In case you need a second look at them, here are the fishbowl prep questions for this Friday's discussion on OMAM, chapters 1-3.
Fishbowl Preparation
Main Text: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck,
Chapters 1,2, and 3
Directions: In preparation
for the fishbowl discussion on Friday, 11/2, answer these guiding questions
with your thoughts, opinions, personal experiences, and evidence from the first half of Of
Mice and Men. Each response should include
at least 1 quote from the text to support. Answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1.
Talk about Lennie
and George’s friendship. Would you qualify it as a true friendship? What does
each character “bring to the relationship”?
2.
Of Mice and Men
has an allegorical quality, with
each character possessing a specific trait that represents something in
society. (Allegories are stories that symbolize some bigger idea in a culture.)
Choose 2 characters and figure out
what “bigger idea” Steinbeck is exploring through them.
3.
How does
Steinbeck make the reader sympathetic toward Lennie?
4.
Analyze
Steinbeck’s descriptions of the natural world. What role does nature play in
the novel?
5.
Steinbeck uses
several characters and scenes to develop his theme of dreams/The American
Dream. What he seem to be telling us
about achieving dreams? (Think back also to question 5 on your opinionnaire
from Monday.)
