How Is Lennie Justified In Of Mice And Men

Steinbeck presents Lennie to be responsible and irresponsible when he is not with George. Steinbeck shows how he is responsible when he sticks up for George, “He ain’t never been hurt, ‘cause he’s careful.” This quote also suggests Lennie realising himself how is irresponsible for his actions and how he needs George to guide him. This is because Lennie gets quite anxious and angry at the thought of not having George, “He stood up and walked dangerously towards Crooks.” Steinbeck presents Lennie to be irresponsible for his actions when he lets their secret of their dream, slip, “George says we gonna have alfalfa for the rabbits.” This shows

George killing Lennie is very immoral because Lennie does not know any better. Lennie is not killing people and animals on purpose he just underestimates his strength and does not realize that he is doing wrong. Lennie is innocent and does not deserve

Lennie Small has a very symbolic importance in the novel Of Mice and Men. In the novel George Milton and Lennie Small both migrant workers pursue their dream of someday owning their own ranch by travelling around working as ranch hands to earn a living. The dream they share is to be able to "live off the fat of the land,". Lennie Small is a very complex character, although he may not appear to be at first glance. Lennie is the most interesting character in the novel because he differs from the other is many ways. Lennie Small ironically is a man of large stature and is very strong. He is child-like in his emotions and has a diminished mental capacity. Lennie's feelings are much like that of a normal person when you take into

Part of Lennie’s character is being uneducated, and slow. Lennie is always forgetting important information. “Lenny looked timidly over to him.” “George?” Yeah, what ya want?” “Where we goin’, George?” “The little man jerked down the brim of his hat and scowled over at Lennie.” “So you forgot that awready, did you?” “I gotta tell you again do I? “Jesus Christ you’re a crazy bastard!” “I forgot,” Lennie said softly.(Page 4 of Mice and Men). As you can see this conversation of quotes proves many different points. First, it shows Lennie forgetting where him and George were

Additionally, Steinbeck uses Lennie’s childlike behavior to show Lennie’s lack of intelligence. At first, Lennie’s naivety is subtle, but it changes throughout the course of the book, and he eventually gets into big trouble because of his lack of intelligence. Lennie is forgetful, like a child, and has little social etiquette. In Of Mice and Men on pg. 4, Lennie asks George, “‘Where we goin’, George?’” And George responds, “‘So you forgot that awready, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I? Jesus Christ, you’re a crazy bastard!’” Through this dialogue, Steinbeck shows that Lennie is so unintelligent that he must rely on George to remind him about everything. Additionally, on pg. 63, when

In my opinion, Lennie Small is the most interesting character in Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck does a very good job describing and characterizing Lennie's personality. Lennie's character is, indeed, quite unique. A large man with enormous strength, yet kind and childlike, he seems to find joy in simple life pleasures like petting a furry animal and making the water ripple. Lennie's greatest difficulty seems to be remembering; and it is the lack of the ability to remember that ultimately leads to his tragedy at the end of the book. In the novel, Steinbeck seems to reinforce Lennie's characteristics of strength, kindness, childlike manner, and somewhat animal-like personality.

Lennie is mentally disabled and so always ‘does bad things’, because of this, he constantly depends on George to protect him and get him out of trouble. For example, in Weed, Lennie constantly ‘wants to touch

Is George guilty of murder? George was protecting Lennie by killing him if George had not killed Lennie, Lennie would have been torchered by the lynch mob. Lennie would have been confused and scared. He might even have have fought back and hurt someone else. If you were in the same position then you would have to weigh all your options. In the end George chose protection over fear.

Is killing someone right or wrong? In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck readers are conflicted with this question all around the world. George killed Lennie after Lennie accidentally killed Curley’s wife.George and Lennie had known eachother for a long time they even traveled together. George helped Lennie out of multiple situations and killing him was the best way he could think of in the instance of Lennie killing Curley’s wife.Even though Lennie and George were friends, George was justified in killing Lennie because Lennie was undisciplined and unsafe.

First of all, George was not justified for killing Lennie because they could have escaped as they did in Weed. As talked about in the paragraph above, Lennie has a fascination with feeling soft things. When they were in the town of Weed, Lennie went to this girl and felt her dress. She panicked and he didn’t let go of her, so she claimed that he raped her. George and Lennie then had to escape a mob of people trying to kill them. “ ‘We run. They was lookin’ for us, but they didn’t catch us’ “(Steinbeck 7). If they could have escaped a mob in Weed, they definitely could have escape a group of ranch workers. In the book the screaming of the workers could be heard, but they still were not there.

In John Steinbeck, novella Of Mice And Men we are introduced to George, the brain and Lennie, the muscles. As we travel beside the two men we are introduced to a dreary and often cruel world full of death and broken dreams of the early 1930. As the story progresses, we see how Lennie’s inability to control his own strength grows more and more troubling .This would lead to George having to make a heartbreaking decision about whether to shoot Lennie, sparing him from a slow and painless death. The debate that spawns from his decision is whether it was ethical to take someone else’s death into one’s and if it's murder or a case of a mercy killing. The book makes a compelling argument against George murdering Lennie because of his mental disability , the way he did not take proper care of Lennie, and should George shot Lennie?

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about two men, George and Lennie who travel from ranch to ranch hoping to make enough money to buy their own land. Buying the land is what George and Lennie talk about constantly, this is in fact their American Dream. They have recently left a town called Weed because of an incident that happened there and are now heading to Soledad to work on another ranch. John Steinbeck was successful in making Lennie a sympathetic character because he portrays Lennie as a big strong muscular man that has basically no brain, so he doesn’t really know his own strength so when he hurts someone or does something bad you can’t really blame him.

Well, I ain’t gonna remind ya, fear ya do it again.(p.13)” George has to remind Lennie not to repeat the incident in weed, but he also doesn't want to remind him exactly what he did so that Lennie won't try it again. A second negative trait that Lennie has is that he doesn't know his strength. “Don’t you go yellin’,” he said, and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck.(p.81)”

Being depressed, George says “No, Lennie. I ain’t mad. I never been mad, an’ I ain’t now. That’s a thing I want ya to know” (Steinbeck 106). At times, George was very angry with Lennie, but he wants Lennie to understand that he was mad only because he cared about Lennie. Although Lennie doesn’t quite understand, he understands the unconditional love that George shows towards him so he is immediately happy again. George is also compassionate towards lennie when he learned a lesson from the situation in Weed. One time, George tells Lennie to jump in a pool and Lenny obey’s his instruction as always enough though he can’t swim. Lennie is left drowning for a while, and then he is saved by George. After this, George never commands Lennie to do anything that is illogical or funny in George’s view. There are also many situations where George is supposed to be extremely angry with Lennie but he’s not due to sympathy. For ex: when Lennie kills the mouse, the dog, or Curley’s wife. Also, dealing with george’s mental disability is an important way George shows compassion. Lennie’s memory loss is the cause of most of his mistakes. Holmes told the court, “And I wanted to stop her suffering” (Nadeau 1)For example, When Lennie talks to Curley, he is injured by Lennie, as George immediately orders him to fight back. As a result, Curley is badly injured but George is happy that he was able to

In the beginning of the story, George and Lennie are walking and it becomes apparent that Lennie is very forgetful and almost like a child. As shown in the first few pages when George says to Lennie “[...]spen’ all my time tellin’ you things and then you forget ‘em[…]” (Steinbeck 4). This quote is showing how forgetful Lennie is and how George will continue to tell him things over and over, so he won’t get into any trouble. And again showing Lennie’s helplessness when Curley and Lennie are fighting, “Lennie’s hands remained at his sides; he was too frightened to defend