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Comparing The Death Of Lennie In Of Mice And Men By John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
The Death of Lennie

The death of Lennie was quick and painless for Lennie, how quick and painless was it to the men or even George, his best friend? Should he have killed Lennie to keep him from going to jail or even worse which would have been dealt by Curley? This book was set in the time of the Great Depression. In the Great Depression people didn’t usually care about one another and this is a completely different story.
We found out that George and Lennie are migrant workers. Working for their dream to own a ranch, everybody expected George to be mooching off of Lennie’s earnings. Although Slim understood the love they both had for each other. How much George cared about Lennie and wanted to keep

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