Examples Of Mental Retardation In Of Mice And Men

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Is Mental Retardation a reason for a person's life to end? What gives the person the drive to want to kill someone mental or not, What tells the person who did that wrong doing that it was justified. These are some second thoughts that george has racing through his head after his just made the hardest decision in his life at the end of John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men. Some readers believe that George's decision to kill Lennie was not his role/place to be the one pulling the trigger. Others believe that he was in his right mind by doing so because Lennie would have been torchered by the other men if he did not make the decision quick to end his friend/family the only thing he had left to look forward to it all had to end right there. In consideration of these facts about the mercy killing of Lennie George’s decision to kill Lennie was in fact justified. Because if George would have never killed Lennie then George would have had to deal with the fact that Lennie died a horrible death. …show more content…

He is always touching things and whenever someone tells him to stop it's already too late Something bad happens and they have to move again. Like when he saw a pretty, soft dress and he just had to touch it. The girl screamed “rape” and George and Lennie had to move again because there was a warrant out for the killing/capturing of Lennie. Now one instance of this nonsense is not enough to kill someone over but for lennie this is not the first time and won’t be the last time lennie gets in trouble. Another instance what happened in weed when Lennie attached a girl because he was screaming because he was pulling her hair to hard one thing led to another Lennie broke the poor, girl’s