How Do Hopes and Dreams Help the Characters in Of Mice and Men Survive?
Fantasizing of a visionary dream initiates people to pursue with hope that they can attain anything to reach their final destination. Elementary school children dream of being firemen, high school students dream of becoming doctors, and newly-wed couples dream of bright futures together. Naturally, there is something that people hold in order to move forward. If Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela did not obtain the desire to bring their people to justice and did not venture on the many hardships fixed in the path to their success, would the world be as accepting as it is today? On a smaller scale, all of the successful doctors and engineers we have …show more content…
His one and only hope is to be included in anything and be handed some company, even if it is just one person to provide a shoulder to cry on. He hesitates to speak of his thoughts, but when he does to his co-workers, he reached his voice and asked, "… If you [Candy and Lennie]… guys would want a hand to work for nothing—just his keep, why I 'd come an ' lend a hand. I ain 't so crippled I can 't work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want to.” (76). Loneliness is vivid in his past and is embedded in his heart. His entire life, he survived with the title ‘peasant’ and worked like an animal because of his mere skin colour. Due to this, his hopes were wearing away and the pessimist within him revealed itself with the words, “I seen hunderds of men come by on the road an ' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an ' that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an ' they quit an ' go on; an ' every damn one of 'em 's got a little piece of land in his head. An ' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it." (74). Crooks knew many men shared identical thoughts and visions, but it was rare to see men act on them, so hearing about Lennie’s and George’s dream was completely irrelevant. Even so, he still had some faith in the two men, and with the little spark of hope that obtains, he …show more content…
The hopes of one’s dreams becoming a reality is the one thing that can drive a worker of the harsh moments to advance forward during the Great Depression. Yes, the desperate characters strived far to achieve but did not reach their initial destination, but because they endeavored with no sense of surrender, Lennie, George, Candy and many others continued to walk towards the light at the end of the
Fantasizing of a visionary dream initiates people to pursue with hope that they can attain anything to reach their final destination. Elementary school children dream of being firemen, high school students dream of becoming doctors, and newly-wed couples dream of bright futures together. Naturally, there is something that people hold in order to move forward. If Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela did not obtain the desire to bring their people to justice and did not venture on the many hardships fixed in the path to their success, would the world be as accepting as it is today? On a smaller scale, all of the successful doctors and engineers we have …show more content…
His one and only hope is to be included in anything and be handed some company, even if it is just one person to provide a shoulder to cry on. He hesitates to speak of his thoughts, but when he does to his co-workers, he reached his voice and asked, "… If you [Candy and Lennie]… guys would want a hand to work for nothing—just his keep, why I 'd come an ' lend a hand. I ain 't so crippled I can 't work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want to.” (76). Loneliness is vivid in his past and is embedded in his heart. His entire life, he survived with the title ‘peasant’ and worked like an animal because of his mere skin colour. Due to this, his hopes were wearing away and the pessimist within him revealed itself with the words, “I seen hunderds of men come by on the road an ' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an ' that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an ' they quit an ' go on; an ' every damn one of 'em 's got a little piece of land in his head. An ' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it." (74). Crooks knew many men shared identical thoughts and visions, but it was rare to see men act on them, so hearing about Lennie’s and George’s dream was completely irrelevant. Even so, he still had some faith in the two men, and with the little spark of hope that obtains, he …show more content…
The hopes of one’s dreams becoming a reality is the one thing that can drive a worker of the harsh moments to advance forward during the Great Depression. Yes, the desperate characters strived far to achieve but did not reach their initial destination, but because they endeavored with no sense of surrender, Lennie, George, Candy and many others continued to walk towards the light at the end of the