Thoughts are the things in our brains that shape who we are and how we want to be seen. The ways we think in our society is influenced by the people we socialize with and the insecurity of being an outsider to our community. But there is one thing that can’t be changed and fuels our actions to the bigger outcome, our dreams. The books we read about very tragic endings to both stories conclude to one thing though. In the book by John Steinbeck “Of Mice and Men” and Edmond Rostand's play “Cyrano de Bergerac”, the stories in these famous texts show how dreams just lead to pain and suffering which would rather be avoided. In extreme cases, the outcome that came to John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” was pretty blunt and depressing. But what I …show more content…
When his dog was about to be executed, he wanted his dog to live till he dies, but that is soon changed because of some of the workers wanting his dog to stop stinking up the cabin. So, Slim eventually lets the workers take the dog and kill it, but Candy sulked himself to sleep. Candy even shows how your dreams aren’t always a reality in life, Candy also tried to help George and Lennie to buy the land they were going to get. As he said “S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred and fifty bucks I’d put in.”(P.58) But ultimately, life doesn’t turn out the way you want and dreams just leave you with a “what could have been” mentality. In Cyrano De Bergerac, Cyrano has to live a lie for fourteen years after the war had ended. Every saturday he would visit Roxanne his true love and not tell her the truth that he is the one that loves her. Before the end though, she tells him that no matter what the poet looked like, she would still love him because of how the way he wrote to her. As she said “Less charming, ugly even I would still love you”(Rostand P.162) no matter how putrid he smells or how hideous he is. Cyrano was surprised and reveals to her that he was the one that wrote all of the letters than finally dies technically in