... more complicated look at dreams than John Steinbeck: some come true, while others "dry up like a raisin in the sun." In the play A Raisin in The Sun, she describes how non selfish dreams that effect more than one person come true, while dreams that are only for personal reasons, don't. In the story a lower class African American ... Gone, what you mean Willie is gone? Gone where?" (128). Walter's dream was a selfish dream, because he wanted to take all of the money for himself, and leave the rest of the family with nothing. All dreams are important, everyone has them, even children. Bene...

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... Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, a difficult book to read. The language was very detailed and the speech was lazy as they left out letters, "You can't keep a job and you lose me ever" job I get. Jus" keep me shovin" all over the country all the time. An" that ain't the worst." However, by the end of the book I understood the language used and I actually read the book again and picked ... so much I got thinking maybe we would." Lennie on the other hand, became so obsessed with the idea that it controlled him and became the only thing he thought of. Lennie might not have been smart, but he...

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