Ingrid jonker poem: line 13 reads: 'your child does, and lives on'. explain the possible double meaning of this line. (hint: this line is an intertextual reference to a well known poem by ingrid jonker, 'the child who was shot read by soldiers in nyanga')

I believe that this line has a literal and figurative meaning to it. The literal meaning would be that What your child does and what a child does is what is in there world and what they would live on from that world. Meaning that if your child is in a world of violence that the child will exhibit the violence and there fore lives on it, or in it. The figurative meaning would be your child lives on certain needs, they have the physical which is obvious, food, water, shelter, and then they have the mental needs which is what i believe this line is referring to. The mental needs would be that they need comfort, love, compassion. So what your child does, is what they need in life. If your child is acting in anger and aggression, they need compassion to live on.

The american dream is the concept of a perfect life also referred to as "the white picket fence dream" in which one has a family, a stable job, with a nice house and is happy. I believe that the American Dream is projected in Edward scissor hands where everyone lives in a colorful house and nobody is ever mad and everything seems perfect. but obviously perfection does not exist. we are all flawed and shall all run into problems throughout their life. on top of that, not everything wants the same thing. ones great perhaps may not be the same as another. so essentially the american dream should be anything that we want it to be.

I never read "of mice and men" but i know that Steinbeck tries to highlight the harshness of reality to prove that the american dream isn't actually ideal and is completely misleading