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• Select quotes that can link character to theme

Skills for Life: Questioning – how and why?

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High 5!

Select your top 5 quotes for Crooks as a lonely character.

Put them in order.

You need to be able to say why they are in this order.

Why is the top quote better than the others?


TThe author’s use of language / words / tone of voice is significant.Imagery is significant in this section. The imagery of .... is especially significant in this section.The author uses setting to convey ...The characterisation of ... is developed in this section.Structurally, this section is significant.

EWe can see this in the quotation ...We hear the character described as ...The word ... demonstrates this.Arguably, the most significant words are ... and ...The image of the ... is crucial to our understanding.

PThe author seems to be suggesting ...The author is, perhaps, exploring the idea of ...The author is explaining, illustrating, uncovering, hiding, illuminating, developing,

EThe words suggest / imply / convey ...This word / phrase / image / character makes me think of ... because...This conveys feelings of ... because....The word / image contains several ideas. For example...

EThe author seems to be exploring the them / idea of ...From one perspective we could say ... From another we might consider...Developing the interpretation further, we could argue that...This links with.....This idea is repeated when......

The characterisation of Crooks as a lonely character is developed in Chapter four. Steinbeck describes the character as ‘a proud, aloof man. He kept his distance and demanded that other people keep theirs.’ The author seems to be suggesting that Crooks’ isolation is self-imposed. The word ‘proud’ suggests Crooks’ intelligence and dignity and conveys the idea that he is acutely aware of his prejudicial treatment. ‘Aloof’ also suggests that his disinterest is conspicuous. The author seems to be exploring the idea that loneliness can be a way of protection and this real danger is made more obvious later in the chapter when Curley’s wife threatens him.

How does Steinbeck present Crooks as lonely character?

6 sections – perfect!Skilled work will • Identify features of Steinbeck’s use of language with some explanation of layers of meaning.

• Have some links between Crooks and loneliness

Excellent workwill

• Have a detailed explanation, with appropriate terminology, of how language and linguistic features are used with a develop perceptive identification of layers of meaning

• Show sophisticated links to language used about and by Crooks that show him to be a lonely character


Crooks’ bleak view...

I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.


Homework

Finish Tepee on: how is Crook presented as a lonely character?

Find Top 5 quotes for Curley’s wife as a lonely character.

Again, put them in order and write a paragraph explaining this order.

Due next lesson.

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