Of Mice and Men Anticipation/ Reaction Guide

Question 10

"Dreaming is for dreamers, and dreamers go nowhere. Be real."

       I disagree with this statement wholeheartedly. First of all, dreamers go much farther than any other type of person. If no one in this world had dreams, the human race would be nowhere. We need dreams. They create and fuel our passion to accomplish things, they light the fire in our hearts to aspire for greater things, something just beyond the horizon. If we didn't have dreams, we wouldn't have America. America and its culture is based on the idea of manifest destiny, which is the idea that it is every American's right to want to expand their land. Also, it is known as the American Dream to want to have as much land as possible. And what do you think made all those people want to brave unknown lands? It was their aspiration, their dream from they themselves to complete.

      Secondly, without the dreamers of this world, we would have no inventions, for inventions come from people's dreams to help themselves or other people. And where would we be without inventions? Would we have air conditioning and heating? No. Would we have more comfortable ways of transportation? Nope. Better filtered water and cleaner food? Nada. Without inventions, we would be struggling as a species. And inventions come from inventors, which get the ideas from the inventions from their dreams.

          Thirdly, the phrase "Be real," in this quote makes absolutely no sense. Be real about what? Be real about the fact that dreamers can't accomplish anything and go anywhere? But that's no true. So I disagree, and firmly say that dreamers go extremely far, and that is true.