MLA Assignment #2

JC Murray

Mrs. Parkinson

English IIIB

15 March 2016

What does it mean to truly rely on someone?

Well first we look at the definition of rely. To rely on someone is to depend on with full trust or confidence. Now that seems simple enough and this question would be answered, but let’s go deeper. In Of Mice and Man we truly see a real example of what it means to truly rely on someone. This is in the case of George and Lennie. Lennie truly relies on George for everything in his life because of his handy cap he is unable to do/ think things on his own. This can be seen when George and Lennie were walking down the dirt road going to the new ranch, “’ Yeah, what ya want?’ ‘Where we goin’, George?’…’ So you forgot that awready, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I?” (Steinbeck, 2). This shows the readers a few things one that Lennie truly relies on George for the simplest things and two that George gets frustrated that Lennie is constantly asking him the same questions over and over but relies that he doesn’t know any better and relies on him.

Tableau -- Countee Cullen

JC Murray

Mrs. Parkinson

English IIIA

7 March 2016

Assistance Position

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most liberal and most influential time periods in all of American history in terms of the people’s rights and freedoms. This can be seen in the writings of Countee Cullen, a poet from the Harlem Renaissance, whose poems depict how society was and how it was changing back in the 1930s.

One of Countee’s poems was especially telling in showing the readers of today how society was transforming back in the 1930s. The first three lines of “Tableau” show us the main focus point of the entire poem: “Locked arm in arm they cross the way / The black boy and the white, / The golden splendor of the day” (1-3). This really helps us see the transformation in society by letting us see that before these two races were completely separate, but now they are arm in arm able to come together.