Why Does George And Lennie Survive Or Escape

Would you kill someone or let them suffer? Well in Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, during the Great Depression, George had to make a choice on whether he would allow his friend Lennie to suffer or kill him so he wouldn’t suffer. George and Lennie have been friends since they were kids. They even travel together, but in this time period this was strange because most people travel alone. George takes care of Lennie because Lennie has a disability. Lennie can’t remember anything, and when Lennie’s scared he holds onto things and doesn't let go. Lennie also likes to pet soft things for example a mouse, but if the mouse tries to bite him he will kill the mouse. George helps Lennie out of trouble. For instance when Lennie killed Curley’s wife and Curley wanted revenge, George had to decide if wanted Lennie to suffer or a quick fast death. Without a doubt, killing Lennie is the best option George has.

The main thing that stood out to me was how smart George was when he decided to take Lennie in. First off, Lennie needed the help, Lennie wouldn’t have been able to handle life in general without that adult or big brother figure which George took the role of. George took care of Lennie and in turn, even without specifically trying to, Lennie helped George stay on track to reach their goal where most men during that time would have fallen to alcohol and other time wasting, money sucking, life ruining expenses. This topic also goes with my quote that goes, “An’ I got you. We got each other, that’s what, that gives a hoot in hell about us.” It shows how working together allowed them a better opportunity. It shows how they were happier and

Imagine you are a psychiatrist and one of your patients, says she wants to be euthanized because she is sick of having to suffer through her disorder. What would you do? In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two men, George and Lennie, go to California during the depression to find jobs. They traveled to a ranch that they were hired to buck barley at. By the end of the book, Lennie accidentally killed Curley’s wife because he has no control over his strength.

What if a man walked outside and walked to a friends house. Now once he got to this house, he learned that this friend accidentally harmed someone because he doesn’t have mental control over his strength. So this man kills his friend. This is what happens at the end of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.

“Everything you say and do is having an impact on others” (Barry Manilow Quotes). George has been impacting Lennie’s life ever since they were young, and he bossed him around. George tells Lennie what to do before they left to go to work at the ranch to make sure Lennie doesn’t do anything that could ruin their chances of achieving their dream, which later they added Candy to their group to get more money and help to make it happen. In the end, Lennie killed Curley’s wife, so George had to kill him to prevent him from suffering and because he believed that their dream was never going to happen due to the accident. George’s dream of being his own boss with his own farm impacts Lennie, Candy, and Curley’s wife both positively and negatively by

When performing a mercy killing “no one suggests using a gun,” but George does when he kills Lennie (Lynch). In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George, small and smart, and Lennie, big and strong, are migrant workers during the Great Depression and are also best friends. Lennie is mentally challenged and acts like a kid, so George has to be like a parent to him. At one of their jobs, Lennie gets into an altercation with a woman. He accidentally snaps her neck because he gets so scared and does not know his own strength.

George and Lennie are the main characters in the novel which made every decision they made affect other characters in the novel. George had made many decisions in the novel and most of his decisions had affected other characters in a positive way, meanwhile Lennies decisions affected other characters in a negative way. Lennie did not have many decisions in the novel, but when he made a decision George was held responsible. Lennie made many wrong decisions because he was not smart and this is why George had to babysit Lennie at all time.

George and Lennie had to go into hiding because they were wanted in weed. In the novel Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck is about George and Lennie going through obstacles to live the American dream which is owning a ranch. A major theme in the novel discusses how loneliness can make people take their anger out on others because of how emotionally hurt they are from being lonely for a long period of time. Steinbeck is foreshadowing and using symbolism to express the theme by creating suspense and emotional connections with the characters and their dreams.

Everyone has dreams, big and small. When one dreams, there is a scent of whimsical hope in the air mixed with the powerful drive for success to obtain their luminous goals. But, many times these luscious dreams end up in grief and pain instead of a promised joy due to the hurdles in life, such as the certain circumstances that society professes or the flaws in a person that restrains them from their aspirations. The writer, John Steinbeck, incorporates this ideology in his novella, Of Mice and Men by creating three pivotal characters. Lennie, Crooks, and George all have schemes that go wrong, and yet hope to illustrate their desires of fulfilling their American Dream and to be prosperous for their own independent purposes.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about two men, George and Lennie who travel from ranch to ranch hoping to make enough money to buy their own land. Buying the land is what George and Lennie talk about constantly, this is in fact their American Dream. They have recently left a town called Weed because of an incident that happened there and are now heading to Soledad to work on another ranch. John Steinbeck was successful in making Lennie a sympathetic character because he portrays Lennie as a big strong muscular man that has basically no brain, so he doesn’t really know his own strength so when he hurts someone or does something bad you can’t really blame him.

The most important dream in this novel is that of the two main characters Lennie and George. They

From a young age each person has been conditioned to have goals and a plan for where their life is headed. The purpose of this is to be successful in one’s lifetime. However man’s plans often go awry. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck proves that dreams and goals are pointless and having them leads to false hope, hindering one’s ability to focus on their current situation. Throughout the book there are many instances of characters’ dreams and desires being presented and never being fulfilled. One example that is ongoing in the story is Lennie’s wish to take care of some rabbits, “‘I remembered about the rabbits, George.’ ‘The hell with the rabbits. That’s all you can remember is them rabbits” (Steinbeck 5). Steinbeck reveals that Lennie’s only true interest is taking care of rabbits because that is all he can remember and wants to talk about. But he never gets to take care of rabbits since George kills him, “Lennie begged, ‘Le’s do it now. Le’s get that place now.’ ‘Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta.’ And George raised the gun and steadied it. . . He pulled the trigger” (Steinbeck 106). Lennie’s dream ties into the larger dream that George, Lennie and later, Candy have to own an area of land and no longer being migrant workers. Earlier in the book, they feel their plan setting into place, “They all sat still, all bemused by the beauty of the thing, each mind was popped into the future when this lovely thing should come about” (Steinbeck 61). However, they don’t heed

John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men is set in the Salinas Valley during the Great Depression ("Of Mice and Men”). In Of Mice and Men each character has an American Dream that they wish to achieve. Lennie’s dream was to live on a little piece of land with George, “live off the fat of the land”, and have rabbits to feed and care for, but this dream is doomed by his mental handicap, lack of self control which causes problems, and lack of money.

In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Lennie and George have both similarities and differences that are revealed throughout the storyline. These comparisons and contrasts are used to explain their unique friendship and dependency on one another. The story begins with the description of their physical and intellectual differences and establishes their roles of who is the dominant one. The story shares the obstacles that have stood in the way of them obtaining their “American Dream” to own land, even if they if they have different motivations. The story concludes with the difficult choice that George makes to end Lennie’s life himself, out of his love for his friend.

In John Steinbeck's novel “Of Mice and Men,” made into an enduringly popular movie, the lines about the rabbits have became emblems for the whole relationship between George and Lennie -- the quiet-spoken farm laborer and the sweet, retarded cousin he has taken under his arm. I would not have thought I could believe the line about the rabbits one more time, but this movie made me do it, as Lennie asks about the farm they'll own one day, and George says, yes, it will be just as they've imagined it.