Favorite Character

My favorite character in Of Mice and Men is probably Candy.  Candy was old and I felt really bad that he wouldn’t be in the working business much longer and that he had a missing hand.  But he didn’t start any trouble and was really sincere about his work.  Although he couldn’t do much for the ranch, whatever he could do he did right and hard.  Candy was the nice one when George and Lennie first arrived at the ranch.  He showed them around and told them who was who and what to look out for.  He didn’t keep secrets from them when he could’ve kept them from them in the beginning about the people living and working at the ranch.  He was in the plan with the dream of a new ranch and was willing to pay the money he worked hard to earn and the money he would earn for the next month.  I just thought Candy was a nice and sincere old man.  He didn’t start fights or arguments and just went with the flow.  Given he wasn’t happy with his life especially when Carlson killed his dog but he didn’t complain.  He just took it n and moved on.

Euthanasia

The book definition of “euthanasia” is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or irreversible coma.  My definition is killing someone to get them out of their misery and the killing would not be painful.  For example when a dog is sick or is going to die of old age, just put the dog to sleep so it won’t suffer.  I believe in this practice, because it’s hard enough for someone to be on the verge of dying and maybe be suffering from it.  A painless killing will do no harm, it might even get them out of their misery.  My Grandma’s dog was just put through euthanasia.  He was an old dog that could hardly walk and couldn’t get up and down the stairs anymore; it couldn’t make it outside, etc.  Putting it to sleep (a.k.a. killing it harmlessly) is not a bad idea to put forth, I agree with the idea.  It’s not a sin to commit euthanasia and it’s not against the law and it puts a human or animal out of it’s misery so whey not use the practice.  I don’t disapprove of this practice because I think it will help who ever has it done to them in the long run, if you think about it.