I have great confidence that I will be able to complete this project not just in due time, but excellently to the point that the objective of me completing this project will generate the desired results.
Here is a sample of one of my works, a reflective essay on my favorite book, "Of Mice And Men".
Of all of the books I have read, only two books stood out and really delivered an impact to my life. Every time I read and re-read them, they still never fail to give an impact on my life, whether it was when I was an 11 year old oblivious child, or right now, that I’m 21. One of these books is of course, the Bible, but the story of how the Holy Book changed my life will be put aside for another time. I want to give emphasis to the other book that changed, and continues to change my life every time I read it. The book is entitled Of Mice and Men. It was written by Nobel Prize winning author (for Literature) John Steinbeck. Of all the books that he wrote, this one was my favorite, mainly because this was the book, out of all his books, that I felt a relation to, I felt connected to.
The book revolved around the adventure of two friends, two vagabond field workers, namely George Milton, and Lennie Small in California, United States during The Great Depression. The story is about George and Lennie’s dream to one day be able to settle down on their own chunk of land. Their dream was within reach when they reach a ranch near Soledad, California and meet a one-handed ranch hand named Candy who offered to pitch in with the land George and Lennie would get in order for them to buy a farm at the end of the month. This within-reach dream of George and Lennie’s was cut short when Lennie accidentally broke the neck of the ranch owner’s son’s wife. Lennie runs away fearing for his life, and George eventually finds him in the meeting place George told Lennie to go to whenever Lennie got into any trouble. Knowing that Lennie’s fate was inevitable, George sits Lennie down and tells him Lennie’s favorite story of them settling down on their own land. While George was telling the story, he shoots Lennie at the back of the head, making Lennie’s inevitable death painless and happy: with his best friend George telling him his favorite story of their dream.
Even if this story is considered a “tragedy” in its essence, this great story did not offer me that side of it; instead, it gave me the lesson underneath, the message behind the tragedy. John Steinbeck once said that, “in every bit of honest writing there is a base theme: try to understand men.” This is the reason why this book has brought and continues to bring such an impact on me. This book helped me understand what it is to become a man. Although the book mainly focuses on loneliness, what was most felt in this story was the aspect of dreams and fate. That sometimes, life is unfair, we won’t always get what we aspire for in our dreams, but it is no reason for a man to give up.
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