The novel begins with a rich description of the physical setting. Cite three examples of descriptive language. Explain the effect on the mood by beginning the narrative with this description. What is Steinbeck trying to suggest about the area by the Salinas River?

Examples of descriptive language:

Explanation:

This question refers to the story "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck .

Descriptive language consists of the actual verbal representation of an object, person, landscape, animal, emotion, and practically everything that can be put into words.

This type of text intends for the reader to obtain an exact image of the reality that we are transmitting in words, a kind of “verbal painting”.

The mood that the beginning of this story transmits to us is that of a peaceful place, with warm water and abundant nature.

The author uses this technique so that we as readers can get fully into the story, imagining each thing as the author really wants, and that we have a vivid image of what we are reading.

b. both have yearned to escape the environment they experienced as a child.