Curley wants to beat Lennie because he don’t like big guys, but Candy don’t got anything against him as a person. I think its from person to person what they think about Lennie. The most of the guys thinks he is okay as a person, even if he is a crazy bastard.

Slim is the only person that have sympathy for George and Lennie. He see the difficult position they are in, and helps the two of them on the ranch. Crooks lies to Lennie, and I don’t think he respect him at all.

All this says that its many different point of views about how Lennie is, but the plot summary is that they think he is not bright, but okay as a person.

Another one is that George always gives Lennie the fault that they’re previous jobs went bad. When they have worked together, they have known each other. George also said Lennie killed all the mice he got with a woman they worked for. That proves they have been quite close. When you see all this, you can tell George and Lennie knows each other from before.

John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer prize for the books The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice And Men.

2. Where and what year was he born?

He was born the 27 February, 1902 in Salinas valley.
3. Name three of John Steinbeck’s books that were made into Hollywood films?

Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and The Forgotten Village were all books John Steinbeck has maid, and later became a Hollywood film.

4. In what year did John Steinbeck write of Mice and Men?

Of Mice and Men were published in 1937, published by Spangler.

5. What did John Steinbeck do during WWII?

Under the WWII John Steinbeck worked as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. He got the Haakon VII medal of freedom because he contributed with helping the Norwegian resistance movement.
6. What US President awarded Steinbeck the United States Medal of Freedom.

Lyndon B. Johnson was the president who gave John Steinbeck the United States Medal of Freedom.
7. What is John Steinbeck’s Museum called?

The National Steinbeck Center is John Steinbeck’s museum called.

8. How old was Steinbeck when he died?

Steinbeck was 66 years old when he died.
9. What does the novel “The Moon is Down”, have to do with Norway?

The Moon is Down is much like the German occupation of Norway during WWII.

10. Find out on the Internet the two main characters “Of Mice and Men”. Tell me a little about them and what the story is about (8 sentences).

George Milton is a intelligent and caring man. He is small of height, and wants to start a rabbit farm with Lennie.
Lennie Small is a strong physical man, but with mental problems. He like soft things, like rabbits and hair. He can’t control his power and if he gets mad he often do bad things without having control of what he is doing. Apart of that, he is a kind and friendly man.

George and Lennie wants to settle down and start a farm. There Lennie wants to start growing rabbits, which he can pet. George says if Lennie gets into trouble he can’t be with him at the farm, they already running from trouble. But Lennie can’t control his powers and get into trouble anyway.

Elaine: Elaine is a kind, nice girl. I think you can trust her, she is mature. Her “friends” treat her bad, but she still hang with them. Maybe she is a little lonely and want somebody to be with, especially Cordelia. It’s good she realize that Cordelia and her gang are not good friends, and find another girl to be with. I think she deserves it.

Grace: Grace is maybe a nice girl, but not secure on herself. She most do what the coolest girl wants her to, so she can be in the gang. She treats Elaine bad, its what Cordelia wants, but before Cordelia came they were good friends so i don’t know if she really want to do it. I think she most get her own opinion and decide what she want to do herself.

Carol: Carol is a nice girl, she is just not secure on herself just as Grace. In the end of the story, we see that even if Grace and Cordelia is a little mad at Elaine, she can’t help herself to ask how she is and show that she cares about Elaine. Carol should get new friends, and stand for what she means, not what Cordelia thinks.

Cordelia: Cordelia is a cruel, bad person. She wants everyone to like her, or to be on her side. If she don’t get her will, or she get embarrassed of something, she let that go out on others, mostly Elaine. She don’t even treat her friends Carol and Grace good, if they do one think she don’t like i think she will treat them just as Elaine. In the end, when she knows Elaine almost froze to death and still didn’t say sorry and became a good friend with her, I would say she is evil right through.

Elaine’s mother:I get a picture, Elaine’s mother is a kind mother that cares for her daughter, but still is quite strict with her. That she run to find her, and when she does she is quite hard to her is a good example of that. She most also be intelligent, since she knew Elaine was laying about her hat and that she realized the other girls have treaten her bad. She then rang to the girls mothers. I think Elaine’s mother is a good mother.

It was mention some other people in the story, but not enough that you can describe them.

What is the theme of this story?

I think the theme of this story is how you should take your own decisions and not listen to everybody else. Stand for what you think is best, and not do like everybody else. What somebody else say may not be good, and can effect you in a bad way. It can have a bad influence too you, and the story is one good example of how it can go then.

What did you like/dislike about this story, please be specific!

I like the happy ending, or happy ending for Elaine. That something dramatic happened was good, it didn’t make it boring to read. All in all it was a good story, but the part where Virgin Mary helped Elaine was a little weird That part I didn’t like so much but if it haven’t been there I would also think something was missing. So all in all a quite good story.

You can certainly say that the river provides freedom for Huck. Without it Huck would not have a good way to escape from his father. The fact that he lived just beside the shore, makes it a good route to runaway for. He must have known the river from earlier experiences and known how he could maneuver down the river.

If the river hadn’t been there, going by land would be his only option to escape. The river then gives him a feeling of freedom. Not only would walking by land take more time, his father could also more easily catch him. When you consider his dad was drunk most of the time, I would not believe the chances of being caught by him to be so big, but it had been a larger chance anyway.

The river is the clear option for an runaway, and it gives Huck the freedom he wants. It gives him a new home, but a home for him is not freedom. Freedom for Huck is being free to go where ever he want, when ever he wants. The river gave him the option to get freedom and he used it.

Short Answers:

1. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1884.

2. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn can best be described as one of America’s most famous novels, and one of Mark Twain’s best work.

3. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer each received 6000 dollars ( $ ) when they found money that the robbers had hidden in the cave.

4. Huckleberry Finn’s father returns because he want the 6000 $ that Huckleberry Finn got in a reward.

5. When Jim first sees Huck Finn on the island, he thinks Huck is one of the white men that search for him to get a reward.

6. Jim runs away from Miss Watson because she wants to sell him to a slave trader from New Orleans, and there slaves got threaten very bad.

7. Huck escapes to Jackson Island and discovers that he is not alone there, Jim has escaped to, and they plan to build a raft and go down the river to the Ohio River, and from there take a steamboat to the northern states where slavery is illegal.

8. Mark Twain’s approach to the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn is that racism is a bad thing, that should not be allowed. Everyone should be treated as equals, and that the slaves tried to escape was not so bad, even if they broke the law.

He is an humanist, writer, humorist, satirist and lecturer. 

His most famous work is Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Samuel Langhorne was born in Florida, Missouri. The date was November 30, 1835. Missouri is south west of Illinois that our great teacher comes from:)

In Samuel’s late life he got much depression, which began in 1896 when his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis. Meningitis is an bacterial infection in the meningeal surrounding the brain.

Mark Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910 in Redding Connecticut.

Mark Twain got buried in his wife’s family plot in Elmira, New York.

Mark Twain got rich through his writing, but spent most of it in bad investments, mostly in new inventions.

Henry Huttleston Rogers had a close friendship to Mark Twain. When Mark lost three of his four children and his wife, Rogers family became more like a surrogate family for him.

Mark Twain used the last twenty years of his life as an “outspoken anti imperialist and anti-capitalist. That means he was working against the development that maid the large nations and global companies more and more dominating in the world. Maybe he did this because the poor nations and the poor people suffered because of this development.

Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.

As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest. He asked her where she was going. The “poor” child said to him, “I am going to see my grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother.”

“Does she live far off?” said the wolf

“Oh I say,” answered Little Red Riding Hood; “it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in the village.”

“Well,” said the wolf, “and I’ll go and see her too. I’ll go this way and go you that, and we shall see who will be there first.”

The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path. What he didn’t know were that the little girl was extremely fast and got there before him. The wolf arrived a little later at the old woman’s house. He knocked at the door: tap, tap.

“Who’s there?”

“Your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood,” replied the wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “Who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter sent you by mother.”

The grandmother, who was in bed, cried out, ” But.. ooh Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.”

The wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened. “Well grandma, what’s for dinner?” The wolf walked to the terrified grandma, ready to eat her in one second. He was extremely hungry for it been more than three days since he had eaten. Suddenly Little Red Riding Hood came out from the closet with a heavy machine gun in her hands. The wolf tried to run for the door, but he was to slow. Little Red Riding Hood filled him with 20 bullets, 5 in his head. He slowly fall down on the floor, with blood  floating everywhere. It was a terrible sight, but grandma just said ” Good aiming dear!”, go say to one of the woodcutters that we got a wolf.

“Oki grandma”, said Little Red Riding Hood

So the story about the wicked wolf ended,  and Little Red Riding Hood lived happily ever after, with her mom and grandma.

I am in the living room

He sits beside me

My room in next to the bathroom

I saw him yesterday

The tv is beside the table

The people started running towards me.

He came into the room one hour ago.

The cookie is beside you.

Can you send me the food next to you?

1. Lett jogge rundt i salen. Vi kommer til å legge in ting som høge kneløft, spark deg sjølv bak, armsirklar mens du springer og lignande.
2. No eit lite spill Ein elev skal ta ein basketball og han/ho ska prøve å treffe korga. Viss eleven treff så får ein ny elev sjansen til å kaste, og elevane slepp øvelsen. Viss eleven bommar må elevane gjere det på lista nedanfor. Det blir til saman 5 elevar som skal kaste, og vi vel ut elevane sjølv.

1. Kast: Viss eleven bommar må elevane ta 25 sit-ups
2. Kast: Viss eleven bommar må elevane ta 15 armhevinger
3. Kast: Viss eleven bommar må elevane ta 30 tåhevinger
4. Kast: Viss eleven bommar må elevane ta 15 spensthopp
5. Kast: Viss eleven bommar må elevane ta 20 Jumping Jacks

  Hovuddel

Vi skal ha stasjontrening, med 5 forskjellige stasjoner. Det blir anaerob-trening (muskeltrening). Treninga er anaerob fordi du ikkje får tilført luft til musklane og melkesyre straumar inn til musklane etter kort tid. 

Utstyr vi treng:

• 2 Benker 
• 4 Stoler
• Nokre Matter 
• Stoppeklokke
• Kjeglar med nummer på

1. Stasjon 1: Sit-ups på mattene
2. Stasjon 2: ”Tricups” med stolane. Tricups er omtrent det same som armheving, bare motsatt. Du sitt på ein stol og tar tak i begge sider med armane. Så flytter du kroppen ut frå stolen og begynner å senke kroppen din til den nesten treff golvet. Så skal dei heve kroppen opp igjen, og fortsette med dette (vi vil vise korleis man gjer det til elevane før vi begynn med treninga)
3. Stasjon 3: Her skal det stå ein benk. Denne skal elevane hoppe over sidelengs med samle føtter så raskt som mogleg.
4. Stasjon 4: ”Wallsit” med veggen
5. Stasjon 5: Her skal det stå ein benk som elevane skal springe opp og ned frå i høgt tempo. Elevane blir delt opp i 5 grupper. Kvar stasjon varar i 1 minutt, når ein stasjon er ferdig blir det ein pause på 1 minutt, og dei må begynne på neste stasjon igjen. Slik vil det fortsette til vi må begynne med uttøying. 

Uttøying

Triceps/Armstrekkaren – Denne muskelen ble brukt i ”tricups”. Du tar tak i olbogen med den eine arma og skyv han bakom hovudet.

Magemuskler – Desse musklane brukte vi i sit-ups. Du ligg på golvet med magen ned, og henda ved sida av hovudet. Du pressar armane og føtene ned i golvet og skyv hovudet og nakken bakover så du kan sjå mot taket.

Ankelstrekkaren – Denne muskelen ble brukt i stasjon 5 (og delvis stasjon 3) der du skulle springe opp og ned på ein benk. Du står inntil ein vegg og pressar den eine fotsolen mot veggen (ankelen skal fortsatt vere i bakken) mens du pressar overkroppen mot veggen.

Knebøyeren – Denne muskelen ble brukt i ”wallsit” og når du hoppet over benken. Du tar tak in ankelen og pressar han opp mot ryggen, og pressar lysken framover.

Knestrekkaren – Denne muskelen ble brukt når du hoppet over benken. Du har strake bein mens du prøver å ta tak i tærne dine med fingrane.