Those Winter Sunday

For the thesis and outline for the final exam, you need to have 1 quote as support for each body paragraph. You can have more than 1, but 1 at a minimum. Due Monday. For mice and men essay to be written in class on Monday for your final exam.

I. Thesis Loneliness is a dominant theme in Of Mice and Men. Most of the characters are lonely and searching for someone who can serve as a companion or just as an audience

II. Your first point: : Candy and his dog

a. Candy asked George and Lennie to share their dream he will not feel as lonely as he used to be. Now candy doesn't feel like an old dog that is waiting to be shot. Candy is an old man who is not much good to the farm which makes him one of loneliest people on the farm. "He don't do much anymore, except take care of his dog and do little work around the farm that a little kid could do. When they can't use me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs."

Point 2: Crooks

III.

a. S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody-to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick. (80

Point 3: Curley's Wife

IV.

a. "I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely."

"What's the matter with me? Ain't I got a right to talk to nobody?"

"Seems like they ain't none of them cares how I gotta live".

V. Conclusion:

Homework due Wednesday

Choose 2 from cause/effect, division analysis, classification, and process analysis. Write 2 thesis and outline pages. Turn 1 into a rough and final draft.