While reading the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there were many unjustified things happening to various people in the book. Of Mice and Men is about two friends named George and Lennie. George is struggling to take care of Lennie because of his feeble-mindedness, his inability to make good decisions, and his uncontrollable strength. Later on near the end of the story, Lennie was just with his dog that he just accidentally killed with his strength when Curley’s Wife (the “boss’s” wife that always causes mischief) shows up and starts a conversation with Lennie. Curley’s Wife later insists that Lennie could touch the “soft spot” in her hair. While Lennie was petting her hair, she tells him to stop, but he wouldn't because he is addicted to petting and stroking soft things, so she started screaming and Lennie got scared covered her mouth and accidentally killed her by cracking her neck. After killing her, Slim (The respected farmhand that help George make his decisions) , Candy (A crippled farmhand that gave hopes to George and Lennie that they could actually buy their own land), Carlson (A farmhand), Curley (The boss that caused problems for George and Lennie), and George (Lennie’s best friend) find out and they go out to shoot Lennie. George finds Lennie and he comforts him before shooting him in the head which leads to Lennie’s death. George preferred that he shoot Lennie because they were best friends and he would regret it if someone else shot him. Whether he
Death, the one thing every person will eventually face, could be seen as an end or an entrance. What is your extent of a friendship? How far are you willing to go to help the person you care for? For many reasons, the majority of people think murder is immoral—especially if it was your own best friend. But sometimes we may have to go to the extreme, as long as we know it was the right thing to do from the heart because that’s how much you know you care. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, I strongly believe that George was right to kill Lennie.
Of Mice and Men In the Novel Of Mice and Men, George kills Lennie. The question was mentioned up if George was justified by killing Lennie. George was justified in killing Lennie because Lennie was careless and dangerous.
“‘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.
The average person makes about 35,000 decisions every day. Simple questions like “How was your day?” and other similar ones count, but even yes and no add up to them. While they may seem simple, the answer may be that they can have an impact on whoever receives them. It can influence their day or give them action.
Making tough decisions is something people have a tough time doing because they are afraid of possibility. Others have a challenging time because they have a fear of making the wrong decision, but they do not understand that “Sometimes you make the right decision, other times you make the right decision”- Phil McGraw. Decisions are always being made easy or tough ones, no matter what kind of decision it is, they need to be made for progress. If you do not take decisions seriously, then you will have a tough time progressing the way you want. This is demonstrated in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck when George must kill 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
In the story Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, George Milton is faced with a decision
the killing is laid. In Of Mice and Men, although George chose to kill Lennie, Steinbeck’s portrayal of their deep friendship throughout his novela proves George’s final actions of pulling the trigger on Lennie is an at of mercy because George had Lennie’s best interests at heart.
Tough circumstances can make decision-making difficult, especially if the decision is a life changing situation. The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck has a beautiful storyline with the themes of love, trust, and friendship. George and Lennie are the main characters in Of Mice and Men and they bring about all those themes, but their lives and friendship are not always perfect. Lennie is an intellectually disabled man with great strength, and George is a bit smaller but has greater knowledge. George and Lennie have been with each other since Lennie’s Aunt Clara died. Lennie makes many mistakes having the disability he has. In the previous town Lennie and George lived in Lennie made the mistake of grabbing a woman's dress because he thought
What is the concept of the moral dilemma, how does it impact George? The moral dilemma is choosing from right from wrong. Throughout the story there are many events that show a few of the characters having to choose right from wrong. The first event is the killing of Candy’s dog. Did they really need to?
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.
In Of Mice and Men, George was right to kill Lennie. In the novel, Lennie killed a mouse, a puppy, and a woman. Lennie could have been charged with rape on two separate occasions. In Weed, Lennie grabbed a woman and ripped a part of her clothes off. At the farm, in the barn, Lennie stroked her hair and accidentally killed her. George killed Lennie, because Candy told George he wished he would have shot his own dog, Lennie killed Curley’s wife, the puppie, and the mouse, and the lynch mob would have done worse things to Lennie.
Dominance is a trait humans desire to possess. Children, in specific, are very competitive with each other. Their arguments are usually about who knows more days of the week, who can spell their name, who knows the alphabet, and much more. They want to be better and superior than the other kids so that they don’t get picked on. People who are fragile are often looked down on because they are considered weak. In John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, the need to feel powerful and useful by hurting others is conveyed throughout the story by the interactions between the characters. There are numerous events in the book that justify their need for authority such as Curley’s actions involving Lennie, George’s conversations with Lennie, and the way Curley communicates with his wife.
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
History is full of examples of how power affects people's behaviors towards others. Well known examples in history include Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Kim Jong-Il, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein are more recent examples of the negative abuse of power. In the novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, a common theme throughout the story is the misuse of power. Steinbeck uses the characters Curley’s wife and Crooks to teach the reader that people who possess less power are treated in a more demeaning fashion, but also treat others the same way in search of gaining power.