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Lennie are talking in Crooks’ room Crooks starts teasing Lennie, he apologizes, then continues, “‘Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he’s goin’ to come back. S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ‘cause you was black. How’d you like that? … A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody’“(72). The exclusionary behavior demonstrated towards Crooks is ultimately because of his ethnicity, and since the entire group living on the farm are all…

Many events and conflicts in history have arose based on its root in extremism.Throughout history, paranoia implemented by the church and enforced by the court has caused citizens of specific societies to go into hysterics, and has caused them and their governments to commit extreme acts of injustice. The Heretic’s Daughter takes place in 17th century Massachusetts and tells the story of the Carrier Family. The Carrier Family, including Martha, Thomas, Richard, Andrew, Tom, Sarah and Hannah…

in the barn, Lennie walks in on him. After letting him into the barn, Crooks starts a conversation with Lennie. While talking to him, Crooks says “You got George. You know he’s goin’ to come back. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunk house and play rummy ‘cause you was black” (Steinbeck 72). Crooks is saying that he’s the only African American on the farm, so he’s alone when they make him sleep in the barn. Also, this states how Crooks is jealous of the friendship that George and Lennie have,…

“Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other” (35). Throughout the course of Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck takes readers on a journey encompassing the importance of belonging versus isolation, where friendship is a foreign word and loneliness proves to be inescapable. The story follows two migrant workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, the protagonists, and their life working on a farm, all the while…

“We spend our time searching for security, and hate it when we get it. For the most part we are an intemperate people: we eat too much when we can, drink too much, and indulge our senses too much.” John Steinbeck (America&Americans) Steinbeck is a man well known for his exploration of human nature. This is a large context of the novel Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck explores the nature of human beings through a majority of his characters including the two main characters George and Lennie. George is…

John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, set in California during the Great Depression, tells the story of two migrant workers, Lennie and George, and their struggle to support themselves and each other. Along their journey to find work, they find themselves on a ranch, where they meet many men who live in a similar condition to them. Two people that they come across, however, do not have the same type of loving, supportive relationship that Lennie and George share. Curley’s wife and Crooks are…

The Interview Interviewing my ninety year old father, Joseph Denis, had me come to the realization that our childhood and teenage years had many similarities, yet had many more differences. Born in 1926 , Joseph was raised in a different era than myself, as I was born in 1961. Joe had six brothers and two sisters, while I had three brothers and three sisters. Although the technology had advanced and the basic lifestyles had changed over the years, family time was important to each of our…

What is a dream? A dream is something that is aspired and aimed for, something looked forward to achieving later in life. A dream is like a plan for the future. The only difference is that nothing can ensure that dreams will come true. Instead, it has the disappointing possibility of being a fake reality that turns out to be unachievable. In the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men, the characters are dreamers. They are the people who had high hopes for their future, with a roadblock to prevent…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” This quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr does not only apply to racism but to all types of prejudice this quote inspired many people of all races and backgrounds to not just judge on who the person is on the outside but who they are in the inside too. In both novels, Of Mice and Men, and…

be alive is not to be living, but it’s only human to want to live. Crooks unfortunately doesn’t have much hope as you can see in the story when he talks about life. “‘S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ‘cause you was black. How’d you like that?’” (Steinbeck 72). This shows how isolated Crooks feels. Everything was ripped away from him and he is treated with no respect. I think one of the reasons the author put Crooks on the story was to show…