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Of Mice and Men

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       Throughout the course of ones life you have many dreams and premonitions. Some you create yourself while awake and others that you may get while you are sleeping. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, several of the characters have dreams and or premonitions that either don't come true or are changed by other troubles that contradict them. Considering this from a different perspective, if Steinbeck would have not put these dreams and premonitions in the story, the fulfillment of the book would not be complete.
       From the beginning of the story, both George and Lennie's dream is to buy a ranch from an elderly couple that have no money. "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" (14). To them, owning a ranch, this one in particular, would be like owning a little peace of heaven. George mainly wants it so that they can be on their own and not have any worrieswhere they can grow their own food and live their own lives. Lennie's only dream about the ranch is about him tending rabbits which they will acquire once they purchase the property. "The hell with the rabbits...