Of Mice Chapter 3

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Mr. Sheehy

Hopefully my pattern for this book won’t get too repetitive to be effective, but for chapter three I’d like you to continue picking out important passages and commenting on them. I think it helps us keep our conversations rooted in the text, as well as give you essentially an endless source of writing prompts. In [...]

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Saying Much by Saying Little

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Mr. Sheehy

When we read stories — especially those from Faulkner — we talked about how a writer loads every detail into it with the most specific intentions. While he was talking about short stories, I think Of Mice and Men (and really, any truly great novel) does the same thing. Each detail, each descriptive point, is [...]

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