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**TRIPLE E!!!** **Erin Lucas** ** Emma Fink ** ** Emily Downey ** **Of Mice, Men, and Pearls ** In this novel, there are two characters that we can hear the thoughts of and many other supporting characters. The two protagonists are living very poorly, but their main goal in life is to make a wonderful life for themselves. One day, they catch a big break that will eventually lead them to fulfilling their dream. When that big event happens in the lives of the two protagonists, they make many new friends that they wouldn't have had if they hadn't caught that break. However, things change very quickly. All of the sudden, their big break wasn't as helpful as they thought it would be. They quickly make plans to get out of it, but still succeed with making their dream come true. However, one of the main characters commits murder on an impulse, so the two main characters are forced to flee. People come after them, and eventually, a very important character in the book gets shot in the head.

Which book was I talking about? //Of Mice and Men? The Pearl?// I could have been talking about either one. In //Of Mice and Men//, George and Lennie get a job bucking barley and they hope that it will help pay for their plot of land they have their eye on. However, Lennie accidentally kills another worker's wife, and they are forced to run away. Eventually, George shoots Lennie in the back of the head. In //The Pearl//, Kino and Juana want to make a good life for themselves and their son, Coyotito. One day, Kino finds a great pearl and they plan to sell it, but it turns out the pearl has no value. Even so, someone tries to steal the pearl, and Kino kills them. They flee the scene, and eventually, Coyotito gets shot and killed. The books are very similar, so similar that a skeletal plot line could be given and you wouldn't know whether it was //Of Mice and Men// or //The Pearl// being discussed.

-Emma Fink

Of Mice and Men- "You'd drink out of a gutter if you was thirsty." -Chp 1 (George)

"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place....With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a darn about us." -Chp 1 (George)

"We could live offa the fatta the lan'." -Chp 3 (Lennie)

"Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land." -Chp 4 (Crooks)

"No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know." -Chp 6(George)

"The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again." -Chp 6

The Pearl-
"But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods both." -Chp 2

"...there were more illusions than realities." -Chp 2

"For his dream of the future was real and never to be destroyed, and he had said, 'I will go,' and that made a real thing too. To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there." - Chp 4

"This pearl has become my soul... If I give it up, I shall lose my soul." -Chp 5 (Kino)

"And then Kino's brain cleared from its red concentration and he knew the sound--the keening, moaning, rising hysterical cry from the little cave in the side of the stone mountain, the cry of death." -Chp 6

"And the music of the pearl drifted to a whisper and disappeared." -Chp 6

-Emily Downey

The Pearl of the World

The roundest pearl in the world!

Rabbits!



Corn Cakes!

Probably better than what Kino had...

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