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BEFORE YOU READ: Watch the following video on Discovery Education and then answer the questions in a comment below.

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1) What excitement was felt about the propsects in California? Listen to the song playing on the video and the images shown to help determine the mood and tone.

2) What is the American Dream? Use the Internet to help define it. How does it apply to the story? Be sure to cite video and book.

AFTER YOU READ:

Answer 2 of the questions below in a well written (at least 7 sentence) paragraph. Make sure to number the question accordingly:

1) Is the friendship between George and Lennie fully reciprocal? Do both members contribute and receive equally from each other?

2) Curley’s wife symbolizes Eve from the Bible because she tempted the workers to sin; in the Bible, Eve tempted Adam to sin. What are 3 other symbols from the book? Be sure to explain what they represent. It can be a symbol specific to the story or a universal one like Eve.

3) How does the use of local color and dialect add to the plot of the story and development of the characters. Cite examples from the book to support your answer.