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Eulogy For Lennie

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Like this days went by that turned into years, and one morning, it was a pretty morning,the air fielt cool, the sun rise was one of the most beautiful sun rise George had ever seen, and the air smelled very fresh, soon for some reason Aunt Clara called me ,she wanted to talk to me. When I went to Her room she touched him with her warm hands and said” George, my time has come about Lennie I still young and needs someone to look after him and you are going to have to do that, please look after Lennie. George suddenly felt like this was the worst day of his life, but the look in Aunt Clara’s face told him that Aunt Clara will live only a week or so, this thought suddenly struck George hard. He could not believe that Aunt Clara was going out of …show more content…

George thought it was another mice that Lennie killed, so George want down stairs to wake up Aunt Clara but when he tried to wake her up she wasn’t breathing. Aunt Clara was died . George wasn’t surprised and thought to himself that she had finally been free from hell and he was kind of happy to say that Aunt Clara died.At first, George took advantage to Lennie's innocence because he always thought that without Lennie Aunt Clara would have lived a happy life, Lennie wasn’t so stupid that he will be no use of George, but George had promised Aunt Clara and he had to keep the promise and he will take revenge from Linne as well. Lennie Did everything thing that George asked him to do So George took advantage of this and made fun of Lennie in front of his friends and treated him like his slave, but Lennie never said a word.even though be was big and strong, he never argued with George, but George didn’t appreciate Lennie’s kindness or ever tried to be nice to Lennie.But one day, George wanted to test just how much Lennie can do for him and he wanted to do something different so he looked around,that day was a very cold dany and George’s eyes found a lake that looked like if someone jumped in it they would die because the water looked very cold and deep,so George asked: “hey Lennie can you jump in the water for

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