Monday, February 11, 2013

February 11

Today we will read Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse"

Make sure you understand why, based on the poem, Steinbeck might have given the novella the title Of Mice and Men.  
You should also understand how the following lines fit with Steinbeck's philosophy:

  • "The things of mice and men/go often awry."
  • "you are blest, compared with me!"
  • "An odd ear in twenty-four sheaves Is a small request;/I will get a blessing with what is left,"
  • "I'm truly sorry man's dominion/Has broken Nature's social union"
We will also watch The Grapes of Wrath up the point where the family goes to pick peaches.

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