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    Here are the definitions of the words from Of Mice and Men: Itinerant - traveling from place to place, especially working or performing. Junctures - an important point or stage at which things change or people need to make important decisions. Debris - scattered fragments, remains, or ruins. Morosely - in a gloomy, sullen, or despondent manner. Brusquely - abruptly rude or rough in manner or speech.

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    of 16

    Written by

    John
    = Steinbeck
    in 1937
    • Clinging to each other in their loneliness
    and alienation, George and his simple-
    minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters
    will, of a place to call their own. But after
    they come to work on a ranch in the
    Salinas Valley their hopes, like "the best
    laid schemes o' mice an' men," begin to go
    awry.
    About The Author
    • John Steinbeck was born in
    1902 in Salinas, California,
    a region that became the
    setting for much of his
    fiction, including Of Mice
    and Men.
    • As a teenager, he spent his
    summers working as a hired
    hand on neighbouring
    ranches, where his
    experiences of rural
    California and its people
    impressed him deeply.
    Historical Timeline
    Banks, Factories The ‘New Deal’
    close, farming - support for
    collapses unemployment.

    1931 1933 1936


    1929 1937

    Financial Franklin D. Of Mice and


    Crash Roosevelt Men is
    becomes published.
    president.
    THE GREAT DEPRESSION!
    • On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock
    market crashed, triggering the Great
    Depression, the worst economic collapse in the
    history of the modern industrial world.
    • It spread from the United States to the rest of the
    world, lasting from the end of 1929 until the early
    1940s. With banks failing and businesses
    closing, more than 15 million Americans (one-
    quarter of the workforce) became unemployed.
    Historical Context
    – The depression also led to a drop in
    the market price of farm crops, which
    meant that farmers were forced to
    produce more goods in order to earn
    the same amount of money.
    The Dust Bowl
    • The increase in farming
    activity across the Great
    Plains states caused the
    precious soil to erode.
    • This erosion, coupled with
    a seven-year drought that
    began in 1931, turned
    once fertile grasslands
    into a ‘desert like’ region
    known as the Dust Bowl.
    Dust Bowl Plains
    The History of Migrant Farmers in
    California

    – During the Great Depression,


    economic and ecological forces (the
    Dust Bowl) brought many rural poor
    and migrant agricultural workers
    from the Great Plains states, such
    as Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas,
    to California.
    The American Dream…
    • Hundreds of • The state’s mild
    thousands of farmers climate promised a
    packed up their longer growing
    families and few season and, with soil
    belongings, and favourable to a wider
    headed for California, range of crops, it
    which, for numerous offered more
    reasons, seemed like opportunities to
    a promised land. harvest.
    … is shattered!!
    • Despite these
    promises,
    though, very
    few found it to
    be the land of
    opportunity
    and plenty of
    which they
    dreamed.
    So Why The Title Of Mice and
    Men?
    • Inspired by a poem written by Robert
    Burns:-

    • From the poem: The best-laid schemes o'


    mice an 'men / Gang aft agley
    • Meaning: No matter how hard or well we
    plan for something, our plans can often fail
    to become reality...or worse, they can end
    up going terribly wrong.
    Fact or Fiction?
    • Although Of Mice and Men is a fictional
    story it is deeply rooted in historical fact.
    • The high unemployment resulted in many
    people travelling to find work.
    • They could be hired and fired at the boss’
    will (farm owners were very powerful)
    Of Mice and Men
    • Starter

    • Look up the following words in the


    dictionary and write their definition:-
    – Itinerant
    – Junctures
    – Debris
    – Morosely
    – Brusquely

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