"The Farm"

For some people a blanket could represent a lot. If could represent security, comfort, peace. Having a special blanket could be an escape. In the book Of Mice and Men George and Lennie’s blanket is “the farm”. Throughout the book they talk about “the farm”. Their goal is to buy the farm. “The farm” represents success, peace, comfort, security, and escape, their heaven. However some times in life “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Sometimes one looses their blanket and you don’t get to buy the farm. The farm is a theme seen throughout the story.
George and Lennie didn’t exactly have the best life. They were workers who had no family and often got in trouble. Even though things were rough they had a plan. They were going to get their own farm. For years they had been working for other people but that was all going to change. Now their only priority was to make the money that they needed to buy a nice little farm where they could live off the fat of the land. On their farm they would be their own boss. Life would flow the way they wanted it to. The farm would be tier heaven on earth.
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. George and Lennie had it all worked out. They would work until they made $300 and then they would quit their jobs and buy the farm. Lennie would get to tend the rabbits and when they didn’t feel like working they would stop. Already though the plans began to change. They met Candy another worker on Tyler farm and decided to let him come along. He put up a lot of money and they help them get started. Now with just one month of working the heaven was in sight. Everything was good until Lennie had an accident. Lennie started to pet Curly’s wife’s head but when he got to rough she started to scream. He pleaded with her to stop screaming but when she didn’t he accidentally killed her.
Lennie never got to tend the rabbits but he didn’t get to go to the farm. It wasn’t the farm he was expecting to go to. Throughout the book the theme lets us know that they are going to get some type of heaven. The title lets us know that they aren’t going to get the farm they wanted. Because Lennie killed Curly’s wife he was going to have to die. Right before he was shot George told him about the farm they were going to get so as Lennie died that is what he was thinking of. In a way Lennie did get to buy the farm. He got to leave this earth where he was always in the service of other people. He got to go to his own heaven where he would be able to tend the rabbits, he just would have George with him. Even though in life our plans can go awry good things can still come from the changes.

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