Prejudice In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Have mutual relationships with other people; don’t traverse life by yourself. In Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie showed that being with another person can help. Without George, Lennie would have been lost, and without Lennie, George would have been nearly helpless in a fight. Without one another, the two men wouldn’t have been able to accomplish as much. Marriage is a relationship that can be quite helpful in a few ways. Marriage can help people out financially. The cost of living can be lessened if the married couple lives in the same home. If you need a person to talk to or a helper to take you to the doctor, than relationships can be extremely helpful. This is why it is essential to have fulfilling relationships. Without them,

life is much harder. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca and Deborah couldn’t have found out nearly as much about Henrietta without each other. Rebecca had knowledge about science and journalism that Deborah didn’t have. Also, she didn’t have a biased viewpoint on the situation because she was not affected on a personal level. Deborah had access to Henrietta’s medical records, and knew where to go to find out more about her story. Without one another, Rebecca wouldn’t have been able to write nearly as good of a book and Deborah would still have been in the dark about Henrietta’s story. Mutual relationships are important because they help us get through life with less worry, allowing us to focus on other things.
It is crucial to be honest because lying can hurt you and the others around you. My dad used to be friends with a rich person. This person had a net worth of about 10 million dollars. However, this man didn’t work for his money. He was a fraud that tricked people into thinking he was an investor. People would send him their money and he would pretend to invest it. He not only lied to my father about how he made his money, but he lied about his entire life. In the end, he in prison with empty pockets and millions in debt. He wasn’t an honest person, and he ended up facing the consequences of his actions. The same can be said about Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet. The Friar allowed Romeo and Juliet to get married without their parents knowing about it. Because of this he was put in a situation where he was forced to be dishonest. He tried to convince Juliet’s family to believe that she had died. In the end, both Juliet and Romeo ended up dead because of his actions. In another novel, The Kite Runner, one of the characters in the book, Baba, lies to his sons about who his older son’s father is. He said that his servant, Ali is the father of one of his sons, while in reality it was him. Because of this, the servants end up leaving and this eventually leads to the death of the older son. If Baba hadn’t lied, the older son might not have been murdered. Being dishonest can have unexpected consequences later on in life. If you lie now, it can have repercussions much later down the road that you weren’t expecting. The best way to avoid something like that is just to never be dishonest in the first place.
Bad prejudice is prevalent in modern society and it can be poisonous for all affected by it.

Prejudice is all around us. People are making judgments of large groups of people without getting to understand the group. This can really do a number on the confidence of the people in those groups as well as their peace of mind. Because certain people in a group discriminate, the people of the discriminated group might feel as if the entire group is discriminating against them. This kind of behavior can be seen in large cities where riots can break out because of discrimination. Not all of the police were involved in the brutal act, but people that are rioting are going against all of the police. In the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, prejudice is extremely prevalent in Kabul. After the Taliban take over the city, they put rules in place that are heavily prejudiced against women. Women were forced to be accompanied by men at all times. In court, two women were required to testify, while only one man was required. This was because a woman's testification was not considered as valuable as a man’s. In the book, one character, Mariam, is forced to kill her husband when he makes an attempt on the life of her and her his other wife. Because of this law, she is taken to court and executed, as the only witness was a woman. In another novel, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, prejudice in society lead to confusion amongst members of Henrietta’s family. Henrietta Lacks was discriminated against directly, but because she was African American during the time of segregation, she was forced to go to Hopkins hospital because it was one of the only ones in the area that accepted African Americans. Hopkins took cell tissues from cervical cancer patients, and Henrietta was no exception. They took her tissue and experimented on it. Her cells turned out to be invaluable to scientific research. People ended up making millions off the cells, while her family ended up

making nothing. When the family found out, the panicked and this eventually lead to health problems in some of Henrietta’s children. Segregation was the ultimate cause of the series of events because she didn’t have a chance to go to another hospital that didn’t take tissue. Prejudice can really have an negative effect on people’s lives outside of what other people can see. This is why it is so important to avoid being prejudice against other people.

Medicine and science are relevant in nearly everybody’s lives, because almost everybody is bound to have problems that can only be solved with the use of medicine. Science is vital to our survival because without it, diseases such as smallpox might have never been cured. Surgeries might have never been developed. Without science, the average lifespan would be much younger. Quite a few years ago, my dad required heart surgery. Without the use of scientific study to develop the heart surgery, he might not have lived to this day. Without science and the use of medicine, mental health patients might not receive the medicine that they need to be normal. Medicine and surgeries developed by science have helped countless lives. The issue of medicine and science come up in the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. In the book, a scientist takes cancer cells from a patient and they turn out to be special. The cells are able to live on outside of her body. The cells eventually end up making a businessman and a scientist into millionaires. The family of the women that the cells were taken from, Henrietta Lacks, became angry when they figured out that this had happened. During this period of time, the cells from the women were invaluable in scientific research. The cells stirred up quite a bit of controversy in the public not only because the Lacks family didn’t receive money, but also because they were African American. Although the use of HeLa cells wasn’t illegal, it was considered by many to be immoral. In the end, it is up to the individual to decide whether or not they agree with practices such as the aforementioned one, but one thing is certain: everybody will be affected by science and medicine in some way. Future research will undoubtedly stir up controversy like HeLa cells, but it is up to everybody to decide whether or not this research will be halted, no matter how helpful it is.