Of Mice And Men: Prompt Analysis

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To answer the prompt, you need to read the three sources that the teacher gave it to us so we could use it to find some evidence and answers to the essay and the prompt. The first source talked about the book that we read in the class, and it's called Of Mice and Men, the second one is The Dispossessed of the Great Depression, an the Third one was two figures and we need to describe what's going on in the figures. The Of Mice and Men was about two main characters searching for job to work and when they find the job they felt unwelcome, also, it talked about how loneliness of the migrant workers and how they feel when they are alone and that they can't talk to anyone and how the two characters were thinking about they dream house because they felt that they don't belong anywhere except their own place. The second source talks about how the Great Depression effects the migrant workers, and how a lot of people lost their jobs and that they were searching for jobs that thy can get money and buy food to feed themselves. Also, it talked about how they avoided friendships and …show more content…
For example, in Of Mice and Men source # 1 One of the characters said " ' I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick' ". This part support my claim that loneliness was one of the effects had on migrant workers and how this character is feeling. Another example in the article of The Dispossessed of the Great Depression says " Many men moved to the South and West where they could find work in the farm fields and orchards" (source 2). This quotation proves that a lot of people lost their jobs and now they are searching for job to feed themselves. Last part that i used to support my claim that they felt unwelcome wherever they go is " 'We'd just live there. We'd belong there' " (source 1). That's what one of the characters Of Mice and Men felt when he find a job and starts

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