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Within the novella 'Of Mice and Men' Loneliness is a prominent theme. Individuals who are lonely tend to be isolated, meaning they lack relationships with other individuals. Loneliness affects these individuals negatively by making them feel sad and remote from others. This essay will now question how Steinbeck addresses loneliness within 'Of Mice and Men'. At the very beginning, Steinbeck establishes the theme of loneliness in of mice and men by setting the novella in 'Soledad' this translates from Spanish to solitude. The majority of characters within the novella are ranchmen, these were traditionally lonely because they constantly had to travel around to various places to find work. Therefore, Steinbeck is highlighting the repetitive lifestyles of workers during the Dustbowl and the Great Depression, where there was considerable unemployment, which resulted in many individuals feeling worthlessness and isolated. Strikingly the only characters within Of Mice and Men who are not lonely are George and Lennie. George and Lennie however, travel around together since they came from Weed and moved to this new ranch. Their relationship makes others such as Curly very suspicious of them. Even George highlights that they differ with all of the other individuals in the novella as he states "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family...with us it ain't like that. we got future". The use of "they" and "we" suggests the emphasis George places on the difference between them, and the ranchmen, and how uncommon at the time their companionship was. While they demonstrate a strong bond throughout the novella, at the end George must kill Lennie because otherwise he would be seriously harmed by Curly for killing his wife. Similarly to Candy and his dog, the scene where George kills Lennie parallels since when Lennie dies George becomes lost since he not only loses his companionship but his unique purpose in life and so Geroge reaches ample loneliness. By the end of the novella, none of the characters have companionship and so are stricken with loneliness.

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What parts of the body can you live without?

sciencefocus.com - How many organs in the body could you live without?

Asked by: Alicia Jones, Maidstone

You can still have a fairly normal life without one of your lungs, a kidney, your spleen, appendix, gall bladder, adenoids, tonsils, plus some of your lymph nodes, the fibula bones from each leg and six of your ribs. Losing your uterus, ovaries and breasts, or your testicles and prostate, is also quite survivable, although you might need hormone therapy to avoid other long-term problems, such as brittle bones. If you allow yourself artificial replacements and medication, we can go further and remove your stomach, colon, pancreas, salivary glands, thyroid, bladder and your other kidney. Still not enough for you? Theoretically, surgeons could amputate all of your limbs, and remove your eyes, nose, ears, larynx, tongue, lower spine and rectum. Supported by machines in an intensive care unit, they could also take away your skull, heart and your remaining lung, at least for a short while. This adds up to a theoretically survivable loss of around 45 per cent of your total body mass. But any trauma that destroyed all these organs all at once would almost certainly kill you from shock and blood loss. And surgically removing them one at a time over many months would likely also be fatal, due to infections in your immune-compromised state.