wife. Steinbeck shows sympathy for crooks by portraying all the negativity in his life‚ for example the size of his room‚ and the fact he has ointment for his crooked back. One of the ways that Steinbeck creates sympathy for Crooks is through his description of him. In chapter 4 the reader learns that Crooks is ‘aloof’ but despite this Steinbeck manages to create compassion for him. The reader fully understands the distance that Crooks ‘demands’ from the white men – it is simply the only right he
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In this section of the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Steinbeck presents the black Stable Buck‚ Crooks‚ as petulant‚ lonely‚ yet he is not portrayed by Steinbeck in a stereotypical manor. In the setting description of Crooks’ isolated bunk‚ it is described that he owns a “tattered dictionary” and a book on Californian Law. This demonstrates to the audience how he is well educated. A working-class black person during the Depression era of 1930s America would have been unlikely to grow
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“Read and annotate the passage and write about how Steinbeck uses details to present Crooks in this extract. Explain the importance of what the reader learns here in terms of the novel as a whole” In the first four paragraphs of Chapter four‚ the reader is already aware of how lonely and broken‚ both physically and mentally‚ Crooks is. However‚ he is clever and proud. Crooks‚ “the negro stable buck” is restricted from communicating with the other workers as he had “his bunk in the harness room"
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Crooks‚ Candy‚ Curley’s wife‚ and Lennie are all stereotypically displayed as what they come off as at first‚ the colored man‚ the migrant worker‚ the woman‚ and the one with cognitive disabilities. All of them are clearly underprivileged in some way‚ either by their sex‚ gender‚ brains‚ or where they come from. Crooks is constantly referred to as a negro throughout the book. He is treated as someone want to or should be around. He even has his own shack because other workers refuse to sleep in
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novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck some characters‚ when given the opportunity exercise their power over others to manipulate them. The characters that use their power to manipulate other characters is Crooks‚ Carlson and Curley’s wife. Each character in Of Mice and Men have some type of power‚ some are not as noticeable as Crooks’s power to manipulate others. Crooks is not a character the book tells a lot about but it does show the reader what kind of person he is. In the book Crooks tries to
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Throughout Of Mice and Men‚ John Steinbeck portrays the characters as suspicious of each other and their actions‚ misunderstanding as they let their strongest feelings remain hidden which causes the loneliness and the gruffness of many characters that we associate with the book‚ as they feel that they have no one to talk to. In Of Mice and Men‚ the suspicion between the men is caused by the men not having close friends and so they have become accustomed to not having a close friend and so the
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Of Mice and Men ‘Soledad means loneliness. Why is this relevant to Of Mice and Men? Discuss’ Soledad derives from the word Solitude‚ a state of social isolation. It is the situation/state of being alone. Loneliness is defined as an emotional state in which a person (or animal) experiences an immense feeling of emptiness and isolation. Loneliness and isolation is a theme that is reflected constantly throughout Of Mice and Men such as; the characters‚ in the minor actions that the characters pursue
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‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck was written during the Great Depression in America in the 1930’s. During the Great Depression there was a great job loss which resulted in men becoming migrant works. This was particularly hard for black Americans because back then discrimination against black people wasn’t abolished yet; they were segregated from the white people which meant they couldn’t find work. They were treated very poorly and were considered one level up from animals. Steinbeck had a good
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1. Characterization: Direct Characterization- “Crooks could leave his things about‚ and being a stable buck and a cripple‚ he was more permanent than other men‚ and he had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back” (Steinbeck 65). Indirect characterization- A. “A guy sets alone out here at night‚ maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’‚ an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’‚ he don’t
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and wealth classified us.” In the novel‚ “Of Mice and Men”‚ Steinbeck portrays several men and one woman on a ranch in California during the great depression. One of these men is an old black man named Crooks‚ and the woman is the boss’s son’s wife referred to as “Curley’s wife”. Crooks is the stable caretaker and has a separate room from all the other workers. Curley’s wife is the only woman on the ranch and is isolated by Curley from the other men who both have big dreams. Steinbeck illustrates
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