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    Isolation is a very prominent theme in The Metamorphosis, Frankenstein, and Things Fall Apart. In these books, Kafka, Shelley, and Achinebe exploit the effects of isolation and alienation to portray the requirement of personal interaction and social inclusion for all humans. Franz Kafka seeks to uncover the potential dangers of social rejection through Gregor’s transformation, that ultimately leads to his separation from both his family and his past life. Kafka’s clear isolation of Gregor…

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    John Steinbeck was and is one of history’s greatest American writers because of his great writing works. Since Steinbeck was a naturalist, many of his works had a main theme of nature, the human attempts to compromise with nature, and human connections. For example, in Of Mice and Men, his book of the two migrant workers and their endeavors portray how hard it was to get a job during the Great Depression and keep it. It also showed how people who had a job, struggled to make a living. It showed…

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    The work, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, brings in many aspects of the disappointments throughout a man's life. As the main characters in the novel, George and Lennie, run all over the country in hopes of finding a stable job, they have the common dream of owning a piece of land for themselves. Throughout the story, Steinbeck reveals that the real tragedy that troubles the characters' lives is death, whether it be the death of a loved character or the death of hope. Steinbeck first…

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    The first reason that explains why Steinbeck's novel is realistic is because nearly all of the characters in the novel have a dream. An American dream. The connotation of the American Dream during The Great Depression in the novel is to have a house, to have land, to have a family, to have money, to be rich, to be merry, and to be famous. The characters Candy, Crooks, and Curley's wife shows this throughout the novel. Candy, who's an elderly ranch worker, who lost his hand during a farm accident…

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    In the story Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls, a boy experiences a maturity transformation during difficult times. Billy Colman, a young boy living in Oklahoma, undergoes challenges through which his character and behavior mature. Throughout the book, Billy and his relationship with his two dogs impact his life and responsibility. Billy matures as he learns to accept suffering and to make sacrifices. Billy matures through the sacrifice of working hard to earn the dogs. Billy had…

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    Of Mice and Men is a famous novel written by John Steinbeck. It was published in 1937. This novel is about two young men named George Milton and Lennie Small who move to a ranch to work during the period of The Great Depression. These two displaced men go through several situations at the ranch but still hope to work their best. Disenfranchisement is clearly presented in the society of this novel using gender and space through literary theories such as Foucault and Feminism. Steinbeck creates…

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    It’s just not worth it! Don’t drink and drive. Budweiser uses a puppy growing up to a dog and the bonding with his owner all through the growth of his life, they do everything together. They are best friends! The pathos appeal is overwhelming in this PSA when the owner leaves out to party, and the dog waits for him to get back. The dog’s sweet face is so sad. Next, Budweiser also has ethos in the situation considering they make and distribute alcohol but by making their pathos persuasion much…

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    As you look at these three characters they all faced some type of loneness throughout the story. Candy had his dog in the beginning of the novel but because Carlson wanted him dead as well the other people on the farm, he agreed with them and allowed his dog to be killed. After his dog was killed, Candy persona changed, he became depressed because he had this dog since it was a puppy and now he has no one. Slim offered him a new puppy but I think Candy wasn’t ready to move on. Crooks was lonely…

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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…

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    In essence, Of Mice and Men is a story about the nature of human dreams and aspirations and the things that work against them. All people give purpose to their lives in the present and for the future by creating goals and dreams for themselves. Without dreams and goals, life would just be endless days that have little meaning. George and Lennie's dream to own a little farm of their own is such a big part to Of Mice and Men that it appears in some form in in every chapter. In fact, George…

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