Lennie 's Fate : An Ever Approaching Inevitability

In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie learn to travel and experience the world together as they take on a new job working on a ranch in central California "bucking barley" for the ranch owner and his son. Lennie, not being able to control his actions, hurts too many people and things and men were chasing after the two, so George decides to take action and shoot Lennie. Although some may disagree, George did the right thing by shooting Lennie because he could not have avoided hurting someone else in the future, he could not eventually learn that the things he did were wrong due to his disability, and he could not learn to eventually control his own strength.

“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 shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.” George has just killed his best friend (Steinbeck 106). In John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella Of Mice and Men, George Milton and Lennie Small are a pair of pals that travel across California in search of work in the 1930s. With Lennie’s simple-minded thinking, he runs George and himself into trouble which costs them their job. The pair finally settles at a ranch somewhere in rural California after getting chased out of their last job. After a while, the inevitable happens and Lennie does something that does not look good for him, which causes men from the ranch to go chasing after him with the intent of killing him. Lennie flees to a nearby river where George meets him. To spare Lennie from the mental suffering of people always getting frustrated with him and criticizing his mistakes, George takes his life in an act of mercy.

"I just done it ... took [the gun] an' ... killed him" says George on murdering Lennie (Steinbeck 107). John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men takes place at a ranch near Soledad, California during the Great Depression. George and Lennie are two migrant workers who travel together from place to place. Lennie has a mental disability and likes to pet soft objects. One day, Lennie starts to pet a woman’s hair. After the woman starts to panic, Lennie accidentally snaps her neck and kills her. George then hunts down Lennie and murders him. George murdered Lennie because Lennie didn’t wish to die.

Of Mice Men was during a hard time period where everyone was losing their jobs and going homeless. Why did George want lennie to go back to the place by the river if lennie got in trouble. Why did lennie want to tend the rabbits so bad? Which innocent character suffered in this story? All this topics will be talked about in this essay.

In the end of the book Of Mice and Men, a man feels that he must kill his closest friend. George is the name of the character that kills his friend. His friend that he killed was named Lennie. Lennie is a very large man that had very serious mental issues. Once his aunt passed away, George decided to help Lennie. They have been a pair through the whole book. Lennie stands up for him when the boss’s son, Curley, comes and messes with him. He helps Lennie stay away from Curley’s wife, which acts like a tease for the men on the farm. Lennie enjoys when George describes their dream after they get more money. Their dream is to own their own farm and have their own animals. Lennie always wishes to tend to the rabbits once they do get the farm. At the end of the book, Lennie accidently kills a puppy that was given to him. He was talking to himself in the barn with the deceased puppy, when Curley’s wife stepped in. She was very kind to him and Lennie explained what happened. She offered Lennie to feel her hair and things went south after that. He ended up accidentally killing her as well. He gets scared because he knows what he has done is bad and he runs away. Curley gets the group of men together to go and hunt Lennie down. George ends up finding him before everyone else because earlier in the book, they discussed where Lennie should go if he gets into trouble. Lennie is thrilled when George shows up and while they are talking, he asks George if he can describe their dream for

We are taught as children that killing is not okay. But is that always the case? In the book, “Of Mice and Men”, George Milton kills his partner, Lennie Small. Contrary to popular belief, George did the right thing. Lennie wasn’t in a mental state to keep living the way he did. And with the condition they were in, George knew it wouldn’t get any better. Either way, Lennie would have gotten punished until the next blue moon or even killed for killing Curley’s wife. He didn’t know what was going on, he didn’t understand.

It is drilled into human’s heads by law that the taking of another person's life is murder, though, truth be told, that is not always the case. George Milton and Lennie Small, two migrant workers living in The Great Depression. Two very different guys, both portrayed in the book Of Mice and Men, a story written by John Steinbeck. George is an intelligent, dark and weak character, while on the other hand Lennie is a character that is of tremendous size but has a childlike mind. When George shot Lennie in the back of the head, he generally believed that he was protecting him, giving him mercy. Though he may have believed that he was making his friend’s “life” better, all he did was make his own worse. George should not have ended Lennie’s life

A book without conflict is as boring as watching paint dry. Fortunately, John Steinbeck has provided some good conflicts in “Of Mice and Men” to keep his readers engaged. Lennie, one of the major characters, faces many conflicts in the story. One example of Lennie’s conflicts would be dependency. Characterized by innocence and vulnerability, Lennie depends on John, his best friend.

George raises the gun and steadies it... BOOM! He brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie's head. George made a hard decision at the end of the book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Lennie and George are really close friends. George is smart and very aggressive, and Lennie is big and strong, but has a mind of a child. First, Lennie and George arrive at the ranch in Soledad, California during the Great Depression. Lennie keeps getting into trouble, which risks their job, so George has to clean up the mess. Finally, George has to make a decision on how to give Lennie a life he deserves, or letting him suffer. Lennie and George are like brothers and they would do whatever it takes to make eachother happy. Throughout the story,

In this world, freedom and being content are not found. Such things get in our way that either stall our dreams or destroy them completely. Lennie was the roadblock to their American Dream. Lennie does not make it easy for the men to fulfill their dream. George and Lennie planned to buy some land of their own, where Lennie would have no chance to harm others. Lennie wanted to “have rabbits.” (14), but constantly, Lennie setbacks their progress by constantly harming others in the form of killing. Lennie does not intentionally mean to harm anyone, he does not know better. The central problem found in the novel is between George and Lennie. George must solve the problem of how to keep Lennie safe from the world and how to keep the world safe from him even if it jeopardizes their dream. George comes to the conclusion that he is looking out for his best friend and decides to save him from his struggles by killing him. All in all, to fulfill dreams, it takes

When it came to “Of Mice and Men,” Steinbeck mirrored American society in the 1930’s and is said to still reflect it today. Steinbeck portrays his message through his characters, the conditions, times, and place. George and Lennie are two individuals that greatly differ, but they are the same on their way and dreams. Their dream conveys the American Dream of this time. This aspiration was to obtain a simple life without the worry of money.

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley. an’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, for promis’d joy!” These famous words from Robert Burns’ poem “To a Mouse” inspired John Steinbeck’s title for Of Mice and Men. Just as it is useless for a mouse to try and protect its home from the blade of a plow, so are the human efforts and dreams for the unattainable in the face of natural and economic calamities. In the midst of the Great Depression, a man like Lennie who is incapable of thinking logically for himself renders it nearly impossible to survive without causing any trouble. George knew of this and tried to prolong the inevitable, but eventually had to face the ultimate price of taking away the life of the only friend he’s ever known and had. Mercy is defined as compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm. Although mercy is the ideal side to choose, some readers think that George chose to kill Lennie because Lennie because Lennie is constantly in trouble and George was sick of solving all of Lennie’ problem. From murdering Lennie out of selfishness and murdering Lennie out of mercy, the basis of the debate on the intent of

In the novella Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, the relationship between Lennie Small and George Milton is complex. Lennie and George are two companions who look for work and brave the hardships of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression together. Although Lennie and George are both grown men, their relationship resembles more of a child and a single parent, or a boy and his dog. Lennie is portrayed as animalistic and childish through his behavior and Steinbeck’s comparisons. This reveals the crucial power dynamic in George and Lennie’s relationship.

It was an hopeless time period. For George in steinbeck 's book mice of men by John Steinbeck,it was the great depression.This was a time period of a deep and dark economic downturn that affected the whole country. While the story focuses on George and Lennie 's struggles through this hopeless time.They were best buds that got along great. They went to farm to farm as migrant works to get there pay. George had to take care of Lennie throughout the book and pick up the pieces, but lennie was a kind man that did not know better.Lennie followed what george told him like a kid. George actions and words shows him to be, smart,sympathetic, and willing to sacrifice it all.

In the novella “Of Mice and Men,” the author John Steinbeck portrays the main idea of how difficult circumstances could potentially cause you to make painful choices for those who you love. During this time, the Great Depression was occurring in America and it was a time where many common people felt an immense amount of humiliation due to poverty, a lack of food and homelessness. John Steinbeck utilizes characterization in the novel, to show that your choices throughout life are an effect of any hard situation you’ve been in. Steinbeck uses George’s character and his caring nature to convey this message.