Who Is Responsible For Lennie's Death

Even if George hadn’t killed Lennie, Curley would of killed Lennie himself, and Curley would of torture Lennie before killing him. Curley had always hated Lennie and he wouldn’t of hesitated to kill him. His anger had excited the other men, making them want to kill Lennie too, “Curley carried a shotgun in his good hand… Whit said excitedly “I ain’t got a gun”(97). They even sent the dogs after him. If George hadn’t shot Lennie, he would of been torn apart by ferocious dogs; it would of been really painful for Lennie. If the dogs didn’t rip him apart, Curley would of done it himself. George knew that and that’s why he shot Lennie himself. He wanted Lennie to have a peaceful death. He made Lennie comfortable and happy, then he slowly raised his gun and shot him, Lennie didn’t even feel a thing. What George did to Lennie was best for him; 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.

Although the answer to this question can be defended either way, I feel that George is justified in killing Lennie. Aside form the fact that Lennie has been and will continue to be a hindrance to George in both his personal and professional life, this is not George's main motivation for carrying out such a serious deed. Ultimately, George kills Lennie in a sense of mercy. Lennie, although he may have continued on living a happy, oblivious life, would most likely have found a much worse demise. Due to his lack of cognitive skills and his unbridled brute strength, Lennie continuously found himself in situations where not only did he do something that gets him in trouble or that he didn't mean to do, but angers other people in the process. In fact, when George ultimately does choose to kill Lennie, Lennie was essentially on the run. Curly and the rest of the people from the farm were on a man hunt to kill Lennie and possibly George because of the trouble that he had caused for all of them (mainly the accidental manslaughter of Curly's wife). They certainly would not have been as nice, comforting, or humane as George was in killing him. George did not see an end to Lennie's antics, and so "putting him out of his misery" was a way to protect himself from Lennie, but also Lennie from himself.

It has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt at this point, Lennie's innocence is not very accepted with the world because of his size, age, etc. He can’t really learn to change his ways due to his disabilities. Lennie can’t even understand why the bad things he has done are bad. Also, the fate he would meet at Curley's mutilated hands is enough to convince George that his only real option is to make Lennie's death as quick and painless as possible. Lennie would have died at the hands of Curly anyways, which would have been a much more painful and dehumanizing death for Lennie. He couldn't be taken to a mental hospital and in the depression, these were basically non-existent and spending a life in jail would be even more torture for a mentally ill person than death itself. George did what was right because he prevented Lennie from doing anything this terrible again, he stopped Lennie from a more painful death, and he really didn't have any other responsible

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.

It is belief that one is alone, where as two is company. So, as far as I believe it's important to have friends, best friends are those in life that make you laugh a little louder, smile a little bigger and share and care for you. But, it's a true fact with the age you understand that bunch of friends are not important, only some of them are your real friends. One who can support you in difficult times are true friends and that’s how we can justify friendship.Like wise,I think that Lennie's needs are directly met through his friendship with George. Lennie comes to depend on George for protecting him and looking out for his well- being. From Aunt Clara to George, Lennie has always been dependent on someone overseeing him and safeguarding

Another reason George had no other choice was that Lennie was not fully aware of his mental abilities as he was his physical strengths which often lead to Lennie getting in trouble like his one one incident that happened in weed before they came to the ranch. Also, aside from Curley’s Wife Lennie has killed other things before such as a mouse that he found, and a puppy on the ranch so Lennie could be a danger or potential threat to others on the ranch which would make sense to why George would have simply no other realistic choice but to kill him.

George has always watched Lennie and took care of him. It was promise George made to Lennie’s Aunt Clara. But after a lot of traveling due to Lennie’s behavior, George was getting tired. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George, a migrant farm worker, kills his best friends Lennie, a child-like man who most likely has a mental disability [I don’t like Lennie’s description]. It might seem preposterous to kill your own best friends, like George did, but he did the right thing.

He would’ve been killed anyway and it would have been crueler to die in the hands of a stranger. George may have had two other options. He could have told Lennie to run far away to be safe from the angry farmhand mob coming after him, but since Lennie has the brain of a small child, he would not be able to survive without George. Lennie left alone is like a child without their parent, and you would hope that no parent would let their child survive on their own in a situation like this. Lennie would end up in trouble again with no one to help him out and he would either get locked up in jail or killed. Just like Lennie said, “I got you to look after me, and me to look after you.”(Page 15) Alternatively, George had the option to reason with Curley and explain to him that what Lennie did was an accident, but because Curley is so stubborn and hardheaded he would have thought George helped Lennie commit the crime. Curley was already suspicious of George and demanded that he stay by his side, “So we don’t think you had nothin’ to do with this.”(Page 95) Any attempt to change Curley’s mind was meaningless because he had already made his decision when he told the farmhands, “I’m gonna shoot the guts outta that big bastard myself, even if I only got one hand. I’m gonna get ’im.”(Page

Could you kill your best friend if you truly had to? In the book Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, George had to kill Lennie and the reason why was that Lennie got in trouble by killing Curley’s wife accidently and then had to run. Instead of running somewhere random, he ran where George told him early in the story. The reason George had to kill Lennie was that Lennie had an intellectual disability and does not understand much of what people say, so George killed him to spare him from suffering. Clearly George should have killed Lennie.

The next most likely outcome of Lennie’s delayed demise would have been to receive the death penalty. Since hanging was the usual punishment for offenses against women, Lennie would most likely be sent to the gallows to die. If he was fortunate enough, then the distance he would fall during his death would be long enough to instantly break his neck. However, if he were to fall only a short distance, then he would be writhing for another ten minutes. As the time slowly passed by, Lennie’s brain would begin to suffer from ischemia, or lack of adequate blood supply, since the rope would be pressing on his carotid artery. This pressure would prevent oxygenated blood from entering the brain and venous blood from exiting it. This in turn could have

Curley wanted to shoot him in his gut where it would take longer to kill Lennie. George did Lennie a favor by shooting him in his head where it was a sudden death. It was not that George wanted to kill Lennie, but as a friend it was his only choice. Unless, he wanted to see his friend be put through torture. Now Lennie will not have to worry about being harmed and George will not have to worry about Lennie getting

Studies show when faced with an illness, those people with greater social network have a better chance of living. The love and support of friendship helps them heal. Lennie has a mental disability and George is the friend who helps him through it. The friendship of George and Lennie goes through a lot but they are always there for eachother, have eachothers backs, stand up for one another and this is why they have a good friendship. George and Lennie are spending the night outside before they head to the ranch and they are talking about how their life is going to be, “Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why”(Steinbeck 14). This shows that they will always have eachothers

Lennie and George want their own piece of land to live off of because it symbolizes their independence, however, they cannot achieve it because of Lennie’s death. Throughout the story, the two protagonists, George and Lennie, are in search for their own American dream. They dream to one day possess a piece of land they can call their own. As George and Lennie are sitting around the campfire eating supper, Lennie says, “An’ live off the fatta the lan’,” Lennie shouted. “An’ have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. Tell about that, George” (13). The American Dream that supports George and Lennie’s desire for an independent lifestyle is the dream of buying and farming their own small piece of land and, thus being independent. If they were to attain this dream, they would have to answer to no boss, and be free from the routineness of moving from ranch to ranch. However, the most sizable attraction to Lennie is the ability to have rabbits and be able to look after them. In retort to Lennie’s repeated badgering about the dream, George illustrates how they will one day purchase “a little house and a couple of acres”, therefore being able to embrace the style of living imputed to being your own boss, hence Lennie famously utters the words, ‘live off the fatta the lan’. The American Dream, however, is

Why would one true friend kill another? True friendship, remember, entails loyalty and trust and understanding(Karbo). George knows if Lennie goes to jail or to an asylum, he is not going to live a good life. Lennie will be abused and lead to suffer in those conditions. Only a true friend would be willing to protect their friend from a life of pain and suffering, even if it involved killing them to prevent said