What is a dream? Is it a well thought illusion that’s been shaped and formed into a goal that a person can achieve? Or is it more of a poisonous hypnosis, making the person believe that such an ambition could be reached one day? Everyone has goals in life. A fat lot of them have started off just young, innocent kids. Some wanted to become teachers, some doctors, lawyers, firefighters, astronauts, and countless more down a long list. However, as we take each step towards maturity and adulthood, those dreams are being tampered one by one, leaving us all with one question: “What is it that we truly want to be or have realistically in the future?” In the story, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the author recapitulates an allegory of the main
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A dream is nothing without an actuality. Therefore, once a person has taken hold of his ambition in life, he must learn how to take control of what reality could bring. Or else, why was there a dream in the first place?
Thus, that’s exactly what the main protagonists’ George and Lennie had in their mind in the beginning of the story. A strong, unbreakable goal that’s been running through every man as if each one was born with it: the American dream. With other people releasing their childish illusions from their grasps, Lennie and George both believe that they must achieve their ambition, despite the conditions and difficulties with Lennie, who is mentally challenged. The two protagonists stroll down the path that will soon lead them to a point where they can bring about their dream. As Lennie and George settled down to camp and eat their dinner, Lennie asked George to retell the story about the rabbits. One might think that he is going to narrate about the rabbits literally. But instead, behind the meaning of those animals, he tells the reader about their dream. George began by saying, “‘Guys like …show more content…
A dream itself is created in a person’s wide-range of imagination that is then molded into a fact that can be then classified as a goal to achieve. But when the person faces what reality can do to a facetious illusion, he or she will achieve nothing in the end. If a person is only minding about his goal to achieve in the future, then that person is not minding reality at all. Therefore, Steinbeck tells the tale Of Mice and Men to remind the reader that dreams are indeed impossible to reach without any hints of
A dream is nothing without an actuality. Therefore, once a person has taken hold of his ambition in life, he must learn how to take control of what reality could bring. Or else, why was there a dream in the first place?
Thus, that’s exactly what the main protagonists’ George and Lennie had in their mind in the beginning of the story. A strong, unbreakable goal that’s been running through every man as if each one was born with it: the American dream. With other people releasing their childish illusions from their grasps, Lennie and George both believe that they must achieve their ambition, despite the conditions and difficulties with Lennie, who is mentally challenged. The two protagonists stroll down the path that will soon lead them to a point where they can bring about their dream. As Lennie and George settled down to camp and eat their dinner, Lennie asked George to retell the story about the rabbits. One might think that he is going to narrate about the rabbits literally. But instead, behind the meaning of those animals, he tells the reader about their dream. George began by saying, “‘Guys like …show more content…
A dream itself is created in a person’s wide-range of imagination that is then molded into a fact that can be then classified as a goal to achieve. But when the person faces what reality can do to a facetious illusion, he or she will achieve nothing in the end. If a person is only minding about his goal to achieve in the future, then that person is not minding reality at all. Therefore, Steinbeck tells the tale Of Mice and Men to remind the reader that dreams are indeed impossible to reach without any hints of