While their dreams seemed unrealistic due to the challenged they faced, their fear of becoming like their parents was greater and kept them motivated. Although Gary, Homer, and Sara faced poverty, family conflicts, and lack of education, they were able to overcome their barriers and achieve their goals in life. Although these three individual were different in culture and dreams, they all had similarities as striving to better themselves and not end up like those around them. Gary did not want to end up working “Mexican hours” or broke and in despair. As for Homer, he did not want to live his life working in the coalmine.
Lennie is also very pleased with their goal because he will tend the rabbits. Lennie is obsessed with soft feeling objects, which later leads him into trouble. Besides an aim, George and Lennie also have a great plan of how to make their hope come true.
In the book, Of Mice and Men, dreams are what every character seems to be craving. In George and Lennie’s case, that something is land. It is natural for men in their situation, itinerant workers in the Great Depression, to imagine working on their own land and being their own bosses. Their dream is simple in some ways yet very complex in others. The dream apparently began as just a story that George told Lennie, perhaps as a way of calming Lennie down, or to keep him focused on working, but after some time, it seemed that George started to believe in the dream himself.
i mean if there wasn't knowledge, there wouldn't be life. ________ In the novel “ Of Mice and Men “,John Steinbeck wanted to show that even though money is what pushes people to do things, there is more than just money in the world so you must always love and help a person that cannot take care of themselves. ________ Author John Steinbeck uses the novel Of Mice and Men to carry a letter to the world that men cannot be changed for who they are. ________ “Of mice and men” written by “John Steinbeck” shows the theme of lonesomeness and loneliness of the people on the ranch. ________ A mental problem person would never change his attitude and character towards certain situation.
The relationship between George and Lennie is very strong. Lennie is a big, and jolly. The things Lennie says and does George gets stressed out about but he knows that Lennie doesn’t mean to act the way he does. Lennie is always by George’s side, and George is always on Lennie’s side. Of Mice and Men is really about Lennie and George’s journey and relationship with each other, and how they really need each other in their lives.
Another trait reflected in ET and Elliot’s friendship is loyalty. Once ET learns to speak English, he tells the kids that he needs to call home. ET built his communicator device but it only works way out in the forest, so they had to plan out an entire night and Elliot had to risk being caught by his mother just so ET would be able to go back home. This shows true loyalty because Elliot is putting a lot on the line for ET. Another example of the strong loyalty the kids have towards ET is when they sneak ET out of the hospital to get him back to his communicator.
“Hopes and dreams help people to survive even if they never become real” – “Of mice and men” In the novel “Of mice and men”, there are many examples where characters have dreams but reality is different. George and Lennie, dream about getting their own farm, but this dream is different for everyone, George dreams about farm without a boss as well as he dreams about place where they can do everything they want, to live there without any restrictions. “An’ it’d be our own, an’ nobody could can us. If we don’t like a guy we can say ‘Get the hell out’, and by God he’s got to do it An’ if a friend’ come along, why we’d have an extra bunk, an’ we’d say, ‘Why don’t you spen’ the night?’ an’ by God he would.”. This quotation shows that he tries
Paige Doire Ms. Zambito English 9 19 December 2012 Of mice and Men Steinback views friendship necessary to happiness because it’s one of the main themes in “Of mice and Men” by John Steinback. George and Lennie have a very strong friendship! Steinback does view friendship as needed to happiness because either basically all they got. If they didn’t have each other they wouldn’t have anybody and if they didn’t have anybody they would be sad and lonely. Therefore it shows that Steinback views friendship necessary for happiness.
During their time together, George did his best to protect Lennie as his aunt had asked. The two traveled around, ever in search of jobs. Although it was because of Lennie that they could not keep jobs for more than short periods of time, George stuck by Lennie through everything. Even though George felt responsible for the wellbeing of Lennie, he, understandably, felt
Lennie’s dream is to tend the soft haired rabbits, whereas George admits that he would like to own a little patch of land and live on it in freedom. Thus, although they all share the idea of the American dream, it manifest in different ways for different characters. Thus it would appear that although the dreams Steinbeck’s characters have in “Of Mice and Men” seem to have been futile in the story, they are essential in order to give meaning to their hard lives, to make sense of their difficult existence and to keep alive the idea that, one day, their luck could