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A little patch of land.
Bread on the table.
A dear friend you can talk to.
A small house you can call Home.
Rabbits…Such a modest dream. And yet so impossibly out of reach.
Which character from this story stayed with you the most?
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#Movies #CloseCall #Sobbing #Wrecked #OfMiceAndMen #Sinise #Malkovich
I almost just clicked on Of Mice and Men (1992) with John Malkovich and Gary Sinese.
I remembered I cannot EVER watch that again.
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Time for a new #BookAtBedtime. So, tonight I will be starting #OfMiceAndMen by #JohnSteinbeck.
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This adaptation of #JohnSteinbeck's #OfMiceAndMen with #LonChaney & #BurgessMeredeth was a favorite of mine when I was young + rewatching it now, it did not disappoint. Nominated for 4 #Oscars
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031742/reference/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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Which way did he go George, which way did he go?
"Which way did he go, George?" from the 1940 Tex Avery animated short Of Fox and Hounds spoken by hound Willoughby, parodying the character Lennie from the 1939 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
#looneytunes #whichwaydidhegogeorge #ofmiceandmen #offoxandhound #cartoon
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Of Mice & Men’s new album really delivers. A natural progression from the last two.
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Das neue @[email protected] ist draußen. Dieses Mal habe ich ein Photo vom #OfMiceAndMen Drummer #ValentinoArteaga beigesteuert. Holt euch eure Ausgabe hier: www.ox-fanzine.de/fuze #fuzemagazine #fuze #music #musicmagazine #printlives #sonya7RV #concertphotographer #sony135mm
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Just started reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937). --- Comecei a ler Ratos e Homens de John Steinbeck (1937). #Books #OfMiceAndMen #JohnSteinbeck
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Nels Abbey, the director of The Black Writers Guild would like to see the curriculum enhanced with “the excellent work of Black British writers” rightly noting that such works would be attuned to students growing up in modern multicultural Britain, a society quite different from the USA of the Great Depression. Frustratingly, instead of naming any specific works from modern multicultural Britain, he then recommends “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, the life story of an American born a century ago.
I know that just over ten years ago the Tory education secretary Michael Gove expressed dissatisfaction with the assignment of “Of Mice and Men” and urged that students be asked to read works by British authors instead. Although I am not entirely unsympathetic to the claim that British students should have to engage with British literature, I also think that Abbey’s point matters; students should be reading at least one significant work by a British author from a racial or ethnic minority. That requirement would not, of course, preclude the reading of works by authors from other parts of the English speaking world.But what are those books by minority Britons that are at once valuable and teachable? I’d love to know.
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Choosing an alternative is more difficult than it seems. Most of us can easily come up with books that we wish had been assigned at school, or that we think are of such value that students would benefit in some way from reading them.
Deciding whether such titles are suitable for assignment to secondary school students is another and more difficult task, one that I am not well qualified to undertake because I am not a high school teacher by profession.
Nevertheless I would guess that one important consideration is a books’s teachability. What makes a book teachable probably depends not only on the nature of the text itself, but also on the availability to the literature teacher of critical literature and pedagogical materials. I would imagine that “Of Mice and Men” is highly teachable on both counts. The text is short and the language relatively simple, making reading the book a feasible assignment for less academic students, while I am fairly sure there are shelves full of material that will help teachers and students with literary analysis of the work.
However, considerations of race and gender can also determine readability, as this piece from a teacher in Oregon demonstrates:
#OfMiceAndMen #RaisinInTheSun #EnglishTeaching #AmericanLiterature
https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/of-mice-and-marginalization/
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Recent discussion about dropping John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” as an English literature GCSE set book because of racial slurs in the text and its depiction of a black character got me thinking.
Surely it is right to listen seriously to the complaints of black students about the book.
Racism, though, is not the only reason that “Of Mice and Men” should be retired. The book’s failings should prompt a search for better novels to assign to British school students.I find “Of Mice and Men” to be not moving but mawkish. Steinbeck foreshadows the end of Lennie with the shooting of an old dog, then jerks the reader’s tears by presenting George’s dispatch of Lennie as something like the putting down of an animal. We are supposed to feel that catch in the throat reliably produced by scenes of the last moments of long sick children or pets, yet with that sentiment supposedly endowed with profundity because the death is of one man at the hands of another; we have learned something about Love and the Human Condition!
Actually, we have learned nothing of the sort. Instead, we have seen how an author uses intellectual disability as a device to reduce what might have been a complex character to little more than a cipher, but a cipher designed to evoke an emotional response to melodrama, a good cry providing at once catharsis and a self-satisfied sense that one is endowed with a morally superior sensibility on account of having had that good cry . Steinbeck noted how close his novella was to the script for a motion picture; we should note how closely here he embraced the values of Hollywood at its most kitschy. And let’s not even get started on “Of Mice and Men” and women...
So what might replace “Of Mice and Men” ?
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I'm not dissing the text BTW, just saying we did not deal with the racial language in class beyond "that's just how they talked back then, moving on...."
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#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
8/20 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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My son read “Of Mice and Men” for English class and is giving a group presentation/review on it tomorrow at school. He was very moved by the book.
I realized I hadn’t seen the 1992 Gary Sinese and John Malkovich movie of the book so just watched it this evening. Two great actors on stage and on screen from my original neck of the woods. Malkovich’s Lenny is phenomenal. Wish I could have seen them do the stage version as it must have been intense.
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I recently read Of Mice and Men, a book I've not read since high-school.
When I picked up that slim, Penguin Classic, I remembered that it was a novella and I read it in a few days.
I enjoyed it more as an adult, the simmering tension in the book is metered out by superb pacing and wonderful characterisation.
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We zijn weer halverwege de maand! Er is al nieuwe muziek uitgekomen van #OfMiceAndMen, #Theocracy en #Beartooth, en er komt nog werk van #blink182, #WithinTemptation en #Wargasm. Check snel het volledige overzicht! https://www.nine32.nl/album-releases-2023/
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OF MICE & MEN Shares New Song 'Indigo'https://blabbermouth.net/news/of-mice-men-shares-new-song-indigo
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This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is asking whether World Book Day is celebrating reading, or merely fetishising the object of the book: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/148-thinking-about-world-book-day-how-reading-is-more-than-the-the-fetishisation-of-books
#philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #WorldBookDay #reading #books #OfMiceAndMen #TheNickelBoys #aesthetics #design #value #meaning
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“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.
Then gradually time awakened again and moved sluggishly on.”Excerpt From
Of Mice and Men
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“Slim looked through George and beyond him. ‘Ain’t many guys travel around together’, he mused. ‘I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.’
‘It’s a lot nicer to go around with a guy you know,’ said George.”Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck & Susan Shillinglaw
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