Having, done for, or marked by a good or legitimate reason, this is the definition of justified. Now think about this, can killings be justified? Are there situations where killings are justified? War? Assisted Suicide? Mercy Killings? Well in Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, this particular question comes up in the end. There are two different sides to this question, one side is that they believe that killings can never be justified, the other side being completely opposite saying there are situations where it is justified. Hence that George killing Lennie, so he wouldn’t get killed out of hate. George killed Lennie with Lennie’s best interest in mind. Would you rather be killed out of hate or love? In this case, George killed Lennie
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He knew that Lennie was going to mess up somewhere along the way. “I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would”(Steinbeck 94). As George and Lennie’s American dream came closer to happening, after saying it over and over, George started to believe that it could actual happen. George got his hopes up and in the end it never happened. Candy tells George they can still accomplish the dream, just themselves, but George says “no” because the dream didn’t really matter without Lennie, the dream was really only based around Lennie tending the rabbits at their dream place. Lennie thought he could take care of himself, but in reality he could not take care of himself. He did things he didn’t mean, such as killing the puppy, Curley’s wife, and much more. “All the time he done bad things, but he never done one of ‘em mean” (Steinbeck 95). Lennie did not know his own strength at all, he could not take care of himself, like he said he could. His aunt Clara took care of him as a child before she died, then George took care of Lennie from there. Lennie doesn’t mean to do anything bad, it is all
He knew that Lennie was going to mess up somewhere along the way. “I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would”(Steinbeck 94). As George and Lennie’s American dream came closer to happening, after saying it over and over, George started to believe that it could actual happen. George got his hopes up and in the end it never happened. Candy tells George they can still accomplish the dream, just themselves, but George says “no” because the dream didn’t really matter without Lennie, the dream was really only based around Lennie tending the rabbits at their dream place. Lennie thought he could take care of himself, but in reality he could not take care of himself. He did things he didn’t mean, such as killing the puppy, Curley’s wife, and much more. “All the time he done bad things, but he never done one of ‘em mean” (Steinbeck 95). Lennie did not know his own strength at all, he could not take care of himself, like he said he could. His aunt Clara took care of him as a child before she died, then George took care of Lennie from there. Lennie doesn’t mean to do anything bad, it is all