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Killing what you love.

The overwhelming theme in “Of Mice and Men” is that each man kills the thing he loves. This idea deserves great contemplation, which is one thing that has made this novel a lasting classic. However, this is not a completely true statement. To say each man kills the thing he loves is an overly dramatic idea, entirely implausible. If, for the sake of clarification “man” includes the entire human race if would be impossible. Is man more likely to kill the thing he loves, yes; for each man to do that, no. Two of the main reasons that people kill the thing they love are because they are either protecting it from a worse fate or they are experiencing an overpowering amount of emotion.
In the novel George kills Lennie because he loves him. He is trying to protect him from a worse fate of either being hunted down or thrown into a jail where nobody...

Posted by: Novelett Roberts

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