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Word of mouse is an outstanding book that seems to have taken place in America. It doesn’t exactly say the setting, but you could tell by the details. Details such as the food, the language the characters speak, and also the way they speak. In this story, there are many secondary characters. One secondary character is Mikayla, a female, brown mouse. Isaiah first found Mikayla singing a beautiful melody. She took him to the Brophy household after she heard he lost his family. Isaiah learned that female mice weren’t supposed to sing so, in return for his stay, Isaiah helped Mikayla find the courage to show that she is different. During his time at the Brophy’s, he ran into the house of another secondary character, Hailey. While the teenager …show more content…
tried to get rid of Isaiah, he managed to communicate with her by typing on a keyboard. She was usually home from school, pretending to be sick.
She would get bullied because of how she looked. The main character in Word of Mouse is Isaiah. Isaiah is a bright blue mouse who was raised in a laboratory. He has ninety-six siblings but lost all of them during an escape. It was his big brother Benji’s idea to once and for all get out of the so-called, “Horrible Place”. Although, it all went downhill. All of his brothers and sisters had been recaptured except for Isaiah. Isaiah is a timid mouse and was full of sorrow once he realized he was alone. He wandered into the suburbs where he found other characters. One of them is Lucifer, a male, black sphynx cat. This breed of cat doesn’t have any fur. Lucifer is owned by the Brophy family and has attempted to attack Isaiah multiple times. Another secondary character is Mr. Brophy. Mr. Brophy works for Dr. Ledbetter, who captured Isaiah’s siblings. One day, Isaiah devised a plan to free his family that involved using Mr. Brophy’s truck. As he headed off to work, Isaiah and Mikayla’s family hopped on and used his car to get to Dr. Ledbetter’s lab. Thanks to Hailey, he and Dr. Ledbetter both got caught by officials from the ASPCA and Isaiah got his family …show more content…
back. The action started in the middle of Isaiah's escape from the research lab that he calls home with his ninety-six siblings. However, the escape attempt failed, and all the mice were recaptured except for Isaiah. He considered his options and decided to stay free in the hopes that his family would be able to join him.
Isaiah wandered into the suburbs where he found food. All of a sudden, the next day, he heard another mouse sing. The mouse was Mikayla whose family lives in the Brophy household. She took him to her family after she found out that he lost his own. During his time at the Brophy’s, he ran into the house of a teenager, Hailey. While Hailey tried to get rid of Isaiah, he managed to communicate with her by typing on a keyboard. One day, after finally telling his friends about his life in the lab, he realized that he should to free his family and devised a plan. Isaiah discovered that Mr. Brophy works in the laboratory and so they entered the premises in his truck when he went to work. He managed to free his siblings, however, they couldn’t get out because the door was closed. When Mr. Brophy saw them he called the head of the lab, Dr. Ledbetter, who was pleased to see Isaiah again. Hailey then arrived with officials from the ASPCA. After Isaiah freed his family, Hailey got the idea of taking Isaiah and his closest relations to an animal blessing day at her church. When the sight of the mice scared
the congregation, Hailey delivered a speech about being tolerant of differences. Everything settled down when Isaiah’s brother suggested that they do their duty and save the animals in another lab. This time they would be saving cats, something Isaiah agreed to do.
got away. he would come back in a better mood to be with his father.
with a nurse who had been taking care of Walter at the hospital he was staying at. She told him
to Alaska and was in the frontier. Unfortunately he was unable to survive, dieing of starvation.
members of his family begin to die off and or left him till around chapter 27, Jurgis is without a
calls for Allie. This marks his breakdown. It is then, because of Allie, that he realizes that
his father left his mother and him to start another life with another family. His mother
To the average reader, “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck may initially look very similar, but after carefully critiquing and comparing their abundance of differences, their opinion will change. Steinbeck found his inspiration for writing the novel after reading that poem. His novel is set in Salinas, CA during the 1900s and is about migrant farm wrokers while the poem is about the guilt felt by one man after he inadvertently ruins the “home” of a field mouse with his plow. Even though they are two different genres of literature, they share a similar intent. The poem is written in first person, while the novel is written in third person omniscient. The vocabulary used to provide imagery is also another subtle different. Being two different genres of literature, they are destined to have both differences and similarities, but the amount of differences outweighs the aspects that are the same.
...h. He didn’t get caught, everything went well and he finds that his life goes on. “We define ourselves by the choices we have made.” Even when Judah realized that he’s not doing the right thing, having someone else murder a Dolores; he doesn’t do anything to stop it. At the end, he just realizes that he can live with that.
In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck brings out the themes of Lonliness and companionship, and strengths and weaknesses through the actions, and quotations of the characters. Irony and foreshadowing play a large roll on how the story ends. Lennie and his habit of killing things not on purpose, but he is a victim of his own strength. George trying to pretend that his feelings for Lennie mean nothing. The entire novel is repetitive in themes and expressed views.
However, there is one fact I noticed. Thankfully, Samuel’s brother, Isaiah, adores him and shows so much patience; but, he made an interesting
From the poem To A Mouse by Robert Burns, John Steinbeck names his book Of Mice and Men. The poem To a Mouse is about a man who while plowing his field, comes across a mouse that he has accidentally slain. The mouse was in a little home that it has built to stay warm for the upcoming winter. Similarly, the man was plowing his field getting ready for the winter months. After all, both the mouse and the man were both doing their normal duties as mouse and farmer. However, the man, when he comes across the dead mouse is very shaken and upset that this event has occurred. In the same way, in the book Of Mice and Men when George must kill Lennie, George is similarly shaken and upset that this event had to have occurred. Both events were unplanned and not called for. Therefore, the title of this book is appropriate for the characters and events because life is never the way one plans it and things will happen that are uncalled for and unplanned.
images he leaves the reader with is George and Slim walking off as Curly says “ Now
and his brother Andrew and told them to get up and follow him so that
Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck. It is set in California during the great depression. The story follows two ranch hands who travel together and are very poor. Throughout the novel we witness many different philosophical references. Many different types of characters from this novel are reused in today’s society. Steinbeck also writes eloquently about the many different emotions, aspirations, and dreams of man.
Setting - Identify the physical (when/where) settings of the book. How do these settings affect the moods or emotions of the characters?