A/N: This is a response to the book Of Mice and Men. I originally started reading this book but have now moved onto The Red Tent because it was not something that I liked so the other responses are not about Of Mice and Men.
Fighting off the gooey monsters and saving the village from all destruction. Kids use their imagination in everyday life just to have fun. Imagining can be as simple as a game to a complex as a whole knew life for yourself. Imagination can commonly be referred to as dreaming. George imagines a whole new life for him and Lennie that would make everything better and different from the way it is. Their dreams will never come true, especially for just two peasant boys. Dreams rarely can become reality.
"'Tell you what I'll do, Lennie. First chance I get I'll give you a pup.'" George tells Lennie this to try and brighten and create the future that will never be. Both of them are almost over imaginative like children when it comes to life. In reality they will never become anything more than poor laborers that eat their beans without anything else. Dreams are good for the human find but people can only get so far before they over do it and loose there common sense all together.
Keeping mice in his pocket allows Lennie to dream of the time back when he was still nothing more than a child and kept mice for fun even though he killed almost every single one without trying. Lennie by pulling out this old innocent way from his childhood makes it difficult for George to look at him like a peer. Children are more likely to have over-active imaginations, and that is a proven fact, while Lennie is not a child anymore he takes the role of one. Both George and Lennie dream and imagine what life will be like when they "grow-up" but nothing will change from the way it is for them now.
Reality is what is real. Dreams are not real and rarely ever become real. George and Lennie's dreams are over the moon. Their dreams have no chance in becoming reality because of who they are and where they come from.
A/N: After reading the book The Red Tent I decided that I wanted to write about the way that women are treated so differently from back in the time B.C. to the way they are now and the struggle to get there now.
She has four mothers, her father; four wives. Dinah is the daughter of Leah, the first wife of Jacob, and the only daughter born of all of Jacobs wives. Nowadays men and women are on a fairly level playing field, at least in the United States. In the time of Dinah; B.C., women were nothing more than property to be bought, with no decisions to be made on there own. The men controlled practically everything that the women could do. Although people interpret things in different ways; the right thing to accomplish is in the eyes of the beholder. Time has changed drastically from then to now especially for women.
Bride price, and dowry, what these words mean is forgotten in today's society. Back in the time before Christ this was common. The man would pay the father of the woman that he wanted to marry for her to become his. Jacob, Dinah's father did this for both of his first two wives, Leah and Rachel. His second two wives had a much different circumstances however; Bilhah was the dowry for Jacob's marriage of Rachel, but then later became Jacob's third wife and Zilpah also was a dowry for when Jacob married Leah, and she became the fourth and final wife. Women were similar to property and close to the same thing as slaves occasionally a wife that is no longer useful to the man would even be sold off as one. They would just be sold off without their say put into it for they were only women.
Going back on the topic of words that no longer come up what about dowry? Zilpah and Bilhah were both given to Jacob as dowry for Rachel and Leah's marriages. Dowry is what the woman brings with her to the man in their marriage. The dowry usually consists of estate, money or goods, and in this case it is servants. Now days in the present this is still present in the time when people get married, although it is slightly different. The whole concept of marriage is different in this day, age, and country. Along with the way that women are treated, in most cases.
When two people decide to get married they are typically devoting themselves to each other and no one else, the two people are often in love. Dinah and Shalem were in love before the bride price was paid. In this period of time this was unheard of. Marriage should always be arranged in the idea of the men in the family of Jacob. Women should have no say in what they can and cannot do. Women are as significant as property. Just as the tenth commandment states, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or his maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” This links the idea of a woman right along with property. Just because a woman may have been a wife does not mean that a man will be smart enough to hold onto her, they may just sell her off to some random person as a slave, as Laban did to his last wife Rudi.
Most people in the U.S. now days don’t even realize that polygamy still exists. People don’t notice because it only occurs in the areas out west in the U.S. where there are Mormons and in many other parts of the world. Many times when polygamy is practiced the wives are very much put on the side and just there to be there. The woman are many times like servants or slaves. Times have changed in the world and woman have become much more equal in stance to men but it is still changing and women are still not on a level playing field. In the early nineteen hundreds alone woman had to fight for the right to vote. Not much early before that was is blasphemy for a woman to have an important job.
She defied her father and brothers. Dinah let them wallow in their own problems staying away from them and keeping her life separate from theirs. Her name changed, from Dinah to Den-ner, her own son not even knowing of her troubled past. Leaving them she made herself much more free to do as she pleased, becoming one of the best mid-wives in Egypt. Only remarrying after the deaths of her so-called captors. Dinah finished her life as free as she could be in the eyes of the women around her. The life that she led is truly an inspiration to many.
A/N: After reading the book The Red Tent I decided that I wanted to write about the way that women are treated so differently from back in the time B.C. to the way they are now and the struggle to get there now.
She has four mothers, her father; four wives. Dinah is the daughter of Leah, the first wife of Jacob, and the only daughter born of all of Jacobs wives. Nowadays men and women are on a fairly level playing field, at least in the United States. In the time of Dinah; B.C., women were nothing more than property to be bought, with no decisions to be made on there own. The men controlled practically everything that the women could do. Although people interpret things in different ways; the right thing to accomplish is in the eyes of the beholder. Time has changed drastically from then to now especially for women.
Bride price, and dowry, what these words mean is forgotten in today's society. Back in the time before Christ this was common. The man would pay the father of the woman that he wanted to marry for her to become his. Jacob, Dinah's father did this for both of his first two wives, Leah and Rachel. His second two wives had a much different circumstances however; Bilhah was the dowry for Jacob's marriage of Rachel, but then later became Jacob's third wife and Zilpah also was a dowry for when Jacob married Leah, and she became the fourth and final wife. Women were similar to property and close to the same thing as slaves occasionally a wife that is no longer useful to the man would even be sold off as one. They would just be sold off without their say put into it for they were only women.
Going back on the topic of words that no longer come up what about dowry? Zilpah and Bilhah were both given to Jacob as dowry for Rachel and Leah's marriages. Dowry is what the woman brings with her to the man in their marriage. The dowry usually consists of estate, money or goods, and in this case it is servants. Now days in the present this is still present in the time when people get married, although it is slightly different. The whole concept of marriage is different in this day, age, and country. Along with the way that women are treated, in most cases.
When two people decide to get married they are typically devoting themselves to each other and no one else, the two people are often in love. Dinah and Shalem were in love before the bride price was paid. In this period of time this was unheard of. Marriage should always be arranged in the idea of the men in the family of Jacob. Women should have no say in what they can and cannot do. Women are as significant as property. Just as the tenth commandment states, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or his maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” This links the idea of a woman right along with property. Just because a woman may have been a wife does not mean that a man will be smart enough to hold onto her, they may just sell her off to some random person as a slave, as Laban did to his last wife Rudi.
Most people in the U.S. now days don’t even realize that polygamy still exists. People don’t notice because it only occurs in the areas out west in the U.S. where there are Mormons and in many other parts of the world. Many times when polygamy is practiced the wives are very much put on the side and just there to be there. The woman are many times like servants or slaves. Times have changed in the world and woman have become much more equal in stance to men but it is still changing and women are still not on a level playing field. In the early nineteen hundreds alone woman had to fight for the right to vote. Not much early before that was is blasphemy for a woman to have an important job.
She defied her father and brothers. Dinah let them wallow in their own problems staying away from them and keeping her life separate from theirs. Her name changed, from Dinah to Den-ner, her own son not even knowing of her troubled past. Leaving them she made herself much more free to do as she pleased, becoming one of the best mid-wives in Egypt. Only remarrying after the deaths of her so-called captors. Dinah finished her life as free as she could be in the eyes of the women around her. The life that she led is truly an inspiration to many.
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