2. What is structure?
You can analyse structure in your essay.
Structure is:
Certain punctuation that has been used for effect
Long descriptive complex sentences
Short angry simple sentences
The beginning, middle and end of the narrative
If anything foreshadows a later event and we are aware
that something will happen
3. Foreshadowing
Steinbeck uses foreshadowing a lot in OMAM.
Each events points to the fact that something will
happen at the end of the narrative – something bad.
Each of the points on the next slide foreshadow
something happening…
What do they all foreshadow?!
The most obvious use of foreshadowing is how
everything seems to hint at Lennie getting into
trouble and George having to save him again.
4. George and Lennie are
introduced as two men George warns Lennie to stay Candy feels regret that he didn’t
Lennie kills his mouse.
travelling together. They look away from Curley’s Wife shoot his dog himself
the same
Lennie always walks behind George states that Lennie
We are told early on that Lennie
George. He always copies what George plays solitaire always gets into trouble and he
loves to touch soft things.
George does. has to get him out of it.
George says to Lennie his life
George and Lennie are on the Lennie crushes Curley’s hand
Candy’s dog is shot would be so much better if he
run after Lennie got into trouble.
didn’t have to have him around
Curley’s Wife is told not to talk Lennie always talks about the
Lennie kills the puppy
to the other men on the ranch rabbits.
5. Useful vocabulary when talking about structure and
foreshadowing:
Foreshadowing
Structure
Doom
Inevitability
Fate
Inescapable
Forewarning
Unavoidable
Helplessness in own life
Tension
Foreboding
6. Sentence structure
There are 3 types of sentences lengths:
Simple (short), compound (middle using a connective)
and complex (long, many ideas joined up together)
Sometimes you can analyse a short sentence – usually
this shows frustration and anger at something (like
George) , or the realisation of a truth.
Have any of your quotes got short sentences that create
a particular effect on the reader?
