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 Gr. A : Section 3 From p. 70 ("Candy joined the attack with joy...") to p. 72 ("...he said miserably.") 1. Choreography a. Lennie thinks about the dream, and smiles. b. Curley thinks L is laughing at him. c. C punches L twice in the face. L. starts bleeding, and doesn't defend himself. d. George asks Lennie to defend himself. L. tries to, but C. keeps attacking him. e. G. orders L. to attack C.  f. L. crushes C.'s hand. g. G. orders L. to stop several times, and slaps him in the face. h. L. lets go of C.'s hand. 2. Lennie is presented as an animal. His hands turn to "paws" as soon as he starts defending himself. George orders him around the way he would with an attack dog ("I said, get him."). Curley too is compared to an attack dog, a "terrier." This vicious fight is quick and dangerous. In the end, Curley is described like a fish, "flopping on a line." 3. Lennie can't do anything by himself : he needs George...

  Section 1  p. 15 "Lennie spoke..." to p. 16 "...not the same if I tell it."   In this excerpt, George tells Lennie a story, this is about what they'll do, their dream. Lennie is excited, he knows the story very well, but wants G. to tell it anyway. What makes them different is that they're together ( I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you ). The novel starts by the entrance of the two men, disturbing natural peace. The story has "rhythm" and it's been "repeated many times before." It's "deep," and George has an audience in Lennie. It sounds like theatre, where George has a role to play, like a second narrator, or a modern day aede (Greek storyteller). It also feels like this dream is a bedtime story ; Lennie behaves like a child, and George as his guardian. Finally, this dream feels like a ritual.       Section 2     from p. 36 ("Lennie still stared...") to p. 37 ("....

  Remarques générales - La construction, c'est à dire l'organisation des idées, est essentielle, il faut la signaler, l'expliciter, la rendre visible. Ne pas hésiter à abuser du vocabulaire type (firstly, subsequently, it follows that, then, eventually, etc.). De même, bien insister sur votre annonce de plan, sur votre problématique/question, et votre conclusion. - Si c'est trop court, quelques pistes : - citez davantage vos documents. - développez plus certaines de vos idées qui vous paraissent évidentes ( this story is dark ).  - évoquez d'autres sources, convoquez vos connaissances ( the Sublime, Romanticism, the Apollonian / Dionysian binary, the Gothic tropes, etc... ) - parlez plus lentement, soignez votre débit et votre prononciation. - si ce n'est déjà le cas, intégrez une troisième partie. Idées : - Perversity : the Imp of the Perverse . Perversity is like the devil on the left shoulders of cartoon characters = a fancy, a thought that is of forei...