Each and every morning when one wakes up, an individual may roll out of bed, attempt to
murder my alarm clock, jump into the shower and then, when IÆm back to my room, have to
decide what to wear. Now, for some people this may be a fairly easy decision but for others,
itÆs a painstaking, mind-boggling, headache-causing ordeal that they are forced to go through
every day of their existence. Unlucky for me, I happen to be the latter. But there are so many
decisions that need to be made by each one of us every day, and some are harder than others.
Like the decision whether to kill your best-friend or to let somebody else do it. It may sound
absurd, but thatÆs the decision George is forced to make in the end of Of Mice and Men . At
the end of the book when Lennie is being searched for, there are three choices George had. He
could run away with Lennie, not do anything and let the others kill Lennie, or kill Lennie himself.
He chose to kill his best-friend, Lennie, himself and he made the right decision. If George had
told Lennie that they were going to run away when they met down in the brush, they mightÆve
had a small chance of survival. But this chance was made almost non-existent by the fact that
they were being chased by dogs and a bunch of angry men with shot guns. They never
wouldÆve made it. What most likely wouldÆve happened would be that both Lennie and
George wouldÆve gotten shot because it wouldÆve looked like they were running because they
both helped to kill CurleyÆs wife. There were no ties between Curley and anyone on the ranch,
especially these two, so nothing wouldÆve stopped him from putting a bullet in both of their
heads. George obviously didnÆt want to die, so he couldnÆt choose to run. He just wouldÆve
wound up dead too. George also couldÆve stayed at the ranch with Candy and done
nothing, or just followed the rest of the guys looking for Lennie
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