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Of Mice And Men George And Slim Analysis

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When Carlson says to Curley, “Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys”, Carlson is wondering why George and Slim are sad. George is grief-stricken because Lennie was like a little brother to him, and he cared immensely for him, nevertheless. Slim is lugubrious for the reason that Lennie seemed so innocent to him and seemed to have been killed out of sorrow. From the moment that Slim saw Lennie, it seemed like Lennie and Slim formed a special bond. When Lennie had wanted a pup from Slim, he did not seem to care to give it to Lennie. It also might have been because Slim felt bad for Lennie for the reason that Lennie has the mind of a five-year-old. George and Lennie have been together for awhile now and it was painful for George to put Lennie’s lights out. Think of you being in George’s shoes and having an annoying sister who constantly acts like a five-year-old. Now think about killing her just because you know she is going to cause trouble. However you felt about your sister, that is how George felt about Lennie. Sad and crazy right? Slim is a nice person who doesn’t seem to have any problems. Well now he does. Slim seemed to want to have a nice friendship with Lennie but he now cannot. …show more content…

I think I relate to him the most because I have to take care of my obnoxious sister all the time. She is just like Lennie; she is annoying and I sometimes think that she has the mind of a five-year-old. I feel like George and I would be best friends because both of us are constantly having to deal with annoying people. George is noble and clever. He is able to solve problems that are very complicated. I am also able to do all of these things even if they take me forever. Whenever a problem occurs either with me or my sister, I always have a solution to it. Even if I have to go beyond my limits, I always solve a complicated

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Lennie cares about George. Lennie always wanted to be with George because, he needed a companion, but he may have trusted him a bit too much. “I turn to Lennie and say jump in and he jumps, couldn’t swim a stroke. He damn near drowned. "(Steinbeck, 40)

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Who is responsible for Lennie’s death? I believe Slim is responsible for Lennie’s death. George had been pondering over whether he should turn Lennie in or take care of him himself when Slim

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In a way, George was like a parent or a big brother to Lennie. He scolded Lennie and yelled at him, but, all in all, George was just looking out for him. Readers see how George is like a guardian to Lennie in the first chapter when George says, “Lennie!... For god’ sakes don’t drink so much... Lennie.

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Slim nodded. ‘We might,’ he said. If we could keep Curley in, we might” (Steinbeck 97). With Slim acknowledging that there was a possibility they will not have to kill him, but rather lock him in a prison, it shows that there is nothing that could prove that Lennie will be murdered and mocked. Lennie was in a problem that was far beyond any other he has ever had, but there is nothing that guarantees that Lennie would have of been

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but he doesn't know what he is doing. He ends up killing one of Slim's puppys by petting it too hard but that shows Lennie does not know his own strength and can't control how he acts. So when the incident in weed happened all he was trying to do was just touch the colorful dress. This is a second reason why George should be charged with murder because Lennie did not know what he was

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He decides the best way to ultimately separate each other would be by means of actually killing Lennie. George shoots Lennie in the back of the neck, understanding that this would be the quickest and least painful method as demonstrated earlier with Candy’s dog. Even in his final hour, Lennie’s needs are the most important in George’s point of view. After the incident, Slim attempts to comfort him by saying “‘You hadda, George. I swear you hadda’”

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Even Slim said “ You hadda,George. I swear you hadda.” Meaning if he didn’t Lennie would have messed up and killed somebody or something

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Slim knew George didn 't want to kill Lennie but it had to end that way so he tried to comfort George. To conclude, killing is justified because it helps more than hurts with the hunting and the death sentence and George was only doing what was right. Criminals are put down and and money keeps going to the conservations do to killing and it is justified do to that reason. Even if killing is wrong with murder but that is a innocent and with no cause and shouldn’t happen these killing are justified.

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(Steinbeck, 41) George explains how he feels about Lennie without getting too sweet so Slim does not think that George is weak. George and Lennie were family, but not by blood, but by they way they took care of each other and protected one another. However, in the end the loyalty of the two men ran out.

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