A Comparison of Similar Men Aurora Quezada Word Count: 533 “Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life and that happiness‚ not pain or mindless self-indulgence‚ is the proof of your moral integrity‚ since it is the proof and result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values” Ayn Rand Things Fall Apart is about Okonkwo‚ a man from Nigeria‚ who is a respected leader among his clan and aggressively guards his titles. Siddartha is the son of a Brahman who leaves
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Lennie in Of Mice and Men Loneliness and companionship is imminent throughout the book. It starts from the beginning when George sets the tone by repeating to Lennie that life on a ranch is the loneliest life there is‚ for example Steinbeck states “Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world’. This shows us that men on a ranch rarely have any companionship or safety however George and Lennie have each other and this contradicts the idea that ranch men are always lonely.
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haunt him due to his confrontation with Lennie. Another character that was discriminated was Curley’s wife‚ but this time due to her gender. Curley’s wife was often misunderstood in the ranch due to her attention hungry self and flirting ways. The men discriminate her due to her circumstance of being the only girl on the ranch and always trying to attract attention. George even said‚ “Ranch with a bunch of guys ain’t no place for a girl‚ ‘specially like her”(Pg 34) This quote voices George’s opinion
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The Children of Men Phyllis Dorothy James is the author of the dystopian novel called The Children of Men. It is a book that centers on mass infertility. This book describes England as steadily depopulating and focuses on a group of people called the Five Fishes‚ who question if the country is being run the right way. The novel demonstrates that even during the most difficult times; when people think the world is coming to an end‚ it is possible for people to survive‚ if they fight for their lives
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One should keep in mind that no human beings are distant‚ unfamiliar or far off. Underneath any colour of any soldier’s uniform belonging to any nation‚ another human being breathes the breath of life just like any other person. The land that even our political enemies walk upon is the same earth like our own native soil that one fine day in different timings we shall all be laid to rest. In times of war or peace‚ even our international foes undergo the same trials‚ the way our native
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developed the Prescript‚ or Klan dogma. The Prescript suggested elements of white supremacist belief. For instance‚ an applicant should be asked if he was in favor of "a white man’s government"‚ "the reenfranchisement and emancipation of the white men of the South‚ and the
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will be classed by other men as not useful ‚also he tells them that most of the other men don’t save their money but go and spend it on booze and women. But he thinks that they can do it the dream of living out his days with George and Lennie on their dream farm distracts Candy from this harsh reality. This mean that they can have much more freedom than other people as it will be their own place . He doesn’t like curleys wife he thinks she is a tart and flirts around with men so he thinks she is trouble
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John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men This scene in Of Mice and Men is made extra tense by the author‚ John Steinbeck‚ by a mixture of linguistic devices‚ description and speech. Curley’s wife is introduced in this scene and it starts by describing her. In the novel “Of Mice and Men” John Steinbeck tells a story of dreams‚ hopes and loneliness. We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character‚ Curley’s wife. Steinbeck shows us that Curley’s wife is flirtatious‚ mischievous but most of
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[pic] ’No men are foreign’ tell us that we should not consider anyone as foreign or ’strange.’ Humanity is the same all over the world and in harming anyone we are harming ourselves. This poem emphasizes the fact that men might belong to different races‚ nations‚ but are basically bound by a common bond i.e. they all feel pain when hurt and shed tears on the loss of someone close and wars should not break this common bondage. In destroying another country we are destroying
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gives her in the book(as the wife of Curley) which I think emphasises he does to show her as an inferior by not giving her a personal identity so that we cannot relate to her- she is objectified. Possibly due to having little experience with other men‚ Curley’s wife married very badly‚ and doesn’t get on with Curley ’Sure I gotta husban...swell guy‚ ain’t he? She says sarcastically‚ and added to Curley’s paranoia that she will cheat on him (shown on page 62-Slim said ’well you been asking me too
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