What’s your opinion?

1. What’s your opinion? Having friends fulfills our basic human needs. Agree = YES; Disagree = No; ?? = I Don’t Know

2. Statement Mentally impaired people are worthless, and cannot function like “regular” people.

3. Statement People who are strong know their strength, and how much they can hurt other people if they wanted to.

4. Statement It is unnatural for people to have an attachment to, or feelings for, an animal.

5. Statement The purpose of life is to strive for, and eventually reach, our goals and dreams.

6. Statement Killing another human being is intolerable, and should be punished.

7. Statement Running away from a crime is never acceptable.

8. MODERNISM Disillusionment of the American Dream

9. Quotes on Modernism • “The English novelist Virginia Woolf declared that human nature underwent a fundamental change "on or about December 1910." The statement testifies to the modern writer's fervent desire to break with the past, rejecting literary traditions that seemed outmoded and diction that seemed too genteel to suit an era of technological breakthroughs and global violence.” • —from the EDSITEment reviewed Academy of American Poets “The Modernist Revolution: Make It New”

10. “The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered, stable and inherently meaningful world view of the nineteenth century could not, wrote T.S. Eliot, accord with ‘the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history.’.. rejecting nineteenth-century optimism, [modernists] presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray.”

11. What???? • Disillusioned • World War I & Depression • Break with Literary Tradition • Playing with technique

12. Literary Modernism (1915-1945)Certain ideas taken from: http://www.millikin.edu/aci/Crow/basics/modernism.html Modified for classroom need/use. • a response to "sense of social breakdown"-reaction to WW I/Depression • sees world as "fragmented"-life is fragmented-Time and Point of View—chronology out the window; multiple narrators • poetry is very allusive, like a riddle/labyrinth -allusions to myth, the Bible, foreign languages, street life, personal-highly footnoted (see "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" or “The Wasteland” by T.S. Elliot)-meaning must be searched for by reader • Subject: often questions the “truths” of life -what is the use… in a world falling apart? -history, religion…THE AMERICAN DREAM?

14. THE AMERICAN DREAM • What is the American Dream? • How would you define? • Let’s examine Lennie and George’s Dream… • What is the dream exactly? • Why is it impossible? • The Story as an ALLEGORY • The title: BEST LAID PLANS… • What’s the lesson here? • How does the theme “disillusionment” of the American carry over to today?

15. Of Mice and Men:Elements of Literature • Setting • Plot • Conflict • Characters • Protagonist • Antagonist • “The Underdog” (pun intended)

16. Elements of Literature (cont.) • Symbols • Candy’s Dog, the color red • Theme • What is Steinbeck saying about society? • How are his themes “MODERN”? • Other Literary Elements to Consider • Foreshadowing • Analogy…Lennie = Animal