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Of mice and men

Of mice and men takes place in 1935 at the same time to the Great Depression. The too main characters have a dream about owning a ranch, they are looking for work in California. They get to work on a ranch, so they can get money for there dream farm.

The story of mice and men ends and starts at the same place, what is the author trying to tell us???? The idea of the American dream is older then America, the American dream dates back to the early 1600 s, when people began dreaming of a land, they wanted to be land lords. But it was also another type of dream the Hollywood dream, they wanted to live like stars in big houses. In the book we see that Lenin and Gorge dream of a land, and they mostly talk about a ranch that is for sale for 800$. We can see this on page 18-19.

In the start of the book they arrive in pretty place. “The threes are fresh and green with every spring. Under the trees, the leaves lie deep, so dry that a small animal makes a great skittering if it runs among them”  (page 7). The trees are fresh can in some way mean that they had a fresh start. it is very like what the migrants that came to America, they got a fresh start, and the pretty place that they arrive to can be the statue of liberty.

In the end of our journey as we see on page 92-92+ , we see that they end at same place as they started. But the place isn’t as well described as in the start of our tale. What is John Steinbeck trying to tell us. Personally i think he is trying to say that the American dream isn’t as it was were in the good old days. In the old days they were most likely to end up with land, and they didn’t got shit.

So i believe that John Steinbeck is sending a message, that the American dream isn’t as good as in the old days
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