A true friendship is a bond between two people that can not be broken. George and Lennie have a true unbreakable bond that grows stronger as the book goes along. Lennie pushes their bond of friendship unmeaningly and constantly gets in trouble. If it was not for george lennie would be dead, locked up, or in a nut house. George and Lennie have a true friendship because, George stays by lennie even though he has a disability, George cares for Lennie and tries to keep him out of and Lennie looks up to George and trust him. George stays by Lennie even though most people would have left him on his own. Lennie lost their job in Weed because he grabbed a girl's dress and tore a hole in her dress, instead of doing like most George leaves with him. George could have left Lennie back in Weed but did not, because he knows that Lennie would not be able to make it out by himself. “I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus Christ, somebody'd shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself…”(Steinbeck 13). George understands that if Lennie was …show more content…
George promised Lennie's Aunt Clara that he would take care of him and that they were going to stick together. Throughout the whole book george tries to keep Lennie and himself safe and out of trouble or fix the trouble Lennie got himself into. “Don’t you even take a look at that crazy bitch. I don’t care what she says and what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but i never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be.”(Steinbeck 32). George telling Lennie to stay away from Curley's wife shows him trying to be protective and take care of lennie. At the very ending of the book when george kills lennie he does it to keep lennie from dying a slow painful death. George kills Lennie because he loves him and wants what is best for him. George truly cares about Lennie and the trust and love they have in their friendship makes it a true