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Comparing The Twin Sisters In Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
To answer the impact of our hopes and dream on our relationships; I wrote a narrative piece; that conveys the idea how our hopes and dreams give the one we interact with an insight into who we are as an individual. That is why in relationships when two people chose to share their hopes and dreams, it is considered something courageous. For you now lay bare to rejections – there is no longer a façade of aloofness, fake kindness, or being politically correct to protect ourselves.
In order to execute this idea, I chose to use the relationship between identical twin sisters. Even though they look alike, their personalities are completely different. Where one considers herself the shadow to the others light. As the plot beings to develop we come across one sister looking for validations from her environment and especially their mother. Which she thought she will be able to attain if she took away the soul of her sister Yazmin. However, this backfires, because now the mother
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The pattern the text creator, John Steinbeck, “Of Mice and Men” portrayed in the characters of the story. Where George is always planning, logical to a fault, is not able to move forward because he will think of what might go wrong. Whereas Lennie was the complete opposite of that, he was always able to see positive in everything, he never thought about the consequences of his action; with such simple mindset, Lennie wouldn’t be able to achieve his dreams of taking care of the rabbits either.
Yazmin’s twin also resembles the Curly’s wife, because both of their names are not mentioned. In the text “Of Mice and Men,” Curly’s wife represented the one of the many with broken hopes of being an actress. In this text, Yazmin’s twin did not have a name because by the end she had lost herself in her

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