To Die or To Carry On I’m the one that’s going to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way i want to - Jimi Hendrix. There are a lot of humans and animals that are abused over the years either because them becoming weaker as they grow older, but nobody takes the time to realize what they have accomplished to make the world a better place. Life is not easy for everybody, many of us have been picked on, abused, and even killed due to unfair reasons such as weakness, or even age. On my paper I will state my strong arguments about how abortion is one of the worst ways of abuse. How Crooks gets picked on in the book, and why it wasn’t fair for Candy’s dog to be killed. Any time of life abuse can be towards somebody no matter…show more content… This is an example of the physical abuse Lennie took from Curley, “Curley was balanced and poised. He slashed at Lennie with his left, then smashed down his nose with his right. Lennie gave a cry of terror. Blood welled from his nose” (Steinbeck 63). Lennie is not a weak person, but due to his inability to asses the situation as an adult would he is left in an unfavorable position that leaves him helpless. Since Lennie’s mind is much slower than it should be, he has the intelligence of a child he is not able to process the situation fast enough to understand what to do at that very point, since he himself does not know his strength, which leads him to crush all the bones inside Curley’s…show more content… Both the Candy’s dog and Lennie were killed due to their helplessness and incapability of fending for themselves. “A shot sounded in the distance. The men looked quickly at the old man. Every head turned toward him. For a moment he continued to stare at the ceiling. Then he rolled slowly over and faced the wall and laid silent” (Steinbeck 49). The dog was shot that night due to his terrible odor since he had been aging, in which the rest of the people in the bunkhouse did not want to sleep with the dog inside the building. “ George raised the gun and steadied it, 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” (Steinbeck 106). Lennie as helpless as he was, alike the dog he was not able to defend himself, both him and the dog died the same way a bullet to the
