Read this excerpt from Immigrant Kids, by Russell Freedman. Edward Corsi, who later became United States Commissioner of Immigration, was a ten-year-old Italian immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor in 1907:

My first impressions of the New World will always remain etched in my memory, particularly that hazy October morning when I first saw Ellis Island. The steamer Florida, fourteen days out of Naples, filled to capacity with 1600 natives of Italy, had weathered one of the worst storms in our captain's memory; and glad we were, both children and grown-ups, to leave the open sea and come at last through the Narrows into the Bay.

My mother, my stepfather, my brother Giuseppe, and my two sisters, Liberta and Helvetia, all of us together, happy that we had come through the storm safely, clustered on the foredeck for fear of separation and looked with wonder on this miraculous land of our dreams.

The purpose of this excerpt is to help readers understand

A. the excitement and relief immigrants felt upon arriving in America.
B. that the Narrows into the Bay was a very dangerous passage.
C. that Italian children were very sad after leaving their home country.
D. the weather the immigrants experienced on that day in October 1907.

lennie

is very stupid, big and strong and sweet, he loves soft things

george

is smart reosponible and watches over lennie

candy

candy is an old ranch worker who has lost one of his hands in a farm accident. he's spent the best years of his life working on someone else's ranch, only to lose his hand and have little money.

curly

is the ranch owners son he is said to have vasilene in one glove to keep that hand soft for his wife

crooks

crooks. crooks is a lively, sharp-witted, black stable-hand, who takes his name from his crooked back. like most of the characters in the story, he admits that he is extremely lonely. when lennie visits him in his room, his reaction reveals this fact.

curlys wife

is lonly and seems to flirt with most of the men on the farm she does not like her hunband much.

1. the human rights issue in the novel is equlity the men in the story are poor and curly is mean to all of them as if they are just dirt

2. the first issue comes up when lennie kills the mouse

3. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

4. the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.

5. lennie suffers because of his death he will never be able to tend the rabbits.

6. the wording in the qoutations imply what is happening in the story

7. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

8.   the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.