Do you think George should have killed Lennie even though they were friends? In John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men the main character George Milton had to make many tough decisions for himself and his friend Lennie Small. While George and Lennie are friends George ends up looking after Lennie more than anything due to his mental disability. Although Lennie was a hard worker‚ he made the mistake of killing the ranch owners daughter in-law which led George to have to make the decision to end
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“[George] reached in his side pocket and brought out Carlson’s Luger; he snapped off the safety ‚ and the hand and gun lay on the ground behind Lennie’s back. He looked at the back of Lennie’s head‚ at the place where the spine and skull were joined...” (Steinbeck 105). In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ George makes the decision to shoot his best friend Lennie. Lennie is a mentally disabled man with hopes and dreams of owning a farm‚ and living off the fat of the land. George is the man who goes
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The relationship established between George and Lennie is a dependent relationship. By keeping each other somewhat balanced mentally and physically George and Lennie have created a friendship in which loneliness would occur if they were to not have one another.Lennie and George are introduced in the Essential Passage 1 of Chapter 1 as a whole. When George speaks to Lennie about what the future holds for them he consistently uses language that unites them such as‚ “we” and “us”. When George speaks
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Although‚ Lennie and George were not related by blood‚ they shared a cherished brotherly bond. Stuck together like siamese twins‚ the companions travel the lands looking for work until Lennie’s unfortunate luck forces them to flee. Steinbeck divulges information about their relationship through key conversations and narrates their characteristics. In addition‚ Steinbeck describes the character’s relationship in multitudinous ways‚ some of which include through the detailed descriptions of their
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connection between Candy and his dog is very similar to the relationship between George and‚ Lennie. Candy and George are both caretakers; they look after their partners‚ even if they don’t fit in. The old dog is blind past his prime‚ and Lennie is naive and childlike in nature. It is not their fault that they are who they are because they don’t know any different. Candy defends his dog when the other workers try to convince him to get rid of him. George also does this for Lennie. Up to and including the
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their own land. The physical aspect of journey in this novel was the traveling – George and Lennie running away from Weed because of something Lennie had done‚ and trying to find work on another ranch. The inner and emotional journeys were far more significant‚ and we see the changes in the characters from the first time we’re
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Steinbeck’s motif of Lennie’s questionable ethics throughout Slim and George’s conversation establishes the theme that morality is a fluid and unclear concept. In the bunk house George and Slim began to converse about Lennie’s morals as Slim states‚ “He’s a nice fella‚” but the two begin to become unsure and repeat themselves as if to solidify the statement as fact: “ He ain’t a bit mean... I can see Lennie ain’t a bit mean.” Through their uncertainty of Lennie’s morals Steinbeck begins to challenge
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“You can talk to people‚ but I can’t talk to nobody but curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not talking to anybody?”(87). Like Curleys wife other characters have power but at the same time they are powerless all in there own ways. Lennie‚ George‚ and Curleys wife have their powerful moments but they also can be very powerless at times. Lennie doesn’t have have much mental power but he is very physically powerful. He is very strong and the book tells the readers that in the beginning
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Lennie’s Eulogy Sometimes things happen‚ and there isn’t always something that we can do to change it. Someone’s death will always be something to mourn about‚ but it also allows us to celebrate their life and bring everyone together. Lennie’s death is most definitely a reason to bring us together‚ and even more of a reason to talk about and cherish. Lennie and I had a different relationship than most people do. We stuck together wherever we went‚ and a lot of people questioned this. It was just
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George and Charley have known each other for a long time. They both lived in England before moving to California and have been close friends since and at one point more than friends. Charley still wishes that her and George were still something and is a little jealous of him and his boyfriend Jim. Charley is lonely and is unhappy with her life since her last relationship and wishes her and George could be together. She is unhappy with her life because she doesn’t have a job‚ a life‚ and hates being
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