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• Metaphor

  A direct comparison of generally unlike objects NOT using "like" or "as"
• Juxtaposition

  The act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side
• Social / Historical Context
• Thesis Statement: Of Mice and Men shows the damaging effects of isolation upon an individual. Discuss.
• Evidence/Example

  Draws from the text in support by pointing to an instance and using quotations
• Explanation

  Explains what the evidence/example demonstrates in relation to the argument
• Body paragraph structure

  • Point
  • Expand
  • Evidence
  • Explanation
  • Link to essay topic
• Curley's wife: 'I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny'
• Steinbeck: 'Hardly none of [the men] ever travel together'
• Ranchmen: 'After a long time they get mean'
• George: 'If [he] was alone [he] could live so easy'
• Ranchmen: 'Ain't got no people'
• Crooks: 'A guy needs somebody - to be near him'
• Ranchmen: 'Ever' guy got land in his head'
• Lennie: 'Wished [he] could put [Lennie] in a cage with about a million mice'
• Ranchmen: 'All the weak ones'
• Steinbeck highlights that those who are mentally strong and self-assured are able to flourish in such harsh conditions