Hopes, Dreams, And Goals In Of Mice And Men

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[A] There is a beautiful, endless, always arising thing out there that allows us as people to reach and achieve success in all sorts of ways. [B] These things are hopes, dreams, and goals. [B] Hopes, dreams, and goals can differ and vary depending on each individual’s circumstance and way of living. [C] Some different examples on the ways that these three things might differ are in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, War dance, and Of Mice and Men. [C] In each source there is a vastly different example of how hopes, dreams, and goals might come into play in a person's life. [D] Hopes, dreams, and goals provide people with a foundation for success while setting a standards for the hard work that is needed for achievement.
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[F] During the wide known film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Walter is well known for zoning out, and dreaming about all the adventures that he could possibly go on. [G] In the review article “The Secret of Life by Walter Mitty, Ma writes “Stiller...examines the life of a man with great potential who has sacrificed his dreams to support his family after the death of his bankrupt father” (Ma, 1). [H] This talks about how he spends his time living so much in reality that he isn’t able to live his dreams, and therefore imagines them instead. [I] Walter Mitty wants to travel the world and follow his fantasies of adventure. [J] Walter Mitty finally gets to live his dreams and go on an outstanding adventure that fulfills all the fantasies he may have had while working in his office. [K] In the film review while talking about the crucial moment when Walter meets the photographer, ma writes “it is not what he says but how he experiences that particular transcendent moment, that irrevocably transforms Mitty and helps him turn his life around” (Ma, 2). [L] When Walter Mitty followed his dreams, his life changed drastically, even though the change seemed to be in his perspective and thoughts on his daily life. [M] Dreams were a crucial part of the story of Walter Mitty in telling his life, and without them, the story wouldn’t exist. [N] Hopes, dreams, and goals are key to living a successful life, whether in a fictional story like Of Mice and Men or The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, or in

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