100 PONITS Lennie gravitates toward soft animals like the
mice and rabbits. How does the early inclusion of
this characteristic foreshadow later events in the story? Support your ideas with specific evidence from the text.

Explanation:

Literally, the reason that Lennie likes these kinds of small animals is that he likes to pet them.  In Chapter 1, that is what he talks about wanting to do.  We also see this because his Aunt Clara gave him a rubber mouse he did not like it because it was no good to pet.

I think that figuratively, this is meant to show how childish Lennie is and how much he depends on George.  He is so obsessed with little things that he can pet that he seems like a child.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

c. barbarians with unexpected intelligence