Love, an intense feeling of deep affection. Most people seek to find love in their lives. However, love can also make people do inconceivable things in order to protect one another. This is shown in the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck which set in the time period of The Great Depression. The character, George makes the impossible decision to shoot his best friend for the sake of protecting him. The decision was not murder though, it was a killing done out of kindness, caring and love. George wanted to end Lennie’s suffering, he was making a humane choice to keep Lennie from dying a dreadful death and he was keeping Lennie from hurting anyone else. Though some would argue that George murdered Lennie rather than killed him out of mercy. Mercy killing or euthanasia is only considered ethical …show more content…
Even though George never talked to Lennie about dying, he did kill him out of love. George cared deeply for Lennie, they were best friends, so he would not have hurt Lennie unless he believed it was the only way. Lennie was not aware of how strong and overpowering he was. Even when he thought he was being gentle Lennie’s strength caused harm. Neither George nor Lennie wanted to hurt the anyone. Lennie didn’t know that what he is doing was wrong. He understood that George was going to be mad at him but didn’t understand he was hurting anyone. The actions of Lennie that led up to him being killed were terrible accidents. Lennie’s actions caused himself and others great harm. An example of such harm is how Lennie killed both a puppy and Curley’s wife on accident. These actions put them both him and George in a bad position. Since George and Lennie came to the farm together, the people at the farm could have taken it out the murder of Curley’s wife on both. Arguably, George should