The Best Laid Schemes O ' Of Mice And Men

In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck George kills his best friend Lennie. George’s reasoning for this is that Lennie is killing too many people and has become a burden. Lennie does not realize that he is doing wrong by accidentally killing animals and people. George says that he is doing this for other’s benefit when really he is doing this for his own good. This was wrong of George and he is guilty because even though Lennie was accidentally

Choices are made by everyone at some point in life. Choices can be complicated or as simple as yes or no. Decisions can be difficult or easy to make. Some choices are impulsive while some require a lot of premeditation to make. In the novella, Of Mice and Men, written by George Steinbeck, George chose to kill his best friend Lennie. Lennie and George were friends for a long time. They both worked at a farm together. Lennie was retarded and George took care of him and watched over him. Throughout the book Lennie displays blind loyalty to George and their hope of a better life. George is a very dynamic character through the book while Lennie is constant displaying incredible amounts of physical strength and being dim witted. Killing Lennie

In John Steinbeck's classic novella, Of Mice and Men, George makes the decision of killing Lennie because he knows it is in Lennie's best interest. His act of killing Lennie is not considered criminal. George has good intentions in killing his companion. George is trying to prevent Lennie from being tortured and from his constant desire to please George and not cause trouble. Additionally, Lennie repeatedly places himself in difficult situations, and as a result, brings George into the circumstances. There is a close friendship between George and Lennie, and George had carefully thought out whether or not he

“‘Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ‘em.’ ‘Le’s do it now. Let’s get that place now’” (106). These are the last words that filled the air between George and Lennie, their last exchange preceding a pivotal moment in both of their lives. They conversation calms and soothes Lennie, who hopes to finally get the farm that he and George dreamed about for so many years. Yet unbeknownst to him, Lennie would soon be set free from his earthly bonds by his long-time friend; a bullet, shot from the barrel of George’s gun, would enter Lennie’s head and kill him instantly. That bullet was not one of self-gain and moral disrepute, but one of freedom and liberation from worldly restraints. While this remains a hotly contested topic in classrooms reading Of Mice and Men, George’s intentions in killing Lennie were overwhelmingly good-natured.

A life is very precious and valuable, and taking away one's life is viewed by many as a crime and violation of human rights. However, under certain circumstances, the taking of someone's life may be viewed as acceptable. When one is in great pain or danger, and could no longer benefit from living, killing them might be the best option for them. This is the case in Of Mice and Men a fiction novel by John Steinbeck. In the book, Steinbeck tells the story of two good friends, George and Lennie, who travel around as ranch workers during The Great Depression. After Lennie commits an accidental murder, George finds Lennie and kills him. George kills Lennie because he knows Lennie’s

In the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, George makes the painful decision to kill his best friend Lennie. If George wouldn’t have killed Lennie, Curley would have eventually found him and killed him brutally. George had good intentions towards the death of his friend and found himself in a position where he could never escape. Mercy killing is moral and is just a way to show compassion for a loved one in need. The killing of Lennie was not done with bad intent and was one of George’s only options.

In the book Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, the character George shot and killed his friend Lennie for killing Curley’s when they were in the barn together. Sooner than later, Lennie snapped her neck and ran away to a hiding spot he and George came up with. A mob of their associates, Curley, Candy, and Slim went to go lynch Lennie. George made a start to Lennie’s hiding spot to shoot Lennie. George didn’t want his friend to suffer for his mistakes, therefore he killed Lennie. Thus George was justified in his actions when he killed Lennie. George did the right thing.

In the novel Of Mice and Men George is Lennie's caretaker and best friend. They have a friendship that has grown into so much with all the events that have happened to them. Lennie needs the care of George and without George Lennie would have died a lot sooner. Lennie gets into trouble and George always found a way out of it for Lennie. Taking care of Lennie has challenged George's life. He could of had a normal life but now he is a full time babysitter. George has taught Lennie lessons and has helped him grow. George killing Lennie is justified because George only meant it for the better, Lennie harmed people and help George back. George did as the good of his friend and didn't want Lennie to suffer in future experiences.

In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George did the right thing and his actions were justified for killing Lennie because Aunt Clara told George to take care and make decisions for Lennie. George and Lennie got a job. Lennie has mental disability so George took care of him. But at the end of the book Lennie accidentally kills someone and George has to end up killing him. Lennie already hurt two people and he didn't realize it was so bad.

Through the novella, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the authors use of motifs of Lennie getting in trouble reveals the theme of friendship is an important part to living a fulfilling life. Through the whole book George is helping Lennie get out of sticky situations, but the motif of Lennie getting in trouble ends their friendship in a very tragic way. Toward the end of the book, George had to kill Lennie, his best friend, because there isn’t anyway out of the sticky situation that doesn’t involve Lennie dying. After killing Lennie George was in shock of what he had just done. Steinbeck narrates, “But Carlson was standing over George.

At the end of Of Mice and Men, George kills Lennie after Lennie kills Curley’s wife. I think that George did the right thing by killing Lennie. Lennie had done the worst thing he had ever done, and it proved to George that Lennie really was a big danger. Lennie had caused George a lot of problems and always seemed to make mistakes that kept them on the run. Lennie never learned how to stay under control and how to keep out of trouble.

George’s decision at the end of John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men can be defended in two ways. One sense is that George’s action to shoot Lennie was justified because George wanted the best of his friend. George knew that Lennie wouldn’t ever be happy locked up in jail, which led George to the decision of taking Lennie’s life. He also knows that Lennie is overly dependant on him, and he knows that if they were somehow separated, Lennie wouldn't survive. On the opposite end, George may have done this for his own benefit. George wanted to get rid of Lennie from the very beginning of the novel, because he wanted to live a free life without having to constantly have to Lennie’s problems.

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

In the book of mice and men George killing Lennie was justified because he did it to protect his best friend. If George didn’t kill Lennie he was going die from a painful, tortures way by Curly and the angry mob of men. When Curly saw his wife’s dead body he vows to her by saying, ”I’m gonna get him. I'm going for my shotgun. I'll kill the big son-of-a-bitch myself.

Of Mice and Men was a striking book about a few men simply endeavoring to get by in the Great Depression. George and Lennie had known each other for quite a while and had developed to rely upon each other. All through the book Lennie got some information about them, about how they would get a place and live respectively, they never got the chance to do that, as life would have it, reality acted as a burden. The most questionable point from this book was the reason George killed Lennie. It was the best choice for numerous reasons, the first being that Lennie was a threat to people around him and additionally himself, the second is that Lennie couldn't make do without George and the last being that if George didn't, Curly would have.