Of Mice and Men Alternate Ending

John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men follows the journey of two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, who struggle through the navigation of working on a ranch in California and fulfilling their dreams together during a time of financial depression. The novel begins with George and Lennie traveling through the California wilderness to get to a new ranch just south of Soledad where they are going to begin new work. They had to leave their previous jobs in a town called Weed because Lennie had caused trouble with a girl by holding on to her red dress because he wanted to feel it, and this incident spiraled into rape allegations against Lennie. As George and Lennie make their way to the new ranch, Lennie; who is a large, but simple minded man; found a dead mouse and wanted to keep it to pet because he likes soft things. George, who is more serious and protects Lennie, takes the mouse away from him because even though it’s dead, he should not be messing with it. Lennie often does not realize his strength because of his mental incapabilities and as a result, he causes a lot of trouble and harm. George finds taking care of Lennie to be taxing, but he knows that their friendship is an important bond that he does not want to be without. In order to comfort Lennie in the wilderness, George tells the story of their shared dream to own their own ranch where they can follow their own rules and live as they please. When they finally arrive at the ranch the next day, George and Lennie

The prosecutor's talked about “instilling of right and wrong” on Lennie. As his caretaker, shouldn’t he have done a better job at making sure he knew not to kill. When asked about the pressure that George puts on Lennie, he replied with “If I don’t put pressure on him, he will continues to hurt people.” Slim, one of the fellow workers, confirmed many of the people on the farm knew about his mental disability, including the boss of the farm. Many people were curious as to why the boss did not fire him if he knew he could be

“On the outskirts of town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage. It had been built by an earlier settler, and abandoned because the soil about it was too sterile for cultivation, while its comparative remoteness put it out of the sphere of that social activity which already marked the habits of the emigrants. It stood on the shore, looking across a basin of the sea at the forest-covered hills toward the west.”

Curley had caught up and George was in any mood to stop and look back

“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck was a very unique book to say the least. I believe that’s why it drew me in. I found myself gasping, “awwing”, and even getting slightly teary-eyed at the end. Many different factors of the book stood out to me.

Montag and the gang reach the ruins of the city that they once called home. Montag says “This is all that is left of our world now, we must make our own existence.” As he pronounces his leadership of the clan he hears a familiar voice. “Guy!” cries Mildred as she climbs into the arms of the man she onced loved with all her heart. “Mildred, I thought you were dead. I thought the atomic bomb killed you!” Granger asks politely, “Who is this woman and what does she have to do with you?” Montag responds “Her name is Mildred Montag and she is my wife.” Granger puts his hand out as a show of respect and she shakes it firmly. “Ok, Mildred here comes the hard part are you going to accept the fact that books are going to help us rebuild this city?” Mildred responds “Yes, I do think that books will help us rebuild the city.”

get Curley but his eyes slipped on past and saw Lennie, Curley got into a fight with

In their dreams, Lennie gets to “tend the rabbits” and will try his hardest to say out of trouble see George won't get mad at him and will not let him tend the rabbits. But sometimes when Lennie tries to stay out of trouble he ends up out of trouble. Like when he accidentally killed Curley's wife “Please dont….Please dont do that George will be mad”(91) he said this covering her mouth, eventually killing her. Lennie is always worried George will get mad at him when he gets in trouble, and won't let him tend the rabbits. Lennie cares so much about his dream and tending the rabbits that he gets in even more trouble.

The light hurt Wolfgang’s eyes as he open his eyes and looked up into the sky.His eyes strained because he remembers everything, the beating and his experience at Auschwitz.

“It's not a choice between life and death. It's a choice between different ways of dying” (Preiss). Of Mice and Men, winner novel of the nobel prize in Literature, by John Steinbeck, one of the main characters, George was facing the same problem as Candy whose dog got put down by one of the workers, a stranger. Lennie, the other main character in the novel is getting hunted down by Curley because Lennie didn't know his own strength and accidentally murdered his wife. George made the decision, with Candy and his dog situation in mind, instead of Lennie dying with miserable death, George would put him down with a different and a peaceful way of dying. Of Mice and Men resolves that killing, is a moral option, and should be the person’s own decision.

The sound of the gavel arose in the courtroom. It was surrounded by windows with wooden frame beautiful land around can be seen through it.. Ranch hands of Tyler barn were sitting behind Candy, who was wearing a red shirt. Everyone was listening to the Chinese bearded Judge. "Murdering is a huge crime because you murder a human, according to Penal Code 189 you are fined for 1000 dollars." ordered the Judge.

Lennie Smalls had killed and maliciously hurt others. He had killed a puppy, a plethora of mice, and Curley’s wife. “He shook her;and her body flopped like

The word gets out and everyone is after Lennie. The story concludes with an ironic ending where George shoots Lennie in the head for everyone's own good. The topic of Animal Testing relates to Of Mice and Men because they both include rabbits. Rabbits are a primary victim of animal testing. It

Ralph refuses to kill the girl. Sal thinks they should kill her. He convinces Ralph it’s the best thing to do. They hear Jenny scream. Sal goes to get her, but he also sees the dead bodies. Jenny is gone. Ralph hears Sal scream. Jenny jumps out with the axe. A struggle erupts. Sal appears to be possessed. Ralph stabs him. Sal dies. Jenny goes after Ralph and hacks off his limbs. She calls her mother to tell her that she’s coming after her next for letting her be violated by soul hungry

I was as frightened a mouse, we would get in deep trouble if we were caught looking for Atticus. I said looking at the jail house, “That’s funny, jail doesn’t have an outside light”. When were drawing closer we saw Atticus reading a newspaper on a chair. Scout made started running toward Atticus but I stopped him. I said, “We may not disturb him, he may not like it. Let's go home, I just wanted to see where he was.” I was happy that Atticus was safe but we needed to get back home so no one would find out about this.