sloping shoulders‚ and mental disability. Lennie is also very strong and can’t control his strength. His friend‚ George‚ small and quick is responsible for taking care of him. They have been best friends for a long time. George killed Lennie as an act of kindness because George saves lives by killing Lennie and if he didn’t die‚ Lennie would be tortured by Curley‚ the boss’s son. George needed to prevent Lennie from killing more innocent lives. “He shook her then‚ and he was angry with her. ‘‘‘Don’t
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Depression. Throughout the film Of Mice and Men‚ the relationship between George and Lennie is similar to John Steinbeck’s novel. However‚ the film is different because Curley’s wife is amused by Lennie’s stupidity‚ Lennie’s hallucination‚ and George does not hesitate to shoot Lennie. In the novel Curley’s wife talks to Lennie in the barn. While they are talking‚ she says “Lennie your crazy.” No one likes Curley’s wife‚ except for Lennie. George told Lennie not to talk Curley’s wife because it will
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Of Mice and Men is the story of two strong companions: semi-retarded Lennie and his friend and carer George. Set against the backdrop of depression-era California‚ this is a story of friendship and loneliness‚ compassion and cruelty‚ dreams and the harsh reality of life and death. The novel culminates in the death of Lennie‚ which has relevance to the themes present in the book: death‚ weakness‚ loneliness and hopeless dreams. During the story‚ Lennie is surrounded by death. However‚ in his
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no idea what action he is doing when he does this‚ he can hardly control his own body movements. George and the gang had no right to kill Lennie‚ especially committed under the circumstances.
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and strength into a relationship in all cases is being put into a light of making choices. This means you have to make the decision between Loyalty and "Friends"‚ which also can be described as people that are together but basically are lonely for themselves and that decision-making is important. If you watch the whole novel as a representative book of American Culture‚ you strongly can see that basically every person is afraid of going in depth. How did Curly react on Lennie’s act of killing his
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Crooks starts by planting doubts into Lennie’s mind. As his torment continues‚ Lennie begins to grow dubious of his own certainty. Crooks taunts him with the possibility that George may end up hurt or never coming back much to Lennie’s defiance. ‘ “He won’t do it‚” Lennie cried.’ By using the term ‘cried’‚ it enhances Lennie’s feeling of defiance and almost hints at desperation thus creating a sense of both empathy and pity for him. Lennie’s defiance then turns into doubt as Crooks’ words
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faced by both George and Lennie in “of Mice and Men” and the persona of “I was only 19” In “of Mice and Men” Curley is a huge obstacle for Lennie as he doesn’t like little big buys and likes to pick fights with them. Dialogue and colloquial language show that Curley doesn’t like Lennie‚ which is shown when Candy is talking to George and says; “Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he’s mad at ‘em because he ain’t a big guy”. George is also faced
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introduces us to two companions‚ George Milton and Lennie Small. George Milton is a farmworker who is "small and quick‚ dark of face‚ with restless eyes and sharp‚ strong features … [with] small‚ strong hands‚ slender arms‚ and thin and bony nose" (Steinbeck 1). And Lennie Small well Lennie is a strong child like character‚ Lennie has the looks of a man but the mentality of a child. Throughout the novella George treats Lennie nicely and lovingly. This is only because George is a good friend to Lennie.
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In the book “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. George travels everywhere with Lennie. After aunt Clara asked George to take care of him. George is small but an intelligent men and Lennie is a guy with a tremendous size but a mind of a young child. George and Lennie get a job at a ranch‚ their goal is to earn enough money to buy their own ranch and have many rabbits but not everything comes out as they had imagined it. After they got the job in the ranch where they met with Curly‚ a small and annoying
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you go to take care of your best friend? What exactly would you call a true friendship? George and Lennie had a true friendship in the book Of Mice and Men wrote by John Steinbeck. What length would you go to for someone and what would it take? George and Lennie would be considered true friends. George went over extreme lengths to take care of Lennie and always have his back no matter what the situation was. George always gets Lennie out of terrible situations and always has his back to take the blame
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