Today’s Lennie Small As of 2011, 15% of the world’s population which is about 785 million people and about 5% are children. Most of those people with disabilities are treated with care and respect but there is a small amount of them are abused emotionally and physically. According to the “World Health Organization” adults with disabilities are 1.5 times more likely to be victimized by violence than those who do not have a disability. Mentally challenged people in today’s society are sometimes treated better and sometimes worse than Lennie Smalls in “Of Mice and Men.” Are people today treated similarly or differently than the way Lennie was treated? It is really hard to be sure. In the book “Of Mice and Men,” Lennie was treated very poorly
