1. Vocabulary Idioms Allusions

2. VOCABULARY: Part 4 HAME – part of a horse’s collar
CIVIL CODE – a written set of laws
FAWNING – trying to gain favor by acting in a slavish (subservient) manner

3. VOCABULARY: Part 4 BORING – penetrating APPREHENSION – dread
SULLENNESS – bad temper
AVERTED – cast down
TATTERED – torn; ragged
MEAGER – poor; scanty
ALOOF – distant; reserved

4. IDIOMS: Part 4 BOOBY HATCH – insane asylum
COVER ‘IM UP – protect him, make excuses for him, cover up for him
DOPED OUT – figured out
STRUNG UP ON A TREE – hanged, lynched

5. ALLUSIONS: Part 4
ROLL YOUR HOOP – A popular amusement of children in the past. Candy’s way of telling Curley’s wife she is young and immature.

6. Consider…
In Part 4, Crooks’ character changes after his encounter with each person who enters his room. Compare how Crooks is before and after he talks to the following people:
a) Lennie, b) Candy, and c) Curley’s wife