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    Lennie Smalls

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    Decision The State of California wants to charge Mr. Lennie Small with murder‚ rape in the town of Weed‚ theft‚ and sexual assault. They want Mr. Lennie Small put to death by the electric chair. The Defending team would like Mr. Lennie Small put into an asylum. I as the judge looked through all the evidence that the Defense and State of California have gathered to make my final decision. The defense wants him in the asylum because Lennie has a mental issue and that the murder he committed was

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    Lennie Sympath

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    the characters had something that we could sympathize with. For George‚ it was how he always had to run away from jobs because of something Lennie did‚ for Crooks‚ it was the fact that he was treated so poorly for having a different skin colour. However‚ Lennie seems to have it the worst. He has the mental capacity of a child‚ ends up killing a woman on the ranch‚ and his best friend has to kill him by the end of the book. Lennie was born with a disability that causes mental retardation‚ because

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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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    Compare how George and Lennie are presented in Of Mice And Men. George and Lennie are described in very different ways‚ as they’re being presented as opposites; Lennie being presented as the large‚ clumsy‚ forgetful one‚ “I forgot again” and George being the small‚ clever one with a snappy tone to ensure his point is fully expressed and understood‚ “snapped his fingers.” However‚ these characteristics lead to a brilliant‚ caring friendship (revolving around trust and compassion) which is described

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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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    The friendship between George and Lennie in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is illustrated as one that is strong and enduring which is not expected of men during the time the book sets. By looking at George and Lennie’s friendship‚ one can see that they both envision a future that includes both of them and fail to see one without the other. By opposing the themes of friendship and loneliness‚ Steinbeck creates an example of a friendship that will carry on even in the final stages past death. By looking

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    In George and Lennie’s relationship George takes the parent roll and treats Lennie as if he is a child. As they are talking about going for the interview for the job George exclaims “Now when we go in to see the boss‚ what you gonna do?”. This shows that he is checking up on Lennie and making sure he has understood instructions‚ which is like what parents do to their children. This shows that Lennie is very much like a child and has to be told many times about information‚ which leads on to how Lennie

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    Gorge and Lennie

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    Relationship of George and Lennie The fact that George and Lennie‚ the two main characters of the book ‘of mice and men’ written by John Steinbeck‚ ‘string along together’ to fulfill their American dream is unusual in the world of ranch hands. George and Lennie know each other since they were kids‚ Lennie is attached to George and they are like brothers to each other ever since. Lennie isn’t really bright; however he was useful‚ that is why George a takes care of Lennie and takes Lennie with him to

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    in-between character. Throughout the play he contemplates both paths but always hesitates to actually complete either. Instead‚ he flips back in forth between killing his uncle‚ Claudius‚ to avenge his father and killing himself. Each time Hamlet goes to kill Claudius‚ he seems to hesitate and make excuses. It happens once while Hamlet is watching a traveler’s show‚ “O‚ what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here‚ but in a fiction‚ in a dream of passion‚ could force his

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    Why did Roy Raymond decide to kill himself? Could it have been the divorce that he went through? Or was it because of the bankruptcy with his other stores? Could it have been because of his economic demise? Maybe the only person who could possibly know what happened on that day is his ex wife‚ Gaye Raymond.. Roy Raymond could of possibly killed himself because of his divorce. Or because of the bankruptcy with his other stores. It even could be because of his economic demise. Since no

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