2018 OMAM blog (C period)

In the end of part 6 George makes a huge decision and kills Lennie! George and Lennie's relationship was very tight through out the book. You could clearly see that George was the leader of the pack. He definitely made all the decisions for Lennie. Lennie was a very nice person but could not make logical decisions for himself. Lennie loved to touch and pet anything that was soft. When he decided to touch Curley's wife's hair he got a little too aggressive and couldn't let go. Curley's wife yelled "'Let Go...'" (91). She started to scream which startled Lennie and caused him to break her neck. Lennie was not sure what to do and ran down to the bushes like George had told him. Lennie was so scared and waited for George to find him. After awhile George came back and, "He pulled the trigger" (106). I was shocked! This reminded me of the time that Candy had to shoot his dog that he loved so much. When George shot Lennie it was to keep him out ...

In Part 5 Lennie kills Curley's wife. Shocking as it is, it didn't surprise me. When Lennie accidentally killed the dog, he gets mad at the dog first. A common thing most children will do is blame anyone BUT themselves. Soon after that Curley's wife entered the barn and started talking to Lennie. She tells him to "'feel [her hair] right aroun' there an' see how soft it is'" (90). Just like the incident in weed Lennie doesn't want to let go of the soft hair. When Curley's wife starts screaming, Lennie covers her mouth in order to keep him out of trouble. In result of Lennie covering her mouth he snaps her neck. He doesn't realize what he has done until it is too late. Lennie runs away from fear of resentment or punishment (like any other child). Personally, I think that Lennie was only trying to keep himself out of trouble and thanks to his child like behavior he just created more than there was to begin with. Do you agree?

Why was Lennie's imagination so vivid in the last chapter? When Lennie had escaped from the farm after he killed Curly's wife, Lennie started to imagine George and his dream. Lennie was thinking of there dream so much he pretended it was real. I think Lennie was actually hallucinating from when he killed Curly's wife. Lennie was running to the safe spot George told him about. I think Lennie had so much guilt for what he did that he just started hallucinating. Lennie was thinking about the mice George promised him and the mice were talking. Lennie was also "talking" to George like he was there next to him but in reality he was not. Lennie then saw "from out of [his] head there came a little fat old womam". Lennie was all over the place after he killed Curly's wife. I think as a result lennie started to hallucinate to a time in his life he would like to be. What mental state do you think lennie was in?

Why did George kill Lennie? In part six, something totally deplorable happened.  GEORGE KILLED LENNIE!  When I first read that part I couldn't make my brain to understand what had just happened.  I re-read that part easily 5 times.  It happened so fast!  After Lennie accidentally killed Curley's wife, I didn't think it could get any worse!  But it did. My first opinion on the matter is that George knew the guys were coming after Lennie to "shoot him in the guts" so maybe George wanted Lennie to not get hurt so badly.  Maybe George wanted Lennie to go to heaven so Lennie could get the "fatta lan" that's waiting up there for him.  George's last line to Lennie is, "'Sure, right now.  I gotta.  We gotta"'(106).  I think that George couldn't bear the thought of one of the other guys killing Lennie, so he killed Lennie himself.  Lennie is portrayed as a very innocent characters throughout the book, and so when he got killed it ...

While I was reading the last part of OMAM it came to me that it was very similar as the third section. The biggest similarity to be was the mercy killing. In part six George put the gun, "Lennie's head, at the place where the spine and skull were joined" (105). Slim said he would do the same thing when killing Candy's dog. In my opinion part three foreshadowed part six BIG time. Candy and his dog were very close like George and Lennie. Lennie reminded me of a puppy, he followed ever direction given to him and was very gullible. While Candy didn't kill his dog, and his dog wasn't a puppy I still felt it was very foreshadowed. While I may have not seen the foreshadowing while I was reading it all made sense to me at the end. What do you think. Do you think it was foreshadowed?

In part 5 in of Mice and Men, Lennie kills Curley's wife, on accident. Then, in part 6 in  of Mice and Men,  George finds Lennie hiding in their safe spot by a river. George talks Lennie as if he didn't care that Lennie killed someone and that it was no problem. However, after that George "[steadied the gun] to the back of Lennie's head" (106) and shot him dead. I think George cared about Lennie but knew his "mental" condition was unfixable which is why George was nice to Lennie before he shot him so Lennie didn't grab on to him or attack him. Also, I think that George wanted to live his own life without having to look after and care for Lennie.

In Of Mice and Men, George kills his best friend Lennie. George didn't want to harm Lennie, for he was his more then a friend, he was family. But George had to or else Lennie would have a slow miserable death. Lennie loved soft things, while he was feeling Curley's wife's hair he accidentally broke her neck. He didn't know his own strength. Curley was enraged because he loved his wife so he said "'I'm gonna get him... I'll kill that son-of-a-b- myself. I'll shoot 'im in the guts'"(96). George didn't want his only family to suffer so he decided to put him out of his misery. Lennie died dreaming of what he wanted most. What would you do if your best friend (practically family) was going to suffer? Would you put them out of their misery?