Of Mice And Men Justified

Peggie Ge
Ms. Miani
English 1CP
8 February 2023
The death that was caused by having no choice There are different ways to understand if someone can be justified or not justified. In the Novella called “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, George killed Lennie, the person he was responsible for but for Lennie’s sake. When Lennie was alone by himself in despair for accidentally killing the dog. Curley’s wife had come to talk to him. Which soon led Lennie to kill her by accident. Lennie ran back to his hiding spot since he knew he did something horrible that made Curley infuriated and threatened to do awful things to Lennie. George quickly rushed to Lennie and shot him in the back of his head before anything worse could happen to him. George had

After Lennie had killed Curley’s wife and ran away. George and Candy soon found her dead, Candy had started to talk in sorrow about how he could have tended in their farm now, but now he couldn’t anymore because of what Lennie did. George had later alerted the others of Curley’s wife's death and when Curley found her dead he knew who did it and threatened to shoot Lennie in the guts. George had to quickly find a way for Lennie not to get in trouble.“He worked himself into a fury. “[Curley’s] going to get him. He's going for my shotgun. [Curley will] kill that big son-of-a-b [himself]. [he’ll] shoot ‘i'm in the guts. Come on [...] guys.” He ran furiously out of the barn. Carlson said, “[he’ll] get [his] Luger,” and he ran out too.``When Curley first met Lennie he immediately disliked him because how Lennie was bigger and stronger than Curley. But He was more enraged by the fact that Lennie was the reason that his wife died which caused Him wanting Lennie dead or experienced the worst type of pain. Even though because of his cognitive disability he doesn’t realize the harm that he is causing. Which made George realize there had to be a way to save him before Curley got to him. Candy and George realized what happened to Curley’s wife as they knew right away who killed her. George was trying to reassure himself that Curley and the others wouldn’t give Lennie too harsh of a punishment

After Lennie killed Curley’s wife he ran away to his hiding spot in the bush because he knew he was in trouble. George had later found him in which he held Carlson’s luger. He was aiming the gun to the back of his head trying to reassure and calm Lennie before killing him in the head and getting caught and be brutally killed by Curley. “George raised the gun and his hand shook, and he dropped his hand to the ground again. “Go on,” said Lennie. “How’s it gonna be. [they’re]gonna get a little place.” “[they]’ll have a cow,” said George. “An’ we’ll have maybe a pig an’ chickens . . . . an’ down the flat [they]’ll have a . . . . little piece alfalfa—” “For the rabbits,” Lennie shouted.“For the rabbits,” George repeated. “And I get to tend the rabbits.” “An’ you get to tend the rabbits.” Lennie giggled with happiness. “An’ live on the fatta the lan’.” George was attempting to kill Lennie before anything worse had happened. George was asking Lennie about their farm, knowing that George really wanted to live on a farm and tend to rabbits. George had tried to let Lennie think about something peaceful before he had died with the least amount of pain. George aimed the muzzle of the gun right at the back of his head, ready to shoot since he had heard the footsteps approach quickly. Realizing what might happen next if they found lennie. He told Lennie that it was going to be alright, he was not going to get into any trouble anymore