Second of all, Lennie had been referred to as an animal many times,
Second of all, Lennie had been referred to as an animal many times,
In "Of Mice and Men" it is very controversial when George kills Lennie. This is so because the controversial questions brought up is "Was Lennie's Death Justified as an Act of Mercy Killing?" In the book Lennie has an infatuation with soft objects. He has had many incidents where he has killed small animals such as a rabbit because he strangles them. He does so because he is obsessed with fluffy objects.…
George did make the right decision when he ended Lennie’s life by shooting him in the back of the head because Lennie was a threat to the general population and he was even a threat to animals. Lennie killed mice all the time, he even killed a few birds. Then one day he killed a puppy that was only a few weeks old, and one day in town he grabbed a little girl’s dress and scared her. Then toward the end of the book he killed Curley’s wife.…
In the novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, there are several instances that foreshadow the events that eventually led to Lennie’s death. Two instances are when Candy’s dog is shot in the back of the head, and when Lennie got into trouble, in Weed, the town in which Lennie and George worked in previously. This led the reader to speculate that Lennie was going to get in trouble at the ranch, and eventually get killed. About a day after George and Lennie joined the ranch, Carlson, a thick-bodied man on the ranch, made comments about how Candy’s dog was old and suffering. He stated, “Look, Candy.…
True friends should stick together no matter the circumstances. This especially applies to situations where are each other’s only family. If two friends have a relationship that is this immensely close, they should never betray one another. This means that no companion should ever cut the other’sskfjdlsk life short. Although George taking Lennie’s life away with a nonviolent method was for sure better than if it was taken cruelly and painfully by another man in John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” the novel could have not resulted in a death that would haunt Lennie’s friend/killer forever.…
George shoots Lennie in the same spot that Carlson shot Candy's dog. The final reason how Steinbeck foreshadows Lennie's death is when Candy tells George that he should have shot his own dog and not have someone else…
Would you be able to kill your best friend or only companion? In the novellaOf Mice and Men by john Steinbeck, George had to kill the only person he traveled with. George and Lennie have traveled together because George promised Lennie’s aunt he would. As they travel, Lennie get both himself and George in trouble that George has to fix. That is, until Lennie does one thing that George can’t get them out of.…
Steinbeck presents Candy as an old man who has no one to talk to or keep him company, besides the dog. To him, the dog was more than an animal that struggled; it was a companion to share life with. When Carlson is talking to Candy he offers to kill his dog, Candy refused to answer. Candy stuck, and finally gave in to Carlson’s requests. He had the dog his whole life and now it was gone.…
The death of Candy’s dog foreshadows the oncoming death of Lennie. George comes to his own realization that the ideal life he is seeking will never occur. It is an impossible goal for the two of them. Thus, George feels sympathy for Lennie and decides that it will be best for the both of them if he kills Lennie. When George was asked how he killed Lennie, he responded simply, ‘“I just done it.”’…
George lost his meaning, Candy lost his chance for happiness, and many others lost their lives, including Lennie. Life is meant beat you down and try to crush your dreams, because the only way you get stronger is by crawling your way back up when you’ve been pushed down. Cruelty in Of Mice and Men was apparent throughout the whole book. Cruelty affects everyone, and many people on the ranch had become cruel. The overall outcome shows that cruelty is apparent in many aspects of the book including the death of innocent animals, the death of Curley’s Wife, and the crushing of Lennie and George’s…
George has been taking care of Lennie all his life and he doesn’t want to make the same mistake as candy made by giving Carlson the right to kill his dog. After his dog was dead he was very depressed and he said, “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George I shouldn 't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.” This suggests that George didn’t want anyone else to shoot Lennie because Lennie is his responsibility and if any were going to kill Lennie and end his suffering it would be George. Another reason why George kills Lennie is because he didn’t want the person that he hated the most Curley to kill his best friend. We now that George hate’s Curley because at the beginning of the poem George says, “I hate that guy”.…
George expresses his and Lennie’s dream of getting a small farm together; Candy immediately says he will join in and give more than half of the money needed to seal the deal. “An’ they give me two hundred an’ fifty dollars ‘cause I los’ my hand. An’ I got fifty more saved up right in the bank, right now" (Steinbeck 59). He is willing to give every penny that he is worth just to join in on their dream and break his solid feeling of loneliness. All this time Candy used his dog as some kind of “shield” to hide his loneliness.…
George and Lennie are talking about the farm when he overhears and wants in on the deal. He tells George that “‘[Candy] shouldn’t oughta of let no stranger shoot [his] dog’” (61). This is his ultimate motive, the main dream of his: To live an independent life and make his own choices. He was pressured into getting rid of his own dog, and he felt it should have been his decision to make. In order to achieve his own independence (and get to the farm), Candy sacrifices a few things.…
“ Course he ain’t mean. But he gets in trouble alla time because he’s so Goddamn dumb.” (pg. 41). Lennie Smalls, in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, is the pathos of this story.…
From the quotes, Curley was furious that his wife died and he knows that it was Lennie did this so he really wants to kill him by himself and shot him in the guts but George told him not to shoot him because he does not know what was he doing because Lennie was dumb. George should have killed Lennie in the story “Of Mice and Men” because from the story the character “Lennie” was a troublemaker for George. He always brought troubles to George and he also has some problems with his mind so that made him act like a kid, always do thing after George and if Lennie is still alive he might hurt more people, even though they were best friend and George should not have killed Lennie because of that but someone else will kill him…
This shows that Candy and George both want the best for their friends, the dog and Lennie, because otherwise they wouldn’t have done what they did. This was all out of love and kindness for the…