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2nd block I presented mine on Monday.

Of Mice and Men



__Annotated Bibliography__ - Shmoop Editorial Team. "Of Mice and Men" //Shmoop.com //. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 22 Mar. 2013

This website is basically a review on why this book should be banned, “Killing. Violence. Racism. Swearing. Brothels. Sexism” are the reasons they use on why it should be kept banned, even though many schools still assign the book across the United States. At the end of the article it asks the reader questions that deal with the book on if things are right or wrong. And if you read the book it will show why racism, sexism, and killing occurred. Lennie, one of the main characters, is mentally slow. And part of the racism happens because he is African American and slow.

- Daniel, Corey. "'Of Mice and Men:' Steinbeck's Controversial Banned Book for over 50 Years." //Examiner.com//. Examiner.com, 11 July 2012. Web. 24 Mar. 2013.

This article was written by Corey Daniel, who is a Winston-Salem Banned Book Examiner and a High School Counselor in Winston-Salem, NC. Daniels explains why ‘Of Mice and Men’ has been banned in many places. In the article, it shows that the book “promotes euthanasia (killing innocent people or things), racial slurs, being anti-business.” Yet, it was written to portray a time period where all of that was considered part of the norm. The book was published in 1937, about four years before the United States went to war in WWII, and in that time, many people were still going through the depression and trying to make a living. And, now, the language used in the book is considered more of a racial slur than it was back in the 1930’s.

- Benson, Jackson. "World Biography." //John Steinbeck Biography//. Notablebiographies.com, 1995. Web. 24 Mar. 2013.

This article, the biography of John Steinback explains his life(biography). John Steinback was the only child of John Steinback Sr. and Olive Hamilton. He was born in California on February 27, 1902. As Steinback grew up and went to college, he decided to drop out and start working out on the fields. His experiences on the field led to his writing and investigating the conditions that workers back then endured. His first book, “Cup of Gold”, wasn’t a huge success written on a romance of Captain Morgan. In his later years he wrote many more books, including “Of Mice and Men” and “The Grapes of Wrath”. ‘Grapes’ was so popular that it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for the willingness of a family to move and make a living during the great depression. In his lifetime, Steinback was considered a person that valued the American Dream and the freedom of many people. He died on December 20, 1968.

- Of Mice and Men is published. (2013). //The History Channel website //. Retrieved 12:46, March 24, 2013, from [].

On February 2, 1937, “Of Mice and Men” was published in the United States. In the same year, the book was produced/adapted into a three-part play, which is still seen today. John Steinbacks life included going to college at Stanford University in New York, then going to work on the fields. He married Carol Henning, the first of his three wives and moved to Pacific Grove, California; where his father gave the couple a house and a small income to live on while he still wrote.

- LitCharts Editors. //LitChart on Of Mice and Men//. 24 March, 2013.

This article shows the historical context of many of Steinbacks works, including Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath. During the 1930’s, there were many things going on in the United States that would lead people to poverty: Including, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. During those two things, the cost of living went down. Many people that lived on farms crops’ were ruined and houses couldn’t keep out all the dust caused by drought. The Great Depression didn’t help either. There has never been a worse time in U.S. history (money wise) than in this period. With President Hoover not knowing what to do, citizens didn’t know what to do either. So, many people moved from Oklahoma and Texas to California to try to make a new life. Just like in the Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

I used the different colors to represnt: Blue:Lennie as a gently giant. Yellow: George as Lennie's protector. Red: The deaths of the people and things in the book. Black bunny: Lennie moving and going. White Bunny: George as a quiet person. The farm: the place George and Lennie wanted after working for so long and hard. The black behind the people: their life when they were traveling. The Green: the money and land they wanted to have. And my characters-Micheal Clarke Duncan- appealed to me as Lennie and Tim Blake Nelson- reminded me of George.