Did George Kill Lennie Right Or Wrong

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Is there ever a good time to kill someone? George was put in a tight spot. Should he kill Lennie or should he not kill him? If someone’s in pain or asks to be killed is it alright to kill them? George killed Lennie did he have the right? Did George have a choice? Was it the right or wrong thing to do? These are the questions that will be answered in this paper.
At the end of the book Lennie killed curlys wife and George killed him but did he have a valid reason to kill him. George killed Lennie out of friendship if George hadn’t killed him then the others especially curly would have tortured him or killed him much slowly and painfully. George did a mercy killing by shooting Lennie in the head so that his death was quick, sudden and painless a much better death than torture. …show more content…

Depends on the view some say George did the right thing and some say he did the wrong thing who’s right? As said above it depends on the view. Some people believe that others with low intelligence should not be allowed to live. Those people would say that Lennie should have been killed even earlier in the book Of Mice and Men. While others believe that people with low intelligence should be helped to live a normal life. Those people would say that Lennie should not have been killed and that it wasn’t his fault that he killed Curlys wife cause he didn’t know any

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