Dear George

Dear George,
I think what you did was the best way things could have been done. Lennie was going to end up dying one way or another and by you shooting him helped end his misery and the misery you had been in always sticking up for him and sticking by his side. " You ... an' me. Ever'body gonna be nice to you. Ain't gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from 'em." You told Lennie that because only you knew what was best for him and you knew Lennie was going to be in a better place where no one hurt or called him out of his name. You wanted what was best for him and that was to be dead.

I also think it was great how you ended things for Lennie. Instead of his last thoughts and moments of you being mad him you made it a time of nothing but complete happiness. " Go on, " said Lennie. George raised the gun and his hand shook, and he dropped his hand to the ground again. " Go on, " said Lennie. "How's it gonna be. We gonna get a little place. " We'll have a cow, " said George. " An' we'll have maybe a pig an' chickens ... an' down the flat we'll have a ... little piece alfalfa." It's great how you told him the little story you always told him when things went wrong because it only made him feel better about things. Things could have went differently like you yelling at him and then killing him but you always wanted the best for him so I think what you did was the best way things coud have ended.

Love,
Denisha Marie