'The Half Brothers' and 'Of Mice and Men'. Life is Sad, difficult and full of Self Sacrifice.

'The Half Brothers' and 'Of Mice and Men' Life is Sad, difficult and full of Self Sacrifice. It is not obvious that these two stories are separated by two hundred years, apart from the way in that they are written. The two stories both share life as being sad and difficult. 'The Half Brothers' was written in ........ It is a story of a young widow who's only happiness is of her child (Gregory). But by …

…workers find the body of Curley's wife, a search party is sent out to hunt Lennie down. George finds Lennie in the hiding place, he repeats the story about when they are going to get a little place of their own, and Lennie will tend the rabbits. George shot Lennie in the back of the head, while telling him the story. He did this to save him from being shot in the guts by Curley.