It`s the interesting story about two guys named Lennie and George that traveling together to reach their own will. In their latest destination, they deal with many incidents that wobble their friendship relation. Through the conflict that happened to Lennie and George, we can see their pure friendship.
The first conflict that happened to them
both was when they travel to Soledad. They found a small pond and Lennie the
big guy hurried himself to drink the water. “His huge companion dropped his
blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool;
drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse”(Page 2). George
worried about Lennie and he stopped Lennie to drink the water. “Lennie, for
God’ sakes don’t drink so much.” (Steinbeck 5). He stopped him because the
water looked dirty and unhealthy. ““I ain’t sure it’s good water,” he said.
“Looks kinda scummy.” (Page 3). We can see that George worried about Lennie`s
condition. He didn`t want to let Lennie got sick. That is the friendship roles,
we care each other, and we share each other without any doubt. What is George
purpose to make a friendship with Lennie? From this case we can see it`s a pure
friendship.
In the first conflict, we can see
how George cares about Lennie. In this second conflict example, we will see how
Lennie cares about George. In the story, When Lennie`s visited Crook`s stable,
Crook scared Lenny by giving an anxious joke to Lennie that George wouldn`t
come back. His voice grew soft and persuasive. “S’pose George don’t come back
no more. S’pose he took a powder and justain’t coming back. What’ll you do then?”
(Page 35). Even though it was a joke, Lennie believe it and he got mad about
his joke. “Crooks bored in on him. “Want me ta tell ya what’ll happen? They’ll
take ya to the booby hatch. They’ll tie ya up with a collar, like a dog.” Suddenly
Lennie’s eyes centered and grew quiet, and mad. He stood up and walked
dangerously toward Crooks. “Who hurt George?” he demanded. (Page 35). In that
conflict, we can see again the friendship roles. Lennie cares about George, he
didn`t want to let George hurt or suffer. We can see that mind disability can`t
limit someone`s feeling, and also we can see how pure their friendship is.
The
last conflict is a great proof that their friendship is pure. Lennie got a
trouble in the ranch. He killed Curley`s wife by broke her neck up. “He shook
her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had
broken her neck” (Page 45). Then Lennie fled to the brush, and a moment after
that, Candy found Curley`s wife body laid on the hay. ““Oh, Jesus Christ!” He looked
about helplessly, and he rubbed his beard. And then he jumped up and went
quickly out of the barn.” (Page 46). Then he told George for what he saw
before. George didn`t want to let Lennie got caught by Curley because George
was told by Candy that Curley will torture Lennie if he got caught. “But Candy
said excitedly, “We oughta let ‘im get away. You don’t know that Curley. Curley
gon’ta wanta get ‘im lynched. Curley’ll get ‘im killed.”” (Page 46). Then
George told Curley and his friend about his wife and they took their weapon
hastily to kill George. George fools them all by told them that Lennie ran to
south, because he knew that Lennie would run to the brush in the north. “We
come from north so he would of went south.” (Page 48). Then George went to the
brush and he met Lennie there. He shot Lennie in the brush after he told their
will. “And George raised the gun and steadiedit, and he brought the muzzle of
it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face
set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled
up the hills and rolled down again.” (Page 52). The conflicts above show that
George had chosen a hard decision. He dares to fight his own sadness. He will
be more suffered if he looks Lennie being tortured by Curley. So he decided to
shot him down in the ranch.
Friendship
was found long time ago since first human live. We should know that having a
friend is a necessity because we can`t live alone. George Steinbeck had
successfully implying the pure friendship in his short story. Answering the
question above, is friendship worth too much? Yes it is.
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