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Project: Book to Film

My team and I will be working on the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and its 1992 adaptation.

Here are the members and their tasks:

1) Sophie Lasnier (myself) - Audiovisual and language (style and dialogue)
2) Sheroya Cole - Characters
3) Laura Fernandez-Azevedo - Themes
4) Malen Pareanan - Plot
5) Alin Cocioaba - Setting

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  1. Thanks. You are missing a lot of blog posts. What`s happening?

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