Importance of Hopes and Dreams

The Importance of Hopes and Dreams in Of Mice and manpower by rcapitulum end Steinbeck Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a touching story of an laughable fellowship between two workforce, George and Lennie. George is a responsible man and has traveled with Lennie for many years, despite the troubles that Lennie lolls them both in. George and Lennies aspiration is to be the birthers of a elfin farm. This is the their goal and this is in my opinion, the whole meaning of the story. on that point are frequent sections in the book where George starts their story of how they plan to live on the farm and Lennie finishes Georges sentences. One day were gonna get the bastard together and were gonna do a little house and a couple of acres an a cow and some pigs. To George, the dream of having their little farm means that he is independent, that he will be soulfulness and has the opportunity of universe his own boss and can create his own rules without having to obey the ru les of others. To Lennie, this dream is close having slow animals and pets. It means that George doesnt have to be invariably warning him about his behavior, it gives him the responsibility of tending the rabbits, and gives him a draw a bead on of security.To glaze over-their friend- he can see the farm as a place where he can show the responsibility that he didnt take when he let Carlson kill his dog I ought to of diagonal that dog myself, George. I shouldnt ought to have let no stranger develop my dog. Chapter 3, it also dourers security be pose he was in a risk of being fired at the ranch because of his old age and a plaza where he can stay for many years. Having and sharing the dream, however, is hard and isnt enough to make it happen. separately genius of them must(prenominal) make a sacrifice if they want it to happen.The obstacles are difficult but not impossible. They must stay out of trouble, which is very difficult when you live with Lennie, not expense m iodi ney on liquor or in nightclubs, and working at the ranch long enough to save money to buy the farm. entirely greater obstacles soon are evident. Some of these obstacles arent always placeable for practice Curleys violence with Lennie that can cause them to lose their traffic because Curley is the bosss son. Curleys resembling a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. Hes all in alla time picking scraps with big guys.Kind of like hes gaga at em because he aint a big guy. Chapter 2. Others are more sure such as Lennies strength and his need to touch soft things, because he has once been fired from another ranch for touching the wrongfulness things. Misunderstanding Lennies love of soft things, a woman charge him of rape for touching her dress. George berates Lennie for his behaviour, but is convinced that women are always the cause of such trouble. For George, the greatest risk in the idea of having this dream is Lennie himself. graven image amighty, if I was alone I could live so easy.I could go get a job an work, an no trouble An whatta I got, George went on furiously. I got you You cant pass a job and you lose me ever job I get. Jus keep me shovin all over the country all the time. An that aint the worst. You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to get you out. Chapter 1. Curleys wife also has dreams that although being varied from the others dreams they are still very similar. She wants company first and tries to prate to the men on the ranch, this is similar to when George tells Lennie that they are lucky in having someone to talk. Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. Chapter 1. Unhappy because of her husband, she is constantly around the barn, onerous to talk to the workers. The second part of her dream is similar to the mens believe for their own land. She wanted to be an actress in Hollywood and she imagines how great it would be to stay in nice hotels and owning lots of clothes. Of Mice and Men teaches a deplorable lesson about the nature of human existence.Nearly all of the characters admit at one time or another, to having a pro put together sense of loneliness and isolation. Each relishs the comfort of a friend, but will settle for the attentive ear of a stranger. They admit to complete strangers their fear of being cast off which shows their desperation. The characters George, Lennie, Crooks, and Curleys wife are rendered helpless by their isolation, and yet, even at their weakest, they seek to destroy those who are even weaker than they.Perhaps the most powerful example of this cruel tendency is when Crooks criticizes Lennies dream of the farm and his dependence on George. Having right admitted his own vulnerabilities he is a black man with a crooked back who longs for companionship. Steinbeck explores divergent types of strength and weakness throughout the novel. bang-up physical strength is valuable to me n in George and Lennies circumstances. Lennies has strength beyond his control like when he killed the mice.Curley too, he is the type of authority on the ranch and a champion boxer, who intimidates men and his wife. hardly even the most visible strength used to oppress others- is itself innate(p) of weakness. Much of the novel is about dreams and we can relate this story to the numbers called To a Mouse by Robert Burns that assumed that the dreams arent always achievable just like the American Dream. Most of the characters in Of Mice and Men admit, at one point or another, to dreaming of a different life. Curleys wife confessed her wish to become a movie star, just before her death.Crooks, harsh as he is, allows himself the amusing fantasy of having a patch of garden on Lennies farm one day, and Candy holds on desperately to Georges vision of owning a couple of acres. What makes all of these dreams typically American is that the dreamers wish for happiness, for the freedom to f ollow their own wishes. George and Lennies dream of owning a farm, which would enable them to sustain themselves, and, most important, offer them guard from an unfriendly world, represents a typical American dream.Their journey, which awakens George to the impossibility of this dream, sadly proves that the bitter Crooks is right such paradises of freedom, contentment, and safety are not to be found in this world. In the end the Buddha teachings seem to make sense one of the reasons that the tragic end of George and Lennies friendship has such a threatening impact is that one senses that the friends have, by the end of the novel, lost a dream larger than themselves. So the best is not to dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present number.As Oscar Wilde would put it a dreamer is one who can only rein his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the live of the world. The farm on which George and Lennie plan to l ive is a place no one ever reaches. The men in Of Mice and Men desire to come together in a way that would allow them to be like brothers to one another. That is, they want to live with one anothers best interest in mind, to protect each other, and to know in that respect is someone in the world dedicated to protecting them.They show ambition, which is the stick up refuge of the failure, anyone can be good in the country. There are no temptations there- O. Wilde. Ultimately, however, the world is too harsh and raptorial a place to sustain such relationships. They separate tragically. A friendship vanishes and the world fails to acknowledge or appreciate it. This is a story about how humans give meaning to their lives and to their futures by creating dreams. Without objectives and goals, life is a uninterrupted flow of days that have little meaning and arent cost living.