Reaction To Of Mice And Men Essay, Research Paper

Reaction to Of Mice and Men

The book that I have read that has really stayed with me is Of

Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I really enjoyed reading it which is

unusual because I usualy don’t enjoy reading to much. There was

something about George and Lennie’s friendship that really made me

think. Seeing how they were and how they shared life was really

intresting. George didn’t have to bother with Lennie, he could have

abandoned him and gone on his own way. But he did not do that, he

stayed with Lennie watching over him almost like a parent to a child.

Even though Lennie always got Georege in trouble, George never stoped

loving him and always stood by him. The friendship they shared

went beyond what was transparent they each shared a dream and both

knew they ment the world to each other.

I felt that if these totaly different people could get along and

look out for each other, why can’t we get along with people who are

different than us. They made me realize that I could learn something

from how to treat people who are differnt than me. What I also liked

about it was the way they never stopped trying to reach their dream.

This made me think that if they could work hard for there dream why

can’t I. It showed me that it does not matter were you come from or

what you do, it is okay to dream and work as hard as you can to reach

it.

For all it shows for friendship and loyalty it also shows how

sometimes you have to do things you never thought you would do. For

example in the end when George is forced to shoot Lennie in the

head you would never have thought he would do that, but you can see

that under the circumstances he had no other choice. He only had two

choices let the other people get to him first and watch them torture

Lennie while he died a long horrible death or do it himself and get

it over quick were Lennie did not know what hit him. This is also true

in life, many times we are faced with tuff choices and even though

they may be the hardest you will have to go through, you know that

that is the only way. You come to the realization that everything you

thought you was about, can all change with a blink of the eye.