Carl Jung once said,“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.” In the novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, Lennie and George move around alot, never keeping people around for too long. In the movie Simon Birch, directed by Mark Steven Johnson, Simon and Joe are ridiculed by the people in the town and made to feel lonely. All characters stick together even faced with hard challenges. In Of Mice and Men, and in Simon Birch, the characters teach the audience that lonely people are never truly alone. In the novella Of Mice and Men, the author develops the theme topic of loneliness and isolation. While George and Lennie are taking a break from walking to the ranch for work they stop at the Salinas River. They are talking about the future and what happens to people who work on ranches for most of their life. George says, “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world” (Steinbeck 13). This shows that…show more content… In Of Mice and Men and in Simon Birch both pieces show that people can never get lonely when there are people who truly care. Lennie and George, along with Simon and Joe, show that with a great friend, loneliness can never happen. People who move around a lot may never have people who care but there will always be at least one person who cares. If people are treated like an outsider then they should find someone else who is also an outsider. People should just accept people as they are and who they are inside. Many people do not really care how people look at them, but there will always be some who actually will get hurt about what someone says about them. Lonely people do not have a person that truly cares for them, in their life, so they should try to find a real person who care about them. Both Steinbeck and Johnson leave the audience with a reason not to be lonely and to love
