Why does George tell Lennie remember?
George wants Lennie to know where he should go if he gets into trouble again. George tells Lennie to do this so that if, for any reason, Lennie gets in trouble, he can remember how to get back to this place and hide. Later in the book, Lennie will get in very serious trouble when he accidentally kills Curley’s wife.
Why did George want to camp overnight instead?
Why did George want to camp overnight instead of going another quarter mile to the ranch? He likes where they are and he knows that they will have to do hard work.
What does George tell Lennie to do if there is trouble What could this foreshadow?
George tells Lennie (right at the end of Chapter 1) that if Lennie gets in trouble at the ranch he should run away and come right back here to this same spot and George will find him. This is foreshadowing.
Why do George and Lennie stay at the campsite over night instead of reporting to the ranch right away?
Why do George and Lennie stay at the campsite overnight instead of reporting to the ranch right away? They didn’t want to start work any sooner than they had to. They were lost. The ranch was too far away.
Why do you think George chooses not to go straight to the ranch?
George decides not to go ahead to the ranch because he wants to rest before they begin doing the back-breaking work of bucking barley. They are also tired from walking because the bus driver left them off too soon, and they had to walk the rest of the way. George isn’t a large man.
What lie does George tell about the way Lennie died?
George may not even have to lie to the police. The men may tell them that Lennie must have stolen Carlson’s Luger from the bunkhouse, and Carlson will tell them that George took it away and killed Lennie in self-defense.
Does George have the right to kill Lennie?
George obviously did not have the legal right to kill Lennie at the end of the story, but he seems to have the moral right to do so. They do not seem apprehensive about any legal repercussions if they do what they intend to do–which is not just to kill Lennie but to torture him before they finish him off.
Was George’s decision to kill Lennie right or wrong?
George definitely did the right thing. If he did not kill Lennie, Curly would definitely have had him tortured and painfully killed. Shooting him was painless.
Should George have killed Lennie?
With great pain, George killed Lennie to protect him from his fate. George should have killed Lennie because Curley would have killed him cruelly, Lennie would have continued to get into trouble and continue to hurt people and finally, if Lennie had gotten locked up it wouldn’t be a good place for him.
What did Lennie do after he killed Curley’s wife?
5. Where does Lennie go right after he kills Curley’s wife? Lennie ran to go hide in the brush by the river, where George told him to.