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A Dream In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Everyone has dreams, but do they all have the chance to achieve their dreams? The author John Steinbeck wrote the book Of Mice and Men. This book shows how the characters tried their to achieve their goals and dreams but failed . The three characters that had a big dream, and they couldn’t achieve it were Lennie, George, and Crooks. They didn’t gets to their dream because of he worgen decision that they make. I pick Lennie, George, and crooks. These characters have a really big dream that the can do but some of them they chose the wrong thing that sadly they couldn’t reach their dream. Lennie, George, and crooks have a big dream and they want to reach their goals to get a better life and to have some freedom and joy their life without no trouble or hate. Lennie dream was about getting land and that have a lot of animals that he can pet and play with them Lennie loves soft things that he can play with. When was talking about the land Lennie jump it and start talking about they gonna have a rabbit, puppies, maybe a chicken, pigs, and …show more content…

An’ have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. page(10).Also Lennie was so excited about the dream he and George gonna do it and he was dreaming about how gonna play with rabbit and puppy, and also he said that he gonna help them to get the money to buy the land, he was talking about a lot and he loves it that dream so bad that he just want to make that dream and have that little places. In addition that Lennie gets in trouble, it’s was the great barn was piled high with new hay. It was Sunday afternoon. Only Lennie was in the barn and Lennie sat in the hay beside a packing cause under a manager in the end of the barn that had not been filled with

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