you see 22 male students at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., in 1959 stuffed inside a telephone booth. Actually, you may not know what a telephone booth even is, but let me assure you that its purpose was not to house 22 college boys.
Nobody asked these boys to do this. But I'm asking you to write a one sentence summary of an entire novel.
You will have to stuff a lot of action and ideas into your sentence. Hopefully the sentence you produce will look and sound a little better organized than the contents of the phone booth above. Focus on the big picture, generalize artfully, and and let go of the details.
Your sentence cannot exceed 50 words. It should give a balanced, if brief, overview of the contents of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. You do not need to mention the author, and I will count the title as one word. Once these have been posted as comments, I'll ask you to tell me whose summary you think is best.
I must receive your comment by 7:00 am on Sept. 1. I moderate comments before they can be posted, so comments will not actually appear on our blog until later in the day.
Of Mice and Men is a novel about George and Lennie, two migrant workers that work on a ranch near Soledad, California until George shoots Lennie at the end of the book to prevent the other men from torturing and then killing Lennie because of his killing the Boss’s son’s wife.
ReplyDeleteOf Mice and Men is about Lennie's and George's struggles. They go to their new job and meet new people. Candy joins them in their dream after his dog was shot. Lennie accidentaly kills Curly's wife and runs. Everyone chases him. George finds him and shoots him. Lennie dies painlessly.
ReplyDeleteOf Mice and Men is a story that takes place in the Great depression and portrays the migrant workers during that time who work on farms or ranches like the main characters, Lennie and George.
ReplyDelete“Of Mice and Men” tells the story of two migrant workers, Lennie and George --“brothers” in friendship – and explores the meaning of mercy when George kills Lennie to spare him from the avengers of a woman he accidentally killed.
ReplyDeleteThe book is about two men's struggles during the deppresion, one mans struggle with a disability when people didn't know what happened to him, and their dream of having a ranch of their own.
ReplyDeleteOf Mice and Men tells the story of two migrant workers, Lenny and George, who travel to find work in order to pursue their dreams of owning a farm of their own but they encounter many obstacles along the way, causing Lenny and George’s friendship to hit many bumps in the road.
ReplyDeleteOf Mice and Men is a story about an unlikely friendship between two migrant workers, Lennie and George, that dream of owning a house and land, but first must face many obstacles, including a flirtatious woman, that Lennie accidentally kills, causing George to make the painful decision to kill Lennie himself.
ReplyDeleteof mice and men is a novel about two men named George and Lennie who travel to a ranch in Salinas, California, to find work during the great depression. lennie is mentally disabled, and loves soft things, especially animals,and ends up killing things he loves because of this and his brute strength. this problem is what leads up to his eventual death.
ReplyDeleteGeorge and Lennie are companions with a dream of owning a ranch where they could be free men, but their dream is shattered when Lennie, who has a disability, kills someone, leaving George with no choice but to mercifully kill him before an angry mob gets to him first.
ReplyDelete"Of Mice and Men" is a the inspirational story following around George and Lennie that shows the important ideas that friendship is rare yet valued, women can be dangerous, and dreams are dreams and nothing else; he shows this by following around George and Lennie.
ReplyDeleteIn Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, which focuses on the hard lives of migrant workers, George and Lenny make friends with people like Slim and Candy, and become enemies with Curley, all in the name of achieving their dream of having their own farm.
ReplyDeleteHannah Morris said...
ReplyDeleteLennie, a mentally handicapped Okie, and George, Lennie’s companion and caretaker, have the ultimate American dream of owning a ranch to themselves where they can be their own bosses, but when Lennie’s disability causes complications, George must execute Lennie humanely, reprieving him the painful death awaiting him by an infuriated lynch mob.