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Lennie's Responsibility In Of Mice And Men

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As george and lennie are always on the run, George reaches the limit of how much responsibility he is willing to take. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a novel about the importance of companionship and devotion for one another. George and Lennie are on a journey to find a place where they can both be free, but as challenges come closer George has to take responsibility for Lennie's actions. George takes responsibility for Lennie at every step along the way, up until the very end of Lennie’s life. Lennie is really dependent on george, he relies on him to keep him from getting in trouble. One example of Lennie being dependent on George would be when they first get to the bunkhouse and the boss interviews them. He asks, “What's your name? …show more content…

After Lennie kills Curley’s wife he doesn't realize it at first and he thinks that she's still alive but when he realizes that she's not he gets worried and knows that George will be mad at him. Lennie says, “I done a really bad thing, I shouldn't of did that. George’ll be mad. He's gonna be mad” (92). Even though Lennie killed Curley's wife he wasn't sure what he had done and he didn't mean to either. Once Lennie realizes what had happened he remembered that george told him to go to a certain place when he would get in trouble. George was the one who found Lennie before everyone else did. When George found Lennie he asked george if he was gonna leave him. Lennie says, “You ain’t gonna leave me are ya, George? I know you ain’t. George came stiffly near and sat down beside him. ”No.” “I knowed it, Lennie cried. “You ain’t that kind.” George was silent (103). Lennie knew what he did was bad but to him it was just something that happened all the time with rabbits and mice. He didn't understand the damage he caused but George did and he knew what the right thing to do was. George’s best friend was Lennie and he cares about him a lot which is what made the situation he was in a lot more

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Even though Lennie and Curley got in a fight, and George warned Lennie not to get in any fights, George still wanted to make sure Lennie was okay. Since George is protective of Lennie, he will make sure Lennie is okay no matter what happens. When Lennie gets hurt in any type of way, George is always there to take care of

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One reason George should not have killed Lennie is because Lennie did not know what he was doing to Curley’s wife. Steinbeck writes, “… and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish” (91). Lennie was trying to calm her down to make her stop

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One reason George should not have killed Lennie because everything that happened, was an accident. Lennie did not mean to kill Curley’s wife or the puppy. In the passage, Of mice and men, lennie says “I don’t want ta hurt you” (Steinbeck 91). This piece of evidence from the passage shows that Lennie did not mean to hurt Curley’s wife. Lennie only meant to keep her quiet , not kill her.

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Also he did not want Curley to find Lennie so George made sure to remind Lennie to hide in their secret place if anything goes wrong. George knew that if he was to kill him that Curley would take revenge on Lennie for killing his wife, and breaking his hand. Also George knows that Curley is not going to take sympathy when he finds Lennie because Curley said” I'll shoot ‘im in the guts” (Steinbeck 96). When the farmers found Curley’s wife dead in the barn they demanded to search for Lennie immediately. Curley figured it was Lennie because he quoted “I know he done it.

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This proves that Lennie is innocent and that Curley is the one who caused his own unfortunate incident in the bunkhouse. The quotation shows that George is even more to blame than Lennie is because George was the one that told him to do it, and that Lennie proclaimed that he did not want to hurt

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From the day that Lennie’s Aunt Clara died and from the day George took Lennie in as a friend George was always there for him. If Lennie did not have George, Lennie would have no one to protect him and save him from all of the bad things that he has done. Despite all of the dangers and problems Lennie got George and himself into, George benefited and also learned from Lennie’s mistakes. George needs his ignorant sidekick as much as Lennie needs George.

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George asks him to turn his head and look beyond, then says, “I’ll tell you so you can almost see it” (105). Even if this was a furtive way to get Lennie to turn the other way so he could shoot him, it still had the effect of making Lennie feel at peace and it was a way to give him hope. By helping Lennie imagine the farm they had dreamed of, George creates a sense of security and promise for Lennie, which was an image that kept him going day after day. Something else George does to comfort Lennie before he kills him is reassure him with his words, which often held the most significance to Lennie. Lennie asks George if he’s going to give him hell and George responds by saying, “I never been mad, an’ I ain’t now.

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Curley used this as an excuse to kill Lennie. He really wanted to kill Lennie because he destroyed his hand though. Curley said he was going to blow Lennie's guts out and make him suffer and be in pain. George prevented this by shooting Lennie in the back of the head and ending him quickly. George killed lennie because if he didn’t, Curley would have made him suffer.

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After all the anger that George has shown towards Lennie, he utters these words now so Lennie can die with a sense of peace. George does not want to pull the trigger, but he knows that the further consequences of Lennie’s actions will only worsen. To save Lennie from Curley’s wrath, possible imprisonment, and perhaps years of suffering, George takes Lennie’s

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