Of Mice and Men
In Of mice and men George and Lennie are introduced as two men who travel together. To sum the story up, George (the brains) and Lennie (the bronze) started traveling together when
Lennie's aunt Clara died. After running away from weed George and Lennie found a new job on a ranch in Soledad, California. They met Candy, Curley, Slim, and alot of other people. Lennie got a puppy from slim, Curley picked a fight with lennie and got his hand crushed, Lennie killed his puppy and Curley's wife on accident, and George told Lennie about the dream ranch one last time then killed him. Three of the reasons for why George killed Lennie are that Lennie would have died no matter what if Curley ended up finding him, George wanted Lennie to …show more content…
The first reason why George killed Lennie was that Lennie would have died no matter what if Curley ended up finding him. Curley was still angry about what Lennie did to his hand, and Curley wanted to kill Lennie, bad. Page 93 said, “Curley’s face reddened. “I’m goin’,” he said. “I’m gonna shoot the guts outta that big bastard myself, even if I only got one hand. I’m gonna get ‘im.” since Curley wanted to get revenge on lennie for busting his hand, once his wife died because of Lennie, he had two reasons to get revenge on lennie, and there was no stopping him in his revenge, unless George got to lennie first.
The second reason was that George wanted lennie to die a happy death. It may be hard to imagine a happy death because death isn’t something considered good to alot of people, but
Lennie died seeing and thinking of his happy place, the dream ranch. Throughout the book, Of
Mice and Men, Lennie continually asked for George to tell him about the dream ranch that they had created in their heads, and every time George would tell Lennie about it, Lennie would always seem so happy. “Lennie pleaded, “Come on, George. Tell me. Please, George. Like
In Of mice and men George and Lennie are introduced as two men who travel together. To sum the story up, George (the brains) and Lennie (the bronze) started traveling together when
Lennie's aunt Clara died. After running away from weed George and Lennie found a new job on a ranch in Soledad, California. They met Candy, Curley, Slim, and alot of other people. Lennie got a puppy from slim, Curley picked a fight with lennie and got his hand crushed, Lennie killed his puppy and Curley's wife on accident, and George told Lennie about the dream ranch one last time then killed him. Three of the reasons for why George killed Lennie are that Lennie would have died no matter what if Curley ended up finding him, George wanted Lennie to …show more content…
The first reason why George killed Lennie was that Lennie would have died no matter what if Curley ended up finding him. Curley was still angry about what Lennie did to his hand, and Curley wanted to kill Lennie, bad. Page 93 said, “Curley’s face reddened. “I’m goin’,” he said. “I’m gonna shoot the guts outta that big bastard myself, even if I only got one hand. I’m gonna get ‘im.” since Curley wanted to get revenge on lennie for busting his hand, once his wife died because of Lennie, he had two reasons to get revenge on lennie, and there was no stopping him in his revenge, unless George got to lennie first.
The second reason was that George wanted lennie to die a happy death. It may be hard to imagine a happy death because death isn’t something considered good to alot of people, but
Lennie died seeing and thinking of his happy place, the dream ranch. Throughout the book, Of
Mice and Men, Lennie continually asked for George to tell him about the dream ranch that they had created in their heads, and every time George would tell Lennie about it, Lennie would always seem so happy. “Lennie pleaded, “Come on, George. Tell me. Please, George. Like