Of Mice and Men Blog #3

I think it is important that people have a sense of belonging because if they don't they could go into a depression and kill themselves like Romeo and Juliet. All Romeo has is his love for Juliet because his best friend Mercutio died.  Without any friends Romeo only has Juliet and when he thinks Juliet is dead he thinks there is nothing for him left to live for. In Of Mice and men Lennie really needs George as a friend because without George Lennie would have no place to stay or be because no one wants a big stupid guy that doesn't know his own strength working on there farm.  I think it is also important to have friends because you have someone to talk to when you don't know what to do and have someplace to go when u want to do something and u are board. In Things fall apart Okonkwo has friends at the beginning of the book but towards the end of the book no one agrees that they should drive out the white people and so he also kills himself at the end of the book.  In the book A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael is stuck in the middle of a war and is separated from his friends and family.  Throughout that book you constantly hear him talking about how he wished for his family and friends to be back with him.