FEBRUARY 23-27
Monday, 2/23
BLOG ASSIGNMENT: Due Wednesday, 2/25
Reflect on Lennie’s death. Was George’s killing of Lennie justified? Substantiate your answer using evidence from the novel. *All responses should be unique and written in the proper conventions of English. Minimum 200 words.
Reflect on Lennie’s death. Was George’s killing of Lennie justified? Substantiate your answer using evidence from the novel. *All responses should be unique and written in the proper conventions of English. Minimum 200 words.
Wednesday, 2/25
Unit Examination
Thursday, 2/26 - Friday, 2/27
Test-Debate!
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At the end of the novella Of Mice and Men, George shoots his best friend Lennie. In my opinion, George did the right thing. If George did not shoot Lennie, Curley would have made Lennie suffer, then kill him. Or Lennie and George would have to run away, but Lennie cant help getting into trouble everywhere he goes. When George shot Lennie, he made sure Lennie did not feel any pain and George made Lennie picture their dream house and he told Lennie that he can tend the rabbits, so Lennie died abruptly, but felt no pain and died in a happy place. This incident, reminded me when Carlson shot Candy's old dog. The old dog could not help being a pain to the other farmers,Candy also turned to Slim for the final decision and Slim said it was time to put the dog out of its misery. The dog was shot in a certain point on the back of the head so the dog would not feel any pain. I think the George might have turned to Slim for the final decision about Lennie because these two events are similar and Slim was near by when George shot Lennie. In the end, i believe that George made the right choice about shooting Lennie. He made sure that Lennie died in a happy and peaceful place where he was shot and in Lennie's mind. In my opinion, it was the only way Lennie could be free from suffering and hurting other people and himself.
In my opinion Lennie’s death was justified. I think they best way Lennie could die in this situation was by George killing him and leaving him with happy thoughts about bunnies and the American Dream. Also reflecting back to when Carlson shot Candy’s dog, after Candy, Slim, and George heard the shot, Candy was talking about how he regretted not shooting the dog himself. “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to let no stranger shoot my dog.” (page 61). With that in mind I think George made the right choice to shoot Lennie himself. Lennie died in the in a peaceful way. The other way he could have died was by Curley and the mob after him. Curley would have probably beaten him up, made him feel bad and he wouldn’t shoot him where it would be quick and painless. This is the exact opposite of what George did. People may think that he could have just told Lennie to run away but than he would be all alone and would probably die alone.
In the end of the book Mice and Men George killed Lennie. I believe that George’s action was necessary because Curley would have done much worse to Lennie. He probably would have beat him up badly and then killed him. Lennie would have known it was coming and he would have been very scared. George made it so Lennie went very peacefully, he made him think of their dream, and how he could tend the rabbits and not have a worry in the world. I also agree with Jessica, George was very sage in killing Lennie himself. I believe that he would have regretted not killing him if someone else did just like Candy regrets not killing his dog. “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to let no stranger shoot my dog.” The way Candy's dog was shot(back of the head) foreshadows how Lennie was shot later in the novel. I thought this was interesting how Steinbeck put so mcuh detail into the dog dieing, left us hanging and then just hits us with that in the end.
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At the end of the novella "Of Mice and Men" one of the main characters George tells his dearest friend Lenny to look at the pond infront of them and to think about their dream, while Lenny is thinking George draws a gun from his jacket and shoots Lenny in the back of the head. In my opinion George's killing of Lenny is neccesary because if George had not killed Lenny then Curley would have made Lenny's death excrutiatingly painful. Since George his friend killed him he made it painless so Lenny was not scared and he didn't feel anything."You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else. "When they can me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs." Chapter 3, pg 60. If George hadn't shot him, then Lenny would have ended up alone and possibly still harming people.
Lennie was a strong man who is mentally contort. At times Lennie is bemused and doesn't know what to do. After Lennie kills Curley's wife by accident, George wants to protect Lennie and says that he is not going to let any one harm his best friend. George wanted to do what would be best for Lennie and he thought that killing him and no one else harming him would be ideal for this situation. He didn't want him to be locked up, tortured and most likely killed by Curley. When Lennie knows his time is up, he starts to hallucinate about the farm and the theme of the American dream recurs again. Lennie is in a state of panic because he knows that what he did was wrong. George explains that his dream is going to occur soon. "Ever'body gonna be nice to you. Ain't gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nor steal from 'em (106)". George tried to make it seem like Lennie will be in the perfect world and that George is going to meet him there. George started to hear voices and then puts Lennie out of his misery. George wanted nothing but the best for Lennie and that is why I feel that George was the right person to kill Lennie.
“George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie's head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hands steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering.” In the novel Mice and Men by, John Steinbeck George is faced with a very hard decision. He either has to shoot his best friend Lennie himself or watch him suffer while being beaten and most likely killed by other men. I think George's decision in killing Lennie himself was a sage choice. George knew that if he let Curley and the other men kill Lennie, he would have to suffer. Maybe they would not shoot him, but they would beat him badly enough so he would have died a slow and painful death. The way George killed Lennie by telling him to turn around and think of a happy place was the only way he could have done it. The last thing George wanted to do was kill his best friend, but in a way he had to. He knew that if they ran away and left the ranch, the same kind of incident would happen. Lennie would keep getting into trouble and end up hurting more people than just Curley's wife. Lennie was able to die peacefully. He was with his friend, dreaming about his future.
As you know, at the end of, Of Mice and Men, George feels that it is best for him to kill Lennie by shooting him in the back of the head, Quick and painless. I see why George does this. He didn't want his best friend to suffer a long painful death by the lynch mob. But i also think maybe he should have thought it through a little more before he took his friends life. He could have tried his best to talk to the angry people. (this probably wouldn't have worked) George and Lennie even could have ran away like they did from Weed, but George said he was tired of running. In the end I think that George's decision was justified because he told Lennie to think about Rabbits and his Aunt who took care of him as a kid and their dream. This way I think that Lennie at died happy.
Oh yeah, also when Candy tells George that he regrets not killing his dog himself I think that that makes George realize that if Lennie is going to die that it should be by him because he is someone who loves and cares for him. George would have regretted not doing it later on in his life.
At the end of the book Of Mice and Men George kills his best friend Lennie. In my opinion George did the right thing because if Lennie was caught he would have been killed or put in jail and George probably thought they couldn’t get out of this. If they killed him it would be a painful way. Curley would probably beat him to death. George new that Lennie wouldn’t last in jail because he would be isolated from society and couldn’t touch soft things or see George. It was better that he did it because he told George to think of the farm and turn around. When he was thinking of the farm George shoot him right in the back of the head (he didn’t feel anything). Lennie’s last thoughts were happy and wasn’t like candy’s dog who was killed by a stranger. Candy told George how he should of shoot his dog himself. “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to let no stranger shoot my dog.” (page 61) this shows that George probably thought of what candy had said and decided that it would be better for Lennie to have been killed by a friend with the last thought happy then to be killed by curly.
At the end of the novella Of Mice and Men, George shoots Lennie because Lennie kills Curly's wife. I think that George's killing of Lennie was justified because he did the right thing out of the 2 or so different outcomes of Lennie's actions. Lennie was to either suffer from Curly's wrath or possibly run away, but even if he run away he would still do harm to others. So George set a mood for Lennie. A type of mood that you want to have all the time a happy, exciting type of mood. George told Lennie about their dream and to picture the dream house that they've always wanted. He also told Lennie that he could tend the rabbits which makes Lennie very happy. George says all those things before he pulls the trigger and ends Lennie's adventurous life. This part of the novella is similar to the shooting of Candy's dog. Candy's dog was sick and in much pain. So Candy seeks advice from slim who tells him that he should put his dog out of its misery. So Carlson pulls out his Luger (same gun used on Lennie) and shoots Candy's dog in a certain part of the back of the head where the skull met the spin. He shot him there so he would feel no pain and die instantly to release the pain that he was feeling. George did the right thing.
Lennie’s death was very tragic, but expected. Many post events foreshadowed Lennie’s death. For example, Lennie was a nuisance throughout the book. We find in the very beginning the Lennie got himself in trouble in Weed because a woman claimed Lennie had raped her. Though this was untrue he still caused her to say it. This would not have been mentioned in the book if it was not important for later events. Another illustration of foreshadowing was when Carlson shot Candy’s dog. Candy loved his dog very much but Carlson encouraged him to put it out of its misery. This is important because George killed Lennie, and in the same manner as well, in the back of the head with a pistol, unexpectedly. Lennie had killed Curley’s wife after killing a puppy. Lennie did not mean to kill either. Lennie remembered the area we were displayed early in the novel that George said he must go back to if anything went wrong. When all the men found the body they traveled in search of Lennie to imprison him, kill him, hang him or a series of other possible horrible things. George wanted to do all he could to make things easiest for Lennie and that’s why he killed him, therefore I believe that George’s killing of Lennie was justified. Lennie was becoming a great threat, to both George’s future and the lives of other people. George wanted to find the best way possible to rid of Lennie, and he had to be the one to finish him, before anybody else got there and made things much worse.
In my own opinion Lennies death seemed justified in some ways but not all ways. Although Lennie commited murder he still had the right to choose whether he should die or live life in a jail or possibly somewhere else to help him with his problem. It was also unjustified because Lennie was not aware that George was going to kill him so it was in some ways the same thing that Lennie did to Curleys wife except this time it was George killing Lennie. On the other hand it was justified because the odds were that if George did not kill Lennie one of the other men would have. Everyone was looking around for Lennie, and George being his best friend knew where he would be and killed Lennie without him knowing it was happening. Another reason I think it is justified is because George talked to Lennie as if he didnt know what he had done to make lennies last few moments happy for him and for him to see Lennie happy one more time before he had to go.
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