zz1 Spé B à Coubertin

  Section 3 From p. 70 ("Candy joined the attack with joy...") to p. 72 ("...he said miserably.") A child, and animal = at first, a child. he's not himself in the end. hand = paw Curley = like a terrier, a rat, flopping like a fish 1. Choreography a. Lennie thinks about the dream, and smiles. b. Curley thinks L is laughing at him. c. C punches L twice in the face. L. starts bleeding, and doesn't defend himself. d. George asks Lennie to defend himself. L. tries to, but C. keeps attacking him. e. G. orders L. to attack C.  f. L. crushes C.'s hand. g. G. orders L. to stop several times, and slaps him in the face. h. L. lets go of C.'s hand. 2. Lennie is presented as an animal. His hands turn to "paws" as soon as he starts defending himself. George orders him around the way he would with an attack dog ("I said, get him."). Curley too is compared to an attack dog, a "terrier," a little but aggressive species. Slim calls h...

Gr. B :  Section 1 from page 2 ("They had walked...") to page 3 ("...Look what I done.")  This passage comes right after a description of the natural landscape. There's a characterization process here, we meet George and Lennie for the first time. They are complete opposites, or maybe they complete each other. George = "sharp," "defined," "quick," but also "dark" and "restless." Lennie = "shapeless," sloping,", "heav[y]" and is also described as an animal (compared to a bear, he snorts like a horse, and he has paws).  Lennie also acts like a child ("Look what I done"). Innocence, truthfulness, cluelessness. George seems taciturn and broody. Adult, protector ? Innocence vs experience Truthfulness vs forgetfulness   Section 2  Candy = old, has a dog Slim = described as a "temple dancer," almost like a priest. Crooks = stable buck, black, Californian Carlson = kills Candy...

  Remarques générales - La construction, c'est à dire l'organisation des idées, est essentielle, il faut la signaler, l'expliciter, la rendre visible. Ne pas hésiter à abuser du vocabulaire type (firstly, subsequently, it follows that, then, eventually, etc.). De même, bien insister sur votre annonce de plan, sur votre problématique/question, et votre conclusion. - Si c'est trop court, quelques pistes : - citez davantage vos documents. - développez plus certaines de vos idées qui vous paraissent évidentes ( this story is dark ).  - évoquez d'autres sources, convoquez vos connaissances ( the Sublime, Romanticism, the Apollonian / Dionysian binary, the Gothic tropes, etc... ) - parlez plus lentement, soignez votre débit et votre prononciation. - si ce n'est déjà le cas, intégrez une troisième partie. - Pour les documents personnels de votre dossier personnel, privilégiez à tout prix les textes anglophones. C'est essentiel. Pour les documents d'art visuel, ...