Both ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘I’m Not Scared’ are stories discussing the theme of dreams and reality. The tough life that the characters are facing in both stories has life-altering impact on their dreams. The friendship of the characters, the betrayal and innocence of major characters show the audience that reaching ‘the dream’ is not easy. ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘I’m Not Scared’ explain the powerful depiction of life; the honesty compared to disloyalty and the cruelty which is faced by characters, showing the audience that a strong ideology can sometimes become real, and can even put strong casualties and impacts.
Both ‘I’m Not Scared’ and ‘Of Mice and Men’ show the existing relationships between the main characters are influenced by their own dreams. Michele, the protagonist in ‘I’m Not Scared’ has a sense of obligation, this sense is stronger than his fear towards what his father (Pino) might say. Michele knows that the villagers and
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He never questions himself whether or not to give food to Filippo, nor not keeping his promises of cleaning Filippo and passing on his mother’s message of love to him. Pino was the main character that has betrayed his son: “If you go back there I 'll give you the thrashing of your life” (Pino) - page 156. As compared to ‘I’m Not Scared’, Lennie’s innocence is shown in ‘Of Mice and Men’. Lennie’s disability makes him childlike; with a child’s innocence he likes to pet soft things and tend animals. Petting them made Lennie happier - Lennie wanted to be an owner of something he desires; however, George did not allow Lennie to have them: “I wasn’t doin’ nothing bad with it, George. Jus’ strokin’ it” (Lennie) “You crazy fool. Don’t you think I could see your feet was wet where you went acrost the river to get it?” (George) - page 11. Here again, the innocence of major characters in both stories played a major role which had put a significant impact on making the dream fail to become