mice & men themes (UGH!)

The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones." (Chapter 1.)Of Mice and Men is a film that is drowned in symbols to show what Steinbeck wants reader to see. He does a fantastic job of using animals and how they relate to the characters.First, Candy's dog for example is extremely old, and useless. Just like the dog, Candy is old, broken down and really no use around the ranch. They boss even gave him the job of sweeping up, and keeping up with the chickens, because of his one arm. When reading about the dog, readers think of sickness and how he symbolizes that. Carlson even tells Candy him as "Got no teeth, he's all stiff with rheumatism. He ain't no good to you, Candy." They then tell somehow persue Candy to let them shoot him, because he's sick and if he really loves him, he wouldn't want him to suffer.Although Candy's dog is alive, he pretty much represents death. Old, miserable, and really is no point for the dog to be alive. Candy's dog and himself are both old and on the verge of death it's kind of pointless for them to be around. However, they are around because they have some life in them. It would be just cruel to kill them but they are suffereing. Bit of a dilemma, wouldn't you say?

Candy and his dog represent, death, sickness and even the ending of dreams. Although they are old and uesless doesn't mean they can't be cured from sickness and off life support, and it surely doesn't mean they can't have dreams. However, Candy for example is a perfect example. He makes plans with George and Lennie, but his dreams cease when Lennie kills Curly's wife and everything is forced down hill. I guess things don't work out in your favor, when you over think things.

In conclusion, Of Mice and Men is a mega awesome novel filled with symbols that represent or reflect a character. This book is a must read because it's filled with loads of english class appliances that any teacher would want their student to read. Trust me, you don't want to upset them, you know english teachers and their lessons on symbols...

empire Of DA SUN

Most living beings take pride in their country and heritage. In the movie Empire of the Sun it is hard for the viewer to tell who and what that main character Jim is loyal to. Throughout the movie Jim shows pride in being British, being an American adoptee and the Japanese winning the war against Chine the country he lives in.Jim is a young boy that is raised in British China. All the houses in his neighborhood are British. All the luxuries of Europe are in his small town in China. Even though he was born and raised in China he had the upbringing of a well to do British Family. Jim doesn’t really have anything to do with the Chinese culture. So it would be reasonable that he would take pride in being British.As the movie progresses Jim meets an American man named Basie. They are both thrown into a Japanese prison camp and Jim stays with the British and Basie stays with the Americans. Jim likes his American friends and he doesn’t want to live with the British anymore. So he does some dangerous things to get the respect of the Americans. He takes pride in his accomplishments and is proud that the Americans actually like him. As surprising as it would seem, Jim even befriends and supports the Japanese, the same people that took everything that he had and separated him from his family. Hi sings a fair well song to the Kamikaze pilot s and cheers on their fighter planes when they fly by. It even seems like he wouldn’t mind if they won the war.So who is Jim loyal to? He finds it hard to let go of his British life, he would rather live with the Americans than the British, and he supports the Japanese in their fight against the British and Americans. I think that Jim isn’t loyal to just the British or the Americans, or the Japanese. Jim is loyal to the people that surround him; the people that he lives with, the people that reach out to him, the people that he relates to are the people that he supports.

Of mice and Men

The theme that I have chosen for my Mice and Men essay is the American dream. That is because in this book everyone has a dream. The three main people who had dreams were Lennie, George, Candy and Curley’s wife.Curley’s wife had a big dream to be a movie star. "Went out to the riverside dance palace with him, he says he was going to put me in the movie. Soon he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it." But they were playing her dream because they didn’t care about her big dream that she had. She was only women in the plot.In this book lennie had a dream. His dream was a little place. Lennie wanted a tend rabbits. Although he had a mind of a young child he still has a dream. He wanted a big land were he and George can called their own and also a farm.George, Lennie and Candy shared the same dream which was to live off of the "fat of the land" by getting an acre of land and a home they can call their own. George & Lennie wanted to be their own bosses. Lennie’s only dream was to tend to the rabbits.In this book every one had a dream, but different dreams.I think Steinbeck wanted to show people how everyone has a dream of their own. People like Lennie who had the mind of a young child he had a dream. Some people’s dream is to become a movie star but other people always put your dream on line, because they said I will called you back when I come back from Hollywood. But they lie to you they all got you hop up but it never happen like Curley’s Wife. A man who put his dream on hold to take care of someone who are unable to think own this and can’t survive on his own.

Reflection

Today in service learning we wrote letters to the people that sent ms. klose a letter telling her that they would enjoy having us as partners and be enthusiastic in supporting our school. We also had a conversation about how we would continue this next year.

Reflection

Today in service learning we talked about millersville being as though everybody that's in my group are going to the state competition. We also hand in all of our work that needed to be handed in.

The Goals for Service learning

Our goals for service learning's fundred dollar bill fundraiser is to get $1,000,000's worth of fundred dollar bills. The following is a list of where we would need to go :

1. Constitution Center- because there are a vast amount of tourists that attend there and could look at our fundraiser as souvenirs

2. Penns landing- Because there are numerous events that go on there at this part of the year

3. City hall- Because Many people are around there at all parts of the day

REFLECTION 4/24-4/25

Today we sat in the IMC and begen looking at places where we could basically set up shop for our fundred dollar business. I found that we should go to places that are heavily populated like the constitution center or Penns Landing.

REFLECTION 5/1-5/2

This week we talked about how the people called mrs. klose and told her that they wanted us to do the fundred dollar bill fund-raiser with them.