1. Now add a relevant example to back up your point:
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...“
 “God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy...”
 "I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it
so much I got to thinking maybe we would..."
Lennie:
 “If you don’ want me I can go off in the hills an’ find a cave. I can go away any time.”
 “We’re gonna have a little house...An’ live off the fatta the lan’...”
 “I like to pet nice things...”
 “I done another bad thing…”
Slim:
 “Ain’t many guys travel around together…I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the wide damn
world is sacred of each other.”
 “He ain’t mean...I can see Lennie ain’t a bit mean…”
Curley:
 “No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me.”
Curley’s wife:
 "I could have been in the movies and had nice clothes.”
 “I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”
 “You're all scared of each other, that's what..."
Crooks:
 “This here’s my room...I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in my room.”
 “Every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever
gets it. Just like heaven.”
Candy:
 “They’ll can me purty soon...I won’t have no place to go.”
 “I ought to have shot that dog myself , George. I shouldn’t of let no stranger shoot my dog.”
The Boss:
 "Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy.”
Then use a connective to link
another PEE (point, example
and explanation) to the one
you have just made…
Of Mice and Men
Question:
Make a point…
For example: “One of the ways that Steinbeck makes the read-
er aware of the theme of loneliness in his novel “Of Mice and
Men” is by making his characters discuss it. For example
Crooks, the black stable buck, says:
Use an example…
“A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody…a guy gets too lonely an' he
gets sick.”
Provide an explanation…
Crooks is lonely because he is made to live separately from the white
people on the ranch. No other black people work there, and the white
people think they can treat him badly if they want to because in 1930’s
America black and white people had different rights.”
When adding to
a point:
In addition…
Furthermore…
Besides…
Also…
In addition…
Furthermore…
As well as…
When
comparing
for differences:
In contrast…
Alternatively…
Compared with…
This is different
from…
On the other
hand…
However…
Whereas…
When
comparing
for similarities:
This is similar
to…
Similarly…
Likewise…
Equally…
As with…
Just as…
In the same
way...
This shows us
that…
This implies…
The impression
given here is
that…
This indicates…
This
reinforces…
What this shows
us is…
This signifies...
What this
suggests is
that...
This infers...
This depicts...
This demon-
strates...
The connotation
of this is that...
This makes me
think that...
This shows the
reader that...
Due to this the
reader thinks...
Then use a connective phrase
to link your explanation…