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I’ll copy and paste my outline so you have an idea of what my teacher is looking for:) similarities to Differences I. Introduction Paragraph a. Hook Money means something different to everyone, but in these two stories the contrast couldn’t be more drastic. __________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ b. Background In the Great Gatsby, money is in abundance and the life in high society is lived while taking shortcuts on the way there, while in Of Mice and Men, Lennie and George are very poor and are jumping between jobs to make an honest dollar so they can buy some land. ___________________________________________ _________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ c. Thesis ___ In the books “The Great Gatsby” and “Of Mice and Men” money plays a very different yet still significant role in both the stories that they tell and the time period itself. _________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ II. Similarities a. Topic Sentence (Body Paragraph) In both books the main characters are striving to achieve their goal or in this case the American dream. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ i. Detail 1 ___ [H]e stretched out his arms toward the dark water. . . . I . . . distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way. . . . When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished. . . This quote shows us what Gatsby’s dream is. _____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ii. Detail 2 ______ “Well,” said George, “we’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin’ to work, and we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof.”_this quote shows us Lennie and George’s American Dream. _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ b. Topic Sentence (Body Paragraph) In both stories women play a similar role__________________________________________________________________________ __ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ i. Detail 1 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ii. Detail 2 __ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ c. Topic Sentence (Body Paragraph) ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ i. Detail 1 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ii. Detail 2 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ I. Differences a. Topic Sentence (Body Paragraph) ________ Our main characters in the great gastby were very rich and lived out lives of luxury which is in stark contrast to Lennie and George who are very poor. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ i. Detail 1 They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made. This shows them how much comfort money brought them and how they could just live like there was no consequences.__________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ii. Detail 2 _“Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.” Everyone is hopful for a small piece of land and that one day they’ll make it out of poverty._______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ b. Topic Sentence (Body Paragraph) ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ i. Detail 1 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ii. Detail 2 ____________________________________ c. Topic Sentence (Body Paragraph) ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ i. Detail 1 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ii. Detail 2 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ IV. Conclusion paragraph a. Summary of main points ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ b. Evaluation ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________
