Although a sense of peacefulness is built in Chapter One, Steinbeck later creates a sense of loneliness through his description of the bunkhouse in Chapter Two.
Carry on the 'Point' (from PEEE) and find evidence to fit this statement in the extract below, make sure you explain and attempt to extend your explanation in your answer.
Read the extract below and use it for the homework set 30/11/12
Carry on the 'Point' (from PEEE) and find evidence to fit this statement in the extract below, make sure you explain and attempt to extend your explanation in your answer.
Read the extract below and use it for the homework set 30/11/12
The
bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed
and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in
the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight
bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their
burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening
forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant
of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum
powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at
and secretly believe. And there were medicines on the shelves, and little vials,
combs; and from nails on the box sides, a few neckties. Near one wall there was
a black cast-iron stove, its stove-pipe going straight up through the ceiling.
In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with playing cards,
and around it were grouped boxes for the players to sit
on.
At
about ten o’clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through
one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing
stars.
The
wooden latch raised. The door opened and a tall, stoop-shouldered old man came
in. He was dressed in blue jeans and he carried a big push-broom in his left
hand. Behind him came George, and behind George,
Lennie.
‘The
boss was expectin’ you last night,’ the old man said. ‘He was sore as hell when
you wasn’t here to go out this morning.’ He pointed with his right arm, and out
of the sleeve came a round stick-like wrist, but no hand. ‘You can have them two
beds there,’he said, indicating two bunks near the
stove.
George
stepped over and threw his blankets down on the burlap sack of straw that was a
mattress. He looked into the box shelf and then picked a small yellow can from
it.‘Say. What the hell’s this?’
‘I
don’t know,’said the old man.
‘Says“positively kills lice, roaches, and other
scourges”. What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don’t want no
pants rabbits.’
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ReplyDeleteAlthough a sense of peacefulness is built in Chapter One, Steinbeck later creates a sense of loneliness through his description of the bunkhouse in Chapter Two. Steinbeck quotes "guys like us , that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world". George and Lennie are itinerant (wandering)workers. they are drifters who move from ranch to ranch.they dress in traditional manner of cowboys, from whom they descend. They are skilled in the various aspects of farm work. George and Lennie find themselves a 'a few miles south of soledad'. this means in Spanish loneliness or lonely place.
DeleteSteinbeck creates a sense of loneliness within his description of the bunk house in chapter two. He ensures that the bunkhouse appears a desolate uninviting place through the words (unpainted) (littered) and (solid) (when describing the door. The Bunkhouse layout is almost prison like and regimented; showing the daily routine of the workmen despite living in a
ReplyDeletecommunal bunk house, they are all desperately lonely (except lennie and George. we also know the George feels lonely from the way he plays solitaire, this is a one player game and he may like the time to himself; instead of caring for lennie. although there are a few people living inside the bunkhouse, Steinbeck says that there are only 3 small windows which could make the people inside it feel shut off from the outside world.
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Although a sense of peacefulness is built in Chapter One, Steinbeck later creates a sense of loneliness through his description of the bunkhouse in Chapter Two.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter two Steinbeck describes the bunkhouse as “long rectangular building with four walls 3 of the walls had small rectangular windows with bunk beds pushed next to them and the 4th wall had a solid door with a wooden latch. In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with playing cards.” This description of the bunkhouse explains that it’s pretty lonely jurying the day while everyone is working and at night there either playing cards or outside chatting.
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ReplyDeleteAlthough a sense of peacefulness is built in Chapter One, Steinbeck later creates a sense of loneliness through his description of the bunkhouse in Chapter Two. Steinbeck writes that the walls are "whitewashed" which indicates that the bunkhouse is a bleak boring place to be and if something is boring not many people are going to want to sit in it so this could mean it a lonely place. the apple boxes that have been made into shelves they dont have any identification.
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ReplyDeleteAlthough a sense of peacefulness is built in Chapter One, Steinbeck later creates a sense of loneliness through his description of the bunkhouse in Chapter Two.In the book Steinbeck represents the bunk house as being a lonely place, as the people how live and work there are as they have no personal belonging of their own this is describing them as being on their own and that they don’t have no family .The bunk house is described as “a long rectangular building, inside the walls are bear and the floor unpainted. The resident’s haven’t made it homily as most of them know that they won’t be staining for long as most of them move place to place.
ReplyDeleteAlthough a sense of peacefulness is built in Chapter One, Steinbeck later creates a sense of loneliness through his description of the bunkhouse in Chapter Two.
ReplyDeleteThe bunk house was a long, rectangular building. The walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. There were three small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking.