Of Mice and Men- The title

John Steinback is an author who has many amazing writing techniques and styles. He can really relate to other pieces of writing and it always turns out great, especially for the readers.

I think he got inspired to title his book "Of Mice and Men" from the poem, "To a Mouse." This is because the poem is about a mouse's life who gets turned upside down. All the hopes and dreams; ambitions and wishes, are wrecked. The mouse comes across challenges which he has to learn to face. His life got turned over by a huge plough which permitted him from his dreams and ambitions coming true. This relates to the book as the plot of Steinback's book was about two men who had amazing dreams and ambitions but unfortunately their life got turned around. Therefore, they weren't able fulfill all their hopes and dreams. It was really sad to read the ending and to realize that these two young men weren't able to fulfill their dreams which they had dreamt of and wished for to come true, for their whole life. They were always talking about tending rabbits and owning their own farm. Like i mentioned earlier in this post, Steinback had great writing techniques and styles. Even though the end of this novella was upsetting, devastating and sad, it left the audience with something to wonder about.

I think Steinback is saying that in life, you can dream big and want to achieve lots, but along the way you will probably encounter something which might come in the way of fulfilling your dreams. I think he is saying that you can't expect all of your hopes and dreams to come true. LIfe is full of challenges, and I definitely learnt more abut that in this novella. This is because George and Lennie are two young men who had big dreams and their dreams never came true. A conflict occurred in the story which in a way, stopped them from fulfilling their dream. The one thing that i learnt, is even though their dreams never came true, they never ever stopped believing in them. Steinback is saying that you can have dreams and ambitions, and hope that they will come true; if they don't, then they don't... but never stop believing in your dreams.