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“Once they were out the door, Lizzie said goodbye and scurried away, as if Lina’s bad luck were a disease she might catch.”
“But Granny rarely went out, Lina told herself… She didn’t really need a new coat, did she? Besides, how much could a few pencils cost? She could probably get a coat for Granny and some pencils.”
“It was like hunger, what she felt. It was the same as when her hand sometimes seemed to reach put by itself to grab a piece of food. It was too strong to resist.”
“ They say that builders made the city. But who kade builders? Who made us?I think the answer must be somewhere outside Ember.”
“ The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren’t the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.”
“What was he thinking? If he still had light bulbs when everyone else in Ember had run out, would he enjoy sitting it his lit room while the rest of the city drowned in darkness?Possessions couldn’t save him.”
“He jolted to a stop. Stand still and wait- that was his automatic response. In the distance he heard a dip in the sound of the singing, some startled voices breaking the flow, but then the song rose again, defying the darkness.”
“As she watched, the circle sank very slowly down, until it was hidden, except for a gleam of brightness, behind the leaves.”
“A little later, it seemed to her that her eyes were blurring. There was a fuzziness in the sky, especially around the edges. it took a while for her to realize what was making the fuzziness. “Light”, she said”
We came down the river from the Pipeworks and found the way to another place. It is green here and very big. Light comes from the sky. You must follow the instructions in this message and come on the river. Bring food with you. Come as quickly as you can.”
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Everyone has some darkness inside. It’s like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets. (The City of Ember Quotes)Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
People in Ember rarely threw anything away. They made the best possible use of what they had. Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you’ll know what no one else knows, and that’s always useful. Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren’t the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren’t the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison. Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember
Wouldn’t it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful.Jeanne DuPrau The City of Embe1. “The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you’ll know what no one else knows, and that’s always useful.”
2. “There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It’s not just outside, it’s inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It’s like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.”
3. “What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.”
4. “She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart – – was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend. – City of Ember –.”
5. “Remember the city, the city remember Where treasure is hidden under the ground The city, the city, always remember That’s where the treasure will be found.”
8. “The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren’t the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.”
9. “Wouldn’t it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful – a blue sky.”
10. “What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?”
12. “It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.”
13. “I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.”
14. “People didn’t make life, so they can’t destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can’t touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.”
15. “It wasn’t because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.”
16. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., “Strength to Love, ” 1963.”
18. “Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. – People of Sparks –.”
19. “The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.”
20. “Everyone has some darkness inside. It’s like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.”
22. “What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison...”
23. “Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.”
25. “The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard – especially if a lot of people prayed at once – maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?”
26. “Full to the brim with hope and love and
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All Characters Henry Fleming (the youth) Wilson (the loud young soldier, the youth's friend) Jim Conklin (the tall soldier) Tattered man Henry's mother Insulting officer Cheerful soldier Lieutenant Dead soldier
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He had burned several times to enlist. Tales of great movements shook the land. They might not be distinctly Homeric, but there seemed to be much glory in them. He had read of marches, sieges, conflicts, and he had longed to see it all. His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in color, lurid with breathless deeds.
He finally concluded that the only way to prove himself was to go into the blaze, and then figuratively to watch his legs to discover their merits and faults. He reluctantly admitted that he could not sit still and with a mental slate and pencil derive an answer. To gain it, he must have blaze, blood, and danger, even as a chemist requires this, that, and the other.
The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. ... The youth looked keenly at the ashen face. ... He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.
The battle reflection that shone for an instant in the faces on the mad current made the youth feel that forceful hands from heaven would not have been able to have held him in place if he could have got intelligent control of his legs.
Directly he was working at his weapon like an automatic affair. He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. ... He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire.
Under foot there were a few ghastly forms motionless. They lay twisted in fantastic contortions. Arms were bent and heads were turned in incredible ways. It seemed that the dead men must have fallen from some great height to get into such positions. They looked to be dumped out upon the ground from the sky.
Into the youth's eyes there came a look that one can see in the orbs of a jaded horse. His neck was quivering with nervous weakness and the muscles of his arms felt numb and bloodless. His hands, too, seemed large and awkward as if he was wearing invisible mittens. And there was a great uncertainty about his knee joints.
He had fled, he told himself, because annihilation approached. He had done a good part in saving himself, who was a little piece of the army. ... It was all plain that he had proceeded according to very correct and commendable rules. His actions had been sagacious things. They had been full of strategy. They were the work of a master's legs.
He was being looked at by a dead man who was seated with his back against a columnlike tree. The corpse was dressed in a uniform that once had been blue, but was now faded to a melancholy shade of green. The eyes, staring at the youth, had changed to the dull hue to be seen on the side of a dead fish. The mouth was open. Its red had changed to an appalling yellow. Over the gray skin of the face ran little ants. One was trundling some sort of a bundle along the upper lip. ... The dead man and the living man exchanged a long look.
The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its complexities and powers, its grim processes, fascinated him. He must go close and see it produce corpses.
Because of the tattered soldier's question he now felt that his shame could be viewed. He was continually casting sidelong glances to see if the men were contemplating the letters of guilt he felt burned into his brow.
At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
The simple questions of the tattered man had been knife thrusts to him. They asserted a society that probes pitilessly at secrets until all is apparent. ... [H]is crime ... was sure to be brought plain by one of those arrows which cloud the air and are constantly pricking, discovering, proclaiming those things which are willed to be forever hidden.
As he watched his envy grew ... Swift pictures of himself, apart, yet in himself, came to him—a blue desperate figure leading lurid charges with one knee forward and a broken blade high—a blue, determined figure standing before a crimson and steel assault, getting calmly killed on a high place before the eyes of all. He thought of the magnificent pathos of his dead body.
The fight was lost. The dragons were coming with invincible strides. The army, helpless in the matted thickets and blinded by the overhanging night, was going to be swallowed. War, the red animal, war, the blood swollen god, would have bloated fill.
Yeh've been grazed by a ball. It's raised a queer lump jest as if some feller had lammed yeh on th' head with a club.
The youth took note of a remarkable change in his comrade ... He seemed no more to be continually regarding the proportions of his personal prowess. He was not furious at small words that pricked his conceits. He was no more a loud young soldier. There was about him now a fine reliance. He showed a quiet belief in his purposes and his abilities.
His self pride was now entirely restored. In the shade of its flourishing growth he stood with braced and self-confident legs, and since nothing could now be discovered he did not shrink from an encounter with the eyes of judges, and allowed no thoughts of his own to keep him from an attitude of manfulness. He had performed his mistakes in the dark, so he was still a man.
It was revealed to him that he had been a barbarian, a beast. He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion. Regarding it, he saw that it was fine, wild, and, in some ways, easy. ... [H]e was now what he called a hero. And he had not been aware of the process. He had slept and, awakening, found himself a knight.
Within him, as he hurled himself forward, was born a love, a despairing fondness for this flag which was near him. It was a creation of beauty and invulnerability. It was a goddess, radiant, that bended its form with an imperious gesture to him. It was a woman, red and white, hating and loving, that called him with the voice of his hopes. Because no harm could come to it he endowed it with power.
He discovered that the distances, as compared with the brilliant measurings of his mind, were trivial and ridiculous. The stolid trees, where much had taken place, seemed incredibly near. The time, too, now that he reflected, he saw to have been short. He wondered at the number of emotions and events that had been crowded into such little spaces.
A spluttering sound had begun in the woods. It swelled with amazing speed to a profound clamor that involved the earth in noises. The splitting crashes swept along the lines until an interminable roar was developed. To those in the midst of it it became a din fitted to the universe. It was the whirring and thumping of gigantic machinery, complications among the smaller stars.
The mob of blue men hurling themselves on the dangerous group of rifles were again grown suddenly wild with an enthusiasm of unselfishness ... they were in a state of frenzy, perhaps because of forgotten vanities, and it made an exhibition of sublime recklessness.
The youth's friend went over the obstruction in a tumbling heap and sprang at the flag as a panther at prey. He pulled at it and, wrenching it free, swung up its red brilliancy with a mad cry of exultation even as the color bearer, gasping, lurched over in a final throe and, stiffening convulsively, turned his dead face to the ground.
He felt a quiet manhood, nonassertive but of sturdy and strong blood. He knew that he would no more quail before his guides wherever they should point. He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was
He moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftsman. He was a jerkline skinner, the prince of the ranch, capable of driving ten, sixteen, even twenty mules with a single line to the leaders. He was capable of killing a fly on the wheeler’s butt with a bull whip without touching the mule. There was a gravity in his manner and a quiet so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke, His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love. This was Slim, the jerkline skinner. – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 2. Slim, in his first real appearance to George and Lennie, is described as a man of authority, and having inherent dignity and majesty to him.
His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. His hands, large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer. – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 2. Describing Slim, the most respected man on the ranch. He listened carefully to people and understood. A man of deep wisdom, he is able to look beyond the obvious, probes deeply into a situation and is an excellent judge of people. Not surprising then that the men look up to him and depend on him for support and guidence.
Slim looked through George and beyond him. “Ain’t many guys travel around together, ” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 2. Slim on the rarity of friendship and how the fear of other people stops people from building friendships with one another. This is why the friendship between George and Lennie is so special.
“Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.” – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 3. The wise, insightful and non-judgemental Slim is talking here about Lennie. He is such a “nice fella” he doesn’t see he is being targeted by Curley, whom Slim sees as filled with meanness.
Slim sat in silence for a moment. “Didn’t hurt the girl none, huh?” he asked finally. “Hell no. He just scared her. I’d be scared too, if he grabbed me. But he never hurt her. He jus’ wanted to touch that red dress, like he wants to pet them pups all the time.” “He ain’t mean, ” said Slim. “I can tell a mean guy from a mile off.” – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 3. George is talking to Slim about Lennie’s trouble in Weed, where the townspeople wanted to lynch him after he touched girl’s dress and she thought he was trying to rape her.
Slim had not moved. His calm eyes followed Lennie out of the door. “Jesus, ” he said. “He’s jes’ like a kid, ain’t he.” “Sure, he’s jes like a kid. There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong. – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 3. Slim and George see Lennie as a child.
“Carl’s right, Candy. That dog ain’t no good to himself. I wisht somebody’d shoot me if I got old an’ a cripple.” – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 3, Slim to Candy. The men try to convince Candy that it is all right to euthanize his dog. The suggestion is that once you get older and are unable to do physical work you are a burden and no use to anyone, even yourself. The same argument will come up again at the end of the novella when George must kill Lennie.
I think you got your han’ caught in a machine. If you don’t tell nobody what happened, we ain’t going to. But you jus’ tell an’ try to get this guy canned and we’ll tell ever’body, an’ then will you get the laugh. – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 3. After Lennie crushes Curley’s hand, Slim tells Curley what to do – say the injury was the result of an accident with a machine. If it were discovered that Lennie had injured Curley, Lennie would likely have been fired.
“Couldn’ we maybe bring him in an’ they’ll lock him up? He’s nuts, Slim. He never done this to be mean.” Slim nodded. “We might, ” he said. “If we could keep Curley in, we might, But Curley’s gonna want to shoot ‘im. Curley’s still mad about his hand. An’ s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good, George.” – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 5. George is wondering what he should do about Lennie after Curley’s wife’s body is discovered. But Slim understands Lennie’s fate and that there will be no trial or mercy or for Lennie. The kind of mental problems Lennie had were not understood at that time. Slim appears to be encouraging George to carry out a mercy killing of Lennie.
Slim came directly to George and sat down beside him, sat very close to him. “Never you mind, ” said Slim. “A guy got to sometimes.” – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 6. Slim on George’s killing of Lennie. Here Slim takes on the role of priest, comforting George after he just killed Lennie, suggesting it was the right thing to do in the circumstances. George kills Lennie to spare him jail or a painful death at the hands of the mob, after Lennie kills Curley’s wife by shaking her so hard her neck breaks.Power in ‘Of Mice & Men’ By Hannah & Joe. Slim Slim, with his God-like eyes whose “ear heard more than was said to him” and whose “slow speech had overtones.
Presentation on theme: Power in ‘Of Mice & Men’ By Hannah & Joe. Slim Slim, with his God-like eyes whose “ear heard more than was said to him” and whose “slow speech had overtones.— Presentation transcript:
2 Slim Slim, with his God-like eyes whose “ear heard more than was said to him” and whose “slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought” is the leader on the ranch. He is the man in whom the others place their confidence. Even George opens up to him after he tells George Hope you get on my team. It is Slim who comforts George and offers him forgiveness and comfort after the shooting of Lennie: You hadda George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me”. This shows that Slim is sympathetic to George as he knew that George had to do it for Lennie’s benefit and for everyone else’s as Lennie is trouble but not on purpose.
3 Slim Slim is also a natural leader because he's wise and judicious: ‘Slim’s word is law’. This gives him a position of authority on the farm but, unlike Curley, he doesn't have to exploit or humiliate others to maintain discipline. He has earnt it through having the respect of the men.
4 George.. George has power in many ways and he is capable of doing many things with this power. George has physical power as he is able to do serious farm work (but not as much as Lennie.). However, because he pulls Lennie’s strings, he is in control of Lennie’s physical power; he can make Lennie do what he wants, as shown in the fight. George is also clever enough to take care of both himself and Lennie in some very difficult situations; like them being able to leave Weed without being caught or worst.
5 George.. George is also emotionally powerful as he is able to withstand the pressures of being connected to someone like Lennie and even to do the most difficult task at the end (shooting Lennie and killing him). George also has power over Lennie as Lennie looks up to George as he isn’t clever enough to think things through as thoroughly as George can and will do whatever he tells him. ‘Sure we are, if you can gather up some dead willow sticks’.
6 Lennie.. Lennie doesn’t really have much power on the ranch but one sort of power that he does have is physical power. This is shown during the fight scene: ‘The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on the line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie’s big hand’.
7 Curley.. Curley is the son of the ranch boss. One of Curley’s defining characteristics is that he’s married to a woman he wants to control and can’t. Curley has a lot of power on the ranch because of his father's status on the ranch. Everyone is afraid of him because his father can fire them at any given time for any given reason.
Slim came directly to George and sat down beside him, sat very close to him. “Never you mind, ” said Slim. “A guy got to sometimes.” – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 6. Slim on George’s killing of Lennie. Here Slim takes on the role of priest, comforting George after he just killed Lennie, suggesting it was the right thing to do in the circumstances. George kills Lennie to spare him jail or a painful death at the hands of the mob, after Lennie kills Curley’s wife by shaking her so hard her neck breaks.Power in ‘Of Mice & Men’ By Hannah & Joe. Slim Slim, with his God-like eyes whose “ear heard more than was said to him” and whose “slow speech had overtones.
Presentation on theme: Power in ‘Of Mice & Men’ By Hannah & Joe. Slim Slim, with his God-like eyes whose “ear heard more than was said to him” and whose “slow speech had overtones.— Presentation transcript:
2 Slim Slim, with his God-like eyes whose “ear heard more than was said to him” and whose “slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought” is the leader on the ranch. He is the man in whom the others place their confidence. Even George opens up to him after he tells George Hope you get on my team. It is Slim who comforts George and offers him forgiveness and comfort after the shooting of Lennie: You hadda George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me”. This shows that Slim is sympathetic to George as he knew that George had to do it for Lennie’s benefit and for everyone else’s as Lennie is trouble but not on purpose.
3 Slim Slim is also a natural leader because he's wise and judicious: ‘Slim’s word is law’. This gives him a position of authority on the farm but, unlike Curley, he doesn't have to exploit or humiliate others to maintain discipline. He has earnt it through having the respect of the men.
4 George.. George has power in many ways and he is capable of doing many things with this power. George has physical power as he is able to do serious farm work (but not as much as Lennie.). However, because he pulls Lennie’s strings, he is in control of Lennie’s physical power; he can make Lennie do what he wants, as shown in the fight. George is also clever enough to take care of both himself and Lennie in some very difficult situations; like them being able to leave Weed without being caught or worst.
5 George.. George is also emotionally powerful as he is able to withstand the pressures of being connected to someone like Lennie and even to do the most difficult task at the end (shooting Lennie and killing him). George also has power over Lennie as Lennie looks up to George as he isn’t clever enough to think things through as thoroughly as George can and will do whatever he tells him. ‘Sure we are, if you can gather up some dead willow sticks’.
6 Lennie.. Lennie doesn’t really have much power on the ranch but one sort of power that he does have is physical power. This is shown during the fight scene: ‘The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on the line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie’s big hand’.
7 Curley.. Curley is the son of the ranch boss. One of Curley’s defining characteristics is that he’s married to a woman he wants to control and can’t. Curley has a lot of power on the ranch because of his father's status on the ranch. Everyone is afraid of him because his father can fire them at any given time for any given reason.
