John F. Kennedy once said “The courage of life is often dramatic than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.” He meant that people who are courageous their whole life can be as courageous as someone who has a courageous ending in life. This is true because in A Tale of Two Cities Sydney Carton lived a good life but he hated it at the same time. In the end of his life he gave his life purpose he had the courage to replace Darnay with himself because he wanted the love of his life to live without the love of her life. Also in Of Mice and Men George took in Lennie after his Aunt Clara past knowing his disability and the that life was going to be a handful, even though it wasn’t his family and knew it wasn’t going to be easy. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, and in the Novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck this quote is shown through the use of motif and characteristics. Sydney Carton’s motif in the end of the novel helps the reader to understand the book in depth. In the book Sydney Carton says “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” These closing lines bring Dickens' motif of doubles into the story one last time. Dickens' uses the literary device anaphor which is the repetition of a word or phrase over many lines , many times throughout A Tale of Two Cities. "It is a far, far better..." is repeated twice in these parting lines, as "It was the best of times, it was the epoch of belief,” etc. is repeated in the opening lines. This motif of doubles makes up the entire plot of the novel: the two main characters, Darnay and Carton are doubles of each other; London and Paris are the 'two cities' to which the title refers. The very last thoughts attributed to Carton, in their poetic ending that both the name of Sydney Carton and of France will be reborn in