"The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering" (117). This reference shows the end result of a choice that had to be done. George needs to take concern of Lennie because all of George's life, he has been in torment from the consequences of Lennie's mistakes and now is in the worst one with a girl lifeless because of Lennie. In John Steinbeck's book Of Mice and Men, George has an obligation and responsibility to shoot Lennie because he is a danger to society, Curley is going to get him, and George would suffer the punishment that Candy did with his dog if he let Curley shoot him.
Lennie is a menace to society and needs to be dealt with before he makes more errors and causes more harm. For example, "Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's big hand" (69). This quote shows how well built this colossal beast is and his awesome power. Now imagine this force pooled with the mind of a diminutive child which all in all equals probable catastrophe. In adding up, "He shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing" (100). What this citation is showing is not only is he hazardous but he only realizes his faults after he has accomplished incredible wrong. This proceeds that he can't vision in his wits that if I do this it"ll be immoral. Lennie has made multiple blunders as shown through the book and will continue to make slips, making him an intimidation to the social order unless he's attended to. .
If George doesn't take accountability to shoot Lennie then he's going to get inoculation by Curley or brought to jail and will be treated like an undomesticated monster. For illustration, "I"m gonna shoot the guts outa that big bastard myself, even if I only got one hand.
