Friday, September 19, 2008
Comment 2 - Making Connections
Think about two connections you made while reading chapter 2 (pages 17-37). Follow the example located in the "comments" on this post. You will need the sentence and page number, your connection (3+ sentences), and the type of connection (text to self, text to world, text to text).
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Text:
Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk… (page 17)
My connection:
This reminds me of my dorm and sorority rooms in college. My roommate and I would always rig up little shelves to hold what we needed in bed – alarm, phone, chapstick, etc. We had many more items than these men did, and we needed/had many more shelves!
Type of connection:
text to self
" A little stocky man stood in the open doorway... His thumbs were stuck in his belt on both sides of his steel buckle. On his head was a solied brown Stetson hat." This quote reminds me of the good ol' westerns when you see the bad cowboy throw open the swinging doule doors and stand there in that fashion before a fight. "his ancient dog lifted his head peered about, and then got painfully to his feet to follow" This quote reminds me of an old catoon that i used to watch where the dog had no teeth and was grey and could hardly walk. This dog and that cartoon dog had striking similaties to eachother.
Text:
He turned abruptly and went to the door, but before he went out he turned and looked for a long moment at the two men...
My connection:
This part reminded me of how my mom would always check up on me and my sisters when we were little. Whenever she thought we were doing something bad she would pause at the door or wait outside for a while until she knew nothing bad was going to happen. Just like George and Lennie, my sisters and I would wait until we knew she was gone.
Type of connection:
text to self
Text:
The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside the walls were whitewhashed and the floor unpainted.
My connection:
This description reminds me of the place where I ate at Camp Alexander. We Rented the camp out for a family reunion. The building was very long,bare and the walls were plain white. (page 17)
Type of connection: text to self.
Text:
Look Lennie if you get in any kind of trouble, you remember what i told you to do?..."Yeah. I remember. Oh, sure i remember! I go there an' hide in the bush." (page 30)
My connection:
When i was younger, my parents made a place where we were supposed to meet incase their was an emergency and we had to leave the house. It was behind the rocks to the left of our house. Thankfully we have never had to use it.
Type of connection: Text to self.
Text:
"That's a hell of an old dog." "Yeah. I had him ever since he was a pup." (page 24)
Connection:
When I was in the fifth grade I begged my parents for a puppy for my birthday, but on the morning of my birthday all they got me was a little toy dog. This passage reminded me of how badly I wanted a dog that I could raise from a puppy and watch him grow as old as the dog in the passage.
#1
Text:
"So you wasn't gonna say a word. You was gonna leave your big flapper shut and leave me do the talkin'. Damn near lost us the job." (page 23)
My connection"
This passage reminds me of when me and my friends got in trouble. We were walking in to talk to my parents I told my friends to let me do the talking. When one person talks the story is straight but when more than one talk the stories get jumbled and don't go together.
Type of connection:
text to self
#2
Text:
"Seems to me like he's worse lately," said the swamper. "He got married a couple weeks ago..."
(page 27)
My connection:
This reminds me of Desiree's husband in Desiree's baby. After he got married he changed a little. When I was reading it just sounds really familiar to me.
Type of connection:
text to text
"George lifted his tick and looked underneath it. He leaned over and inspected the sacking closely. Immediatley Lennie got up and did the same with his bed." This quote reminds me of how little brothers always take the lead from the older brothers because Lennie often seems like George's little brother.
-Text to self
"At about ten o'clock in the morning the sunt threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars." This reminds me of camping and how much i loved getting up in the mornings.
-Text to self
Text:
"The boss was expectin' you last night," the old man said. "He was sorea s hell when you wasn't here to go out this morning."
Response:
I can definitely relate to this. People always expect you to be somewhere all the time, and if you don't make it to one of them, it can throw things out of wack for a lot of people.
Text:
Lennie, who had been following the converstation back and forth with his eyes, smiled complacently at the compliment.
Response:
I've noticed that a lot of shy people that don't speak up much in every day life may actually have something to say, or something that someone could do to make them feel better, but never vocalize it, and no one recognizes it.
"In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with playing cards, and around it were grouped little boxes for the players to sit on." (Page 17)
My connection: when I read this passage, it reminded me of a camp that I used to go to. We had a big picnic table in the middle of the camp, and we would all go and play cards on the table whenever we had free time.
Type of connection:
text to self
Text 2:
"Oh!" She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward." Page 31
Connection:
This reminds me of at lunch yesterday i was walking past a girl in this really low cut shirt and she was talking to this guy sitting across from her and she was leaning forward all seductively. I felt bad for her, but that's what this sentence reminded me of.
Type:
text to self
Text:
In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with playing cards, and around it were grouped boxes for the players to sit on. (page 17)
My connection:
This reminds me of when I have family reunions with all of my cousins. The old people always get to choose where we have these, so they are most often really boring places, and usually not technologically advanced (internet, TV, etc.), so we always amused ourselves by playing cards, just like the workers in the book. We even played poker, although we only bet M n' M's and almost always ate all of ours before we could bet it.
Type of connection:
text to self
"' Tell you what,' said the old swamper. 'This here blacksmith-name of Whitey- was the kind of guy that would put that stuff around even if there wasn't no bugs-just to make sure, see?'" (page nineteen)
This passage, as well as the other similar ones in the same vicinity as it, distinctly reminds me of a wonder, dear friend of mine: Nadia.
Nadia is a germaphobic, as well as a neat freak, and anyone who knows her is blessed to have made her acquaintance. Her fear of germs isn't annoying though. In a sense, it's actually comical. She jokes about it and has the ability to laugh at herself. I'm pretty sure she'd crack up if she read this passage that I'm connecting her to, because I (as well as anyone who knows her well) can clearly picture her doing what Whitey did for his bunk.
This connection is a text to self connection.
"'Slim- how's your bitch?' . . . 'She slang her pups last night, said Slim. 'Nine of 'em. I drowned four of 'em right off. . . I kept the biggest.'" (page thirty five)
This passage reminds me of a conversation from a different book, which I'm sure many people know quite well: "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".
The particular scene the passage reminds me of is when Aunt Marge is insulting Harry and his parents by saying something along the lines of "If there are problems with the bitch, then there are problems with the pup. Best thing to do for yourself is to drown 'em before they cause you too much problem."
I think I made the connection between the two passages simply because they used the same terminology.
This type of connection is a text to text connection.
Text:
"Well, nex' time you answer when you're spoke to"
(page 26)
My Connection:
This reminds me of all the time when you are talking to people and you just don't respond...you don't even realize it. Also if my mom like told me to do something and i don't say anything back she always waits till I finally answer.
Type of connection:
text to self
Text:
"George stared at his solitaire lay, and then he flounced the cards together and turned around to Lennie..." (page 29)
My Connection:
This reminds me of when i'm playing a game or just get frustraited in general and want to quit. You get so mad you just ruin everything you've done so far, and if you would have just taken some more time to concentrate it would have worked out.
Type of Connection:
text to self
TEXT:
"Look Lennie if you get in any kind of trouble, you remember what i told you to do?..."Yeah. I remember. Oh, sure i remember! I go there an' hide in the bush." (page 30)
CONNECTION:
This reminds me of when I was little... I would always wander off in stores or malls, and my parents would never be able to find me. Finally, it got to where we had to have a meeting place for when we got separated.
(text to self)
TEXT:
"Thats a hell of an old dog."
CONNECTION:
My dog is getting very old. We now call him Grampy because he cannot hear or see. We have had him for fourteen years which is similar to the situation in the book.
(text to self)
Text:
"At meals he'd peel his boil' potatoes, an' he'd take out ever' little spot, no matter what kind, before he'd eat it." pg. 19
Connection:
This makes me laugh becuase if I have the chance I will do the exact same thing with apples. All of the apples I eat have to be perfect. The brown patches just don't seem to taste very good.
Type of Connection: Text to self
Text #2:
"Won't ever get canned 'cause his old man's the boss."
Connection:
This takes me back to sports in about the third/fourth grade. I used to hate it when people used to get to play just because their parent was the coach. Most of the time they got to do whatever they wanted too.
Type of Connection: Text to Self
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Text:
"George lifted his tick and looked underneath it. he leaned over and inspected the sacking closely. Immediately Lennie got up and did the same with his bed." (pg.19)
My connection:
This reminds me of when my brother and I were kids. I would carefully watch everything that he would do, so that I could do it the exact same. Oh how things change...
Type of connection:
text to self
Text:
"hell of a nice fella and as clean a guy as you want to meet. Used to wash his hands after he ate.
connection:
I can remember a while ago i had a cousin who went through a stage where he was so scared of getting sick he would wash his constantly, before he ate, after touching dog or cat, even after he shook a stranger's hand.
Text:
"Yeah. Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him."
Connection:
Back when I played baseball there was a kid on my team who had scoliosis. I can remember my dad telling me one night that he had scoliosis and I had no idea what it meant. So he just told me in my terms that his back was crooked.
"The bunk house was a long rectangular building..against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking" (p. 17). While reading this I immediately visualized the housing facilities I stayed in at Wylde Life Camp. There were several long, white complexes that were divided into ‘cabins’ and supplied with several bunks. The text goes on to describe the personal belongings cluttering the room, which also brought back memories of our claustrophobic bunks.
(text to self)
Text:
"She slang her pups last night," said Slim. "Nine of 'em. I drowned four of 'em right off. She couldn't feed that many."
My connection: My grandpa once found a litter of kittens ditched by the mother in his garage, and his first reaction was to take them out and put them in the dumpster. Fortunately, my aunt intercepted him.
Type of connection:
text to self
Text:
"...At meals he'd peel his boil' potatoes, an' he'd take out ever' little spot, no matter what kind, before he'd eat it."
My connection:
This reminds me of the way whenever I peel potatoes, my mom makes me spend forever on each one, getting every minuscule spot and fleck. Honestly, we boil them anyway.
Type of connection: text to self
Text:
"She slang her pups last night," said Slim. "Nine of 'em. I drowned four of 'em right off. She couldn't feed that many." (p. 35)
My connection: My grandpa once found a litter of kittens ditched by the mother in his garage, and his first reaction was to take them out and put them in the dumpster. Fortunately, my aunt intercepted him.
Type of connection:
text to self
Text:
"...At meals he'd peel his boil' potatoes, an' he'd take out ever' little spot, no matter what kind, before he'd eat it." (p. 19)
My connection:
This reminds me of the way whenever I peel potatoes, my mom makes me spend forever on each one, getting every minuscule spot and fleck. I really do not understand how it matters.
Type of Connection:
text to self
Text:
“George cut the cards and began turning the over, looking at each one and throwing it down on a pile” (p. 27).
My Connection:
This reminds me of playing cards with my grandma, because she taught me how to bridge and deal. I used to hate playing because I couldn’t deal the cards right, but after I learned how to do it correctly I was successful. I found I had more fun playing with the cards than actually playing a card game.
Type of Connection:
Text to Self
Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. (Page 26)
Connection:
This makes me think of last Saturday at the KU game. My friends and I were playing football with these kids we didn't really know and this one kid kept trying to fight us.
text to self
His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love. This was Slim, the jerkline skinner. (Page 33)
Slim makes me think of a really intense person such as Gandalf or Chuck Norris. Everyone respects him and he's kind of the leader. He sounds like a very respectable guy.
text to self
Text:
"...used ta dress up Sundays even when he wasn't going no place..."(pg 19)
My connection:
"This reminds me of myself. Somedays i just feel like dressing up. Sure i get stares,(like when i was in the parking lot of walmart doing the dance to 'crank dat' in a red floor lenghth formal) but i dont care i like to do it.
Type of connection:
text to self
Text:
"Brang a gallon of whisky right in here and says, 'Drink hearty boys' Christmas comes but once a year."
My Connection:
This reminds me of last Christmas. My cousins Brigit and Bruce were visiting from africa and they were talking about how when they were home, instead of people sitting down as a family to celebrate, like we did, people woud go aroud the village to everyone's house and eat a little and drink a little. Bruce said that everyone ussually ended up drunk with a full belly without having to pay a dime.
Type of connnection:
text to self
Text:
" After a moment the ancient dog walked in through the open door. He gazed about with mild, half-blind eyes. He sniffed, and then lay down an put his head between his paws...The dog raised his head, but when Curley jerked out, the grizzled head sank to the floor again." page 37
My connection:
When I was little I remember my Great Grandparents having a little dog, Toto, that was blinded, deaf, and mute. I felt really bad for Toto; he was old and the description of the dog in the book made me think of Toto.
Type of connection:
text to self
"He said, 'This guy Curley sounds like a son-of-a-bitch to me. I don't like mean little guys.'" (pg. 27)
My connection:
This reminds me of a kid I went to school with in Missouri. His name was Taylor, and he was always picking fights, and he was really short. He liked to tease me about my hair a lot...
Type of connection:
Text to self
Text:
The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted.
My connection:
This reminds me of a summer that I went to once. It was very drab, and I never went back because the people were scary.
Type of connection:
text to self
#2
Text:
George got up and went over to Lennie's bunk and sat down on it. "I hate that kinda bastard," he said. "I seen plenty of'em. Like the old guy says, Curly don't take no chances. He always wins." He thought for a moment...
My connection:
This part reminded me of how when I was little, whenever my little sister and I would fight, she would always win because she was younger. Even if it was entirely her fault, I would always get in trouble. However, when my older sister and I would fight, she would get in trouble.
Type of connection:
text to self
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