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Literary Exploration on of Mice and Men
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In life we are part of many roles that create dangers we face that may lie beyond our understanding. Even though these roles are hard to understand, they can give meaning to our life. In John 's Steinbeck "Of Mice and Men," we see these men 's day to day lives, the main character; George takes care of his friend Lennie who has difficulties understanding the rules of the world we live in. Through the story there are many ups and downs mostly involving Lennie, who is trying to see through the eyes of George and to do and be as George is. For this reason George is constantly trying to think of what is best for Lennie. Through all of this they face even more dangers and still try to find a way to raise money for a farm to call their own. George and Lennie show how the dangers we face can affect our lives for the better while everything fails around them. Danger is important in our lives, because it gives us the drive to go through day to day lives.
Often when struggling with dangers we find hope and we look to the outside world for assurance and escape from our worries or pain. George and Lennie find dangers from the very start of the novel because of they are forced to run from one of many problems Lennie causes. In the novel Steinbeck gives Lennie a purpose of taking care of the "rabbits" and in doing this it shows Lennie that to him his purpose in life is to take care of the "Rabbits." In the novel a quote that show that the dangers they ran from at the very beginning are far behind them, “Guys like us, that work on ranches ,are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no families. They don 't belong no place... We 're gonna have a little house an ' a couple of acres an ' a cow and some pigs and live off the fatta the land... We 'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens…" this quote shows how George and Lennie strive to have a better life. Even though George knows that these dreams will never come true, “let’s have

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