How Are George And Lennie Different

Lennie is a big and tall man. George and Lennie always travel together. George is responsible for lennie Anne his actions. He is always making sure Lennie is well and staying out of trouble. George is always doing nice things for

Lennie is certainly strong; in the very opening of the book he is described as a bear and is constantly referred to in animal terms. He enjoys "pettin'" soft things, puppies, rabbits, and mice but, he is so strong that he kills them with his fingers as he did in chapter one while George and Lennie were walking. In chapter three, Curley starts a fight with him but after George tells Lennie to fight back Lennie easily crushes Curley's hand. Lennie is physically well coordinated and is capable of doing repetitive manual jobs with skill. This makes things a little easier for George to find them jobs. In chapter two George has to convince the boss to let them stay and work, he states that Lennie is "as strong as a bull" and is "a good damn good worker". However, it is this strength that was the reason why they had to leave Weed. Lennie would not let go of a girl's dress he wanted to pet because he panicked when the girl started to panic, which led to the pair leaving town under a possible rape charge. Again, it is not like Lennie could and would have ever been able to control the strength he has. He cannot have the understanding that he hurts people or

Lennie does not understand his own strength. When Lennie wanted to have a mouse in his pocket so he could pet it he killed it on accident because he's so strong. On page 3 Lennie said"Uh-uh. Jus' a dead mouse, George. I didn't kill it. Honest! I found it. I found it dead." Other characters think of Lennie as a mindless strong man who is innocent and almost never uses his strength. In terms of Lennie's strength the only time we ever see him purposefully in the book was when curly kept on hitting him and picking on him because in the way of defending himself he was the weakest since he never used his strength. What lennie did with one punch put Curly on the floor. Another character, George describe Lennie as “Strong as a bull." On page 11. So George and many other characters just

Steinbeck introduces Lennie by physical description and it gives us an idea of how powerful he is compared to George. “a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders” (Steinbeck, Pg. 2) In this quote, the author is trying to make the reader

Lennie is described as a big bulky animal. But his brain, on the other hand, is slow as child’s. Because of this fact, when George was younger, he picked on Lennie and bullied him. In the book it states, “George’s voice was taking on the

well George, George is Lennie's caretaker, best friend etc George has authority and power over Lennie ever since they were kids cause he was always so troubled with his disabilities. George drags Lennie around and bosses him around to do things for him. George doesn't have the strength to match lennie but mentally he is much smarter than lennie. George of does not have power over his spending limit because he always goes out to a whore house and waste the money George is very cautious on things so he would usually have power to control the situation. George has power over lennie but he isn't very responsible with his money and gets sidetracked very easily but is always very cautious on the situation he's in.

Robert Burn’s line “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry” applies to George and Lennie in many ways. There are many examples of how their goals and dreams starts without troubles, but goes to the wrong direction and worse, comes to the point where they, although mainly George, realizes that his and Lennie’s dreams and goals are gone and impossible achieve.

Lennie and George are one of the most popular kinds of the duo archetypes. Lennie’s the strong one, he can lift bags of barley better than any other tag-team could. He’s beefy, taller than most, easily noticeable in a crowd. And as the archetype usually goes, the not as smart one, he relies heavily on George, and if not for George he would most likely be in horrible situations all the time, even more so than he was in the book. George is the smart one and the leader, havin’ all the plans for success and givin’ all the directions for burley over there. Small, he is, even if it doesn’t show as much as people would have thought in the movie. He is also cynical, or perhaps apprehensive may be a better term, to everyone but Lennie at first met. Together they create the archetype that’s often in mystery stories.

Lennie is a character that struggles to control his strength this is depicted through some of his actions. On page 10 George said to Lennie, "that mouse aint fresh, Lennie besides you broke it pettin' it." This shows that it's hard for him to control the urge to pet soft things but sense he is so strong he killed the mouse. Another example is that Lennie broke Curly's wife's neck when she offered to let Lennie touch her hair. Again, this shows he struggles to control his immense strength even when it comes to other human being. My last piece of evidence is when he was given a puppy from Carlson. He killed the puppy almost right after he got it because he is so strong. All this evidence really does show that Lennie struggles to control his strength.

I also felt really sad for George when he had to shoot Lennie, but he did it all out of love. George really cared for Lennie and he proved that he did. Lennie didn't know how to handle certain situations, he was clueless and depended on George, when Curly attacked him he `looked helplessly at George` and cried “Make `um let me alone, George.” Lennie killed Curley's wife and would have to face serious consequences. He knew that Lennie wasn't a mean or bad guy, he was just like a child and lennie was kind of like his father. He didn't want Lennie to suffer, so he shot Lennie quick and painlessly, right in the back of the neck. He made sure Lennie was thinking about their little house and the rabbits that he always talked about.

I mostly agree with Montgomery’s opinion on how emotion shouldn’t take advantage of our decisions for a better future. We shouldn’t let human remorse become an obstruction for helping our future generation, or it could hurt others, the future, and ourselves. One reason I agree with this statement is because emotion can get in the way of making wise decisions for our own future. One example of this is in the novel titled Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. In this story, George kills lennie using a revolver.

“Everything you say and do is having an impact on others” (Barry Manilow Quotes). George has been impacting Lennie’s life ever since they were young, and he bossed him around. George tells Lennie what to do before they left to go to work at the ranch to make sure Lennie doesn’t do anything that could ruin their chances of achieving their dream, which later they added Candy to their group to get more money and help to make it happen. In the end, Lennie killed Curley’s wife, so George had to kill him to prevent him from suffering and because he believed that their dream was never going to happen due to the accident. George’s dream of being his own boss with his own farm impacts Lennie, Candy, and Curley’s wife both positively and negatively by

Firstly, One of lennie's biggest problems is that he can't control his strength. Lennie has a mental disability and he does not realize that his strength could cause serious injuries. George is talking to slim about how they had to escape the last city due to lennie causing problems.

For this project I was able to examine both sets of grandparents, my parents, and siblings. I enjoyed interacting with them throughout this process of gaining more information. My dad’s parents, George and Jacquline, have taken on the more traditional role in their marriage. George Sr. was born in Lebanon and came to the United States after his high school education. He did not speak a lick of English and only enrolled himself into a few college courses at the University of Miami.

They teach each other valuable life lessons. George teaches Lennie to be respectful yet intimidating so people will not mess with them. Lennie protects George physically because of his massive size and muscle mass. Even though George says he would have a better life without Lennie init, he does not mean it because he needs him.