Companionship is the way to happiness Joshua L. Liebman once remarked “ The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many do not understand that the need for fellowship is really deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness.” Liebman and Steinbeck had the same idea of companionship. It comes out in the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. In the book George was taking care of a guy named Lennie. They wanted to buy a farm one day. On their mission they met a few troubles and new people. George was more of Lennie’s father, but he thought of George of his best companion. Through the characters
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"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to." (13) If you are a lonely farmer you won't be happy George wasn't happy because, he didn't have a good friend to talk to all he had was taking care of lennie. "We travel together," said George …show more content…
I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with him." He said proudly, "You wouldn't think it to look at him now, but he was the best damn sheep dog I ever seen “( 56)
Candy’s companion ( his dog) helped him through life.
[Candy] said miserably, "You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t do nothing like that. I won’t have no place to go, an’ I can’t get no more jobs." (82)
Candy’s dog was his life and sometimes that dog was his strength when all he wanted to be was weak. You need a companion to be successful in life.
Curley proves the world is a cruel predatory without companionship by his personality and actions.
"I’ll try to catch him," said Curley. His eyes passed over the new men and he stopped. He glanced coldly at George and then at Lennie. His arms gradually bent at the elbows and his hands closed into fists. He stiffened and went into a slight crouch. His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious. Lennie squirmed under the look and shifted his feet nervously. Curley stepped gingerly close to him. "You the new guys the old man was waitin’ for?"
"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to." (13) If you are a lonely farmer you won't be happy George wasn't happy because, he didn't have a good friend to talk to all he had was taking care of lennie. "We travel together," said George …show more content…
I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with him." He said proudly, "You wouldn't think it to look at him now, but he was the best damn sheep dog I ever seen “( 56)
Candy’s companion ( his dog) helped him through life.
[Candy] said miserably, "You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t do nothing like that. I won’t have no place to go, an’ I can’t get no more jobs." (82)
Candy’s dog was his life and sometimes that dog was his strength when all he wanted to be was weak. You need a companion to be successful in life.
Curley proves the world is a cruel predatory without companionship by his personality and actions.
"I’ll try to catch him," said Curley. His eyes passed over the new men and he stopped. He glanced coldly at George and then at Lennie. His arms gradually bent at the elbows and his hands closed into fists. He stiffened and went into a slight crouch. His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious. Lennie squirmed under the look and shifted his feet nervously. Curley stepped gingerly close to him. "You the new guys the old man was waitin’ for?"