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George and Lennie's relationship ties in a love and hate relationship. Although both show hatred to each other while also showing love and caring, the nature of their relationship strays more into caring and looking after one another. There are numerous moments where they look after each other and show that they care for each other. Moments include George telling Lennie to fight back after seeing him take hard punches by Curley. On the other hand, there are also moments such as when Lennie gets mad when Crooks teases him about George leaving him, angering Lennie. (More on the evidence section) ... They both show implicit feelings that they look after one another and although George is shown annoyed by Lennie, he truly cares for him. (Can be shown when he was guilty of what he did in the past with Lennie, nearly kill him).

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The fact that they “string along together” is unusual in the world of ranch hands. Discuss the nature of George and Lennie’s relationship, their motivations for traveling together and explore both the positive and negative aspects of it. Support your ideas through concrete evidence and reasoning including a thoughtful evaluation of what George does to Lennie at the end.

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The nature of George and Lennie's relationship ties between both love and hate. They show that they care and look after each other but at the same time George can easily get annoyed to Lennie. They both can easily get along while also somewhat hating each other. George shows implicit feelings that he cares for Lennie while also hating him because of his disability. It signifies that George is just concerned for Lennie because even from the start he mentions that Lennie has been like this.

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Find evidence on how George yells at Lennie for being dumb to signify how he cares and is concerned for him.

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Another evidence could be George telling Lennie not to fall for Curley's wife because she is a temptress.

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Throughout the story, they became closer to reaching they dream, they reach this point when talking to Candy. The reality of their work/ranch; however, causes them to stray away with it. One of the factor includes Curley who is always seen aggressive towards Lennie and the others. Lennie accidently kills his wife and because of Curley's aggression, George has no other option but to kill him.

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An example could be George telling Lennie to fight back after seeing him get hurt by Curley.

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Another evidence on the fight between Curley and Lennie.

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George telling Lennie things such as avoiding Curley's wife because she is a temptress and a troublemaker.

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George telling Lennie things such as avoiding Curley's wife because she is a temptress and a troublemaker.

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George continues to work with Lennie after all the troubles he caused.

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George continues to work with Lennie after all the troubles he caused.

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Example could be their work at Weed. George even mentions that he could have easily worked alone but he does not want to.

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Find evidences on George revealing their past in Weed and one of George and Lennie's conversation on how he could easily leave him but chooses not to.

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Evidence on George's conversation with Slim about his past with Lennie. He used to bully him but stops after realizing what he has done.

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Their American Dream of living out on a farm. Something they dream and share in common to live free and happy.

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Evidence on their conversation of their dream farm or land they will save up for.

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Evidence on George's reaction to what will happen to Lennie for killing Curley's wife.

Explanation: George does not want any harm done on Lennie and even tries to assure to Slim if he can just be locked up but knowing of Curley's hatred on Lennie, it would be painful for Lennie to go on.

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Evidence where Lennie gets mad when Crooks teases him. Crooks tell him that George can leave him and when Crooks further pushes it, it angers Lennie.

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Evidence on George saying that he is not mad at Lennie).