Of Mice and Men: Why George killed Lennie the Explanation
Ian Herren
Mr. Bell
English 1: Hour 4
10\7\13
Did George need to kill Lennie? The Explanation There are some bad things in the world that we have to take action with; like dangerous dogs or bad people. Those things can be taken care of easily by either killing it or holding it in a secluded place. Now back when the story is being told, there weren’t many places to put people in, so they were sometimes executed. George had to do this with Lennie in chapter 6. Yet did he do this on purpose? So George killed Lennie because of him getting in too much trouble and people wanting to hurt him.
Lennie always gets in a lot of trouble in many different ways. In the story, the first thing he gets in trouble for is in Weed. “Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb @#!*% like he is, he wants to touch everything he likes. Just wants to feel it.” (Steinbeck 41). When someone like Lennie gets in trouble, he doesn’t really mean it. He only thinks it is okay but it turns out bad and causes problems. Also he can’t remember his mistakes. “Don’t you go yellin’,” he said, and shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broke her neck”. (Steinbeck 91). Since Lennie doesn’t have a very good memory, he did not remember what happened the last time he shook something. Therefore he got into more trouble than the last time by murdering Curley’s Wife on accident. All the times Lennie got in trouble, he thought it would go nicely, but it became madness and people got mad.
People wanted to hurt Lennie because of what he did. One of these persons would be Curley, and for a good reason. “I know who done it,” Curley cried. “That big son-of-a- @#!*% has done it.” (Steinbeck 96). Since the beginning of the story Curley doesn’t like taller people and that would be one approach. The other would be that Lennie killed his wife, so he wanted to kill him for revenge. But he wasn’t the only one that blamed Lennie for things. “Before George answered,
Mr. Bell
English 1: Hour 4
10\7\13
Did George need to kill Lennie? The Explanation There are some bad things in the world that we have to take action with; like dangerous dogs or bad people. Those things can be taken care of easily by either killing it or holding it in a secluded place. Now back when the story is being told, there weren’t many places to put people in, so they were sometimes executed. George had to do this with Lennie in chapter 6. Yet did he do this on purpose? So George killed Lennie because of him getting in too much trouble and people wanting to hurt him.
Lennie always gets in a lot of trouble in many different ways. In the story, the first thing he gets in trouble for is in Weed. “Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb @#!*% like he is, he wants to touch everything he likes. Just wants to feel it.” (Steinbeck 41). When someone like Lennie gets in trouble, he doesn’t really mean it. He only thinks it is okay but it turns out bad and causes problems. Also he can’t remember his mistakes. “Don’t you go yellin’,” he said, and shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broke her neck”. (Steinbeck 91). Since Lennie doesn’t have a very good memory, he did not remember what happened the last time he shook something. Therefore he got into more trouble than the last time by murdering Curley’s Wife on accident. All the times Lennie got in trouble, he thought it would go nicely, but it became madness and people got mad.
People wanted to hurt Lennie because of what he did. One of these persons would be Curley, and for a good reason. “I know who done it,” Curley cried. “That big son-of-a- @#!*% has done it.” (Steinbeck 96). Since the beginning of the story Curley doesn’t like taller people and that would be one approach. The other would be that Lennie killed his wife, so he wanted to kill him for revenge. But he wasn’t the only one that blamed Lennie for things. “Before George answered,