Of Mice and Men by John Steinback (Novel; Tragedy) In your opinion was it right or wrong for george to kill Lennie? ( a lot of foreshadowing examples!! )
Date Submitted: 05/23/2002 21:51:26
I think George was right to have killed Lennie. It was better that Lennie died talking to George about his dream of the land, the only thing he really wanted, rather than the other men from the ranch yelling at him for killing Curly's wife. There were many examples of foreshadowing in this novel. They already had to run away from Weed because of Lennie messing up, not on purpose, but because he could not
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that were wrong. George did the best he could to shelter Lennie from everything that was bad for him, and he just couldn't do it any longer. At the end of the story George finally realized that the dream of their future is not going to be like they wanted it to, and he can no longer maintain the belief that it will. By shooting Lennie, George accepts it and puts the dream to rest.
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