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We believe George was in the right to kill Lennie. Had George not killed Lennie in that moment, he would've suffered by the hand of Curley or have been thrown in a cell his whole life. This mercy killing connects to modern society by some criminals receiving the death penalty instead of life in prison.

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One of George's internal conflicts is his troubles with Lennie, particularly being unsure what to do with him. On one hand, he promised to care for Lennie, whereas on the other hand, he could live a simpler life without him. This gets resolved by George ultimately ending Lennie's life. George's external conflict is the lack of resources to fund the farm. Him and Lennie have a dream of a farmland with rabbits and farm animals, but lack the funding, and this is concluded by George giving up on the idea of owning a farm after Lennie dies.

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Two adjectives that best fit George are serious and caring. He is shown to be serious by taking control and ensuring the safety of him and Lennie, specially taking care of Lennie and making sure he has a backup plan in case things went wrong. He is shown to be caring by taking care of Lennie even when he causes him trouble and when George could live a better life without him.

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an internal conflict would be his dog getting put down and him not being the one to do it which he feels guilty for and regrets a external conflict would be when curlys wife is killed and he is left in the barn while george runs to the bunkhouse to collect carlsons gun and begins to berate and antagonize her lifeless corpse

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Internal conflict: she's a woman and wants multiple men. External conflict: She doesn't care about others feeling and does what she wants B: The struggles don't get resolved until Lennie killed her.

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Curley has an internal conflict in being insecure about his height and a external conflict is that he hates everyone who is taller then him. The problem get resolved when Lennie fight Curley.

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old, Grizzled, and he is characterized by his one hand and lack luster job of a swamper rather than a skinner or barley bucker like the other more able bodied men on the ranch and despite being one of the longest working men there he is disregarded and mostly unattended by the rest of the men other than to solve the problem of his nasty dog

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A theme specific to George is to always look out for others who are less fortunate, even if you have to make tough decisions for the greater good. On page 13, George states, "I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus Christ, somebody'd shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself."

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A symbol that best represents George is the farm that him and Lennie dreamed of. This best symbolizes George caring for Lennie and Candy, offering them a place in the farm even if the idea seems unlikely or difficult to achieve.

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Curly is a mean bully who likes to pick on people bigger then him, he's also mad about the fight between him and Lennie.

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Internal Conflict: Lennie's struggle with his own mental limitations and his inability to control his strength, often leading to accidental harm to animals and people, despite his gentle intentions.

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Internal Conflict: Lennie's struggle with his own mental limitations and his inability to control his strength, often leading to accidental harm to animals and people, despite his gentle intentions.

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External Conflict: The constant struggle for survival and economic stability faced by migrant workers like George and Lennie during the Great Depression, characterized by poverty, discrimination, and the harsh realities of farm labor.

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Slim is Wise and Respected because he is older and everybody looks up to him and trusts him. Everybody talks to him about things because he knows more and has wisdom and they trust him.

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A tone and mood that best fits George are determined and direct. He always focuses on the task at hand, often leading him to be direct and stay on task, often doing unfavorable things.

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Adjectives that best describe Curley's Wife: Selfish, Greedy.

Curley's Wife is characterized in the book by wearing all red which can symbolize danger. She is very unfriendly towards Lennie, Crooks, Candy because she thinks she's better than them.

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A:One of Lennie's internal conflicts is he struggles with his mental compacity. One external conflict Curley's wife.

B: They get resolved the same way by death.

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as the book goes on Candy is built up as one who has false hope over starting a ranch of his own the same way george and lennie do as stated on Pg. 94-95 "Now Candy spoke his greatest fear. "You an' me can get that little place, can't we, George?

You an' me can go there an' live nice, can't we, George? Can't we?"

Before George answered, Candy dropped his head and looked down at the hay. He knew. George said softly, "-I think I knowed from the very first. I think I know'd we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would." "Then- it's all off?" Candy asked sulkily."

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"I oughtta of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't oughtta of let no stranger shoot my dog" This quote from candy is fore shadowing the ending to the book where George kills Lenny, because it shows the theme of mercy for Lenny and the dog where as the dog was old and Lenny had a disability.

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"George shook himself again. 'No,' he said. 'I want you to stay here with me.'" This shows the selfless act of George caring for Lennie, even when he shouldn't have to.

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We think George was right for killing Lennie. He was already gonna be killed by curly. The way George sat down with him and reassured him that he wasn't mad and that everything was gonna be okay, even though that was a very hard decision for George, was much better than the way Curly was gonna go about the situation.

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Always fighting over random things ,

Chapter 3 pg 62 " Then Curley's rage explode. "Come on, ya bug bastard, Get up on your feet. no big son of a ##### is gonna laugh at me.

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A: Two adjectives to describe Lennie is Stupid and strong

B: Lennie is stupid and strong and a hard worker.

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Lennie, due to his mental disability and immense strength, was a danger to himself and others, despite his good intentions. where individuals may choose to end their lives due to terminal illness or unbearable suffering.

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Crooks theme is loneliness and being mistreated.

pg. 72

"A guy needs somebody to be near

him."

"A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody."

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1 Theme is to watch out for women like her that are red flags

B: "You gotta husban'. You got no call foolin' aroun' with other guys, causin' trouble..."

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The symbol that best fits Curley's wife is RED

B: because that's all she wears.

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A: The tension between physical strength and mental weakness , or the inability to understand ones own strength

B: " Shh! Shh! Hey! Don't do none of that! Don't you go yelling! Shh! Don't--don't you go yelling!"

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a symbol of curly is an inability because he is inability to satisfy his wife and his inability to control his problems with taller dudes.

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A.) A tone that candy gives off is mostly desperate hope.

B.) In the books it shows more than once how he is old with one hand that just sweeps and has a old dog that gets put down.

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fearful, moody, irritated he is scared of bigger guys and always tries to fight them

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A: A symbol that represents Lennie is the Rabbits.

B: We choose the Rabbits because that is all Lennie talked about that he was going to take care of.

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Slim symbol is

Pg. 40

" George looked over at slim and saw the calm god like eyes fastened on him."

This shows how slim seems more mature and wise than everyone else and is more respected.

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A mood that fits Curley's wife is flirty.

A tone that fits Curley's wife is mischievous

B: She flirted with Lennie and the others at the ranch. She was mischievous from the little things she did like posing to get attention

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"im going" Curley said to Slim. "im gonna shoot the guts out of that big bastard myself"

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a tone that fits Lennie would probably be an innocent kind of person and he doesn't mean no harm and the mood for Lennie would be just relaxed and surprised at the same time

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a tone that fits Lennie would probably be an innocent kind of person and he doesn't mean no harm and the mood for Lennie would be just relaxed and surprised at the same time

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A: yes we think it was necessary to kill Lennie cause he killed Curley's wife and ran away from it all.

B: the book parallel's how we think of taking a life today.

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Crooks' external conflict is with the people around him, feeling ostracized because of his skin. His internal conflict comes from this, now believing himself that he doesn't need/deserve company, but still wanting to connect with someone.

They don't really get resolved, though he does get a moment where he allows people to accompany him in the stable.

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Crooks mood is Recluse.

Pg. 68

"Crooks said sharply, " you got no right to come in my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me."

This shows how the author shows how he is sympathetic to crooks.

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"Sure i gotta husban'. you all seen him. swell guy, ain't he? spends all his time sayin' what he's gonna do to guys he don't like, and he don't like nobody"

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yes, because Lennie always was a danger and George tried to control at most as he can. This killing must connect to the modern society by all type of people like if someone kill a person, in some state a punishment of the killer is murder.

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George in our opinion had the right to because Lennie was mentality unstable and he saved him from aa worse death or time in prison.

It connects to society because it shows how we put the useless elderly in nursing homes to rot away.

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"Never you mind said slim a guy got to sometimes."

This reveals how slim is a caring and sympathetic person because he understands how George feels after killing his friend that he took care of.

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" i thought you was gonna be mad at me George" Lennie thought George was gonna be mad because he killed Curley's wife. Lennie cares more about what Georges feelings is then about killing someone.

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We think George shouldn't of killed Lennie, and let him spend his time in jail.

B: This relates to the modern world right now because people are killing others just for what they believe in and having the freedom of speech. And people shouldn't kill each other over what they believe in.