Lennie soon ruins this new beginning by killing Curley’s wife and George has to make the decision of what to do about Lennie after this regrettable event, eventually choosing the right action; George kills
Then George has something to do, in which it is the most difficult thing to do, kill his best friend Lennie. Clearly, George killing Lennie is the best decision George had made. On the other hand, There were other actions to choose from. George and Lennie could have instead run away and
Even still, Lennie was much more likely to die from Curley’s lynch mob had George not shot him first. As evidenced by the events of Chapter 6, Curley’s men were able to independently get near Lennie, and were likely to approach him even without George as the “shouts of men” got louder and louder. If Lennie was killed by Curley, he would have been shot in the guts, and died painfully as he bled out. Only George, by retelling his dreams about the farm, could spare Lennie from such a fate, and let him die as he lived: blissfully ignorant. Through sparing him the anguish that awaited his friend, George is justified in
When George talks about Lennie always feels remorse when he accidentally hurts or kills things; further showing that he didn't want to kill anything in the first place. Even though Lennie killed Curley's wife. At the end when Lennie talked to George for the last time he was crying and he said. "I done another bad thing. " Lennie was clearly very upset about what had happened.
If Lennie was not killed or put into prison, he could go to an asylum which is much worse. George needed to do it himself. He couldn’t let some stranger do this to Lennie, it had to be him. George was going to have to face this at some point. George does not want to kill Lennie and is having a difficult time doing so.
Brittany Aldrich Dolim English 4 26 October 2015 Secret Spoilers John Steinbeck foreshadows Lennie’s death in many ways in his novella, Of Mice and Men. One of the events that foreshadow his death is when Carlson shoots the old dog. Lennie is described often as different animals throughout the book. One of these animals is a dog. Lennie obeys George like a dog obeys his master.
All of us will be presented with an important choice at least once in our lives. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George is confronted with a very difficult choice after Lennie accidently kills Curley’s wife: let Lennie live but have him be put through the pain of being executed by hanging, or end his life quickly and painlessly. John Steinbeck clearly expresses his own feelings about this decision and the resulting actions through many characters. Steinbeck first portrays his feelings through George when he discovers Curley’s wife’s body. “I should of knew.
Lennie snapped the neck of Curley 's wife. In retaliation to Lennie’s actions George shot Lennie because of justified anger, mercy, and necessity. George killed lennie because Lennie was a burden to George, and George was
In the book “Of Mice and Men” written by John Steinbeck, George has to make a decision to either keep Lennie alive, or shoot him. I think that George made the right decision to do this because Lennie would have been killed anyways. The men were going to come find him, torture him, and kill him. Lennie was also out of control, he did a lot of bad things and even kills Curley's wife, he even says “I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing.”
On page 103, Lennie says to George, “I done another bad thing.” He says this after he killed the puppy and Curley’s wife. He feels dreadful about it, but just can 't change it. That is why Lennie is a static character.
Set fourteen years after the Salem witch trials, Lies In The Dust is a graphic about historical figure Ann Putnam coming to terms with the damage she dealt to Salem and the remorse that moved her to publicly apologize. Over the course of the narrative, Ann extensively reflects on her family's involvement in abetting the trials and consequent ostracization from the surviving members of her community. As the setting bounces between the present year of 1706 and the past in 1692, the full extent of Ann's crimes are revealed to the reader. Over a decade after the conclusion of the trials, Ann writes a letter of apology to read to her congregation.
It was George’s fate to kill Lennie because Lennie kept causing problems and forcing them to run and find places to work. Moreover, It was George’s fate to kill Lennie because he killed Curley’s wife, left her, and then ran and hid, but he has also caused so many little problems and big problems that George just said I have to do it I have to kill him. This is why it was George’s fate to kill
“‘We might,’ he said. ‘If we could keep Curley in, we might. But Curley’s gonna want to shoot ‘im. Curley’s still mad about his hand. An’ s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t
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Although, Lennie’s actions probably weren’t his fault, with him not being able to learn from his actions and remember that his own strength is too much for him that he became a threat. George, pained to do it, knew what was best for Lennie and other people/animals, and had to end his life. Overall, even though George had to make some pretty drastic decisions and someone’s life got taken away, it was all for the best and nothing bad will no longer happen and who knows, maybe George will get to live his
