In Chapter 4, Lennie goes in to visit Crooks in his room, we are confronted with 4 of the "saddest" characters in the novel: Lennie can't care for himself or remember anything, Candy feels he's old and worthless, Curley's wife is seen as a flurt and dangerous woman leaving her with no one to talk to, and Crooks has a damaged spine and deals with segregation. Do you feel like these characters are responsible for creating their own perspectives on life or do you believe that society is responsible for the way they perceive their lives and their opporunity? Do you think the same is true for people in today's society?

Agood persuasive essay topic cannot be a. a fact b. debatable c. something somebody else has already written about

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

The famous quote "the jungle is dark but full of diamonds" could be alluding to death. question 1 options: a) true b) false