1. The Island of the Misfits Crooks Room in Chapter 4 SET UP your NOTES
Essential Questions: Who are the Misfits in OMAM? Why do they all come into Crooks’ room? What is the importance of this chapter?
Questions and Main Ideas
Isolated room
Compare this to that of the natural beginning and the bunkhouse. What differences do you notice?
Answers and Notes
Shows the discrimination that “misfits” have to deal with (not just Crooks-think about who enters that room during the chapter)
- The natural beginning is….
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2. The Island of the Misfits Crooks Room in Chapter 4
Isolated room
Shows the discrimination that “misfits” have to deal with (not just Crooks-think about who enters that room during the chapter)
Compare this to that of the natural beginning and the bunkhouse. What differences do you notice?
Everything is Broken
Split collars, broken harnesses, tattered books
Who/What else is broken?
Light vs. Dark
“I seen your light…”
“…meager yellow light…”
Who sees this light? What can this symbolize?
Plight of the Oppressed People
Crooks is from a higher background but is still treated poorly
Needs someone to listen to him
How can discrimination be solved? How can we break down discrimination and isolation?
Dream gives hope to misfits
What happens when we work together towards a common goal?
Men become Mice
“They left all the weak ones here”
Curley’s wife has the upper hand and seems to end all the dreams of the weak
Are women the source of all evil? What can this foreshadow in the book?