Comparing Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

BING! BANG! ZOOM! You are stranded in the middle of nowhere. This nowhere could be anything from getting lost in a forest filled with dangerous animals to being stranded on an unmarked island because your plane crashed! You need food and time is running out. Who knows how long you’re going to stay in one piece out in the middle of one of the most unmarked areas in the world where you have zero possibility of being found! You need to think. You need to think of a way to survive and you need to think about it quick. You may have been at the top of your class when you were in school, but in order to survive out there you are going to need more than wits.

Look at you. You as a human being are at the top of the food chain and you can’t survive

out in the middle of nowhere? Us humans may be at the top of the food chain in our world, but out in the animal kingdom or any place humans haven't gone in and declared safe to even look at is a different story. We humans are just very cocky. An example of a human gloating about himself is in the book The Odyssey written before the bible by a man named Homer. In the story, Odysseus,whom is the main protagonist just can’t get home. Nearly twenty years have passed and all of his men are dead. One of the many reasons he didn’t make it home is because he was cocky. Odysseus angered the son of a god and started to gloat about it revealing his name and the god didn’t like. Aside from that, Odysseus was a survivor after all of that. He survived by not only using his wits, but by being courageous. That is one of the many things it takes to survive in the world. He may have gotten himself into a tricky situation, but he fixed by using his smarts and courage to survive.
Not only are you learning how to survive, you are learning how to combine many skills and turn them into one talent. When thinking about survival, it doesn’t cross many as a talent. A talent is an extraordinary thing that people can do. If you can survive out in the middle of no where, that is pretty amazing and talented. Some may even look at it as a practice. Although it may not appear that way, look at Alexander Supertramp. His story is true and was adapted into a book called Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer. In this story, Alex wants to be a hitchhiker and go to Alaska. Why? That is not the point. The point is that he went to Alaska and did not survive. After a while he started to starve due to lack of food and strength. Not physical strength, but mental strength. Alex couldn’t push himself to do what was necessary to survive and he ended up starving because of it. Had he had the strength to stay home, he never would’ve even left and gone to Alaska. Not only does survival take wits and courage. It also takes strength, both physical and mental.
Look at a mouse.

Such a small and fragile creature. In many ways people are like a mouse. Mice do what they have to do to survive much like humans. In the book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck and Kevin Hinkle, there are two fairly good people. One of them is not the smartest person in the world and always ends up getting himself and his friend into trouble. It was only a matter of time before he hurt someone or himself and that is exactly what happened. These two men had found work on a ranch. That ranch had some puppies and the big guy named Lennie went to go play with them. He sort of accidentally killed it. Shortly after he sort of did the same thing but to a human. After that he ran. His buddy George knew where he would be after the body was discovered and people wanted to kill him. George knew that if he let Lennie tag along any longer, they would both end up dead. After he found him he talked to him and as his back was turned, he killed Lennie. Why? To save him and himself. Lennie was a ticking time bomb that could go off at any moment. The longer Lennie tagged along, the more trouble he would cause. When George killed Lennie, he did it because he loved him and wanted him to be safe. Must sound pretty lame and corny but it’s true. If George wanted to survive in the world, he would have to do the necessary thing. In this case it was kill a good pal. If you want to make it in this world you have to do the necessary things or in this case it’s if you want to

survive. Without doing the necessary, you become mentally weak and when you are mentally weak it becomes harder to think.
In order to survive, you need four things. Those things would be wits, courage, physical strength, and mental strength. All of those things combined into one thing make one big talent that not many people have like the characters in the books. The reason that it’s so important and relevant to know about these things is because these do happen in real life. It is important to learn from everything around us so that we may learn to in this case survive. The world is all about surviving and only those with the talent survive.