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Of Mice And Men Marginalization Analysis

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Theodore J. Kaczynski once said, “Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn 't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.” How does a society get affected when citizens feel marginalized? Throughout the shocking read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, John expresses the difference between the past and present with marginalization. The two main characters George a small, wiry, quick-witted man and Lennie a large, lumbering childlike man both dream of owning

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