Final Reading Of Mice and Men

This weeks assignment was to finish the book. I found it to be very eventfull and i would like to talk about some of the events that took place in this reading.

The first event i want to discuss is the event of Lennie and the killing of his pouppy. I think that it was a foolish idea for them to give lennie a puppy. I think that because erlier in the story we establish the fact that Lennie has a touching disorder and cant really keep anything that is living because he will just kill it. When Slim gave a pup to him i thought that this was going to happen sometime in the story later on. It showes that lennie has a touching disorder when after his puppy is dead he still has to be able to pet and touch it even if its not living. He covers the puppy up with straw and sits for a while and then uncovers it so he can stroke its soft fur. That showes that he cant go with out touching something soft.

This event leads to the next event I would like to discuss. The killing of Curlys wife. I think this event was a sudden turn in things in the story. I didnt expect this to happen to her. I thought that maybe Carlson was going to end up shooting Lennie because of how stupid he was. Where in reality Lennie was actually the killer of Curlys wife. When she asked him to feel how soft her hair was that shouldve been a red flag that something bad was going to happen. Because erlier in the book it says how Lennie cant let go of what he is feeling if he panics. When i got tothis part of the book i thought this was going to be just like the event that took place in Weed. Where now it is way more serious and further more tragic than if he killed a mouse or rabbit, bu he killed a human being in the same manner that he killed the pup and the mice. I now believe that he really didnt know how much strength he actually had and he didnt know how to use it. After this event it leads to the tragic ending to a great story.

The ending shocked me in the sence that Geroge has been with lennie for this long and now he just turns around puts a gun to the back of his head and blows his brains out. Why he thought he would be better out with out him i i think has something to do with the fact that Geroge is sick and tired of having to bail lennie out of trouble in all of the ranches they worked at. I believe that Lennie diserved to die with a little more dignaty than what he had. I think that if Gerorge wouldve just hid him and worked long enough to get the money they couldve left and had the place they wanted and Lennie could lived happily with his rabbits