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The Goofy Goobers Jessica Trionfi Stephanie Light Rachel Watson Grace Supplee

Okay, so I am the illustrator of the group. And I have gone on a picture rampage. Yeah....here we go! Of Mice and Men Pictures:





The Pearl Pictures:

I will try and find more pictures for The Pearl, but this is it for now!

__**Character Analyst-**__ wrote by Rachel Watson __Kino__- He is young, strong, and has longish black hair. He is of mexican descent so he has a darker shade of skin and his eyes are described as warm, fierce, and bright. He is also decribed to have a thin, course, mustache. In the beginning of the story, Kino has a kind personality and worries about providing for his young and growing family. Towards the end he becomes gready, mean, and selfish as he found "The Pearl of the World."
 * The Pearl:**

__Juana__- She is decribed to have dark eyes, long black hair that she braids into two braids and ties the ends with green ribbon. Juana does not change thoughout the book. She kept telling Kino to get rid of the pearl as it was of "evil magic." She seems to have a very strong religous faith.

__Coyotito__- He is the young son of Juana and Kino. He seems to represent innocence and good in family with a pearl that does more harm than good. In the end, Coyotito payed the ultimate price, death.

__George-__ He is described to be small and slender with defined features. His eyes are decribed as restless and he is said to have a thin and bony nose. He wears a denim jacket and denim pants with a black shapeless hat. George is the smart more rational one but towards the end his personality changes and it causes him to kill Lennie which I don't think he would have done.
 * Of Mice and Men:**

__Lennie-__ He is descried to be huge with wide shoulders and large, pale eyes. Lennie seems to have a mental disorder which causes him to not know right from wrong. He is, in my opinion, the innocence of this story. One of his favorite things to do is pet animals, mainly mice and rabbits. In the end, he pets Curly's wife's hair and he pulls it so hard that it breaks her neck and kills her. This causes George to kill him because George did not know what would happen to Lennie if he was charged or if Curly got a hold of him.

**Vocabulary** By. Jessica Trionfi **The Pearl:**
 * 'A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is separate from all other towns, so that there are no two towns alike." Page 27
 * In this sentence, it is explaining the moment Kino found the pearl and after he finds it, the news spreads through the town like wildfire.
 * "But Kino's face shone with prophecy. "My son will read and open the books, and my son will write and will know writing. And my son will make numbers, and these things will make us free because he will know-he will know and through him we will know."" Page 33
 * A prophecy is a prediction of what will come in the future.
 * "The wind screamed over the Gulf and turned the water white, and the mangroves plunged like frightened cattle, and a fine sandy dust arose from the land and hung in a stifling cloud over the sea." Page 86
 * Mangroves are trees or shrubs that grow in muddy, tropical, coastal climates.
 * "The wind cried and whisked in the brush, and the family went on monotonously, hour after hour. They passed no one." Page 90
 * As they went monotonously, they did not change.

**Of Mice And Men:**
 * "The flame of the sunset lifted from the mountain tops and dusk came into the valley, and a half darkness came in among the willows and the sycamores." Page 10
 * Sycamores are the largest deciduous trees, and are an American Plane Tree.
 * "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted."
 * A bunk house is where Lennie and George stayed. It consists of bunks for each occupant with a personal section, with one door and one window.
 * "George said, "She's gonna make a mess. They's gonna be a bad mess about her. She's a jail bait all set on trigger. That Curley got his work cut out for him. Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain't no place for a girl, specially like her."" Page 51
 * In this statement of George's is a foreshadow of what is to come. When he sais "jail bait" he is saying she is going to cause a lot of trouble on the ranch.

Foreshadowing.....by Stephanie Light Those are just some of the foreshadowing events in these to books.
 * When Candy says that he should of shot his dog instead of someone else is forshadowing when George shoots Lennie. He wanted to be the one to do it not the other guys.
 * When George tells Lennie that Curlys' wife will only bring trouble-when she starts talkiing to Lennie in the barn and its cause 2 people to die. Lennie and Curlys' wife.
 * In the Pearl when Juana tells Kino to destroy that pearl before it destorys us. It does destroy them, in the end. It destroys there family and they end up not having a cent more then they already have.