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Friendship In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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In your group of friends, are you the good or bad one ? I mean it’s no secret that someone can have a bad friend. Some characteristics of a good friend are caring for you, and defending you in your time of need. An example of a pair of good friends can be found in John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”. The two main characters, George and Lennie were good friends. Once I finished this novelle. It was clear to me that George was a good friend to Lennie. Due to his actions of caring for Lennie defending Lennie and not allowing him to suffer any further. It's fairly to understand my main point. In the novelle, George can be seen as being a good friend when he throws away the dead mouse that Lennie had with him.(Steinbeck 6) Because of his actions we can tell that he cares for Lennie's health and well-being. Caring for someone you know is a clear trait that good friends have. Another example of this is when George tells Lennie to stay away from Curley’s wife because she’s nothing but trouble.(Steinbeck 32) This clearly shows …show more content…

Which means that we have to look at the bigger picture and examine what George did to Lennie. Yes you could say that George killed Lennie so her could take some weight off of his shoulders and not have to care about how Lennie could screw up. He has said that his life would be better without him.(Steinbeck 11) But like I said, we have to zoom out and get a better view. George knew that he was going to make this decision one day, he knew that he would have to prevent Lennie from harming himself and others. Put yourself in George’s shoes. Would you have rather killed your friend to prevent him or her from doing anymore , or would you rather have them live and get themselves in deep trouble ? How about you think about it this way. Would you rather have you friends suffering come to a quick end or would you rather have them be tortured for God knows how long

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