“Slim came directly to George and sat down beside him, sat very close to him. ‘Never you mind,’ said Slim. ‘A guy got to sometimes.’” In the book, Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, two guys spend their days working on farms hopping from place to place trying to make enough money to keep themselves alive. George and Lennie were farm hands who traveled from ranch to ranch looking for work to make a little money. George and Lennie are very peculiar due to the fact that they travel together, most ranch hands travel alone. Another thing, George is like Lennie’s guardian in a sense. Lennie does anything George tells him to. Lennie’s not all there in the head, which makes him vulnerable to people taking advantage of him and bullying him. …show more content…
Lennie is very childish in the mind, he does things without really knowing if they are harmful or not. This in turn gets George in numerous binds when he’s having to help Lennie out so it doesn’t cost them their jobs or their money. At the end of the book, Lennie accidentally kills the ranch owner’s son’s wife. Which causes all the guys to gain a vengeance to kill Lennie. Shortly thereafter, Lennie runs off in fear of his life from the guys, this leaves George to come to his rescue. The guys go on a man hunt to find Lennie. George finds Lennie in a bush hiding, George takes advantage of the opportunity and shoots Lennie in the back of the head, killing him as humanly as possible. If George hadn’t of killed Lennie right then and there, the other guys were going to and it wasn’t going to be as humane as George did. Even though many believe that George’s choice was wrong, George’s choice to kill Lennie himself was right due to Lennie possibly having a rough life in prison if arrested, medical care for gunshot wounds to the abdomen was inadequate, and mental health institutes being full of abuse and