Of Mice and Men (opera) George, at the urging of Candy and Lennie, reads the want ad aloud to them once again as the curtain falls. SCENE ONE. Lennie is disconsolate at having inadvertently killed his puppy, and is hiding it in the loft of the barn when Curley's wife enters, carrying a suitcase and obviously preparing to leave the ranch. She and Lennie begin to confide their dreams and fantasies to each other, neither aware the other is speaking: hers, a glamorous career as a movie star; his, to have pets on his farm. Lennie tells her of his love of stroking soft things,
Catalyst (novel) Catalyst (novel) Catalyst is a 2002 novel by Laurie Halse Anderson about a senior named Kate Malone. Teenreads.com put "Catalyst" on its Ultimate Teen Reading List. It is set in the same fictional setting of Anderson's previous novel "Speak". The book tells the story of Kate Malone, a preacher's daughter and high school student who is excellent in chemistry and aspires to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but faces multiple tragic situations, ranging from rejection by MIT, to her neighbor Teri Litch's house burning down at the end of her senior year. Throughout the novel Anderson makes extensive references