of mice and men
Why does happiness seem to be so elusive for so many people?
Happiness is so elusive because so many people want so many things out of it. Happiness is not something you can buy or trade, it is a feeling, happiness is created. Happiness is something you have when you just know it is going to be a good day. Most people think happiness is having all the money, the better car or phone, the bigger house, but it is not. Happiness is a way of life. Happiness is something you feel, you should not have to be the most popular. People should learn that happiness is being around friends, family, and things you love. I think that once they learn what happiness is, they could have a whole new outlook on many things, like life.
The concept of having someone is threaded throughout the novel. Discuss the significance of this idea, along with the theme of loneliness. Be sure to include observations about the “outcasts” on the ranch including Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s wife.
What constitutes a genuine friendship?
A genuine friendship should have people who both are willing to stand up for each other whether good or bad. In this friendship it should not be necessarily about whom the better friend is or who does the most in the friendship. It should be about the good times they shared, the times they were there for each other when no one else was, or the days when no one said a word but it was almost as if they were telling a whole story. A genuine friendship needs to have loyalty, support, trust, and of course, love. It also needs to have knowledge, knowledge that when someone has left nothing has changed. Friendship is also being five hundred trillion miles away from each other and being able to resume the same friendship with no hesitation.
Does our current society encourage or discourage loneliness or isolation?
I think our current society does encourage lonliness and isolation. Lonliness is when you basically have no one to be around. Our society
Happiness is so elusive because so many people want so many things out of it. Happiness is not something you can buy or trade, it is a feeling, happiness is created. Happiness is something you have when you just know it is going to be a good day. Most people think happiness is having all the money, the better car or phone, the bigger house, but it is not. Happiness is a way of life. Happiness is something you feel, you should not have to be the most popular. People should learn that happiness is being around friends, family, and things you love. I think that once they learn what happiness is, they could have a whole new outlook on many things, like life.
The concept of having someone is threaded throughout the novel. Discuss the significance of this idea, along with the theme of loneliness. Be sure to include observations about the “outcasts” on the ranch including Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s wife.
What constitutes a genuine friendship?
A genuine friendship should have people who both are willing to stand up for each other whether good or bad. In this friendship it should not be necessarily about whom the better friend is or who does the most in the friendship. It should be about the good times they shared, the times they were there for each other when no one else was, or the days when no one said a word but it was almost as if they were telling a whole story. A genuine friendship needs to have loyalty, support, trust, and of course, love. It also needs to have knowledge, knowledge that when someone has left nothing has changed. Friendship is also being five hundred trillion miles away from each other and being able to resume the same friendship with no hesitation.
Does our current society encourage or discourage loneliness or isolation?
I think our current society does encourage lonliness and isolation. Lonliness is when you basically have no one to be around. Our society