Life is precious, but life is a one-time deal. What if that life was taken away to the extent of an award-winning novel? Marvin Wilson, a mentally retarded man was sentenced to death after a breathtaking trial in the Supreme Court. In the trial, the opposition lawyer referred to the tale Of the Mice of Men to support his part in the ruling. He stated that most Texas citizens could agree that Steinbeck's Lennie should, by virtue of his lack of reasoning ability and ability to adapt, be exempt. But is there a consensus among Texas citizens that all people who could legitimately qualify for assistance under Social Services' definition of mental retardation are exempt from an otherwise constitutional penalty? (New York Times, Mackey). This statement basically says that I will use this novel to condemn. While it may appear that the information in a story is completely true because of the research done to create the short story, it should not be used to kill a man. Each story contains some information invented by the author. The lives of people and the events that take place in the stories are decided by the author and are often fictitious. Information in a book can be misinterpreted by the reader and therefore misused in a real-life situation. When an author writes a novel, the ideas put forward are based on concrete real-life evidence, but many of these facts are altered because of the author's imagination. In essence, every story that is not considered informative contains some truth as well as some fiction. Lennie and George are perfect examples of why this is true. The character known as Lennie Small is actually a real-life person, according to Steinbeck's son. “Lennie was a real person,…middle of paper…everything will happen sequentially. In real life, serious events cannot be planned, but in the story something like Curley's hand-braking can be planned because the story is controlled by only one man. Finally, the information provided by any piece of text can be interpreted differently. This means that one man might have understood something differently than someone else. For example, one person might think that Curley's wife's death was intentional, while the other might not. With this in mind, how can literature be used to make decisions in the real world? If the information provided by the book is not entirely true and the interpretation of what is provided is an opinion, then the decision made is based on something that is more likely to be incorrect. So how can a man's life be based on information that is not always entirely true?.