Lennie's Savior In 'Of Mice And Men'

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

But Lennie, perfecting his craft one incident at a time, messes everything up. Lennie’s biggest fear was not being able to tend the rabbits when they get their own land, and he loved those rabbits. Lennie grieving over killing his puppy starts conversing with Curley’s wife, a decision he should have never made. Lennie got caught in an unbelievable predicament with Curley’s wife, he was holding her mouth shut while pulling her hair, getting angry at her tell her to shut up, because he does not want to get in trouble. Because, if he did he would not be able to tend the rabbits. As she continued to scream, louder and louder as seconds went by, Lennie with his harmless intentions did not know what to do, so he shook her to get her to shut up but unintentionally broke her neck (Steinbeck, 91). Lennie knowing what to do if he ever did something bad, escapes to the hideout that only him and George know about. Eventually, everybody finds out about Curley’s wife when Candy found her dead body in the barn. At this moment, George knew he had two decisions that would change his life forever. He would either side with his new friends and find Lennie, or escape with Lennie and find another place to work. George makes the right decision and sides with his friends, but he knew they wanted Lennie dead, so he decided to do it himself. George met up with Lennie at their hideout and told him to look the other way and envision everything good about the farm, not wanting to harm Lennie he made sure he was as happy as he could be at that very moment. As George started to describe the farm to him, he put the gun to the back of his neck and pulled the

Lennie would never be able to survive without George, Lennie would be miserable alone and scared.Lennie would have been tortured by Curley if George had not killed Lennie.Before George killed Lennie says "I remember the rabbits,George”.George and Lennie would not been able to get away since last time they had a head start . Lennie would suffer regardless with George even if he came to see him in prison.Lennie has no way out in this so George did the right thing by putting Lennie out of his misery by killing him.Curley would not just kill Lennie he would have made him suffer by torturing him because Lennie had humiliated Curly twice.

“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.

The Great Depression, a time where migrant workers had very little freedom, although some may have had advantages over others by unfair factors. Two migrant workers, George and Lennie, travel to a ranch to seek work after an unfortunate event causing to lose their job thanks to Lennie. Both migrant workers are considerably different due to Lennie’s childlike mentality which gets them in trouble often. Both George and Lennie dream of saving up enough money to buy land where they can build a home. Out of their luck, the foreman of the ranch, Curley has a strong distaste towards Lennie causing to pick on him, while Curley’s unhappy wife tends to woo the men on the ranch. George always told Lennie to stay away from Curley’s wife, but Lennie gets distracted and talks to her where a tragedy occurred involving Lennie murdering Curley’s wife with his bare hands. George and Lennie’s dreams shatter and result in the death of Lennie by George. In the novel of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck depicts the discrimination of others with disabilities during the 1930’s through the treatment of the characters and the responsibilities that are handed to them.

The award-winning novella “Of Mice and Men” is about the disordered and very complex relationship between two very different migrant workers: George and Lennie. This novella was penned by John Steinbeck, set during the 1930’s after the wall street crash, during the Great Depression. It took place in Soledad - the city where he was born and raised, Steinbeck experienced the alarm of the Great Depression. Two of the most complex and main characters were murdered; Curley’s wife and Lennie. There are myriad ways that the author has shown that Curley’s wife deserved death more, giving the reader an insight into Curley’s wife rude and snobby behaviours.

The Great Depression affected millions of people in America, two of those people affected were George and Lennie. George and Lennie are migrant workers that struck a job in California. George can be described as the brains of the partnership, while Lennie is more of the muscle. In the story Lennie has a fascination with feeling soft objects. This later gets them in trouble in the town of Weed. Once they get to the job, they go months will no big problems. Until, Lennie accidentally killed The owner’s son’s wife. After this happened Lennie ran off, and all the workers went to go find him and kill him. George does find Lennie before any of the other workers, and even with the chance to escape, he shoots Lennie. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the murder of Lennie was not Justified.

John Steinbeck 's novella, “Of Mice and Men”, set in California in the early to mid-1930s during the Great Depression is a microcosm. The novella tells the story of two itinerant workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, who are in search of a new job and looking for new opportunities as they move from ranch to ranch. It focuses on the barbaric relationships the men on the ranch including George and Lennie start to develop with each other as the novella progresses. The novella shows the importance of violence by focusing on how it is a part of human nature and especially making the needless and gratuitous violence in the world of men evident to the reader, thus implying the brutal and violent society that the ranch workers during the Great Depression inhabit.

Lennie had dreams of living on a ranch and raising rabbits and George just took that away from Lennie. George will no one to live out the rest of his life with. If he goes back to a different ranch or another place for work, he won’t have anyone to help him. Even though George hated having Lennie around, Lennie helped George a lot. Lennie protected George from Curley by crushing his hand.

Lennie had accidentally killed Curley’s wife and many other small animals and If he were to be let loose it would most likely happen again. Lennie had many violent outburst such as when he killed the puppy and often times he did not understand the significance of what he has done. After killing the puppy the main thing Lennie focus on is tending the rabbits, Lennie said “George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits now”(Steinbeck 87). Along with others Lennie was also putting himself in danger. His difficult behavior, aggression, and lack of self control left him in a constant danger.

Lennie, being the man that he is, attracts Curley to a fight. Lennie keeps saying no, but Curley won't listen, and he just keeps punching and punching. Finally, Lennie decides to do something and breaks his hand. Talking to George now, he is disappointed in himself. Since George was watching this whole thing, he knows that Lennie didn’t do anything wrong, but that doesn't occur to Lennie. He still wants confirmation from George that he is still in the clear. From the question that Lennie asks about the rabbits, it can be inferred that he is a nice guy. Everything he does is so that he can one day tend the rabbits. He is truly trying to pursue his goal of that small house with many rabbits. Since Curley attacked him, there was nothing that

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

To begin, George is justified in killing Lennie because Lennie’s mistakes are repetitive and get progressively worse throughout the story, putting everyone around him at risk. Unquestionably, Lennie’s limited mental capacity leads him to regularly make mistakes, which ultimately cause George to snap out of

Lennie’s mental condition makes him think a lot like a child. George goes to find Lennie in the brush after he killed Curley’s wife. When George finds Lennie, he is only worried that George is going to be mad at him and not let him tend the rabbits. Lennie, with his challenged mentality, just cannot wrap his mind around how morally wrong it was to kill Curley’s wife. Even in the act of killing her, he mentioned that she should stop screaming so he does not get any trouble from George and lose his privilege to tend the rabbits. “I thought you was mad at me, George. ‘No,’ said George… Lennie begged, ‘Le’s get that place now,” (Steinbeck 106). As clearly seen in the quote, Lennie knows what he did was wrong, but he does not understand why it was bad. When children do something wrong, they worry about the punishment rather than see why what they did was

He was similar to a child, and unaware of what effects anything he did had on others, thereby making him an innocent man. All he wanted to do was “‘...live off the fatta the lan’... An’ have rabbits.’” (Steinbeck, 14) so that he could live happily and pet the rabbits since Lennie likes soft things. Instead, George “...raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head...and...pulled the trigger.”