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    Pignati and his loneliness, John and his bad habits, Lorraine and her insecurity,etc. There are more problems and dilemmas throughout the novel, but this one is the sole source of everything, It’s what started everything and ended everything. This is what all three characters (John, Lorraine, and Mr.Pignati) faced at some point. This is a feeling all of us…

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    The Loneliness of The Great Depression “Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being without anybody to care for or somebody who care for me.” ---Anne Hathaway. Of Mice and Men three types of loneliness: when someone keeps you from others, when you don’t have anybody to talk to or understand you, and when you don’t have anyone close to you. Loneliness can keep people from being happy and successful in life. Candy is the Old Swamper with…

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    Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is based upon loneliness and isolation, but included is friendship. Crooks, Candy, and George all found a friendship together after Lennie died because they realized it is better to have a few friends then to stay alone. However, the characters still have to deal with isolation and loneliness, which affects how they act towards another. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck created a character called Crooks. He was a colored man working on the farm,…

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    Loneliness In Mice And Men

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    “Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I 'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me” (Hathaway). Loneliness is one of the main problems that affects all characters in the story of Mice and Men. The problem was a reality due to fact that the setting of the story takes place during the time of the great depression in California. Because of this, loneliness affects characters in of Mice and Men through Crooks…

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    Curley's Wife Loneliness

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    Loneliness is defined by Merriam-Webster as “being without company”. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Lennie Smalls and George Milton are two men living in the midst of the Great Depression looking for work. They find jobs in Soledad, California after Lennie finds trouble with the law at their previous job. Working on a ranch, they quickly meet the boss, the boss’ son Curley, and the other workers, Slim, Candy, Carlson, Crooks, and Whit. The workers are a tight knit group, and there are…

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    has felt lonely at least once in their life. If you are anything like most people in life, you've been there and done that, and don't care to do it again. Why be lonely when you can be happy? Just like overcooked vegetables, a second helping of loneliness is nothing to be desired. In fact, it falls short of being tolerable, and sometimes leave us on the edge. So the question isn’t that we get lonely, but why we do. Let's look through a few lenses to understand the why behind this feeling so…

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    John Steinbeck Loneliness

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    Of Mice and Men is the novella John Steinbeck created to portray the major theme of loneliness. Steinbeck created two different characters who long for attention, but their appearance outcast themselves from the rest guys. Curley’s wife is the only female living on the ranch and Crooks is the only black person working on the ranch. John Steinbeck developed two characters who have different views of what loneliness is. Curley's wife feels neglected every day because she is the only girl on the…

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    In the book Frankenstein, there are multiple examples of loneliness, curiosity, and shame shown through Frankenstein and his monster. The monster is hated and looked down upon throughout the entire book. The aggression shown by the monster shows there was much aggressiveness in the authors life. Loneliness plays a big role in the book and is shown through Frankenstein and his monster. Victor Frankenstein does not have a good relationship with his family. The author says that Victor’s family…

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    Loneliness in Of Mice and Men Even in a crowded room, the loneliest people could be found. In John Steinbeck’s n Of Mice and Men, he shows how loneliness can be found in the most crowded places, and how it inevitably leads to bad events. The workers on the rach in the book all face loneliness in their own ways for different reasons. Crooks, who faces discrimination, Curley’s wife who is misunderstood, and Candy who simply doesn’t fit in. They are all surrounded by people almost all the time,…

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    Maya Angelou once stated, “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” True to this statement, a likeness of basic humanity can be found within all people in the face of hardship. S.E. Hinton, the author of The Outsiders, displays evidence supporting this idea through the characters within the wealthy East-side gang known as the “Socials” and the self-described “hoodlums” within the far poorer West-side gang known as the “Greasers.” The Greasers and Socials, like all other people, are…

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