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- The book that I have read that has really stayed with me is Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
- I really enjoyed reading it which is unusual because I usualy don't enjoy reading to much. There
- was something about George and Lennie's friendship that really made me think. Seeing how they
- were and how they shared life was really intresting. George didn't have to bother with Lennie, he
- could have abandoned him and gone on his own way. But he did not do that, he stayed with
- Lennie watching over him almost like a parent to a child. Even though Lennie always got Georege
- in trouble, George never stoped loving him and always stood by him. The friendship they shared
- went beyond what was transparent they each shared a dream and both knew they ment the world
- to each other.
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- I felt that if these totaly different people could get along and look out for each other, why can't we
- get along with people who are differnt than us. They made me realize that I could learn something
- from how to treat people who are differnt than me. What I also liked about it was the way they
- never stopped trying to reach their dream. This made me think that if they could work hard for
- there dream why can't I. It showed me that it does not matter were you come from or what you
- do, it is okay to dream and work as hard as you can to reach it .
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- For all it shows for friendship and loyalty it also shows how sometimes you have to do things you
- never thought you would do. For example in the end when George is forced to shoot Lennie in the
- head you would never have thought he would do that, but you can see that under the
- circumstances he had no other choice. He only had two choices let the other people get to him first
- and watch them torture Lennie while he died a long horrible death or do it himself and get it over
- quick were Lennie did not know what hit him. This is also true in life, many times we are faced
- with tuff choices and even though they may be the hardest you will have to go through, you know
- that that is the only way. You come to the realization that everything you thought you was about,
- can all change with a blink of the eye.