Comparing The Treatment Of Animals In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Steinbeck’s novel of Mice and Men shows the treatment of humans and animals that are deemed no longer useful or productive to society. Some of the people in this story would not want to have animals that are old and only young ones. That is when they treat them really bad that would also kill them. The treatment of animals and humans are not so different. In this novel, there has been the same treatment in Lennie and Candy’s dog. Candy’s dog got shot in the back of the head only because he was and old sheepdog(Steinbeck 45-50). Lennie got shot in the head at the end of the story because he murdered Curley’s wife, but he deserves it for doing bad things and forgetting about it(Steinbeck 103-106). The people would tell candy that his dog stinks and deserves to be shot in the head. Curley tells everyone that he wants to shoot Lennie himself, for killing his wife and broken his arm(Steinbeck 96-98).
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Some people that need work is in a big hurry because they need money to accomplish their dreams, but others have the work but they do not care. In reality, some people would get a second to try and work hard to accomplish a new dream. However, George and Lennie did not have jobs and they wanted to accomplish the American dream and that was to have their own place to live, but how they did not have a job they could not accomplish it.When they got a job they work hard and Lennie messes things up and that Cause George to lose his job and got Lennie killed without accomplishing their dreams.
To end this essay I would say that the bad treatment of animals and humankind is a very terrible thing to do because you do not know what they are suffering thanks to the bad treatment. Finally, the bad treatment of people and animals should be reconsidered if it is right to do it and why because someone may get hurt and make you a bad animal

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