"Of Mice and Men" Written by: Steinbeck You may have noticed that Steinbeck uses a lot of slang—even some curse words and foul language. Why do you think Steinbeck does this? What effect does the use of this language have on the way the story is told? How might the story be different if Steinbeck avoided this technique?

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

Dogs make wonderful pets because they keep us happy and healthy, the topic sentence is "dogs make wonderful pets". can someone me write a unrelated sentences to the topic and can be eliminated. need asap

Which one event in the story almost caused them to turn back and give up? losing their donkeysthe descent into the volcanorunning into their first dead endlack of water