Accepting Fate In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Accepting Your Fate
In the “Of Mice and Men” excerpt the author John Steinbeck Shows that sometimes you have no choice, but to accept your fate, because if you don’t and try to fight it off, it could lead to severe punishment or even death. John Steinbeck’s message is that even if you stick up for yourself and what you think is right, you still may fail doing so and get put back into your place. You should always accept your fate in life, but only to a certain extent because you don’t want to let yourself get dragged around and used your whole life.

Crooks is a disabled African American man, who works for two Americans in California. Crooks does not like to be racially discriminated and when he finally got enough courage to stick up for himself, he ended up having to give up all of his hopes or else face the penalty of death. Nobody would listen to an African American man and what they had to say in this time, so Crooks was hopeless in trying to get his own rights. He is forced to either except his fate or if he stepped out of line, he would be executed. The only person that would stick up for Crooks was Candy, who was an old and disabled worker. …show more content…
They had little to no human rights and they were treated as if they were slaves or animals. In this time, if an African American were to do anything out of the norm, they would be put to death immediately. If an African American was accused of doing something illegal, even if they didn't actually do it they were killed without any questions or investigations. African American’s like Crooks had no hope of going anywhere successful in life just because of the colour of their skin. There was nothing they could do to get any rights or freedoms and the only thing that was meaningful to them was their job that helps them get little amounts of money to purchase food to