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    Life is a lot better with friends and establishing good relationships between each other is what eliminates loneliness. This situation can be explored in the excerpt “The Little Prince” by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, “Of Mice and Men“ by John Steinbeck and my own personal experience. It is absolutely true that establishing ties can eliminate loneliness and make life more meaningful. Through the expert “The Little Prince” by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, the prince and fox identify how having a…

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    Artur Trela A central problem in The Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, was discrimination. In the story George and Lennie are searching for a job. George takes care of Lennie most of the time. “We kinda look after each other”(Steinbeck, 34) Whenever Lennie gets in trouble George always has to fix it. George and Lennie, end up taking a bus but the bus driver drops them off early and then end up having to walk to where they are working. When they get there they see people doing their job. During…

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    when Lennie came to his room to talk to him, he put his guard down, causing Curley’s wife to threaten that he would be hung if Crooks would open his mouth about her being in there just to talk to them. In times of weakness, characters in Of Mice and Men, act irrationally. Lennie’s fear of not tending to rabbits, causing him to act irrationally by talking to Curley’s wife and killing her. Lennie wants to tend to the rabbits after George and Lennie save up enough money working at the ranch After…

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    and Men there is great amount of sympathy about how the readers will feel pity amongst the different characters. There is pity against Lennie Small, Curley’s Wife and Crooks. Lennie Small has had struggles in his life about having a mental disability. Curley’s Wife has had struggles in her life about being mistaken for being someone they are not. Crooks has had struggles in his life about being an outcast because of his race. Lennie Small is the most sympathetic character in Of Mice and Men…

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    In both John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men (OMM) and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (SM), the themes of poverty, inequality and isolation are portrayed at times in a similar fashion but to differing degrees. Subsequently, the audience is able to delve into the key concepts of being an orphan without a mentor, aspiring to be better, isolation and a longing for justice and equality, especially in women. The topic of isolation remained prominent throughout both texts in a social, emotional and…

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    what you do some of your dreams will never come true and that's sad. It's not because of something you did or did not do; it's because of your condition. George and Lennie’s dream – to own a patch of land to call home – is so present in Of mice and men that it appears constantly. In fact, George telling the story is so often that it becomes a sort of routine for them; George telling he narrative and Lennie cuts in when he remembers the dream and he ends up finishing it for George. Having and…

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    In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck George Milton kills his best friend Lennie Small. Because Lennie did bad things which he would of been killed for by other characters, but George decided to shoot Lennie in the head when he was not looking so he did not suffer. George also knew that if he did not do it himself Curley would have beaten and killed Lennie for killing his wife in much harsher ways than if George killed him. Lennie did not deserve to die because he ultimately had not…

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    Loneliness is a topic that comes up very often in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Almost every character deals with the struggle of being alone throughout the novel. The characters in Of Mice and Men are all lonely for very different reasons, but they all have one thing in common: they have nobody who cares for them. George and Lennie, however, are different. They have each other, which is much more important than anything owned by anyone else on the ranch. Despite the fact the George and…

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    Sadness is what I feel when I read this book. The book Of Mice and Men was published in 1937. Steinbeck made us think with the way he wrote that George had done the right thing when he talked about the setting, foreshadowing and symbolism. First of all, the way that Steinbeck used the setting of the river helped me understand why George did what he did. For example he describes the river as “the water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling the yellow sand in the sunlight before reaching…

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    Of Mice and Men is a story written by the American author John Steinbeck. It was published in 1937 during the Great Depression. It is widely based on his earlier life as a hobo, where he traveled around for work. The book has been adapted to the screen several times - latest in 1992 by Gary Sinise. 
 The book itself is one of the most controversial books in newer time, and even though it is mandatory reading in most US high-schools its contentious subjects have been target of censors all over…

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