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Topic: happiness

In the modern system of society and education in India, nobody takes the responsibility of the child’s welfare. The parents think that it is a responsibility of the teachers, because the child stays in the school for six hours a day. The teachers think that it is the responsibility of the parents, because the children belong to their parents, and in future the children will come to any use only to their parents and families. But in the interest of society, nation, country and above all mankind all have responsibility for the welfare of the children. Conclusion:
Topic: happiness

It is the foremost duty of the Government to see to the welfare of the children. But in India we find that a lot of children in schools are dying by food-poisoning in the Government Mid-day meal system. The school buildings are defectively constructed. So the buildings breakdown and many children die underneath. the milk-powder that comes to Panchayats and Block offices is said to be put to black-marketing. Government should look to all these affairs. Childhood is the most important period in a men’s life. So, the Government should take utmost care of it.
Topic: happiness

In the poem, Richard Cory is believed to be superior in contrast to the working people. The poem states, “Whenever Richard Cory went down town, we people on the pavement looked at him” (754). The working people had very little money and work consistently to survive, “So on we worked, and waited for the light, and went without the meat, and cursed the bread” (755). The people admired Richard Cory and wished to one day have the same wealth as Richard Cory, “And he was rich—yes, richer than a king” (755).
Topic: happiness

Richard Cory is well-presented, and the people described Richard Cory appearance as “Cleaned favored, an imperially slim” (754). In the poem, the people also described Richard Cory as a “gentleman from sole to crown” (754) and “And admirably schooled in every grace” (755). Richard Cory symbolized everything a working man strived to accomplish, “To make us wish that we were in his place” (755). In the poem, the people represent the lower working-class and Richard Cory represents the higher level of society.
Topic: happiness

In the poem, clearly the people think Richard Cory has the perfect life and have no knowledge of the struggles Richard Cory faces. Throughout the poem, the reader believes that Richard Cory is a legendary man. Richard Cory is depicted as a man who kept to himself, the poem states, “He was always quietly arrayed” (754). In the poem, the people also portray Richard Cory as down to earth, it states, “He was always human when he talked” (754).
Topic: happiness

Richard Cory did not believe he was better than anyone else; he was humble. Richard Cory is also noticeable, the people stated, “He glittered when he walked” (754). Everyone held Richard Cory as in higher figure, so ending of the poem is surprising. The last line of the poem states, “Went home and put a bullet through his head” (755). The ending of the poem is shocking to the reader; the reader is not expecting Richard Cory to commit suicide. The poem describes Richard Cory in a graceful manner, and the reader would not assume the ending.
Topic: happiness

The people describe a two-dimensional Richard Cory. Throughout the poem, the people simply analyze Richard Cory appearance and do not understand the inner being of Richard Cory. In the poem, the reader is concealed to the instability that Richard Cory encountered that caused his suicide. The reader perceives Richard Cory as an ideal man and is not aware of the difficulties Richard Cory battles internally. After Richard Cory’s suicide the poem ends, but the poem indicates that the people learn from Richard Cory’s death. In the poem, the people realize that Richard Cory’s life was not as fascinating as they expected, the poem states that, “We thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place” (755). The people believe that Richard Cory is a magnificent man because of his appearance. However, the people never really understand what is going on in the life of Richard Cory; the people did not understand the struggles Richard Cory experiences inside.
Topic: happiness

The reason Richard Cory commits suicide is insignificant because the reader still can interpret the message that the appearance of a person can be misleading. In life, there are always subject matters in which things seem better than what they are. Everyone in some aspect has impairments that halt their progression to find life’s satisfactions. Richard Corey had everything a person can dream of such as his class and wealth. He also had intangibles that many envied such as humility and appearance. These qualities do not guarantee instantaneous happiness, as depicted in the poem. Happiness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Meaning what a person may find satisfying or joyous, does not correlate with the rest of the population. Everyone has his or her own idea of happiness.
Topic: happiness

In the poem, the working class admires what Richard Cory possesses. The process in which Richard Cory gained his wealth in unknown, along with what he may have loss within his conquest to establish his wealth. Success is impossible to measure because success varies from person to person. It is also impossible to draw conclusions on the reasons that he committed suicide other than each conclusion has an underlining theme of unhappiness. The people in the poem could not fathom on why he committed suicide. They viewed him as an icon and an epitome of success. Through his death, Richard Cory made the working people look at their lives in retrospect to see what would make them happy.
Topic: happiness

The working people stated that he committed suicide on a summer night. Usually summer nights are filled with fun and extravagant things, for someone to commit suicide; they would have to feel as cold as winter on the inside. Wealth and stature did not have the same meaning to Richard Cory as wealth meant to the working class. Richard Cory found that he did not see the beauty of life and was not happy, so he committed suicide. Edwin Arlington Robinson wants readers to look at their lives and determine what makes his or her life joyful and learn from Richard Cory’s death. Social and financial status is not what determines happiness, but, rather the gift of happiness and life.
Topic: happiness

The poem is rich in language use. The poet does not employ many poetic devices, no metaphor, no simile, no symbolism, but still the words have resonance, even though the poem is quite literal. For example, in the first line, “Whenever Richard Cory went down town,” sets up the dichotomy that holds throughout the poem. If Richard Cory went down town, he must have previously been up town, indicating a wealthy residential neighborhood; whereas “down town” suggests the business district where apartment dwellers and the working class reside. The main thrust of this poem suggests the differences between the wealthy and the less-well-off. The speaker of the poem belongs to the latter class, and the poem clearly draws distinctions between “us” and “him” (Richard Cory).
Topic: happiness

In the second line, “We people on the pavement” suggests a lower class: we looked up to him as well as merely staring at him as “looked at him” indicates. The third and fourth lines offer the first description of Richard Cory: the term “gentleman” continues the division being drawn between the two socio-economic classes. A “gentleman” belongs to the gentry or higher socio-economic class than simply “a man.” Then by claiming that Cory demonstrated this gentlemanly quality from “sole to crown,” the speaker is emphasizing how entirely kingly this Cory was. “Sole” simply refers to his shoes, but “crown,” meaning the top of his head, also produces a pun or a double meaning, including the kind of head-gear a king would wear. This pun is one of the few actual figurative uses of languages used in this poem.
Topic: happiness

The speaker of this poem is careful to make sure his listeners understand that Richard Cory was just a really nice guy. He did not look down on the common folk; he did not behave arrogantly; he spoke to people the way the speaker would expect him to, “he was always human when he talked.” Cory seemed very friendly, affable, happy, just like the common working-class stiffs only better looking and richer. Even though Cory was “quietly arrayed,” not arrogant or haughty, and even though he chatted like a regular guy, still he made people a little nervous when he addressed them, and he looked like gold as he passed by. We must remember that the speaker is a little obsessed with Richard Cory’s behavior and appearance, so while the speaker wants us to realize that Cory was a nice man who would chat with the common folk, still his manner and appearance had an effect on people. Third Stanza
Topic: happiness

In this stanza, the speaker tells us quite plainly that Richard Cory was rich, but the speaker also exaggerates Cory’s wealth by saying he was “richer than a king.” And at this point, we can be sure the speaker is, indeed, referring to money, not personality and a successful life, because in the next line, the speaker informs us that Cory was educated in every respect; Cory had knowledge as well as good behavior. The next two lines reveal again that it is the common folk, “we,” of which the speaker is part who are making these observations and drawing these conclusions about Richard Cory. They conclude that Cory had everything a human being should have and everything they were striving for. They wished they were Richard Cory.
Topic: happiness

The first two lines of the last stanza once more demonstrate the differences between the two socio-economic classes appearing the poem: the common working-class folk who admired the wealth and style of Richard Cory struggled on and on, striving for the day when they too could be like him. Not only did they work hard, but they also sacrificed because they could not buy everything they wanted, and they complained about the low quality of the things they could afford. And then we come to the last two lines that shock and startle so: Richard Cory, the man who has everything, the man who was everything that these hard working folk wanted to be—this icon of success and happiness—kills himself. We can certainly take from this poem the old adage that appearances are deceiving, but we get much more than that, if we look closely. The poet, Edwin Arlington Robinson, has composed nearly perfect poem in its truth about life, its sense of the nature of human personalities, its rhythm, its rime scheme, and it does all this while remaining quite literal without one metaphor or simile.
Topic: happiness

In the poem, Richard Cory is believed to be superior in contrast to the working people. The poem states, “Whenever Richard Cory went down town, we people on the pavement looked at him” (754). The working people had very little money and work consistently to survive, “So on we worked, and waited for the light, and went without the meat, and cursed the bread” (755). The people admired Richard Cory and wished to one day have the same wealth as Richard Cory, “And he was rich—yes, richer than a king” (755). Richard Cory is well-presented, and the people described Richard Cory appearance as “Cleaned favored, an imperially slim” (754). In the poem, the people also described Richard Cory as a “gentleman from sole to crown” (754) and “And admirably schooled in every grace” (755). Richard Cory symbolized everything a working man strived to accomplish, “To make us wish that we were in his place” (755). In the poem, the people represent the lower working-class and Richard Cory represents the higher level of society. The people hope to one day become like Richard Cory through hard work and determination. In the poem, clearly the people think Richard Cory has the perfect life and have no knowledge of the struggles Richard Cory faces.
Topic: happiness

Throughout the poem, the reader believes that Richard Cory is a legendary man. Richard Cory is depicted as a man who kept to himself, the poem states, “He was always quietly arrayed” (754). In the poem, the people also portray Richard Cory as down to earth, it states, “He was always human when he talked” (754). Richard Cory did not believe he was better than anyone else; he was humble. Richard Cory is also noticeable, the people stated, “He glittered when he walked” (754). Everyone held Richard Cory as in higher figure, so ending of the poem is surprising. The last line of the poem states, “Went home and put a bullet through his head” (755). The ending of the poem is shocking to the reader; the reader is not expecting Richard Cory to commit suicide. The poem describes Richard Cory in a graceful manner, and the reader would not assume the ending. The people describe a two-dimensional Richard Cory.
Topic: happiness

Throughout the poem, the people simply analyze Richard Cory appearance and do not understand the inner being of Richard Cory. In the poem, the reader is concealed to the instability that Richard Cory encountered that caused his suicide. The reader perceives Richard Cory as an ideal man and is not aware of the difficulties Richard Cory battles internally. After Richard Cory’s suicide the poem ends, but the poem indicates that the people learn from Richard Cory’s death. In the poem, the people realize that Richard Cory’s life was not as fascinating as they expected, the poem states that, “We thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place” (755). The people believe that Richard Cory is a magnificent man because of his appearance. However, the people never really understand what is going on in the life of Richard Cory; the people did not understand the struggles Richard Cory experiences inside.
Topic: happiness

The reason Richard Cory commits suicide is insignificant because the reader still can interpret the message that the appearance of a person can be misleading. In life, there are always subject matters in which things seem better than what they are. Everyone in some aspect has impairments that halt their progression to find life’s satisfactions. Richard Corey had everything a person can dream of such as his class and wealth. He also had intangibles that many envied such as humility and appearance. These qualities do not guarantee instantaneous happiness, as depicted in the poem. Happiness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Meaning what a person may find satisfying or joyous, does not correlate with the rest of the population. Everyone has his or her own idea of happiness. In the poem, the working class admires what Richard Cory possesses. The process in which Richard Cory gained his wealth in unknown, along with what he may have loss within his conquest to establish his wealth.
Topic: happiness

Success is impossible to measure because success varies from person to person. It is also impossible to draw conclusions on the reasons that he committed suicide other than each conclusion has an underlining theme of unhappiness. The people in the poem could not fathom on why he committed suicide. They viewed him as an icon and an epitome of success. Through his death, Richard Cory made the working people look at their lives in retrospect to see what would make them happy.
Topic: happiness

What kinds of things make me happy? I could probably write a book about this topic once I sit down and begin thinking about it. Happiness means something different to each individual. On Saturday morning, I love waking up and knowing that I don’t have to be at any particular place for any particular reason. I slowly open one eye and look at the clock. Hmmm….it’s six a.m. I stretch slowly, like a cat, smile, and roll over for a few more minutes.
Topic: happiness

If I sit on the front porch, in my old oak rocking chair, I can see the trees waving in the early morning breeze. I love this when there is a slight frost and the air is crisp. Yes, it’s a bit chilly, but I pull my fuzzy red bathrobe tighter around me and enjoy the coolness. I watch as the last few hummingbirds hit the feeder, searching for their early morning meal. Soon all the leaves will be gone, leaving only the bare branches for me to watch.
Topic: happiness

Ray Bradbury’s unique, Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953 and carries a heavy message that holds real in today’s society. Happiness needs sacrifice. In the novel, Person Montag is living a good generic life that’s surface area deep. Yet Montag is looking for more or perhaps just something else. Bradbury utilizes Clarisse as an essential character that further fractures Montag’s safe world. He believes he’s pleased yet he understands he’s been privately hoarding books in his home.
Topic: happiness

Beatty is a mirror of that cynic inner voice. When Guy hears that sentence he has a choice to doubt himself or blast through that voice on his continued trajectory. Guy took the chance many people daydream about. The opportunity to face that inner critical voice and blast its searing words with a flamethrower and to let that critic feel the fire. He has sacrificed so much, everything, and now that he’s lost it all, ultimately, he’s free to do anything. This revelation proves deadly for Beatty. On the subway Guy was trying to memorize an entire book of the bible, he even begins to regret seeking greener pastures.
Topic: happiness

The numbness will go away…give me back the old face and the old hands the way they were. Even the smile…the old burnt-in smile, that’s gone” (Bradbury 78). Montag can’t even fathom who he used to be. Montag has burned away everything that created his life and his apparent happiness. He did this for books. He was forbidden to possess them and read them yet he still wanted to know why. This questioning led him to give up everything and start over. He did not know that this decision would ultimately save his life. He just wanted to be able to formulate his own ideas and this could help him define himself.
Topic: happiness

Montag’s quest for happiness in the novel really begins at the end of the story. Montag lost everything, yet had himself truly for the first time. He and his friends approach the bombed city to begin a new city and a new life, filled with freethinking and ideas. His whole concept of happiness has been redefined and is no longer tied to materials, like television. Bradbury wrote this story over fifty years ago but the message is still important. For anyone that seeks happiness, there is no straight line and that losing or winning is based on the perception of the individual.
Topic: happiness

The colors used are a combination of white which helps in organizing an orderly looking website, and different shades of blue which makes the website look interesting and visually stimulating. The main page of Authentic Happiness is well organized as the general and most important information were displayed side by side, through a three-sectioned page, as well as the inclusion of four simple links – the register button, the questionnaires center button, the research center button, and the newsletter center button – at the top that will bring the user to other web pages.
Topic: happiness

The links to the questionnaires, resources, and newsletters directly takes the user to the log-in page wherein members will be able to log in directly. On the other hand, non-members may opt to register for membership by clicking on the link that will direct the user to the registration form or page. Registering for membership is easy and hassle-free because it will not require one to check personal electronic messages to click links for verification or to log in again, and other hassling requirements that other websites necessitate before one is able to use their services.
Topic: happiness

A scroll bar is located near each question wherein one will only scroll down to select an answer. After taking the tests, a table or a graph shows how one’s scores compare with other individuals who took the test according to gender, age, online users, occupation, education level, and location. However, for some of the tests in the questionnaires center, the interpretation of the scores as they are related to happiness are not shown due to ongoing research studies that are in progress to finalize the framework and design of the tests.
Topic: happiness

Aside from the primary purpose of Authentic Happiness to help individuals obtain a clear insight of themselves from the results of the tests and surveys that they take in the questionnaires center to help them obtain happiness and to gather information and knowledge about Positive Psychology and how it relates to happiness from the resources and newsletters made available for members in the website, I think that the other goal or objective of Authentic Happiness is to further the improvement or development of the science of Positive Psychology by gaining data from the members who take the tests.
Topic: happiness

From the graphs and tables found at the end of each tests which analyzes the relation of one’s score to specific demographic information, I think that the tests taken by members is part of developing Dr. Seligman’s Positive Psychology and happiness. Overall, what the website offers for its members is access to various tools and resources that will help them take a closer look on their lives and determine the positive things that will make them happy, such as their strengths or strong points, their feelings and emotions toward themselves, other people, and their lives, and such.
Topic: happiness

The authority of the website is not only fuelled by what it offers to its members as aforementioned in the previous statements, but by the technical aspects or features of Authentic Happiness that proves how reliable and justifiable it is as a source of facts and information. It carries the logo of the University of the Pennsylvania, endorsed and managed by a reliable source, Dr. Seligman, and is registered under the copyright of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, the extension of the website is .
Topic: of-mice-and-men

In the text it says “ we’ll have a cow,” said George. ‘An’ we’ll have maybe a pig an’ chickens . . . an’ down the flat we’ll have a . . . little piece alfalfa – ‘ ‘for the rabbits.’ Lennie shouted. ‘For the rabbits,’ George repeated. ‘And I get to tend the rabbits.’ ‘an’ you get to tend the rabbits.’ Lennie giggled with happiness. ‘An’ live on the fatta the land’.”(Steinbeck 105). this is showing that George is more focused on just getting a little piece of land and Lennie just wants to tend the rabbits. In conclusion, George’s American Dream is to get a little place and get some animals and live off the fat of the land.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

Lennie’s American Dream is to tend rabbits and pet the other animals that they would get. Lennie during the whole story is obsessed with soft and furry stuff, during the beginning of the story he pets a dead rat, him and George both left the city weed because Lennie grabs a girls dress and gets scared when she tells him to let go and he didn’t let go so they hid and left, then he gets a dog and he accidentally kills it because it was so small. In the text, it says “ Lennie spoke craftily, ‘tell me – like you done before.’ ‘Tell you what?’ ‘about the rabbits.”(Steinbeck 13). Lennie can only think about rabbits, every time someone tries to talk to Lennie he just brings up the rabbits. In conclusion, Lennie’s American Dream is to tend the rabbits and pet all the other animals they would get.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

Literature can help us understand ourselves or others by identifying connections with friends and family. A character that you are reading about may remind you of someone in your life. The character may explain how a person is acting or feeling. The Death of a Salesman, Night, and “Mothers”, have each reminded me of my mom in many different ways. They each prompt me to remember my mom and how she influences me, by showing that she is a great mom and has good inspiration.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

In “Act One” Linda continuously interrupts Willy, Willy dislikes it. He yells at her, “Will you stop!” (Miller 47). Willy is mean to his wife, but Linda stays calm. My mom, unlike Linda, would not have taken this poor tone or behavior from my dad, she would stand up for herself and say something. My mom understands and notices certain things that my dad, my brother, or I do. Linda does not take enough notice of Willy’s suicidal actions and behavior.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

A short time ago, my dad and my brother were trying to carry a bookcase into our house. It was a very heavy piece. My dad thought that it would be a good idea to put blankets underneath the bookcase, so it would be easier to get it out of the car. They took it out and one of the glass pieces fell in and my dad sort of yelled at my mom for not holding them in place. She told him that it was not her fault. Linda, however, would have ignored her husband and not thought about the way he was treating her. My mom is not like Linda.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

, I thought of my mom inspiring and teaching because she thought of her mom as a “beautiful lady” and she learned the poem from her mother and taught it to her child. She was also inspired by her mother because she wanted to teach the poem to her child. Her child benefited from the teachings from Giovanni’s mother. In the poem I read, Giovanni and her mother grew apart and she did not remember many things about her mother. I wish and hope that my mother and I do not grow apart. My mother is apart of my everyday life. I speak to her frequently and believe that it matters to talk with her. Individuals without mothers or mothers that do not pay attention, have a missing part to them. I think that having a mother is a vital piece of a child or adults life.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

After reading “Night” by Elie Wiesel, I believe I can appreciate and understand myself more. Elie lost his faith and hope during the Holocaust. He no longer believed in God nearing the end of the book. I want to ensure that I do not lose hope in the things I love or believe in. I can better understand myself because sometimes life is hard, but I have to make sure that I am continuing my life and not giving up. I learned that even when you believe something is wrong, awful, or just inhumane, you can not always stick up for yourself and what you believe in. Elie did not stick up for his father, or all of the things that were going on. Elie could have gotten killed if he did stick up for everything. Other people did get killed for speaking out loud.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

Pieces of this book reminded me of my mom. My mom inspires me because even when her life is hard, she continues to do whatever it is. She is a fighter. Elie Wiesel continued his life and did not give up on his life. At the beginning of the book Elie has faith; in God, himself, other people, but throughout the book, he loses faith. He lost a part of himself. As said by Elie in Night, “Never shall I forgot those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust…” (Wiesel 32). Elie did not stick up for his father when he was beaten, he did not stick up for himself when he was beaten, Elie did not continue praying and being a follower of God, he did not stick for what he believed.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

The Holocaust was a very traumatic time for everyone involved. People got killed for no reason, they were starved, and treated like “dogs.” Everyone had to watch what was happening, to his or her friends, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and even children. Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust, but he is still traumatized by the event. He lived to tell his story. Many other people live to tell theirs. If I was in Elie’s position during the Holocaust, I do not know if I could survive. I would try my best and hardest at living, and continuing to believe and have hope. “The only thing that keeps me alive is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up,” said by Stein, one of Elie’s relatives (Wiesel 45). The only thing that people could do is believe, try their best, and have hope. Without hope and without trying you could not have survived.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

Another group of people that have influenced me in my life are my friends. They have influenced me in my life in different ways. They influence some decisions that I make and my behavior. One of my friends, Katie, has been my best friend for almost ten years. She has also influenced me in my life to get better grades and be more outgoing. An example of her influencing me is last year when we tried out for VIP. We both made it, it was so much fun, and I am glad that she convinced me to do it. We have had many amazing memories.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

The friendship between George and Lennie is very different from our friendship. George influences Lennie as well. Lennie looks up to George and follows what he does. However, George is not very fond of Lennie. George says in the book Of Mice and Men, “If I was a relative of yours I would shoot myself.” I would love to be related to some of my friends. We are almost like siblings since we have been together almost our whole lives. I would not be the same without them.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

Characters George and Lennie from the book Of Mice and Men are very different. George is a leader he leads Lennie to where they need to go. George also acts like Lennie’s dad, he tells Lennie what to do. As said in the book, “Lennie who had been watching imitated George” (Steinbeck 4). Lennie is a follower, he follows George in what he does. Lennie acts as though he has special needs. He acts very childish and has problems with his speech. George is very responsible, he did not want Lennie taking the work cards because he knew Lennie could forget them. George remembers many things from the past and brings them up in the book as foreshadowing. Lennie is very forgetful, he does not remember his aunt. George and Lennie have a friendship, from since they were younger. Even though they are friends, George takes care of Lennie. ‘An’ why? Because…because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why” (Steinbeck 14). George started to take care of Lennie after his aunt died. They had an odd friendship ever since.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

In life people typically root for the underdog, but in reality, the stronger figure typically wins. In the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the reader will notice that the stronger figure will have power over the underdog characters. The book takes place during the Great Depression when women didn’t have many rights and men had seen women as objects rather than human beings. In the book, Steinbeck uses the role of women and animals to symbolize the victory of the strong over the weak.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

Hell of a nice place. Old Susy’s a laugh– always crackin’ jokes… she never talks dirty, neither. Got five girls there”. In the book the men had seen women as exchangeable objects in exchange for money. During the Great Depression men had hard intensive labor jobs while they gave women the easier jobs that were consisting of housework and raising the children. In the book Steinbeck portrays this by Curley’s wife. For example, Curley’s wife wears a “cotton house dress” and she wears her hair in “little rolled clusters, like sausages”.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

In the book, Curley’s wife is described as beautiful and flirty. For example “She’s a jail bait all set on the trigger. That Curley got his work cut out for him. Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain’t no place for a girl, ‘specially like her”. This quote shows how women are stereotypically viewed as not capable of doing hard labor, and therefore she should not be found in the bunkhouse or the barn. George was worried that since she was very flirty she was going to get one of the ranch hands fired if they were found with her. Jobs were hard to come across back then due to the financial issues. In the book, the men think that Curley’s wife is trying to get them in trouble, but she’s just lonely and Curley doesn’t treat her well. There’s many characters in the book that don’t have a name such as Curley’s wife, Lennie’s dog, and Candy’s dog. This symbolizes that they are owned by someone else and back then they were considered as weak.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

If a person was a women, disabled, or an animal they’d be considered as not important and people would lose respect for them. This idea is portrayed during the Great Depression because the disabled were viewed as worthless and uneducated and this was because they would be put into a institution and they were unable to go to school. For example, Lennie had mental issues in the book and without George he would have a hard time surviving by himself. In the book, Lennie had struggled with learning from right and wrong and this affected the “weaker” characters. Lennie is treated like a child by the other characters in the book, so he acts as if he were clueless and doesn’t know better. Lennie doesn’t understand his strength and power because he doesn’t have others respect and trust. This causes Lennie to view himself as weak, and he doesn’t think that he would be able to hurt anyone.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

Lennie has an obsession with soft objects and living things that can be easily controlled. For example, “Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bastard like he is, he wants to touch ever’thing he likes… So he reaches out to feel this dress an’ the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on ‘cause that’s the only thing he can think to do”. The women thought he was going to rape her, because Lennie doesn’t know better to understand that he can’t do whatever he wants to do. Lennie doesn’t understand the amount of his strength which causes a lot of death in this book. Lennie loves to pet mice because they are soft to him but the mice would bite him. This causes Lennie to pinch their heads which would end up breaking their necks.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

In conclusion, in book the mice were considered as weak because they were easily defeated when Lennie the stronger character snapped their necks. This relates to how Steinbeck symbolizes the victory of the strong over the weak by using the roles of women and animals during the Great Depression. During the Great Depression men had hard intensive labor jobs while they gave women the easier jobs that were consisting of housework and raising the children. Characters in the book that didn’t have a name such as Curley’s wife, Lennie’s dog, and Candy’s dog symbolize that they are owned by someone else they were considered as weak. In life the underdog will be most likely defeated by the stronger figure.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

The Great Depression. The time in America when no one had a job. A time when everyone was poor. Of Mice and Men was set in the time of the Great Depression, and many African Americans had their jobs given away to white males and were segregated. This was also a time where disabled people of all kinds did not get special treatment, because most people were in a “survival of the fittest” mindset. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses Lennie, Curley’s Wife, and Crooks as an example to show how society has a direct relationship with people, and the way a negative society can lead to tragedy.
Topic: of-mice-and-men

I’ll show ya’ who’s yella.” Curley takes advantage of Lennie’s frozen shock, and uses this window to punch and injure Lennie. Shortly after this, Lennie, unsurprisingly, accidentally crushes Curley’s hand in an act of self defense. Curley’s ignorance to recognize Lennie’s mental disability is the perfect example of what kind of society they had back then.
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But, people are ignorant and prejudiced, and judge him without knowing him:” Well, he’s a pretty nice fella. Gets pretty mad sometimes, but he’s pretty nice.” At this time of the Great Depression, women were looked at as invaluable and useless. Because they didn’t really work, they were really looked down upon, and this is apparent in Curley’s wife. She is the only woman on the ranch, and has a hard time with being lonely: “Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?” It’s extremely hard for her to talk to the men on the ranch, because she is seen as having ‘the eye’, when she does, all she is seen as is a hoe. When Curley’s wife is first introduced, she is already negated with her appearance: “ she had full rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up… her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages” This sets a certain tone or mood about her character, causing the reader to think less of her.
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The reader finds out that Curley’s wife doesn’t love Curley, but only married him to get away from the town she used to live in, and gains sympathy for her. Later on in chapter five, Curley’s wife threatens Crooks, whomst she can sort of relate to, due to the fact that society treats them as inferiors:”well, you keep your place then nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny.” (Steinbeck 81), and the reader seems to lose sympathy for her in this moment. After Lennie accidentally kills his puppy, Curley’s wife walks in. Earlier in the book, there had been a lot of foreshadowing regarding Curley’s wife. She lets Lennie touch her hair, but he grasps it too hard, startling her. This of course, frightens Lennie who’s grip only tightened, as demonstrated with the fight he got into with Curley. Lennie, then out of fright, breaks her neck.
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Right after this, Lennie runs off into the woods, and later, Curley’s wife is discovered. The book Of Mice and Men perfectly shows how society treats people. John steinbeck uses Lennie, Curley’s wife, and Crooks, to show how people have a direct relationship to society, and how it can lead to tragedy – being that Lennie kills Curley’s wife, and George has to kill Lennie. The society then, and the society now, are still ignorant and prejudiced towards those of lower class. They may not be judged as they were almost 90 years ago, but the violence surrounding the way society treats people of lower social classes now, needs to be brought to everyone’s’ attention, so tragedy can be avoided. Need to know what insects you just found crawling on your kitchen counter? Worried about what pests may be damaging your property?
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Whether it is happiness, love, the ability to bring others back from the grave, or technology. When we want things badly, we forget about our surroundings. We want it so bad that we forget what else is happening and we only focus on that one thing. If we realize that we cannot achieve it, then realization sets in and the true reality of the world comes back to us. This is exemplified in A Man Called Ove when Ove longs for his wife to come back to him and he thinks about suicide, and in Of Mice and Men when George and Lennie wish to move to their own place where they can have all the land they want and live peacefully.
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For example in A Man Called Ove, throughout the first chapters Ove is frequently talking to his dead wife. Ove is a lonely man living by himself, and only 6 months ago his wife passed away and this has made him very depressed. Without the support he needs at the beginning of the book, he prepares to kill himself to be with her. “ [He] climbs up on the stool, and puts his head in the noose.
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Kicks the stool away. Closes his eyes and feels the noose closing around his throat like the jaws of a large wild animal”. This shows that Ove is trying to do the impossible, but his want for death is blinding him from the truth. It is blinding him from his reality because he has literally discontinued his way of life to achieve a dream that is not possible because he can’t be with his wife anymore and he feels that he has no hope of living without her. His wife signifies what is blinding him from reality, and the impossibility for Ove is being able to live with her, and this is significant because he cannot change the past, but if he changes his future for the better then he won’t be blinded from reality and the loss of his wife.
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Through the speech of George and Lennie from Of Mice and Men, Wanting impossibility can blind people from reality because it can’t change your past no matter how hard you try. For example in Of Mice and Men, throughout the book, they talk about how they are going to get enough money to leave the ranch and live in their own place. They choose to work on a ranch to earn more money and claim that when they get enough money then they are going to move out for good. This is exemplified when George and Lennie are talking about the place on the ranch. “‘Well, it’s ten acres,’ said George. ‘Got a little win’mill. Got a little shack on it, an’ a chicken run,’ etc. “…An’ rabbits,’ Lennie said eagerly. ‘An’ I take care of ‘em. Tell how I’d do that, George.’ This shows that Lennie and George are unknowing of the truth, and they choose to follow this dream because of how great it seems to them. Their want for this new future is blocked out by their current work productivity, and also their past events, as Lennie has messed up things once before.
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These two things are preventing them from achieving their goal because it proves that the impossibility of their future decisions cannot be obtained with their irrational actions. Wanting impossibility can blind a person from the truth by distracting them from important events that they need to see. More often than not, people enjoy the gifts of life, but that is not enough for them. They crave for more, and they dream about what they cannot achieve. This blinds a person from seeing what is right, as shown by Ove from A Man Called Ove, and George and Lennie from Of Mice and Men. Clearly, obsessing to achieving your dream is not worth it, and it makes it harder to see your current reality and the goals you can complete.
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Walt Disney once said “If you dream it, you can do it” but for many migrant workers in the nineteen forties, their dreams were hard to achieve. In the book Of Mice and Men, two migrant workers who travel together get into trouble when Lennie, who happens to be mentally disabled grabs women dress, not knowing any better. Lennie and George had a dream to have their own farm, which gave them the inspiration to work. Candy, an old disabled worker at the ranch, had no dream untill he was inspired by Lennie and George to have their own farm, he wanted to join in on it.
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Lastly, Curley wife had a dream to become an actress but it all stopped when she married Curley who didn’t care about her. Although it often seems as if people have no dreams due to their lack of money, family, or drive to work, Lennie and George, Candy, and Curley’s wife all persevered at one point to become closer to reaching their fantasy, and still use their dreams to fight through hard times.
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That night Lennie asked to hear the “Story” about their farm. George was telling Lennie about their farm when Lennie interrupted and said, “ an’ live off the fatta the lan’” Their future farm was what kept George inspired to keep working and continue fighting for Lennie. Before they get to the farm, Lennie and George collectively only had ten dollars, so their farm never felt real. Candy heard about it and begin to tell them about the three hundred fifty dollars he had saved up, Steinbeck wrote, “They fell into a silence.
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They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.” For the men, this was everything. It gave Lennie and George inspiration to work for one more month. For Lennie, this was a huge deal because all he wanted to do was to take care of the rabbits, and if he did not behave George would threaten him with not being able to. So for Lennie it kept him out of trouble. Lennie and George’s dream continue to help them live and work harder. Candy didn’t originally have a dream in Of Mice and Men. Candy has seen so many people come and go through the ranch, where their dreams got destroyed. Lennie said “I see hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads. Hundreds of them. They come an’ they quit an’ go on;an’ every damn one of em’s got a little piece of land in his head”.
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This quote shows why Candy had lost hope and had no dreams because he had seems dreams come and go. But when it came to Lennie and George, he saw something different. When he had heard about there dream he said “An’ they give me two hundred an’ fifty dollars ‘cause I los’ my hand. An’ I got fifty more saved up right in the bank. Right now. Tha’s three hundred, and i got fifty more comin’ the end of the month”. For Candy, this opportunity for him was huge. He believed as he aged more and more, he would slowly be kicked off the ranch, like his dog who was killed due to being unproductive. Lennie and George’s soon became, Lennie, George, and Candy’s dream. This dream took away Candy’s fear of being left behind, or kicked off the ranch. Curley’s Wife was an extremely lonely, attention seeker, and woman who had given up on her dream. Until the last few chapters of the book, the readers did not know much about her except the fact that she was so eager for attention because Curley gave her little.
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When she walked in on Lennie petting a dead puppy, she could see he was upset so she consoled him by saying to him “when I was a kid…Well a show came through, an’ I met one of the actors. He says I could go with that show. But my ol’ lady wouldn’t let me. She says because I was on’y fifteen…If I’d went, I wouldn’t be livin’ like this, you bet.’  She later explains how her dream went away so fast when she meet Curley. She proved that she was more then just a flirty girl on a ranch, but she was a woman who had a goal in life. She later said “ Well, I ain’ told this to nobody before. Mabye I ought to. I don’ like Curley. He aint a nice fella.”  She had admitted to giving up on her dream to be with a man who did not respect her and give her attention.
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Her, she still threatened to leave the ranch, so that was still always an option for her. George and Lennie, Candy, and Curley’s wife all use there dreams to distract them from there lives. George and Lennie used their future farm as inspirtation to continue working hard and traveling toghter. Cadys used his dream of getting in on the farm with George and Lennie, as a way to distract him from his fear of being kicked of the farm from old age. Lastly Curleys wife used her dream of being an acctress inspiration for her to mabye get of the farm. All four characters from Of Mice and Men contnued to live through bad situations to reach there end goals, Which inspired them.
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There’s a proverb that says “Men’s skins have many colors, but human blood is always red.” This quote proves that while it can overcome with understanding and love.In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck tells the story of two men who travel together during the Great Depression. Steinbeck shows the reader the major theme of loss of hope that is caused by discrimination. Steinbeck used the characters Crooks and Candy to show that discrimination leaves people without power or hope.
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Steinbeck has a good perspective on showing different outcomes that are caused by discrimination. One of the outcomes in Of Mice and Men is when Crooks shows how lonely he is being the only black man, and having everyone hate him, and not wanting to be around him because they think he is beneath them. Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife to show the reader that Crooks has lost hope in fighting for his rights when Curley’s wife says, “ Listen, nigger.
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” “ You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?”(…) “ Well, you keep your place then, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t funny.” This quote shows Crooks at his low stage were he just completely shuts down and instead of being proud of his skin color, like Steinbeck wrote in the book, “ he reduced himself to nothing.”