Crooks’ statement‚ “I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse and you ain’t wanted in my room” illustrates how he cannot communicate with others as freely as the other men because of the color of his skin. He cannot go into the bunkhouse with the others because of the segregation at the ranch. Crooks reads books and puts work first to combat his solitude‚ but that does not always work for him. Because of
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Lennie and Crooks are two weak characters in of Mice and Men. In the tough working environment which was America’s 1920s‚ the time of the Great Depression‚ there was no place for mentally or physically insufficient people‚ it was survival of the fittest and “every man for himself.” We learn of Lennie’s non-existent capacity to care for himself early on in the novel. Even at the very start of the novel we see that “The two men walked in single file down the path‚ and even in the open one stayed behind
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them‚ there is still a number of people who do. Being stereotyped can make people want to act like what they are stereotyped as. Being stereotyped can slowly change how you act and who you are. Trying to break stereotypes‚ Lennie and George‚ Slim‚ Crooks‚ and Curley’s wife go against the norm for people like them in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Throughout Of Mice and Men the ranch workers do stereotypical things and things that go against what others stereotype them as. Before getting to know
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for companionship‚ a dominant theme in John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men. Crooks‚ the black stable buck‚ and Curley’s wife both search for a person or something with which to fill the void. However‚ their efforts at reaching out to others prove to be in vain and have negative consequences. On one hand‚ Crooks battles varying degrees of loneliness and isolation‚ not only because of his race but because
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Crooks had been talking with Candy and Lennie when Curley’s wife came in. Crooks stands up for Lennie as Curley’s wife picks his brain. She then turns on him in scorn and says‚ ”You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?” Crooks stared hopelessly at her & then he sat down on his bunk & drew into himself. She dosed on him.”You know what I could do?” Crooks seemed to grow smaller & he pressed himself against the wall.”(Steinbeck
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Reconstruction to terrorize and intimidate former slaves and prevent them from voting or holding public office. In the book people wouldn’t even talk to Crooks and they could be hanged for no reason. Today‚ this would never happen‚ this might be because now we are more civilized but between 1930 and now it is a whole different world out there. Crooks from ‘’Of Mice and Men’’ its used to prejudice all his life since he lives in the time period were people were racist to blacks. Also in the movie ‘’What’s
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George and his big friend Lennie. The second pair of friends is shown between Candy and his old‚ stinky dog. The third is a not an example of friendship‚ but more an example of a man who doesn’t have many friends; a colored stable buck named Crooks and his struggle with segregation at the ranch. George and Lennie are best friends that go everywhere together‚ they care and love each other and protect each other from all harm. The first example of this is‚ "It ain’t so funny‚ him an’ me goin’
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The Battle of Little Big Horn: The Prelude to Disaster It is hard to say how many years ago the Dakota Indians of the Northern Mississippi River began to spill over the Missouri in search of game‚ and became hostile toward the other tribes claiming the western country. Dakota was their traditional tribal name‚ but as they crossed this Northwestern Rubicon they became known by the name the Chippewas had given them years ago: "Sioux". It was by that moniker they became known as the most numerous
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of Curley’s wife which makes a big impact on how we view her for the rest of the story. From this point onwards we always think of her as looking for trouble and living up to her name as being “jail bait”. Different readers would have different impressions of her as they may feel they could connect with her. A woman feels sorry for her because she is stuck at the barn with a load of men and was not able to for fill her dream of becoming an actor. As a man may think that she is just there to cause
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is a deeper meaning to being lonely than just the superficial sense of loneliness. This is portrayed through Crooks‚ Candy‚ and Curley ’s Wife. Crooks portrays the feeling of loneliness through his rejection from society due to his skin color and through his cantankerous ways when others try to reach out to him. He shows his loneliness when Lennie is talking to him in Crooks ’s room. Crooks is telling Lennie about how it feels to be black and how excluded and isolated he feels: “ ’Books ain ’t no
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