For this Text to Text, we aim to have students explore the role of true friendship in a world defined by transactional relationships. We pair the opening exchanges between George and Lennie in John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" with a piece from The Times's philosophy blog, The Stone, on "Friendship in an Age of Economics."
SOURCE: learning.blogs.nytimes.com at 04:28PM on April 11, 2014