In the book, Of Mice and Men, George kills Lennie. But before this happens, Slim encourages George to kill Lennie. He should have not done this. This would be difficult for George to live through because Lennie is George's best friend, mentally disabled, and Georges muscle. Therefore, Slim shouldn’t have encouraged George to kill Lennie. For one, Lennie is George's best friend. So if Lennie dies, then George would be lonely. Keep in mind, the setting of this book is in the Great Depression. And George hardly had any money. The only person keeping George motivated is Lennie, and George killed him. So what would George do after that? Waste his money at strip clubs and bars. Then die of starvation while thinking about how he wasted his life
The agreement is yes George should have killed Lennie in Of Mice and Men, the reasons are that Curley would have killed him anyway and that they didn’t have enough money for a trail. George should not have killed Lennie because Curley would have killed him anyway. You know this because of this quote “ I’m gonna get him. I’m going for my shotgun. I’ll kill that big son-of-a-bitch myself.
In the book “Of Mice and Men” there are two main characters, Lennie and George. Lennie is dumb while George is average intelligence and likes to think ahead. Lennie is so dumb that he gets in these stupid situations, whether it be killing someone by shaking his hand too hard, or touching a dress and the girl calls it rape. Lennie can not live a normal life, he would be unhappy to never get his dream or what he wants. George killing Lennie seemed like the right thing to do.
Famous rights activist Malcolm X once said, “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.” This directly pertains to the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, and the claim that George had murdered his friend Lennie. This, in fact, is not true. George had saved Lennie from being murdered because George had thought about the process of losing Lennie, and he had cared enough to let Lennie live his dream once more before he passed. He did not murder Lennie himself.
In the book “Mice and Men” the two main characters George and Lennie were faced with many challenges and decisions. The one decisions everyone is talking about it when George Choose to Shoot Lennie. Some think this was a wrong decision and some think it was the right decision. I personally think that is wasn't a smart decision for George to shoot Lennie. One reason I believe that it was a bad reason for George to kill Lennie is that they had the chance for the other men such as Slim to just turn him into the law.
He decides the best way to ultimately separate each other would be by means of actually killing Lennie. George shoots Lennie in the back of the neck, understanding that this would be the quickest and least painful method as demonstrated earlier with Candy’s dog. Even in his final hour, Lennie’s needs are the most important in George’s point of view. After the incident, Slim attempts to comfort him by saying “‘You hadda, George. I swear you hadda’”
George would protect Lennie at all costs even from himself. After Lennie kills a young woman, George decides it is better for Lennie to be dead rather than to be tortured and kept in a cell or a mental asylum. The decision of killing Lennie hit George like a train, but he knew it was something that was in Lennie’s own good. Knowing he could have an easier life without Lennie, George still kept him around because he needed George and George needed Lennie. George tells Slim “Course Lennie’s a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin’ around with a guy an’ you can’t get rid of him.”
George’s Selflessness Act of Killing Lennie Although, it is true that Lennie is a great burden for George, George’s motives for killing Lennie are primarily selfless because he did not want Lennie to be killed by any other farmworker other than himself and that he did not want Lennie to harm anyone else. An example that shows his act is selfish is during a conversation between George and Lennie, George tells Lennie why he i such a burden in his life by furiously exclaiming, “ I got you! You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I got…
However, George could have stood up for Lennie instead of killing him. There is other options other than immediately killing. Lennie was not very smart and George knew that, George was not thinking of Lennie he was thinking of himself. In the passage, Of Mice and Men, George says “He’s dumb as hell, but he ain’t crazy.” This shows that George knows that he is not stupid.
Lennie with his simple mind, always gets into trouble. This time, Lennie gets himself in a bind once again, that George can’t save him from. George decision to kill Lennie in the story, was due to his responsibility, sympathy, and love for Lennie. George’s decision to kill Lennie was out of sympathy for him.
as obvious from his unintentional killing of Curley's wife that he was unable to live in society without doing wrong. George put an end to Lennie's life so that Curly couldn't shoot him in the stomach andIn John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, George made the right choice to kill Lennie. Lennie was a pleasant and well-meaning man, but he had a mental illness that made him hazardous. Lennie had killed a lady and an animal in the past because he was unable to control his own strength. If George hadn't killed Lennie, he might have unintentionally hurt himself more as well as many people George had to make a really difficult choice.
In the novella, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, George’s decision to kill Lennie at the end of the novel was justified. George and Lennie were best friends, and have been since they were little. They got ran out of Weed(the old farm they used to work at) for harassing a girl and not letting her go. He was just scared from her screaming and kicking. He didn’t mean to harm, or scare her.
Although, Lennie’s actions probably weren’t his fault, with him not being able to learn from his actions and remember that his own strength is too much for him that he became a threat. George, pained to do it, knew what was best for Lennie and other people/animals, and had to end his life. Overall, even though George had to make some pretty drastic decisions and someone’s life got taken away, it was all for the best and nothing bad will no longer happen and who knows, maybe George will get to live his
In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck many hard decisions were made. In this novel two Characters George and Lennie get kicked out of their last city and travel to soledad to start their new life. Lennie causes lots of commotion at the ranch which turns people against George and Lennie. At the end of the novel George kills Lennie which raises the question if he fairly weighed all of the options and if his choice was justified or condemned. One reason why this was a justified decision is that George only wanted the best for his best friend.
Slim knew George didn 't want to kill Lennie but it had to end that way so he tried to comfort George. To conclude, killing is justified because it helps more than hurts with the hunting and the death sentence and George was only doing what was right. Criminals are put down and and money keeps going to the conservations do to killing and it is justified do to that reason. Even if killing is wrong with murder but that is a innocent and with no cause and shouldn’t happen these killing are justified.
The last line of Of Mice and Men is said by Carlson. In regards to Slim and George after Lennie’s death, he says, “Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?” (Steinbeck 108). George is clearly negatively affected by what has happened. It makes it clear, George was not selfish in his act, but wanted only to show Lennie compassion and give him a gift.