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    the book of Mice and Men‚ George and Lennie are characters who faced hardships throughout their journey. They are friends who grew up together and looked out for one another. George and Lennie had a relationship that could never be broken until it came to the end of the story. Lennie is a tall‚ heavily built man who is mentally incompetent and relies on George to tell him what to do. Although he tends to forget what he’s told‚ Lennie remembers every word George said to him about owning

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    by Gary Sinise‚ about the hardships and many challenges of George Milton and Lennie Small. They constantly move from town to town to avoid troubling situations that Lennie gets them caught in. Lennie Small is a friendly‚ simple‚ and strong‚ but also is mentally ill‚ he is played by John Malkovich. George Milton‚ played by Gary Sinise‚ is a simple man who is the smarts and the responsible one between him and Lennie. A key character in the plot of the story is Candy (Ray Walston) a man who is

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    definitely succeeded to establish Lennie as a sympathetic character. Lennie has a big body with a shapeless face and large pale eyes with wide sloped shoulders and‚ he walks dragging his arms and feet. He is also portrayed as a mindless childlike character that likes tender and soft creatures such as mice. Lennie is different from other characters in the book‚ because he seemed so large yet innocent. In the beginning of the novel‚ readers could see that Lennie in some way has a mental disability

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    them? In the book Of Mice and Men‚ a man named George shoots his friend Lennie before another character can kill him. In the book‚ Lennie is a disabled person who does bad things. Since he is disabled‚ he doesn’t know right from wrong. George is his friend that travels around with him sort of watching him. Curley is their boss’ son who lives on the ranch that George and Lennie work on. He wants to hurt Lennie because Lennie killed his wife. She let Lennie feel her hair and he started to mess it up.

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    are introduced to George Milton and Lennie Small‚ two men who are scrambling and among the poor. George is small and smart while on the other hand Lennie is huge and mentally slow. George and Lennie’s dream is of their life‚ to live on a farm and be their own bosses with no rules or restrictions unlike they have now working on ranches. They are going from ranch to ranch looking for work trying to make enough money to get to their dream. The only problem with their work is Lennie seems to mess things

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    Of Mice and Men: George Killed Lennie for Merciful Reasons A true friendship is one in which friends care deeply enough to anticipate one another’s needs and are willing to put their friend’s needs before their own. Their mutual love enables them to make sacrifices only to protect each other. In the novella‚ Of Mice and Men‚ by John Steinbeck‚ George killing Lennie is a merciful kill to save others from Lennie’s unintentional acts of aggression‚ to spare Lennie from suffering a cruel death‚ and

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    4 10\7\13 Did George need to kill Lennie? The Explanation There are some bad things in the world that we have to take action with; like dangerous dogs or bad people. Those things can be taken care of easily by either killing it or holding it in a secluded place. Now back when the story is being told‚ there weren’t many places to put people in‚ so they were sometimes executed. George had to do this with Lennie in chapter 6. Yet did he do this on purpose? So George killed Lennie because of him getting

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    The Dynamic Personality of George Milton “Guys like us got no family. They make a little stake an’ then they blow it in. They ain’t got nobody in the worl’ that gives a hoot in hell about em---” says George Milton in the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Although George was occasionally strict with Lennie and told him just how Lennie should act‚ could there have been a heart under those dirty farm clothes? In the story‚ George guides Lennie throughout California during the Great Depression

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    story of two friends by the names of George and Lennie‚ who are migrant workers. Steinbeck has succeeded in making Lennie a sympathetic and emotional character due to many occurring situations throughout the first few chapters‚ though he has not been very successful in turning Lennie into a dynamic character. To say the least Lennie is rather obedient/loyal‚ sympathetic and rather sensitive. We know this because throughout the last few chapters we have read Lennie has demonstrated these traits multiple

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    George treatment did prove Lennie wrong. I don’t think that George acted mean but did act mean for the way of killing a guy. I think that Lennie got proven wrong that George would’ve done something wrong. Also in chapter six it stated that when Lennie put down the gun‚ "George looked down at the gun. ’’ So that one way to explain Lennie that George could’ve done something bad at the time but didn’t kept the conversation going. The imaginary rabbit was acting as himself and the rabbit would talk to

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