George Killed Lennie

If you had the choice of doing what is in your best friend’s interest, would you consider it? What if the friend’s death was a factor? In the story of Mice and Men, George may have taken Lennie's life, but he made the decision for the better interest of his friend. He knew that Curley and his men would kill Lennie, he would suffer and/or be placed in jail. George made the justified decision of killing Lennie because it was the better choice of Lennie’s foreseen future. Therefore, George was morally justified for shooting Lennie for merciful reasons.

The mice and Men so the prompt that I chose was what would happen if George went with Lennie Instead of killing him .So I think George went with Lennie I think there friend ship would last longer and they would get along more and they would have a great time In some ways . So like George would been cool and not to kill Lennie at all and they would have a lot of great things to talk about other greats thing they knew and I don’t think George would have a really great time with Lennie I don’t think, he would not kill Lennie at all . But however In George's eyes, he was saving Lennie, doing him a favor. He felt that the angry mob would have punished Lennie beyond what he deserved, and he also believed that Lennie may continue to hurt people if he lived.

George honestly, had no choice but to kill Lennie, the way he killed Lennie was the most humane way possible in ensuring he died peacefully, if it weren’t for George the other men would have really hurt Lennie.”I’m gonna get him. I’m going for my shotgun. I’ll shoot ‘im in the guts. Come on guys,”(96) Curley wants to inflict pain on Lennie, with this being said that means LEnnie would have died very upset and feeling threatened, a way George didn't want him to go.

Should someone get punished for something that was already going to happen. Well when Lennie killed that girl that was curly wife he would have gotten hung back then but they were all angry so he wouldn’t have made it that far because he would have killed Lennie for killing his property. Then yes curly could have gotten hung unless he played someone to fix it or make it look like it didn’t happen or blame George. Since George is practically family he should have the right to end Lennie’s “suffering” as they would have called it back then. If Lennie’s family wanted to they could have done that a long time ago when he was born or when he was a kid.

Lennie is dead, but why the killer did it is very ethical. George killed lennie, and I have been given a task was it ethical or unethical, and I say yes it was ethical. I will be talking about why he did it and how, if others in the book would kill him, and proving others why it was a good decision.

Lennie and George have an unusual friendship from the start. George is sort of a guardian of Lennie, and always is looking out for him. With Lennie’s mental illness, sometimes the friendship proves to be challenging. This frienship is definitely not mutual, because they both have each others backs. In the book, George says, “If them other guys gets in jail they can root for all anybody gives a damn… Lennie responds, “But not us! An’ why? Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why” (14). Ironically, Lennie isn’t the one looking out for George. George is always helping Lennie out of his “mistakes”, and endures the hardship of traveling during the 1930s.

One reason that justified George’s decision in killing Lennie was the fact that he murdered Curley’s wife. In the novella, it says, “And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck,” (Steinbeck 91). Curley’s wife let Lennie feel her hair, he likes to feel things, Lennie’s

“Slim said “ya hadda George, I swear ya hadda”.”(Pg. 107) It was clear by the end of the book that George only had one way to protect Lennie from his problems, which were rapidly increasing. “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand should violently but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.”(Pg. 106) Only one thing stood in between Curly and Lennie, and that was George. Even though George treats Lennie kindly and with an open heart, his image portrayed to the other characters was still a small fighter.

"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." - Winston Churchill. (https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rghosh/index/quotes/friendship.html)

Curly and the gang goes out to find Lennie and kill him. Instead of them doing that, George decides that he should be the one to do it. So when he finds Lennie he starts talking about the ranch that they were supposed to buy together. Once George has Lennie in a calmer state of mind where he is peaceful, George shoots Lennie in the back of the head. He didn’t want Curly or anyone else killing him because it would be too painful. He wanted to do the job because he knew how to calm Lennie down and make it more peaceful. Their relationship was complicated, but Lennie really did care about George, and no matter how much he got on George’s nerves he cared about Lennie

If George were to let Lennie live Lennie would have endured a huge amount of pain and suffering. Evidence showing this is that Slim states “ An’ s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good George.”(Steinbeck 97). Therefore if Lennie were to end up in jail ,and because Lennie has a mental

They went back and forth to each other about how it would be, and how they were. In the middle of it, while Lennie was going on about the rabbits George stood up and with the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, killing him. This happened because of Lennie’s mental state and how he would not ever have an easy or good life, because of his incapability to understand right from wrong and what is as well as what isn’t appropriate. Personally I think George made the right decision by killing Lennie, because if he was able to kill whether, “He never done this to be mean”(George, 97) or not. He still took a life of a living person, and that would forever impact both of them. I do not think there were any other good options, because like Slim said, if they put him in a cage and lock him up it isn’t going to be any good for him. He couldn’t have let Curly kill him, because in relation to when Candy’s dog was killed it was deeply regretted that he let a stranger kill him rather than personally doing it himself saying, “I oughtta shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t oughtta of let no stranger shoot my dog.”(Candy, 61) And if they continued on and just left, they’d be running away from murder for the rest of their

I think it was right and wrong for George to kill Lennie. I think this because George killed Lennie has mercy because curly was going to hurt Lennie. Curly wanted to badly shoot him to kill his wife. There was no good way out for Lennie. It was the right thing

Curly wanted to kill Lennie, for killing his wife. As Curly said in the book “...Don't give ‘im no chance. Shoot for his guts.” George heard what Curly said; therefore Geroge did not want Lennie to suffer. George also realized that if Lennie didn't die, they both would have spent the rest of their lives running and hiding from the authorities. George was a smart man, however Lennie was a specially disabled person. Lennie knew that he stayed he would be a burden on George; in the book Lennie has a hallucination in which he speaks to his Aunt Clara, Lennie’s Aunt said “"I tol’ you an tol’ you," she said. "I tol you, ‘Min’ George because he’s such a nice fella an’ good to you.’ But you don’t never take no care. You do bad things." , George knew that Lennie wouldn't be able to take care of himself.

One reason George was right to kill Lennie is because now Lennie will not get into anymore trouble. Lennie says, “You wasn’t big enough… they tol’ me and tol’ me you wasn’t. I di’n’t know you’d get killed so easy” (Steinbeck 85-86). Now that Lennie is no longer alive, nobody else will be accidentally killed by him. Also, George says, “I got you! You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the country all the time…” (Steinbeck 11). Without Lennie, George can stay in