Lennie Essay

responsibility on taking care of Lennie. George knows he could be better off without Lennie. “When I think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts,” George finally expresses. He even tells

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the way they talk or how other characters talk about them you just can’t help but sympathize with them. In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men that character is Lennie Small. The reader can sympathize with Lennie because he has a dream and he doesn’t really have anyone. First off, the bunnies. Many times throughout the book Lennie asks George to tell him about the ranch that they are going to own. The first instance is on page 14, “‘...we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’

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

and Men is a story written by John Steinbeck. The book is about two migrant workers named George and Lennie. George is mentally stronger than Lennie and Lennie has the mind of a child. John Steinbeck is successful when making Lennie sympathetic when showing that Lennie is loyal and caring because of his dialogue and actions. A character trait that Lennie shows throughout the book is loyalty. Lennie is a very loyal to George when he keeps the two of them out of trouble by letting George speak for him

and Lennie Smalls are the two main characters in this story. In this story George has to make very tough decisions that can either help or ruin his future. For example, when George shot and killed Lennie, he did it to save Lennie from pain. If George didn't make that decision to shoot Lennie, Curley would’ve got to him and made him suffer. George killing Lennie was justified, he had to do it. In the beginning of the story the author wrote about why George and Lennie had to leave Weed. Lennie is

Men by John Steinbeck is about two men named Lennie & George who lost their jobs & need to find a new one. The two are in trouble because Lennie had pulled on a girl's dress & scared her. Lennie is incredibly affectionate for a man in his time period. Lennie is just a few links short of a chain. Steinbeck made Lennie so that he could make the story more interesting by promoting the odd pair of Lennie being huge & dumb while George was small & smart. Lennie is dumb & is gentle, but he is very strong

are good to him. George and Lennie are like brothers. Their interaction is very similar to when a little brother annoys the other brother, but in the end they still love each other and take care of each other. George shows Lennie love by taking care of him and being responsible for him. George takes care of Lennie many ways. George has taken care of Lennie for a long time. George took him under his wing even though he didn’t need to. George genuinely cares for Lennie. He feeds him, makes sure he

captures the journey of two men, Lennie and George, on their path to finding their American dream. Steinbeck was successful at making Lennie sympathetic since he shows how Lennie is sensitive and childlike and also loyal with how he listens and trusts George. The traits that make up Lennie is what makes people sincerely feel for his character. Watching Lennie throughout these first few chapters, the book shows that he is very childlike. George constantly talks about how Lennie wants to touch everything

It does not prove Lennie wrong, because if anything George did Lennie a favor. George knew the things they'd probably do to him, such as sending him to prison, to a mental asylum in which they used to treat them very bad back then, or they would've hanged him which is a brutal way to die. Sometimes you got to do tough choices in life, and in this instance George did Lennie a huge favor. It's almost kind of like when Carlson put down Candy's dog except Candy didn't put down his own problem. Carlson

Back in those days It was unusual for two migrant workers to travel around together. Yet George looks out for Lennie because Lennie cannot take care of himself. Lennie is strong and loyal, but not intelligent. He has the mind of a child, and George has to take care of him. They have traveled around together for awhile. They find themselves on the run, now that they are outlaws they must find a source of money and some way of obtaining the American Dream. What starts of to be two men running from

After shooting Lennie, George couldn’t stop thinking about it. He went with the other guys for a drink, but he couldn’t stop thinking about Lennie. George didn’t get much sleep that night, Lennie was hunting his dreams but not in a wrong way, he was now just a broken memory in George’s heart and brain. No one knew how close they were, that’s why it didn’t affect the others; however, Candy found out and said, “What are we going to do? You killed Lennie as they killed my dog. What about our ranch?

Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie, a pair of unlikely friends, are traveling together and come upon a ranch to work at. The workers at the ranch can’t quite understand why they are traveling together. This is due to the fact that ranch work is mostly comprised of independent people. Throughout the book the two of them are saving up to make their dream of getting a place together and having stability and comfort, come true. However Lennie suffers from some sort of mental disability

4.) George knew that Lennie would be lynched, probably beaten and then killed if he was caught. Lennie, being more like an animal than a human being, was incapable of understanding his own strength and understanding the subtleties of life. George grasps the fact that he can't protect Lennie from society, as he also can't protect society from Lennie. George felt as though he had no other choice but to save Lennie from a cruel kind of death at the hands of Curley and his followers. It is a supposedly

person has the right to live unless God is the one who takes their life. Also, it’s not euthanasia because Lennie was not sick and he was not old. When an animal is euthanized it is not living a good life anymore. This was not the case for Lennie. Lenny was a healthy man who was murdered not euthanized. To start, George does not want to allow workers to brutally murder his friend, shoots Lennie for mercy. The only one who understands this irony is Slim, that tries to console George, when he says:

about how these two men that have no job. One of them is a tall strong, stupid, childlike and a sympathetic character (Lennie). The other is short and street smart (George). George and Lennie are going to get a job at a ranch after getting run out of a past job. Lennie is a very sympathetic character because he acts like an innocent big child that is simple-minded. Lennie is very stupid he doesn't understand normal things. People say he is very dumb and crazy. He speaks in properly and he forgets

energy my body has left, I keep pacing a constant speed to catch up to Lennie. As the forest begins to come to an end, there is a lengthy creek that comes to view. Hesitating, I plunge into the water trying to find my dear friend Lennie. Just as I think there is no hope on finding him I see a movement out of the corner of my eye. Thinking it was just an animal, I turn away not even realizing that the animal was Lennie. Lennie, terror- stricken and drizzling, is standing right in front of me. I try

Steinbeck, Lennie is an intense and powerful character who can be interpreted in multiple different ways. He is mentally disabled which means he can not always interpret how others will react to his actions. He travels with George who keeps tabs on Lennie and makes sure to set specific rules for him, so he does not get into any trouble. George and Lennie are very close as George takes Lennie under his wing. Through the perspective of many he is seen as a kind and caring person. Lennie has never intended

In the story Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows the protagonist of the story Lennie, as a sympathetic character. In the book, Lennie, a big strong guy and his friend George are on a journey away from their home town Weed, to a job on a ranch. Lennie is not the sharpest knife in the drawer and makes many mistakes. George and Lennie already had to leave their town from a mistake that Lennie made, holding on to a girls soft dress because he liked the feel of it. On the ranch, the boys are hoping to make

so when he shoots his friend Lennie. George is a ranch hand who works in Salinas California, though he is not a typical ranch hand because a typical ranch hand is mean and lonely. The reason why he is not mean and lonely is because he has Lennie. George and Lennie grew up together, Lennie is dumb and acts like a little child. His caretaker aunt Clara took care of him when he was a kid and when aunt Clara died George took it into his hands to be the caretaker of Lennie. They both end up moving around