Journal 2

1. What point of view is your story told in?

This story is told in third person.

2. Is the point of view effective?

Yes, this is effective because it shows what all the characters are like and what they are doing in different scenes. Not just what the characters personalities from someones in the stories opinion.

3. What is one of the most important/memorable events that have happened so far? Think about that moment and re-tell it from another point of view. For example, if you were reading We All Fall Down as your Literature Circles novel you may re-write from Will’s fathers Point of View(min. 300 words)

Curley’s point of view at the fighting scene.

I walked into the room tryin’ to tell Slim I didn’ mean no harm. Slim kept on sayin’ that he was sick me. I couldn’ let the other guys see him standing up to me cause then they wouldn’ be afraid of me no more. When we walked in the room Slim was still mad. People in the room join in. Carlson told me that I should let my wife hang around and that she should stay home. Someone brought up my glove full of Vaseline. At that moment I felt real weak and like no one respected me. I needed to show them something to make them fear me again. I saw that big guy on his bed. He was smiling and this made me really mad. I called him,

“Hey what the hell are you laughing at?”

I then grabbed him and punched him in the eye. He was bleeding and sayin’ he doesn’t want to fight. I kept on hitting him hope he would soon give up. Then that George guy said to Lennie:

“Lennie fight back!”

I knew that I wouldn’t stand a chance against Lennie if he tried hard. So I punched him again and hoped he would give up. Lennie then grabbed my hand. It felt as if an elephant just stepped onto my hand. I felt every single bone in my hand snap and I started to scream in pain. George was yelling at Lennie to let go and he didn’t. He yelled a few more times and Lennie eventually let go. I collapsed to the floor with my hand and crumpled sack of skin. I didn’t know if my hand could be repaired. I heard Lennie saying that he didn’t mean to hurt me. I knew I was going to get revenge once my hand if fixed.

Slim bent down next to me and said;

“If anyone asks you got your hand stuck in a machine.”

I wasn’t going to tell anyone. I was going to get back in my own way.