Justified Killings In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

The leader of the workers, Curley, wanted to make Lennie pay for killing his wife. Curley decreed that if Lennie was found to shoot him in the stomach and let his guts spill out. This would make his death long and painful. George couldn’t bear to watch Lennie being tortured by the workers like this so he pulled out Carlson’s Luger and placed a bullet into his head, ending his life in the quickest way possible. All in all, George’s decision to kill Lennie was justified by the fact that George was Lennie’s keeper, there was no possible way to save Lennie, and he didn’t want Lennie’s death to be slow and

One reason why this was a justified decision is that George only wanted the best for his best friend. Another reason is the ranchers would’ve killed him no matter what so this way George ensured it was fast and painless. On the other hand, this was condemned because George had been saying how his life would be so much better without Lennie and this allowed him to be able to live that life. George's decision to kill Lennie was justified because Lennie was going to be killed no matter what. After all of the ranchers find out that Lennie killed Curley’s wife, Curley states that he is going to kill Lennie, "I'm gonna get him.

Was George justified in killing Lennie my personal opinion is gorge was wrong and it wasn't right for him to kill him or so called euthanasia lennie was his best friend who hes lived with thru thick and thin thru the rough times and the good times and they weren't just friends but one almost completed the other to where they were whole they were to me almost life partners in a weird kind of way Some causes of why George killing Lennie could be considered wright are due to lennie strangling curley's wife he was already going to jail any way therefore he wasn't going to be free anymore anyway also he hurt everything he touched for example the puppy that Carlson gave him he choked it to tight curley's hand he squeezed it so tight it almost killed

Friendship, for example, goes against altruistic ideals. On page 30 of Anthem, Equality 7-2521 said, “International 4-8818 and [I] are friends. This is an evil thing to say, for it is a transgression, the great Transgression of Preference, to love any among men better than the others, since we must love all men and all men are our friends.” Friendship means that you are fond of some people more than others. This would make it extremely difficult to make selfless choices. Imagine a man faced with the choice of killing five strangers or killing his best friend.

On page 102 it says, “ Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering.” This proves that George killed Lennie for a good reason because he had a painless death. Next, it was good that George killed Lennie because now Lennie can’t make anymore mistakes. “ Go on, George. When we gonna do it? Gonna do it soon.

George knows his life would be a lot easier without Lennie. Lennie gets George into many situations because he does not know his own strength. Lennie means no harm, he is a nice, sweet person, he is just like a little kid. One situation Lennie gets himself into is killing Curley’s wife, Curley gets very mad at Lennie for this and wants to kill him

Last time I checked I am guilty of no crime. Othello killed Desdemona then killed himself, and Roderigo was killed by Cassio, I did not lay a finger on anyone. Never mind the pesky details of that “tragic” story, let get into the interesting material. Oh, and one more thing if you have read Othello, there is one thing you should know about me, is that, I am 100% honest. Ok, let’s begin!

Lennie ends up crushing his hand, which makes Curley hate him even more. It just adds to the flames when Curley finds his wife dead in the barn. George did Lennie a favor by giving him a merciful death before Curley killed him in cold

They share a good dream. They love one another” (Scarseth 3). George killed Lennie out of love because he knew Lennie would suffer if he lived longer. Even though the action was bad, George decided it was best to kill Lennie to protect him. He knew that if Lennie was still alive, he would suffer greatly for two reasons: Curley wanted to avenge his wife and eventually Lennie would be sent to jail.

This happened because the men they killed just killed their brother. These two examples connect and are similar because both of these texts portray soldiers to having a loss of innocence. These main similarity of these two texts is all the characters lost their innocence by killing one or men. The directors, Rise Against and Roland Emmerich, both want their audience to know that losing your innocence has a metal effect on you. One effect shown in the movie ‘The Patriot’ is having guilt.

She was jailbait, knew it the first time I saw her. Lennie never meant to hurt anyone”, George said breaking into a sob towards the end. “Hey its your guy’s fault she thought she was able to talk to men alone!”, Curley yelled George was shoved back by Curley and tripped on the flooring and squirmed backwards on the floor, Curley was advancing slowly towards him like a hunter when the prey can’t win. Carlson stepped in front of Curley in hopes of stopping him, but he was pushed back towards the table. George got to his feet and readied himself for a fight.

Would you kill your best friend? Many people have mixed emotions about what the outcome of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck could’ve or should’ve been, here are some main things that happened in the story. Lennie has a mental disability so he can’t think for himself, he snapped Curly’s Wife’s neck and ran away into the bushes where he was told by George to go if he got in trouble. Curly would’ve tortured and killed Lennie anyways. Yes, killing Lennie was George’s best option.