Finale, Of Mice and Men
I liked this book. At first I wasn’t as interested in it because of all of the descriptions but once I got into it then I liked the descriptions because it helped explain the book better. I understand why there were such good descriptions so I could get the actual visual of the story. “Why do you got to get killed?”(85) I expected for him to end up killing the puppy because of the incident with rabbits and mice. I understood more about Lennie after this because he got mad at the puppy for dying even though it didn’t do anything. He really didn’t realize what he had done and the intensity of the situation. This led up to him killing Curley’s wife because he didn’t want her to tell George what he had done. “I don’t want ta hurt ya…I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing.” (91) He realizes what he did and remembered to run to the brush. I thought at first George wasn’t going to remember that he told Lennie to go to the brush if he got in trouble. I wonder what Lennie would have done if George would’ve never showed up. He might have run back to the farm or he might have stayed there and starved waiting for George. This book kept me engaged and on my toes. I liked this book a lot. I didn’t think that I was going to because it was really short and the title seemed weird to me but I liked it. The ending made me sad because Lennie didn’t know the troubles he was getting himself in to.
Lennie begged, “Le’s do it now. Le’s get that place now.”
“Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta.”(106)
After this he shot Lennie. I was really sad and probably would’ve cried if it was in a movie because they were supposedly best friends. I think that there would have been other ways out of this situation. I wouldn’t be able to do that I would run for it. I liked the ending in a way though because it kind of shows how much George really cared for Lennie, even though he shot him. Maybe he wanted to make sure that Lennie wasn’t going to be killed or tortured by anyone else. I think that this is a book of friendship. The message isn’t up front but its indirect and that’s what I like about it.
