Slavery stripped Black people of common human rights, tore apart societies, and is one of the worst events that happened to African Americans. During the 1900’s most African Americans lived in California's growing urban centers. Racial discrimination often relegated them to low-paying service jobs, such as the men in Anaheim's street corner shoeshine business or the chauffeur standing behind Edith Story and her automobile. In the book Of Mice and Men a family came to be by two men that were very different from each other. George and Lennie, the main characters of the book.George is a small men who took care of Lennie, a big guy that has a mind of a little kid. When these two men started working at a ranch in the Salinas Valley they meet a black
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For example, he is described as ”The stable buck put in his head;a lean negro head, lined with pain, the eyes patient”(50) . Almost in the beginning of the book, when Candy, an old swamper without a hand was introducing the people in the ranch to George and Lennie he says “Yeah. Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him. The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn about that. He reds a lot. Got books in his room”(20). Just by how Candy introduces Crooks to George and Lennie the reader can start feeling sympathy for Crooks.
We feel sorry for Crooks because most the people on the ranch treat Crooks badly. They don’t let him sleep in the bunkhouse so he has to sleep in the barn. “I ain’t wanted in the bunk house, and you ain’t wanted in my room”(68). Crooks doesn’t spend a lot of time with the men on the ranch so he spends most his time alone reading books.“They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me”(68). Because Crooks is not allowed to be in the bunkhouse he does not have friends and no one cares for
For example, he is described as ”The stable buck put in his head;a lean negro head, lined with pain, the eyes patient”(50) . Almost in the beginning of the book, when Candy, an old swamper without a hand was introducing the people in the ranch to George and Lennie he says “Yeah. Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him. The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn about that. He reds a lot. Got books in his room”(20). Just by how Candy introduces Crooks to George and Lennie the reader can start feeling sympathy for Crooks.
We feel sorry for Crooks because most the people on the ranch treat Crooks badly. They don’t let him sleep in the bunkhouse so he has to sleep in the barn. “I ain’t wanted in the bunk house, and you ain’t wanted in my room”(68). Crooks doesn’t spend a lot of time with the men on the ranch so he spends most his time alone reading books.“They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me”(68). Because Crooks is not allowed to be in the bunkhouse he does not have friends and no one cares for