In "Of Mice and Men" it is very controversial when George kills Lennie. This is so because the controversial questions brought up is "Was Lennie's Death Justified as an Act of Mercy Killing?" In the book Lennie has an infatuation with soft objects. He has had many incidents where he has killed small animals such as a rabbit because he strangles them. He does so because he is obsessed with fluffy objects.…
In the novel Lennie motivates George to have a dream of owning land together. Lennie always insists George remind him of the dream they have and describe it in great detail. Lennie constantly interrupts George out of excitement while he is describing their dream. Although Lennie invariably tells George to continue describing it. "An' live off the fatta the lan', Lennie shouted.…
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, today we are brought here for the reason of the murdur of Lennie Small. The accused George Milton is only one of the many that has been in a possition simular to this due to the hardships of this time. Mr. Milton is not to be blamed of the death Mr. Small, for as stated by Mr.Curley "I'm gonna shoot the guts outa that big bastard myself," This only proves that Lennie would have been killed either way, Mr.Milton only did it so no one else could.…
Hailey Rayle Of Mice and Men Although Lennie did not want to cause any harm, George was justified in his decision to shoot Lennie because Lennie was in trouble a lot, and a nuisance. One reason George was justified to shoot Lennie because he constantly did bad things. In chapter one, George and Lennie were sitting by the Salinas river having a conversation when George states "'God, you're a lot of trouble, I could get along so easy and so nice if i didn't have you on my tail.…
Lennie relies on George for everything. What Lennie forgets, George remembers. When Lennie is hungry, George finds food for him. Steinbeck creates Lennie’s character to show that the mentally handicapped are dehumanized, creating a sense of loneliness and false hope that ultimately leads to show that the American Dream is dead for Lennie Smalls.…
George was one of the characters in the novel whose dream was denied. One of the problems stopping George from accomplishing his dream of owning their own land was Lennie. He had to take care of Lennie to make sure he didn't get into trouble. “An’ you ain't gonna do no bad things like you done in Weed neither”(3). The quote proves that George is trying to make sure Lennie does not do anything bad anymore.…
In the novella, Of Mice and Men the two main characters are George and Lennie. The men are friends that have a special bond. Lennie and George face many different challenges throughout the book. Even though Lennie never did anything on purpose, George was justified in his decision to shoot Lennie for his safety and mental health.…
Imagine hitchhiking or walking across the United States to find work but can never keep employment. Lennie has it rough in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Criticized for being obtuse, he travels around the U.S. with George, his competent guardian who struggles to keep a job so he can feed himself and Lennie and fund his longing desire to have land of his own. Neither of the two can stay employed because Lennie makes mistakes that he cannot control as well as others, especially at their new jobs at a ranch in California. Lennie is the most damaged character in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men by society due to his mental handicap, relationship with George, and his notorious history of bad things.…
The obligations that a person has to another in a friendship is a widely debated topic. Often, friends are placed in the difficult position where helping their friend may not be the best solution, but to what extent? In most cases, the “wrong” choice results in the endangering of the friendship. In the case of George and Lennie in the novel Of Mice and Men, the consequences would be much more severe regardless of George's final decision. On one hand, his mentally challenged friend and companion would have suffered a terrible fate if he was put into the hands of another man, so George did the only thing that was right in the situation.…
Lennie often says things to George that would lead him to believe that Lennie has understood exactly what George is trying to tell him but that is not always the case . For example, when he says "oh, sure. I remember. In Weed" while George is explaining what they did at their last job. (6).…
Mice & Men. Friendship of George and Lennie. How do you know when you have a true friendship with someone?…
In Of Mice & Men, George decides to shoot his companion Lennie after he has managed to get himself into trouble once again. There, of course, are both pros and cons to this decision in my perspective, more pros than cons. For example, one pro is that George got to kill Lennie himself in a decent, peaceful way. If he had not killed Lennie before the other work hands got to him, they most likely would have tortured him using the cruelest method possible. Another example is that Lennie died dreaming about what he had been from the start, which was the farm and rabbits he would tend to once he and George got their own place; calming him and making the last image he saw a extraordinary one.…
“An’ why? Because….because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why” (Steinbeck 14). In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, he portrays a story of a mentally handicapped man born in the wrong generation. The novel shows many differences between mentally handicapped Lennie and his best friend, with full mental capacity, George. Although George and Lennie have countless differences and play contrasting roles, they are alike in several ways. The way the story is written, it would not have been the same without Lennie’s character not having a mental illness.…
George didn’t want to disappoint Lennie when they don’t get the rabbit farm that he wanted so badly and ended up killing someone for…
From the story “Of mice and men” by John Steinbeck. Lennie should be killed because he hurts a lot of people and he also has some problems with his mind, physical problems and some people thought that George should not have killed Lennie because they were friends but Lennie would have killed by someone else anyway. George should have killed Lennie because he cannot hurt anyone anymore because if he is still alive he could hurt someone else without knowing that he is hurting them, when he was alive, he kills a lot of things like Curley’s wife, mice, etc. and he also knows what he has done but he will still do it anyway, it might be without purpose but he is still hurt people.…