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Personal Experiences In Of Mice And Men And Good Will Hunting

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Throughout our lives, we have to make so many tough decisions that make it tough to balance our relationships with the people around us and with what we want to do. This is a struggle that has been evident in my life, Of Mice and Men, and Good Will Hunting. Trying to find the balance between the importance of the relationships around you and the ones within yourself is tough to do. In this essay, I will give you personal experiences that I have dealt with in this topic and relate them to the aspirations of characters in Of Mice and Men and Good Will Hunting. Good Will Hunting and Of Mice and Men go in depth of many personal struggles that people go through in their life including me. An example is in Good Will Hunting when Will is so scared to face failure in his life, that he will stop and not try just so he avoids the failure. An example of this is when …show more content…

These experiences happen to be similar or related to the characters in the two stories. Just like how Will was scared of failure in the movie, I have been scared of failure in my life. An example that is recurring in my life that I’m trying to overcome is being scared of failure in sports. In any sport, when I play, most of the time I play just to not make mistakes instead of just trying to play my best. When I do this, it shows that I am scared of failure and that it is a big part of my life. Also, just like how George and Lennie had friendship and a dream, I’ve had that one. I used to be friends with someone and we had dreams of being friends together for a long time, but when he started to do bad things I had to make the hard decision to stop being friends with him. This correlates to George’s decision at the end of the book. This shows that the stories that we read and watched have connections people and deeper meanings than most people can see from the

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