confesses to her dream of being a movie star. Crooks allowed himself the pleasant fantasy of hoeing a patch of garden on Lennie’s farm one day‚ and Candy desperately latched on to George’s plan to own a couple of acres. What makes all of these dreams typically American is the wish for unconditional happiness and freedom. George and Lennie’s dream of owning a farm represents a prototypically American ideal. Their journey sadly proves that the bitter Crooks is right; a desire and need for freedom and
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Comparison The experience of the speaker in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask” is comparable to Crooks experience in chapter 4 of John Steinbach’s Of Mice and Men. The mask being figurative refers to the emotional mask that covers and conceals one emotion which many blacks wore while being segregated because they were afraid of what would happen if they showed their true feelings. Crooks had a similar experience in chapter 4 in Steinbeck’s book in which he backed down from an argument because
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Steinbeck express through Crooks and Curley’s wife the deep loneliness brought about because of broken dreams and loss of realism. Throughout the 1920’s‚ black people and women in America have been forced to live through poor social conditions. Until recent years‚ these people have been excluded from society and were considered and outsider in a normal community. John Steinbeck shows the reader this in his novella‚ “Of Mice and Men.” Steinbeck uses the characters of Crooks and Curley’s wife to display
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characters. Discrimination occurs when an individual is treated less fairly than others due to something out of their control. The issues of discrimination against women‚ African Americans and the mentally disabled are demonstrated by the characters Crooks‚ Curley’s wife and Lennie. These characters are forced to experience a different lifestyle from the average American at the time. One of the characters that experience discrimination in Of Mice and Men is Curley’s wife. Curley’s wife is probably
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say I stink.’ (p.68) Discrimination is the treatment of a person based on the group‚ class‚ or category to which that person belongs. Discrimination is demonstrated in Of Mice and Men many times throughout the book with Lennie‚ Curley’s wife‚ and Crooks. Each one of these characters experience discrimination in the book and it can be related to our lives today. Lennie is a guy who is often misjudged by his size in Of Mice and Men. Lennie is mentally handicapped and because of this‚ the men on
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segregated by sex‚ race‚ age‚ physical and mental disabilities. John Steinbeck portrays the intolerance and bigotry of 1930’s America through the separation of his characters based on their handicaps. Lennie‚ Candy‚ Candy’s dog‚ Curley’s wife and Crooks all face social pressure from the other characters on the ranch based on their intelligence‚ physical disability‚ age‚ sex and color. Stereotyping based on ethnic or physical characteristics is typical to the 1930’s depression where civil rights
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inevitable fact of life that no black person could have avoided in the 1930’s. Crooks‚ the only back person on the ranch is no different. It is made painfully clear that he is truly unable to leave this situation. The name “Crooks” derived from his crooked spine‚ he was kicked in the back by a horse‚ in the book this is only mentioned as an event that happened in the past. This is event does not actually occur in the book. Crooks is discriminated against because of his colour and is made very lonely
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Lennie is mentally challenged. He doesn’t know how to defend himself. Curley isn’t the only one that is cruel in this way. There were multiple incidents where this motivation for being cruel appeared. Another example is later in the book‚ when Crooks is telling Curley’s wife that he is going to ask the boss not to let her go in his room anymore. After this incident‚ she retaliates by saying‚ “ Well
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characters I will be looking at are Crooks and Curley. Crooks is a key character in this book. He is the only black person in the novel and throughout he is continuously abused. John Steinbeck has written about him to show how racism was a norm during that era. Crooks was mostly referred to as a nigger and is isolated from others. “ Crooks‚ the negro buck‚ had his bunk in the harness room.” You can infer that Crooks was openly referred to as Negro. Crooks is an intelligent individual who spends
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through a character whose name is Crooks. To illustrate the racial intolerance‚ Steinbeck’s character is not allowed in the bunk house. Lennie‚ another symbol
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