As they approach the house on Croxley Road, Buddy is nervous and doesn’t want to go near the place but the twins are adamant that they want to see it. They finally arrive at 56, which is a dilapidated house with barricades across the doors and the windows boarded up. Jules, who is not scared Read More …
Buddy is having a good day at school. Mr Normington is off, his friends are back and he did well in his history speech. As they were leaving the class, some of the other students target Buddy by singing ‘My old man’s a dustman,’ a song aimed to embarrass Buddy. Charmian tells him to forget Read More …
Buddy spends the evening by himself at home doing his homework in the cold house. Writing about Richard the Lionheart’s death scares Buddy as he thinks about how he died, again showing his fascination with death. While getting ready for bed, Buddy notices that his dad is still not home and automatically starts thinking the Read More …
Chapter two begins with Buddy trying to walk to school without walking on cracks. He thinks that if he does this, he will not get in to trouble for wearing jeans and that he would not dies before he was sixty. We learn that he does not have enough money for the bus. Buddy is Read More …
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The book begins with Buddy stealing a £5 note from his mother’s purse, which we later discover is for a school trip to a castle. We learn that Buddy feels really bad about stealing the money but he does so because he does not want to miss another trip as he’s the only one in Read More …
Use these eight points to help you write your own speech or to analyse a speech, for either Junior or Leaving Cert English. Engage your audience by addressing them in the introduction. Say who you are and explain what you are going to talk about. Structure: Speeches must have a beginning, a middle and a Read More …
Section six begins with Lennie, who has gone to the ‘brush’ as George directed him to in section one. He sits down at the edge of the pool and says, “I di’n’t forget, you bet, God damn. Hide in the brush an’ wait for George.” While he is sitting there, he begins to hallucinate and Read More …
Lennie is in the barn panicking because he has killed his new puppy. It is a Sunday and the men are playing horse shoes in the yard. Lennie talks to the dead puppy and asks why he had to die. He thinks about what he has done and says that it isn’t bad enough that Read More …
George and the rest of the men have gone into town, leaving Lennie by himself on the ranch. Seeing a light in Crooks’ room, Lennie goes to the stable buck’s room and tries to make conversation with him. Crooks is immediately suspicious of Lennie and tells him that he is not welcome in his room Read More …
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