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I used the rustic picture because Lennie and George look forward to having their own ranch the whole book. I picked these quotes especially because they were two things that George said with conviction, and I associated conviction with the color red, and the quote at the bottom is an example of how most of the book is written. (in old southern slang) The bigger quote in Yellow at the top, is the sun in this picture,that's why its yellow ;) and its bigger because Lennie says this countless times throughout the book, it is Lennie's driving force while he works in the barley fields. I also used some rabbits because that's another thing Lennie was obsessed with the entire novel.I do not think the book should be banned, the use of foul language isn't too severe, and it goes with the times that it was written.

LitCharts.Web page. March 27, 2013 - This article basically tells how John Steinbeck, got his inspiration for the characters of George and Lennie. The Great Depression was at the time of George and Lennie's life, and the farmers in many areas had to move around often to find work. Farmers would invest money on new land and equipment, then lost it all when the drought came and the stock market crashed. Many farmers had to move homes often(mostly to California) to find enough land to work on.

Marshall University Libraries.Banned Book Week.00644000.Marshall University.Aug. 8, 2010.Web page.March 28, 2013 - This page shows when and where the novel was banned, and some reasons why it was banned. The book contains dome foul language but this ties into the history of the time. John Steinback was just writing with the times. Many schools are on this list, most of the bannings in schools had to do with the book being required reading instead of voluntary reading.

Editor Horst Frenz.NobelPrize.org.Nobel Foundation.1969.Web page.March 28,2013 -John Steinbeck was in a middle class family growing up in Salinas, California. He attended Stanford University but did not make it through to graduate. People would call him a social writer because he wrote about things that were worth having an opinion on, dealing with social issues.He couldn't make it as his own writer in New York, so he moved back to California. He wrote for a long time about the earth in his novels, he knew a lot about it, so he went with it.

Corey Daniel.examiner.com.July 11, 2012.Web page. March 28,2013 -Mainly saying that the use of offensive and out of date language(racial slurs) is the bulk of why this book has been challenged for so long. But one thing that caught my eye in this article is that when John wanted to write this book he didn't want to write it like any other book he had, he wanted to write it so that it was of the peoples language and not "book language". It also promotes the lack of stability (home), and euthanasia.

Akeem Davis.Studymode.com.2 May 2011.Web page. March 28, 2013 -More info, and some opinions on why the book should be banned. The book is not hard to read at all. There is very little (basically no) use of the refined English we speak today. There is no challenge for students when they read this book. Although Steinbeck was showing a world in a lower American's perspective, the language used was sloppy.