It’s a long time ago since I’ve posted something here, so..
This is Declan Galbraith singing Love Of My Life.
In this video I think he is about 14 years old. Today he’s 16 and he lives in England. His voice has change a bit since this video was made though. But I still like listen to him and this was the first song I heard him sing so I really like it! His voice is so beautiful, I think ^^
Hope you enjoy it, and I hope you leave a comment 🙂
You can tell that Lennie and George have known each other for a very long time when you see how well they know each other and how they work together. George know that Lennie is retarded and that he forget things quickly, so George have to make sure he doesen`t forget important things, like what Lennie have to do if they get in trouble. George make Lennie repeating the instructions he is given until he remember. When you read this, you understand they have been through it before and know how to look after each other. George know that he have to do the talking when they ask for a new job somewhere, and tells Lennie to be quiet. George know Lennie is a good worker and want people to see that before they understand he is dumb.
You can also tell that they`ve been friends for a while when George talks about Lennie’s aunt Clara, who is dead. George know that she would wanted him to look after Lennie, this means George knows Lennie and his family very well. So well that he says that if he were in Lennie’s family he would have shoot himself. George is very bored of Lennie, and sometimes talk about how much he could have done if he had been without Lennie. George know that Lennie wont survive without him, and stay with him even though he is tired.
Lennie and George also have a dream together, about having their own ranch, with a lot of animals, since Lennie love soft things with fur, and George knows that very well. I think that only very good friends can have a dream together, about living together. You also get to know that they`ve been on other ranches before, working together to get money, so they can make their dream come true some day.
1. John Steinbecks novel “The Grapes of Wrath”, considered by many to be his finest work, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940.
2. John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California.
3. Three of John Steinbeck’s books who were made into Hollywood films:
Topoli (Of Mice and Men, Iran), Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men.
4. “Of Mice and Men” were written in 1937.
5. Steinbeck served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during the Second World War.
6. In September of 1964, Steinbeck was awarded the United States Medal Of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
7. John Steinbecks museum is called The National Steinbeck Center.
8. He was 66 years when he died.
9. The novel “The Moon is down”, is presumed to take place in Norway.10. Of Mice ad Men tells the story of two Anglo-American ranch workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, in California during the Great Depression. George Milton is quite small, intelligent, and cynical, but caring he is friends with Lennie. He looks after Lennie and dreams of a better life.
Lennie is physically strong, but retarded he travels with George and dreams of having his own farm with rabbits. He can`t control his own strenght who results in a series of accidental killings when animals and eventually humans try to escape him.
At the ranch, Candy offers Lennie and George work so they can by the farm by the end of the month. But things change when Lennie accidentally kills Curley`s wife, the ranch owners`son.
Lennie and George hope one day to fulfill their shared dream of settling down on their own piece of land. George realize he is doomed to a life in loneliness and wants to spare Lennie a painful death when the violent Curley finds out. George shoots Lennie in the back of his head before the mob finds him.
The characters in this story:
Cordelia– I would like to describe Cordelia as a pure evil, selfish and horrible girl. I really, really don`t like girls like her. She is playing this little game of her. Everybody has to do as she says, as she were some kind of princess, and she is good at manipulating people, make them do as she says, make them want to be her friend even though she is so mean. She likes to control peoples life. It just make me sick.. She is a bad person.
Carol– She is kind of mean. But I guess she`s been manipulated by Cordelia, and she probably don`t have her own opinions, or maybe not even her own will. She don`t understand that what she is doing is wrong, or, maybe she just is cruel, like Cordelia..
Grace– I think she is just afraid of what Cordelia might do if she don`t do what she says. I don`t think Grace is a bad person, deep inside, just a coward. But how should I know, I don`t feel like I get to know her that well in the story..
Elaine– Interesting girl. First she is afraid of Cordelia, of what she might do to her if she don`t listen. So she do whatever Cordelia says. But she know that is wrong, and in the end, she finds out that Cordelia can`t hurt her, and that she never really had to listen to her, or do what she said. Elaine see how stupid she has been, and that she was a real coward, letting Cordelia control her life. So she finally walks away. I think that makes her a strong person, a brave person, a person who is admirable!
Elaine`s mother– She is nice, seems to take good care of Elaine. I think it was a good thing that she called Carol and Cordelia`s parents. Not more to say about her.
The theme of this story:
Maybe that even children can be so cruel and manipulating? The author is probably trying to tell us that we can`t let other people control us and tell us what to do by threatening us and such..
What I like and dislike about the story:
I like the end, because it was about time that someone finally was brave enough to just walk away from that bitch (Cordelia). Go Elaine!
I dislike.. uhm, I don`t know, really… Maybe that I didn`t get to know Grace so well, think she only was in the story at the beginning.
Yay 😀 Kingdom hearts, the playstation game!
I`m not very good playing it, but it`s really fun though 😉
This is the ending song, Simple and Clean by Utada Hikaru.
Think it`s a very nice song 🙂
Enjoy, and please comment!
Five admirable characters from Huckleberry Finn.
Huckleberry Finn: Is admirable because he is a very good boy, he is brave and smart. He helps a slave to escape, his friend Jim.
Jim: Is admirable because he is very kind and always have fate in people, even though they`re not telling the thetruth.
Mrs. Waton: Is admirable because she in th end let Jim be free and not a slave anymore.
Mrs. Douglas: Is admirable because she is a very kind and caring old lady.
Tom Sawyer: Is admirable because he is nice to Huck and one of his best friends.
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in 1884.
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn can best be described as a classic novel.
Huck Finn and Tom sawyer each received 6000 dollars when they found money that the robbers had hidden in the cave.
Huck`s Pap returns because he want`s Huck money.
When Jim first sees Huck Finn on the island, he thinks Huck is going to tell Miss Watson where he is.
Jim runs away from Miss Watson because she was going to sell him to a save-trader from New Orleans.
Huck escapes to Jackson Island ad discovers that he is not the only one running away, because he meets Jim.
Mark Twain’s approach to the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn is that racism is wrong by writing how slaves was treated and how a young boy like Huck helps a slave because he don`t want Jim, the slave to be sold..
I think Lennie is a good person. Because I don`t think he mean to hurt anyone. He is friendly and nice. He care much about animals, but he don`t know his own strenght. That is very dangerous.
Curley and his wife should talk more to Lennie and learn him to know his own strenght. They should not be angry at him, even though he do something wrong. They should be patient and tell him how to do things right, and learn him to control his temper better.
Once upon a time there was three bears who lived in a house in the forest. Two big bears, and a little one. They were a happy family. One day when they was going to eat dinner, neither of the three bears wanted to have the same food. The mother bear wanted a salad, the father bear wanted some meat, and the little bear wanted a pizza. Unfortunately, they didn`t have any pizza, so they had to go all the way down to the mall to buy some, because the little bear didn`t want any thing else, if I remember right, he was a quite spoiled little bear.. While they were gone, a little, blond girl came by their house and noticed that some idiots had left the door unlocked. As the curious little girl she was, she walked inside. “Wow, nice house” She said, with her annoying, bright voice. Then she walked into the kitchen, where she found some meat and salad on the kitchen table. “I think I`m going to eat the salad, I`m a little hungry, but the meat will only make me fat.. I mean, I don`t want to be fat, fat peoples are ugly. Oh, my god, I`m talking to myself again” She laughed. ” I have to stop doing that, people can think I`m crazy or something`.. I`m not crazy. It`s true Oh, I talked to myself again, damn it..” She grabbed the salad and walked out of the kitchen and into the living room. It was a big sofa there, a little chair and a big chair. She sat down on the little chair and ate her salad. “I wonder who owns this house, I better get out of here before they are coming back, since I ate they`re food.. Oh, damn, I talked to myself again. It`s probably because I`m sleepy, yes, maybe there is a place for me to sleep here?” She walked up the stair and into a bed room with three beds. A big one, a not so big one and a little one. The get the best beauty sleep she used to sleep in a big bed, so, she choose the big one, of course.. It was soft and warm, so she fell asleep soon. And of course, while she were asleep, the three bears came back from they`re visit at the mall. The mother bear saw that someone had forgot to lock the door, and that someone else had walked into their house. She turned her head and looked at the father bear. “Didn`t you lock the door?” He looked surprised at her. “Uhm, n-no.. I was to busy, thinking about.. about… if I`m going to eat the meat with sauce or not for dinner. ” You`re stupid dad..” The little bear said. Then they walked inside. ” Oh my god! Someone have eaten my healthy, chicken and pasta salad!” The mother bear cried, she was on a diet, and ate only salad. From the living room thy heard the little bear crying out loud too. ” Aaahh! Someone have been sitting in my precious chair! The only one not crying or screaming was the father bear. But that didn`t last for long, because he walked up the stair and found the blond sleeping girl in his own bed. He didn`t know what to say at first. Then he tried to talk to her ” Excuse me.. ” By hearing the dark voice of the big father bear the girl woke up at once. Still almost asleep she looked up on the big bear beside the bed. ” ” Oh, oh my.. You.. You`re a bear! A bear! I am so sorry, I was tired, and the door was open.. She stopped. The bear looked at her with big, dark brown eyes. ” Yo have nice blond hair.. ” He said. The girl didn`t understand, he didn`t seem to be angry. “Thank you, but, again, I`m sorry for sleeping in you bed, but you see.. ” She didn`t get the chance to say anymore, because the big father bear was so hungry after walking to the mall and back and wondering if he was going to have sauce to the meat or not. So, he actually ate her up. But she didn`t taste well, she was skinny. So when he walked down again, he sat on the kitchen eating sauce the rest of the evening, while the little bear ate cold pizza in is now, not so precious anymore, chair and the mother bear gave up on being on a diet and ate some chocolate she had found in the fridge from last week. The father bear never told the other two bears about the blond girl, he thought it was for the best.
And that is the end of this weird fairytale.. About three hungry bears and a quite dumb girl 😛
Tina 