Even when you think someone doesn't care, there is always that one person who does

By: L.Harrah & B.Payne

In the poem "To a Mouse", in stanza 7, it talks about the farmer saying the mouse is not alone and that it can plan for something better in the future.  We did a comparison of this stanza to the book "Of Mice and Men", and we compared it to George and Lennie not being alone because they both have each other.

Start of the book, Lennie stays with George because George doesn't want Lennie to get hurt by people that don't understand the way he works.  Lennie depends on George to take care of him, and George is always fulfilling that purpose in the book. 

Lennie is scared to be alone, so that is another reason why George stayed with Lennie.  He tends to get confused, can't remember anything (unless it's something George tells him), no one but George really understands him. 

Lennie is fond of things soft to the touch, so at the end of the book, Curley's wife enters the barn where he was and she let him stroke her soft hair.  He accidentally strokes too hard and breaks Curley's wife's neck and kills her.  He then runs away to the spot where George told him to go to whenever he found himself in trouble.  Candy comes in and finds Curley's wife; and then George comes in.  George asked Candy to tell Curly and the others so they didn't think he killed Curley's wife. 

After being told his wife is dead, Curley and his group go out to find Lennie and kill him.  This is the point in the book where George goes to the spot to find Lennie and kill him himself. 

George didn't want to kill Lennie, but he did because he cared about Lennie.  Reason why George killed Lennie was because he cared about him, and he wanted to save him from being killed or tortured by Curley when they found him.