Weed In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

killing your best friend for a mistake is not acceptable. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck is about two men named George and Lennie. Together they travel around southern California trying to make money by working on farms for their American Dream. George is a smaller man but is very quick and smart, however, Lennie’s body fully fits the definition of a man. Lennie has never been the smartest guy in the room, but he has never gone unloved. When Lennies aunt died, George stuck with lennie forming the their rare friendship. He makes many unintended mistakes but is very nice and warm hearted man. Georges actions to Lennie are not justified because no one should ever kill their best friend, they had a chance to escape together, and Lennie may have gotten a consequence that was suitable. George shooting Lennie is not justifiable because Lennie & George have been traveling together for years despite the small incident in Weed. George and Lennie have known each other since they were young kids, although after Lennie's Aunt Clara past away George decided to take care of him. [Slim] “Ain’t many guys travel around together” [George] “ It’s a lot nicer to go around with a guy you know” Shooting Lennie was was not a reasonable act, especially since they had

After George found Lennie sitting silently in the bushes next to the Salinas River, exactly where he told Lennie to wait, he went over to him and quietly started conversing; then he heard the mob. “From the distance came the sound of men shouting to one another” (Steinbeck, 103). “A man’s voice called from up the river, and another man answered” (Steinbeck, 105). There was dialogue in between the quotes on pages 103 until 105, this shows that they have had a massive amount of time to leave and escape from Curley and the mob. Instead Salinas River became the place where Lennie Small got shot in the back of his head by his best friend George