OMAM Socratic Seminar Written Make-Up

If you missed the Socratic Seminar on Of Mice and Men, you must complete the following assignment and turn it in by Friday 4/20.

For each of the following questions, respond in 1-2 full and detailed paragraphs. Each response must include at least one quote directly from the text to support your response. Please include in-text citations (Steinbeck, 45).

You can access the online version of Of Mice and Men from the bottom of the Scanned Class Documents section of the blog: HERE

Reminders:
- The make-up must be typed and printed in order to be handed in.
- Consider including outside research in your responses.
- You must also turn in your completed Socratic Prep Packet. 

Socratic Questions:
1.) What is the significance of the story beginning and ending at the same place by the river?
2.) Expand on the significance of Carlson's gun being used to kill both Candy's dog and Lennie.
3.) What is the main lesson that is taught to the audience in Of Mice and Men?
4.) How did Lennie both positively and negatively affect other characters in the novel?
5.) Which character do you deem the most lonely of all, and why?
6.) Analyze the following lines from the poem 'To a Mouse' by Robert Burns and connect them to Of Mice and Men:

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,

An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,

For promis’d joy!

Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me!

The present only toucheth thee:

But Och! I backward cast my e’e,

On prospects drear!

An’ forward tho’ I canna see,

I guess an’ fear!