P.E.E / SQuEx / BURGER PointsP.E.E – point, evidence, explainSQuEx – say, quote, explain

1) MAKE A POINT2) PROVE YOUR POINT BY USING A QUOTE

3) EXPLAIN HOW THE QUOTE PROVES YOUR POINT

Simples......!

Of Mice And Men• When writing your Of Mice and Men essay, you may

wish to make a point that Lennie is ungrateful. The point (P) would look like this;

• Lennie is helped and supported by George, but, it is never enough, Lennie always wants more.

• This point is fine; there is nothing wrong with it, but, I cannot give you marks for this – because it is not supported, you are just STATING A FACT.

Time to develop your point...Lennie is helped and supported by George, but, it is

never enough, Lennie always wants more.In the first chapter of the novel, Lennie made a big

fuss because George didn’t have ketchup, he wanted ketchup on his beans and George didn’t have any. They got into a fight and Lennie said he’d go off and live in a cave.

What’s YOUR opinion? Is that answer making a point and giving an example?

Let’s take it further......Lennie is helped and supported by George, but, it is

never enough, Lennie always wants more.This is evident in chapter one. George has carried tins

of beans for supper and offers Lennie some. His response is quite ungrateful, “I like ‘em with ketchup.” George explains there is no Ketchup and Lennie again repeats, “I like ‘em with Ketchup!” This is followed with George losing his cool, and Lennie threatens to “go off an live in one of them caves.”

POINT EVIDENCE

Let’s go ALL the way...........Lennie is helped and supported by George, but, it is

never enough, Lennie always wants more.This is evident in chapter one. George has carried tins of

beans for supper and offers Lennie some. His response is quite ungrateful “I like ‘em with ketchup.” George explains there is no Ketchup and Lennie again repeats “I like ‘em with Ketchup!” This is followed with George losing his cool, and Lennie threatens to “go off an live in one of them caves.”

Lennie's responses, his desire for ketchup and his threat to run away prove that he is ungrateful of George and his efforts of help and support, he wants more.

• That is a perfect P.E.E answer,• POINT• EVIDENCE• EXPLANATION

• Great stuff

Earnest Hemingway

Earnest Hemingway

Born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero, Illinois

served in World War I and worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time.

1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).

renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the 1953 Pulitzer.

Earnest Hemingway

1954, won the Nobel Prize.

Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

four wives:

1st – Hadley Richardson -1921 -Paris –foreign correspondent – influence of modernist writers and artists of 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate

community.

2nd -1927-Pauline Pfeiffer -divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War where he had been a journalist

3rd -1940 - ). Martha Gellhorn -separated when he met Mary Welsh -4th wife - in London during World War II

He was present at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris.

Earnest Hemingway

1952 –went on safari to Africa

almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of his remaining life

Houses in Florida, Cuba and Idaho

summer 1961-Committed suicide

Hemingway –famous for way he writes in spare, tight prose -70 percent of the sentences are simple sentences -"changed the nature of American writing.“

style was fundamentally shaped "in reaction to [his] experience of world war".

Along with other modernists - "lost faith in the central institutions of Western civilization"

reacted against the elaborate style of 19th century writers by creating a style;

"in which meaning is established through dialogue, through action, and silences—a fiction in which nothing

crucial—or at least very little—is stated explicitly.’’

Themes -love, war, wilderness and loss

Began as writer of short stories

learned to "get the most from the least, how to prune language, how to multiply intensities and how to tell nothing but the truth in a way that allowed for telling more than the truth

Iceberg theory - facts float above water; the supporting structure and symbolism operate out of sight. -sometimes referred to as the "theory of omission".

describe one thing-an entirely different thing occurs below the surface

Earnest Hemingway

Context InformationHills Like White Elephants

Earnest Hemingway

3 stages to this short story;

The girl is pregnant

Story set in Catholic Spain in the 1920s

Hemingway – famous for his use of symbolism

Earnest Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants –

Great portrait of how we talk at, to and past each other

How we can go on and on and never quite get at what it is we really want to say

Story-chance to reflect on way we talk to our loved ones and what we might, or might not, reveal when we do communicate

Task

In a group, discuss ways in which this context information on Hills like White Elephants leads you to further understanding of the text

Make notes to refer to when discussing the poem