Did you know in the 1950’s the people of the mentally disabled community were mistreated in our world? The people that were mentally disabled were isolated from the outside world, shocked several times, and locked up and let them starve to death. The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about the main characters George and Lennie, who migrate from one place to the other in search of a new job. The story took place during the Great Depression, and the story mostly took place in Soledad.George did the wrong thing by killing Lennie because he could of run away, let Curley find Lennie, or followed his and Lennie's American Dream. George and Lennie could work at a job to earn money for their American Dream.
Some may claim that George did the right thing by killing Lennie because Lennie life would've just got harder. In life people always choose the easy way out of things. In the book Of Mice and Men it stated, “The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger…Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and lay there without quivering. This shows that George took the easy way out instead of choosing to run away, let Curley find Lennie, or followed his and Lennie's American Dream.
First, George did the wrong thing by killing Lennie because George and Lennie could have run away. For instance, in
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For instance, in the book Of Mice and Men George said, “Look, if me an’ Lennie work a month an’ don’t spen’ nothing, we’ll have a hundred bucks. That’d be four fifty. I bet we could swing her in for that...” This Means that after a month George and Lennie would have all the money they need to follow their American ream. This concludes that George would have had the money to follow his American Dream, and if they did followd their American Dream Lennie could have live a longer and more grateful