Friendship In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Friendship is a great thing to have throughout your lifetime. In the novella Of Mice and Men friendship is a greatly promoted theme. The two main characters George and Lennie were very close friends who had each other’s backs. George had promised Lennie’s aunt that he would look after Lennie because he wasn’t exactly right in the head, and had the mindset of a young child. Since then George has always taken care of Lennie no matter the circumstances. Candy is also another character in the story with a white, old, and sick dog as his companion that he’s had for a very long time. Friendship can be between any two people no matter their qualities, in life and even in death.
To start off the many different examples of friendship shown in the story, is at the very beginning. It was mentioned on page 7 of the book, ”An’ you ain’t gonna do no more bad things like you done in Weed, neither.”. I the very beginning of the movie it explains that scene a little more …show more content…

Candy had explained that him and his dog had been friends for a very long time, since his dog was a pup. It’s said that a dog is a man’s best friend so i imagine that candy’s dog was indeed his BEST friend. Carlson had came into the bunkhouse after a day of work and said to Candy that the stench of his dog was preventing them all from sleeping, and proposed that Candy should shoot his dog in the back of the head. Throughout the whole conversation Candy had hesitated more than once to tell Carlson that he was right, that the dog needed to die in peace. (Page 45) “No, I couldn’t do that. I had ‘im too long.”, “I’m so used to him...I had him from a pup.”. Then he finally gives in to Carlson when he offers to even do it himself. Him letting Carlson is a true act of friendship, because Candy knows that his dog is suffering and chooses to let him be put down peacefully, despite all of the time that they had

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