John Steinbeck - OMAM Writing Analysis

hi folks, as promised, This is the John Steinbeck Prezi

about writing analysis.

So get your pens and pencils out and get a

notebook out and let's get started.

You will have a quiz on this, so keep that

in mind.

And don't forget that you also don't just want to

write down what I say but also what's on the

screen. So keep in mind that I'm going to give

you main points on screen, but there's a lot more

information than the words on the screen.

You need to listen to me and write down what

I'm talking about that will help you.

So here is our information we have of mice and

men writing analysis.

And over here there is a photo of this play

that has been done on my cement.

It's actually really conducive to creating a play because it's

about humanity, and there's so much dialogue in it that

it's a pretty easy transition to a play.

In fact, during John Steinbeck's lifetime, he wanted it put

into a play, and it was produced on stage while

he was still alive.

So pretty cool stuff.

So let's go on to, um, learn about these things

that I have upon the screen here.

I want to let you know that while we're going

through these notes, you're gonna see a lot of vocabulary

that you're gonna think to yourself What the heck, This

is all new, and I'm not really sure about this

vocab, but, um, first of all, I'll help you understand

it and, well, go through it together.

Secondly, you know you can pause, figure it out, go

to another tab on your computer and check it out,

and and figure out how two best wrap your brain

around the concept.

But also, I want you to know that all of

these new vocabulary words that we're learning all has to

do with the skill of the author and what he's

doing. And you know that basically, if humans do anything,

then there has to be a word for it.

So that's why there's so much vocab in this, and

you'll also see that some of the vocab where it's

kind of overlap one another, and they are really, really

closely connected.

So you just have to know it well enough so

that when I ask you a question about it, then

you'll be able to say, Okay, here's an example, and

this is what I think it means, and this is

how the office is using it.

So keep in mind, you're gonna have to explain all

of this stuff to me on your quits.

It won't be multiple trips.

So here is our information.

The first thing is genres.

You guys already know what genre is.

It's a category.

You know this because when you go on to Netflix

and you go under the adventure genre, you will see

all the adventure movies, all the movies that fit into

the adventure category.

So over here on the left of the screen, you'll

see that there are three genres.

That of mice and men fits into.

The first is a novella, so you'll see that the

word novella.

If you think about it for a second, it looks

like novel, except it's got the little Ella at the

end. It's because you put the word L.

A. At the Andrew put the sound L A.

At the end of little words that you think, Oh,

that's Q.

It's small.

It's the baby version.

So you get a little novella.

It's a little baby novel.

So basically you'll see that Let's compare that to a

real novel instead of a little novella.

A real novel has more than one character.

It's got complex ideas in it.

It's got a lot of conflicts and probably a few

different stories going on.

That's a novel.

It's different from a short story because a short story

is short.

The reason is short is that it doesn't really have

much to say.

It's got a couple characters.

Ah, conflict done.

It's short and it's a story.

This is kind of in between because it's a novel.

It's got all those complex ideas in it.

But it's real short, comparatively compared to a another novel.

Yes, it's short, So long or the short story more

than one or two characters.

You know that this story has several characters in it

and definitely has more than one main conflict.

The next literary term is operable.

If you are in church and learning a Bible story,

you might learn operable.

Now that doesn't just mean that parables air only in

church parables are simple little stories, and they're told so

that people who are conducive to understanding stories I mean

you, You might not be a story person.

You might just say, Hey, give me the facts, man.

If you that kind of person that you probably don't

need a parable Thio understand something.

But if you're like me, you always at connecting a

story with the point, and so that might be operable.

It's a simple story.

It's often allegorical.

You need to make sure that you have that that

word underlined in your notebook, because I will get to

that in a minute and you'll see over in the

pictures right here.

You'll see that on the bottom.

There's this guy and he's just spreading seed around that

because one of the main terribles in the Bible is

about how we influence people and influence.

Influencing people is kind of like spreading seed around.

Sometimes we influence people, and it grows into a beautiful

tree. Sometimes we threw our seed and it grows on

the sidewalk and it doesn't really grow.

Ecologist dies, so that would be a terrible It's a

simple story.

It bore bears a moral now, interestingly enough, this is

sometimes called the parable by somebody.

This of mice and men story that we're talking about,

but it is more complex than most parables.

But because it tells a story and it's a moral

story, some people say, I think that this is a

parable other people might not agree.

So the third genre that we have is an allegory,

an allegory you guys already know, but you might not

call it an allegory.

Um, think about this.

If there is a complex story that you want to

tell and it's too complex to really tell the whole

entire story, you might make it a little more simple

by setting it somewhere else.

And by giving these characters different names and kind of

making everything symbolic in the story that's called an allegory.

So I'll give an example.

You might have seen a history class that there's a

thing called the Bolshevik Revolution.

The Bolshevik Revolution was a time period in history where

the normal guy rose up against the leader and totally

destroyed him and took over.

Well, the thing is, the normal guy ended up being

just a cz bad, if not worse of a leader

as the original leader.

Well, yeah, that's a story.

That's a historical story, and some people know it.

Some people don't.

There is another story you might have heard from your

history teacher called Animal Farm and the story Animal Farm

is an allegory of the Bolshevik Revolution on this farm,

these pigs takeover, they get rid of the farmer.

They take over and they end up being really, really

bad managers of the farm.

Worst them, the farmer ever waas.

It is an allegory, so you'll see that, and allegory

has characters setting in events that are all connected together.

You'll see that everything in the allegory is a symbol

everything. So every time you turn around, you're gonna see

symbolism here and we'll talk about that more, and you'll

also see that it's called an extended metaphor.

And that just basically means okay, if you have a

regular metaphor and you're comparing two things.

What if you compare the entire story?

And that's that's an extended metaphor.

And if you go way far out a really, really,

really, really billet, big extended metaphor is an allegory.

So who in this story of mice and men is

a symbol?

If you have already read it, you might be able

to guess who's who.

So first of all we have the disinherited people.

He's disinherited people.

That means that they've been booted out of society.

Somebody didn't think they belonged, and they were kind of

kicked out.

So have you heard a red story?

You could imagine?

We have a couple disinherited people.

We have Lenny because he's a special needs guy.

He doesn't understand social, um, social connections in social, anything.

And so he has been disinherited by society.

People don't understand him, and pretty much they don't allow

him to be him.

They don't put safety measures in place so that he

could be himself.

He does not really have a place in the society,

so he's disinherited.

The second person under disinherited, you might remember already.

So see if you can think of it.

He lives.

He cannot live in the bunkhouse.

He's not allowed to.

He's disinherited.

He in his little place where he lives.

Everything's broken, broken, just kind of like he is.

Who is he?

He's crooks.

He's the stable buck.

He's the guy who lives out in the barn.

He is the African American man who is not a

slave there.

But he has, um, he has a much lower status,

and he's been kicked out because of that.

That's part of the African American struggles in the 19

thirties that he's booted.

He really doesn't have a place now so very frustrating.

And John Steinbeck represents that man in his book.

The next group of people is the helpless.

So who's helpless in this story?

The first person who's helpless is an old guy.

Remember who?

The old dais, I always say.

He's a sweet old man, sweet, like candy.

So candy is helpless.

He, um, he got his hand somehow mangled, and he

can't use it.

His arm is all tucked up inside his sleeve, and

you can't use it very well.

And so because of that, he doesn't have a place

to be in society.

He would get you get booted.

So he's here on this ranch, hanging out, doing his

best. But he knows full well that if anything happens

and he can't cook or be the swamp for that,

he's hired to be here.

Then they would boot him again.

So, um, he's he's yes, disinherited means, like, kicked out.

But he is helpless.

He if you were kicked out, he's also disinherited.

I guess But he's under the helpless category because you

cannot work for himself.

He can't do all the things that need to be

done. So the other person that's helpless, unfortunately in this

society is Curley's wife.

You'll see that she doesn't have anything to do because,

I mean, really, she she might cook Curly's dinner, but

pretty much she's just hanging out.

She's bored out of her mind.

She can't do anything because she is Curly's property and

she is his wife and she's not allowed to.

So she's put in a helpless position.

And, of course, she seems like she might be able

to do whatever she wants to know if society would

let her.

But in this society, they won't.

She is helpless.

The third category is the exploited.

If somebody's this exploited, it means that they're taking advantage

of. And so the two people who I would say

are the biggest exploited people in this text are, um,

George number one George has.

I'm told they're am Howl like that.

All right, so George has the ability to do anything

that he liked to do.

These British smart guy, he can take care of Lenny.

He can He kind of manipulates life for Lenny and

he's great at that.

But, um, they taken advantage of his his intelligence because

they can.

So he's a guy who puts all of his intelligence

to somebody else's advantage.

So another guy that does that is slim.

Slim is a big deal character because Slim is like

the prince of the ranch.

He is the one everybody pays attention to, and he

knows what he's doing.

He has.

He has authority, actually, but he can't do anything with

it. He's got a He's got to do his job

because he get kicked out just like everybody else.

So he's exploited.

All right, so you have those genres now.

We're gonna talk about naturalism.

What the heck is naturalism?

Well, look at this picture over here.

This picture has a guy, and in nature, he's pretty

happy guy.

Why? Because the sun is shining and he's got a

river next to him, and he's got all of the

stuff that he needs.

So he's happy.

Well, naturalism is the idea

John Steinbeck - OMAM Writing Analysis

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