Was George Justified In Of Mice And Men

George’s choices regarding the Lennie murder were limited, and he had decided to do what he had thought was in the best interest of Lennie and the public. Vigilantly, George provided peace to Lennie, and provided vengeance to lives lost at the hand of Lennie’s actions and behavior. In the end, George’s decision would be found justified in the court of law. The judge would rule in the favor of the defendant, and find George Milton not guilty of

George's justification for shooting Lennie is to keep him from experiencing the pain that will follow the consequences of his actions. Lennie will be lynched, probably beaten and then killed when he is caught. George also knows that even if they were to escape, it would be just a matter of time before Lennie had another "accident" and killed someone else. He knows he can't protect him from society, as he also can't protect society from Lennie. From George's perspective, killing Lennie before he is caught is the only kind thing to do. It is a quick end--he even protects Lennie from seeing it coming. From George's perspective, it is an act of love. As to whether it is justifiable or not, that is difficult to say. From one perspective, killing

George’s execution of Lennie was justified. This is because Lennie is not only causing harm to himself, but now causing harm to things around him, and there were no other alternatives to this decision. Lennie does things he doesn’t realize are wrong until after he does them which in the end hurts him and people around him, and no other alternatives to his behavior seem to be working.

“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.” (Steinbeck pg 61) Steinbeck included this quote to foreshadow that George was going to shoot Lennie. It also helps justifies his reasoning for shooting him because George was not going to let a stranger kill Lennie. Lennie was a strong and useful man when it came to work, but he had the mind of a child. He could not survive without George because he did not understand what was to far and, was always getting into trouble without even knowing it. Near the end of the book, Lennie, in bewilderment, accidently killed Mr. Curley’s wife. After that incident, George knew that if he did not kill Lennie then he would suffer. So, even though some say George did not make the right decision by killing Lennie, it was the better option because prison life would

In the first place, if George hadn’t of shot Lennie, the other men on the ranch would’ve killed him anyway. “I’ll shoot ‘im in the guts.” Curley said about Lennie (Steinbeck 96). This quote proves that Curley was planning on killing Lennie himself. The men also seen Lennie as more of a threat because he had Carlson’s gun. “Don’t shoot ‘im?” Curley cried. “He got Carlson’s Luger.

In the book of Mice and Men, George was justified to shoot Lennie because Lennie is destructive and unstable.

The first way I am going to argue how George isn't justified in shooting Lennie is Religion . In the Bible of Christians , it says that ''You should not kill or harm anyone in any way'' . Lennie has touched someone and they felt like they was being raped , and he killed curley's wife even though it was on a accident it is still counted as a sin . George killed Lennie through kindness because curly and the other men was going to kill him . George didn't really plan on doing it but he did kill Lennie and that is counted as murder . Some people would highly say that George isn't justified in killing

To begin, George is justified in killing Lennie because Lennie’s mistakes are repetitive and get progressively worse throughout the story, putting everyone around him at risk. Unquestionably, Lennie’s limited mental capacity leads him to regularly make mistakes, which ultimately cause George to snap out of

George made the right decision by killing Lennie. I believe this because if George didn’t kill Lennie then someone else would have. George didn’t want someone else to kill Lennie. This is because, it was more sentimental to George to kill Lennie rather than some stranger to kill him. For example, when Candy’s dog got shot, Candy wished he, himself, had killed him rather than some stranger. George

One reason that justified George’s decision in killing Lennie was the fact that he murdered Curley’s wife. In the novella, it says, “And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck,” (Steinbeck 91). Curley’s wife let Lennie feel her hair, he likes to feel things, Lennie’s

George di the right thing when he shot Lennie instead of letting Curley get ahold of him. In Of Mice and Men the character Slim said, “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda” (Steinbeck, 107). Slim was the wisest and most respected of the men agreed that George did the right thing. “Curley gont’a want to get him lynched. Curley’ll get him killed”(Steinbeck,94). If George didn't kill Lennie when he was afraid and not happy and also probably in a painful way.

Lennie was always getting into trouble and since George can never get Lennie out of trouble, Lennie would always end up in jail where he wouldn’t survive no matter what, so to prevent Lennie from getting into trouble with the cops or Curley and the guys, he had to do the right thing. Lennie killed Curley’s wife and even though it was mainly her fault for going in there flirting with him he still should of stopped petting her hair when she told him. Who would know what Lennie would of done next. George should not be punished for something that could of saved some

The killing of Lennie, by george, was the right thing to do. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George kills Lennie. He does this because Lennie killed Curley’s wife, and George knew that he would kill Lennie slowly and painfully, so George decided to get it over with quickly and painlessly. After Lennie kills Curley’s wife, he runs away. George knew that Curley was going to want revenge on Lennie. George says to Candy, “Maybe they won’t hurt ‘im… I ain’t gonna let ‘em hurt

If George hadn’t killed Lennie himself, the other guys would have most likely had been more brutal towards Lennie. George keeps Lennie from suffering. In Steinbeck’s book, Curley says, “I’m gonna get him. I’m going for my shotgun. I’ll kill the son-of-a-b****

Some people may argue that George had other options than killing Lennie. Lennie is in this situation because he killed Curley’s wife.