Comparison Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Picture yourself on a farm surrounded by a few other people working so hard that you forget the meaning behind your work, of course during this time work is much needed, well this had been 1930’s the Great Depression. To Paint a picture in which the American Dream is represented as cruelty and unrealistic in the real world, that your dreams are just nightmares haunting you to remind you of your unaccomplished work. The book Of Mice and Men carries this thought with you for as long as you live that the world may be impotent. As we already know lonesome is the lack of friends, companionship, and or isolation from the world around. Being the only colored man you get overpowered with the opposite color and that is exactly what Crooks had been

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