Chapters 1-3 Argument

When you ask your parents to lend you money or buy a new toy, do you ever stop and think that the cost of that items is as much as they make in 6 hours of working? No, you never think of what your parents had to go through or how much they had to do for you to have that one thing you desperately "need." Maybe your parents don't have an issue with throwing money at stuff that's wanted, but there are thousands of families out there where the parents still work by the hour all day, everyday for months and still struggle to provide for themselves, or their families.

Don't believe that's a real situation, that people don't ever feel like they can't provide, they have to move every month because they don't have the money to stay in one place too long and have to move closer to work? Well, in Of Mice and Men Steinbeck has George explain, "'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They have no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stakes, and the first thing you know they're pounding' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to'"(13). George feels lonely, like he's got nothing to look forward to. Nothing to be proud of. He works and works but still doesn't have any 'stake' to live on. He moves many places and belongs nowhere. His only family is Lennie. He has to move around to keep the money coming in. So he can continue providing for lennie and himself.

You go through a lot and do so much to try and provide. All that trouble goes unnoticed and you are stuck in the same perdictiment as before. In the poem, To A Mouse, Burns states, "Now you are turned out, for all your trouble,/ Without house or holding,/ To endure the winter's sleety dribble,/ And hoar-frost cold." This poem explains that you can try and try and put all your effort into things but it doesn't guarantee success or appreciation. You can work all day everyday for months on end and still not get the raise you needed because someone got the spot light that you worked for. In today's society, the people who work the hardest tend to get unnoticed, while those who do something to get their boss to know them get all the attention without really needing to work as hard.