Of Mice and Men (Not a Summary

             If you try hard you can achieve anything, That is what most people say and think it is true. But that's not the case all the time. Sometimes you can't achieve everything you work for. Achieving what you want, such as a goal or a dream mostly comes true to the common hard worker. Yet there are some people left out into the cold. This relates to The Novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. The characters, such as George, Crooks and Curley's Wife prove that not all dreams come true.
             In the book Lennie killed George's dream to having his own farm. The dream George had was to have a farm of his own one day and live off the fat of the land. With this Dream he allowed Lennie to help with the dream since he always has to do things with him. Later into the book one of the men also working at the farm decided to join to insure their possibility of getting the farm since George wouldn't be able to do it by himself. But as luck would have it nothing worked out the way it should have. Lennie, being the not so smart person he is killed Curley's Wife unintentionally by snapping her neck. From this George knew that the dream would not be accomplished and had no choice but to shoot Lennie. This is one perfect example of how not all dreams come true.
             Crooks' had his dream shattered by Curley's Wife to keep him from dreaming at all. In Chapter 4 of the book Crooks found out about the dream that Lennie and Candy had put together and thought about join them in the farm. At first he was skeptical about the whole situation because he thought that Lennie was acting crazy. Being in the time he was and the color of his skin he thought that there would be no hope for him. But after talking to Lennie he began to think of how nice it would be if he had a farm of his own since he wouldn't ever be able to have it actually happen. While in this state of mind where he thought that he could d
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