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    Brooklynn Burchett Many characters in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men are alienated from the rest of the people on the ranch. Two of the most prominent, are Crooks and Curley's wife, who experience extreme loneliness throughout the novel due to their separation from the group. They are alienated from the rest because they are in drastically different situations from everyone else. Steinbeck uses them to comment on society. Society tends to shun individuals that are in different situations from…

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    Arlene Balvina Madrigal Cunningham ENG 102- 3rd June 29,2017 Loneliness Thinking about the word lonely, more than likely people always refer to it with a negative connotation. Being alone is not always a bad state of being for a person. Loneliness causes people to have time for themselves. The word loneliness is defined as “ affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone” (“Loneliness”). However, Not everyone who is alone is lonely. Society should look at the…

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    The tragedy of Curley’s wife in Of Mice and Men People need each other. That´s a simple necessity, and in hard times especially, people begin to realize this more quickly. People begin to understand that nobody should be alone. In Of Mice and Men,Curley's wife realizes this, tries to create relationships with two showmen, the man she marries, and some workers on a farm. and In the deep and thoughtful American Classic, John Steinbeck explores this theme quite a bit, with the farm workers…

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    Our main character Holden in the book called catcher In the Rye By J.D. Salinger is missing love and being cared for. He ends up feeling very lonely and depressed and feels as if no on is their for him so he seeks love and care from others. He doesn't get the love and affection from the ones he wants and the people that he doesnt one it from he refuses it. Leads him to be more depressed and feel empty and lonely. Throughout the book Holden seems very depressed and really down as if he just…

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    The Alchemist has various types of Stages that either have encouraged or disheartened the main character as he voyeurs out on his journey to complete his mission. The Alchemist is about a boy named, Santiago, who is a shepherd because he wanted to travel to various places with his sheep. That was until he had a reoccurring dream about treasure that was located in Egypt. He embarks on this journey after discussing with an old king who claims that it is his Personal Legend that he must accomplish.…

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    bullets flew. A sheep was down. Snowball was grazed by one of the bullets. Billy why don’t you come take safety with us? Said one of my siblings. I wanted to help so that’s what I did. I went up to one of the men and pecked at his feet. He shrieked in pain and ran off. A couple minutes later the men ran off the farm with fear in their eyes. We had won the battle. We gave the sheep who had been killed a small funeral and Snowball gave a small speech. The day of Snowball’s expulsion shocked us…

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    In the book Of Mice & Men, written by John Steinbeck, the novel concludes by one of the main characters, George, killing his best friend and counterpart, Lennie, after Lennie accidentally kills a young woman. I believe that George was justified in his decision to kill Lennie. Lennie was a character who caused harm and destruction throughout the book, despite not meaning to. He also prevented George from living his life because of the way George had to take care of him and nurture him, much like…

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    In “Gerald’s Game,” the central character Jessie Burlingame (Carla Gugino), and her husband Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) arrived at a remote lake house in Alabama for a romantic getaway. They encountered a stray dog on their way to the lakehouse. Afterwards, Jessie calls out to the stray dog whom she saw earlier and fed him raw meat. When re-entering the house, she leaves the front door open. In an attempt to save their strained marriage, and rekindle their sex life, Gerald suggests that he should…

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    Literary Essay I read a fiction novel The Warriors Into the Wild by Erin Hunter. The book is told from a third person narrator. The book is about this kittypet named Rusty and he joins one of the four clans and becomes an apprentice.He has a new name called Firepaw and he learns enough about the other clans and he has to keep secrets that he don’t know if there ture.When everything seems fine he has to fase the biggest change he has ever face to save his camp will he do it or will his camp…

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    Nereida Lopez-Gollas History 17B Fall 2014 Tuesday September 30, 2014 Essay on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Have you ever wonder how our country was in the early twentieth century before, with its hierarchies and social rules? The novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, is based and expresses the factories and day to day details of the wage of laborers life and the attack of capitalism. The Jungle starts off with the marriage of Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite, who just arrived to Packingtown from…

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