Of Mice and Men Lost Hope is like a contagious disease in the novel Of Mice and Men. Many of the characters have lost their hopes and dreams. Lennie, George, Candy, Curley and his wife all had hope at one point but lost it or a little piece of it as time progressed. ... killed. The loss of his companion resulted in the loss of his hopes and dreams. His dream was to "have a little house and a couple of acres an" a cow and some pigs and live off the fatta the land." If George did not have to take care of Lennie "he woulda took his pay an" raised hell in a whore house, and he ... was lost fore...

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... thing stopping you is yourself; and clearly life without a dream is a lonely, dark and sad one. In the novel Of Mice and Men, dreams are what drove most of the characters. The uses of characterization and conflict play into the attainability of these dreams. Their dreams are the only thing that keeps them going, no matter how unrealistic or simplistic they ... example of this is when George states: O.K Someday- we"re gonna get the jack together and we"re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an" a cow and some pigs and-(p.15) This shows how their dream was important because it...

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... as well as economics. It was able to portray the mood of the generation during this unstable period of history. Women in the jazz age were a mirror image of the characters of the Great Gatsby. During the Jazz Age women gained more rights for an example the right to vote, they began to loosen their morals and display an image of ... many large parties with an extravagant amount of accommodations like "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d'ceurve, spiced bacon hams crowded against salads of sequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold"(44). This amount ...

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... society. All the boys follow his rules and command. However, when there is good, there is evil. Jack distracts the boys by leading them intofuns and games? which involves killing pigs and later on, killing people. The countergroup of Jack's war-paints their faces and turns their backs on Ralf. Later on, the countergroup settles on their own. Ralf senses a big ... plane-wreck. Also, the pig's head foreshadows the titleLord of the Flies? since the pig's head attracts a lot of flies. As the uproar of the evils get worse, the good characters become fewer. There are only threegood? boys left...

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