Should George Have Killed Lennie

George does not make a wise decision in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. George chooses to kill Lennie because of Lennie’s uncontrollable killing. Lennie does not mean to kill anyone but he is unaware of his strength. George thinks he is doing the right thing by killing Lennie, but really he is making a huge mistake. He believes that he is doing this for the sake of others but his decision if immoral. George was wrong for doing this, he does this for his benefit, and he is guilty.

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.

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.

Even though George looked out for Lennie, George was justified to shoot Lennie because Lennie hurt others and made things hard for George. To start, George made the right decision because of Lennie’s likelihood to hurt his surroundings. After Lennie sits in the barn for a while the narrator tells us what happened to the puppy. The narrator says “‘And Lennie said softly to the puppy “Why do you got to get killed? You ain't so little as mice.

Imagine seeing the person your best friend go out and kill another human being. But, now you can't be on his side to back him up. You were obligated to make him pay for what he had done. For many, this may sound fictional or very unrealistic. But for George Milton this was the case. George has been taking care of Lennie for quite a long time, ever since Aunt Clara asked George too. Lennie has always been unintelligent and unaware of his surroundings. However, what lee now had done took his unintelligence to the extreme. Lennie had killed the wife of Curley. George and the guys at the ranch and had found out, and Curley was furious, he wanted revenge. George was obligated to pull the trigger. There is no doubt that George had done the right

George was right to kill Lennie. Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child, while George on the opposite, is an independent individual. Yet such two different people have formed a “family”, clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation during their journey. Innocent Lennie is mentally challenged with no ability to understand abstract concepts like death. He consistently does not mean to do the things that put him into trouble, and once he does get into trouble, he has no conscience to define his actions in terms of guilt. Consequently, the dramatic scene unfolded - George had no choice but to kill his best friend Lennie after he knew that Lennie killed Curley’s wife. Was George right to kill Lennie? This essay

Is killing ever justified? Killing is a bad thing, but it could also be alright depending on the situation. If you, a friend, a family member, or anyone is in trouble being attacked in some way, like if someone has a gun or knife or anything and they are about to kill someone and you have a weapon, in that case it is justifiable because it is self-defense or it was protecting someone else, this is only one of many times that it is justifiable. George should not be punished for killing Lennie because he was protecting everyone, he protected anyone else that would have come in contact with Lennie because Lennie would just hurt them, He protected Lennie from being hurt in the future by anyone, and he protected himself from being dragged back down by Lennie’s bad behavior. George should not be punished for killing Lennie because he protected everyone in doing so.

2a)Poverty: John steinbeck is able to show poverty through the novel especially with the setting, and little details. The setting of the novel is in the salinas valley of California during the Great Depression, on the work ranch they are surrounded with other workers that have nothing or no body, they all have a dream of something but being stuck in poverty they can never achieve it."O.K. Someday—we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and—"

Day after day you take care of your parents trying to make their pain stop. You try and hope that things will eventually get better. Their cry for help as nothing gets better. What would you do? In the novella Of Mice and Men, there is a similar situation. Should George have killed Lennie? George made this decision based on how he didn’t want anyone to hurt Lennie. But, isn’t that what he is doing? George killing Lennie was wrong this is wrong because Lennie didn’t know what was happening and he wasn’t in any pain. George should have let Lennie make that decision for himself.

George a kind caring friend or cold blooded killer? As we read Of Mice and Men we watch as George and Lennie’s friendship develop as they work on the farm. They encounter many problems along the way because of Lennie’s mental disability;George basically takes care of him since Lennie has no one else, they’re very close and they always got each others back. Then after all that we are hit with very heartbreaking ending. Where George has to decide whether or not to kill Lennie.

At the end of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George shoots Lennie. The question of whether George did the right thing or not is controversial. Lennie was going to get shot either way, but was it better George or someone else shoot him. George and Lennie had a dream together, so why take it away by shooting him. On the other hand, Lennie is only human and needs to be treated like everybody else, and earlier in Of Mice and Men, we see a similar scenario.

George should have “dealt with” Lennie in a different way at the end of the book. George finds Lennie sitting next to the river. Lennie asks George if he is mad at him for killing the dog and Curly’s wife. George says he is not mad at Lennie. Lennie then asks George to tell him the story about how they are going to raise a farm together and Lennie will get to tend the rabbits. While George is telling the story he asks Lennie to look towards the river. George tells Lennie to look toward the river so that he cannot see what is about to happen, “George raised the gun and his hand shook” (Steinbeck 105). George ends up killing Lennie. George should not have killed Lennie because Lennie was his best friend, and the only thing he had. Lennie just

"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)

“ Less people will eventually have to repay.” The book “Of mice and men” recounts the story of two men: Lennie Small and George Milton. They travel together because at the beginning of story Lennie touch a girl’s red dress and they need to run out of town. Lennie is strong and tall with the pale eye man. His behavior is kind of silly his personality is like that of a child. He loves the soft things, but he always killed lives because he doesn’t know his own strength. At the end of the story, he killed Curley's wife by accident and got murder by George. George is the best friend and guardian of Lennie. He helps Lennie to sustain his dream of having a farm in future. He has a black face, slender arms, and a thin bony nose. In the book, the trouble Lennie made becomes worse and worse, and George ends up had to kill Lennie. “However, George is justified in killing