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I agree with all of it because for question 1 society should do those things.

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1. They should get them some sort of help because mental health is just as important as physical. I think it is effective because they have things like hospitals and things to help. Because they can keep them safe and healthy.

2. Yes because if he let someone else do it Lennie would've suffered. In the case of Lennie who probably would've been killed either way yes.

3. I think George really did love Lennie because he felt remorse after he died. And he always stayed Lennie.

4. It is similar because they are both talking about the little place with the rabbits as their dream in reference to heaven.

ottoteach(17) Clarified
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Correct. I like your response and I think it is clarified enough. COrrectTT

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1. To help society deal with the elderly now to make their ways even better than they already are, they can better their nursing homes and add more things into them. This will make the mental health of the elders much better, and it would also improve their moods. What society does now for the elderly, is effective in some ways, but could also have a few changes for the better. Our society has nursing homes for the elderly, which take great care of the elders and make sure they are satisfied. After being at the nursing homes for such a long time, people get bored and don't have much to do anymore. By adding more things to the nursing home, the elders will have more things to do and will increase their physical and mental health. The same thing could go for the people getting help mentally.

2. Yes, George has a justified reason to kill Lennie. George was tired of Lennie making stupid mistakes and was tired of having to clean up after his mistakes, so George did what was better for the both of them and shot Lennie. If George wouldn't have shot Lennie, he would've gotten tortured by Curley and would've suffered a lot more than he did when George shot him. In my opinion, I think mercy killing should be more acceptable because they're not doing it out of violence, they're doing it out of generosity so that they wouldn't have to suffer.

3. I believe that at first, George felt obligated to like Lennie, but towards the end, I think George was starting to love him more. George at the beginning of the book when he would trick Lennie into doing things for his own enjoyment, but he started to learn that it wasn't right to do that, and I think after he did that, he started to love Lennie more, which helped me determine my answer.

4. They are both starting at the farm when they run down to the river, and they talk about the farm and the rabbits.

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1. Society should help people with mental and physical disabilities. People that have those disabilities get some help from other people and groups, but society could do a better job of excepting people with those disabilities.

2. George is not happy that he had to kill Lennie, he felt as if he had to. Mercy killing should not be acceptable, the person that needs help should be able to go get help and not have to be shot and killed.

3. George was obligated to care for Lennie when his Aunt Clara died, but then George became to love Lennie. George at first played tricks on Lennie, but he stopped because he loved him and he was very sad when he had to kill him.

4. They were both in the same spot, and George was telling his and Lennie's dream. George also was very depressed, and Lennie was running from some people that were trying to kill him.

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I support this because society should try and make everyone feel the same. Also, George is justified because he did it out of love and respect towards Lennie. Geroge did love Lennie and there are many things that show this.

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1. I think that society should treat the physically and mentally challenged the same, but also in a manner that they can deal with. Such as if you are physically unable to do something that someone else can, then make work with something similar. If you are mentally challenged then it is a little bit harder to do certain things that others can do mentally but it doesn't mean that you can't do the same things physically. Today in society I think that people aren't getting equal treatments for the physically and mentally challenged but it's not all in a bad way. There are certain things that are okay but other things single out those people. I think society needs to better normalize physically and mentally challenged people. These people are still human beings, they shouldn't be treated like anything different. They need to be taken care of, not treated differently.

2. I don't think that George is justified by killing Lennie, but I feel like George is the person that should kill him over someone that just wants to kill him over pure hatred. George did it because Lennie had killed someone else and back then, the things you would do for that are a lot different than they are now. Curley just wanted to kill Lennie out of hate because he had just killed his wife.

3. I think that George actually loved Lennie. He might have felt like he was obligated to take care of him but through everything, I think he actually loved him. I think this because George never had to actually stick with him but he did and he stuck up for him in every problem that Lennie caused. George is a good man and did everything to keep Lennie as safe as possible while still doing the right thing.

4. The first chapter and then end of the book are similar I think because they both portray the same concept. At the beginning of the book in chapter one George and Lennie are in the irrigation ditch and they are talking about their dream of the farm and tending the rabbits. They are talking about their dream of the future and their hopes. Then at the end of the book, they are back in the same irrigation ditch talking about their dreams of the farm and rabbits. But this time they know that this will never actually happen. It was always very far out of their reach but they still had hope that it could happen.

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1. In society, people should deal with those living with mental or physical challenges depending on how much they struggle with life. If a person or persons has a physical or mental disability and struggles living or doing things right in society, they should be put somewhere like a rehab center where they can be helped to actually enjoy their life. What society does now, can be effective on certain people but not on all people. Right now, it is a relative's choice or their choice sometimes whether or not they should be taken care of, and that isn't always the right thing. This could make their lives harder and not as enjoyable as they could be.

2. George is justified for killing Lennie for a couple of reasons. For starters, Lennie is an adult that could more than likely not make it on his own, and George is aware of this. Lennie committed a bad crime, and back then the circumstances were different from what they would be now. Back then, Curley or any one of the workers could have told them Lennie had a weapon and made him suffer in his life. I believe that mercy killing should be morally acceptable. If a person is struggling that much with their own life and it is obvious to those that know and have been around them, then mercy killing should be morally acceptable. Sometimes it is better to let somebody go in your life, rather than make them suffer and struggle forever just to be with them.

3. I believe that George really did love Lennie like he was his own family. I think this is true because George simply killed Lennie out of mercy. George might have felt obligated to take care of Lennie, but over time he began to see more and more that it was nice to have him around, and that he actually cared for him. At the end of the book, you could also tell that it was hard for George to shoot Lennie. If George wouldn't have cared for Lennie at all, then he wouldn't have had the hesitation.

4. I believe that the end of the novel is similar to the beginning of Chapter 1 because of the way that George and Lennie are explaining how they are going to have their dream lives someday. They both end in the way of how amazing their lives someday are going to be, and I believe it is to show how important the dream was to them.

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Society should make sure the elderly are all taken care of and the same goes for people that live with challenges. I think our society takes good care of the elderly and people that are mentally or physically challenged. They provide nursing homes, assisted livings, nurses, and health care providers to go to their houses and give them the help they need, loans, money for those who don't have much to support their kids, and schooling. Yes, George should have killed Lennie because he knew that he was going to die one way or another and if Curley were to kill him he would have made him suffer, but George let him go in peace. Mercy killing should not be acceptable because there is always another solution other than dying, but in this case, the best decision to make was for George to kill Lennie. George did truly love Lennie because he felt guilty for bullying him long ago and sees him as his family. They always say that they always have each other and when George had to kill Lennie it broke him. They were both in the same spot and Lennie was imagining his Aunt Clara and the big rabbit. George let Lennie go in peace in both of them and shot him in the back of the head.

ottoteach(17) Clarified
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I agree. Your answers are clear and I agree with you. Your argument is precise and I like it.


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