The loneliness of Crooks, Lennie, Candy, and Curley's wife is shown in many different ways. Crooks is lonely because he is the only black man on the ranch. He shows this loneliness by not wanting anyone to enter his room and he also reads a lot to help with his loneliness. Lennie is lonely because he is not as smart as everyone else and he acts like a kid. Lennie shows this loneliness by wanting George around and when Crooks jokes around with Lennie about George not coming back Lennie gets very angry and defensive.…
Elliott West’s The West Before Lewis and Clark begins by emphasizing how Lewis and Clark’s expedition to the West is important to the American narrative of westward expansion, but their story does not encapsulate the whole of western exploration. To prove this, West recounts the lives of three figures in history. The notable common characteristic between these three people is that they all explored or lived in the West, almost a century and a quarter, before Lewis and Clark set off on their expedition. Additionally, from looking at the perspective of these three people, it reveals the complex interactions between the different people, the French, the Spanish, the Native Americans, who were in the West at that time.…
Steinbeck has us believe the loneliest character is Crooks because he was segregated which means he wasn’t able to hang out with anyone in the farm. Since Crooks was African American and people of his race were usually hated at the time the story was made. Crooks had to live in his own bunk because no one wanted to be near him because of his race. I doubt that anyone would not feel lonely in a bunk without any human interactions or entertainment. Imagine being in Crook’s position with no one visiting or caring about you in a small farm with a bunk all to yourself.…
When delving into history books, two prominent names stand out and are universally known. Those two names are Lewis and Clark. While both gentlemen have a background in the military, they are predominately known for their historic expedition along the Mississippi River to the Coast of Oregon in what is widely known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Their achievements would later be used to argue that the U.S owned the Pacific Northwest while the expedition also paved the way westward for American expansion into the Pacific (Miller, 2008, 4). As a result, Lewis and Clark played a pivotal role in providing scientific data and documentation that will remain forever relevant in the history of America.…
The Lewis and Clark Expedition overcame difficulties along their path to bring back valuable knowledge in their journals and experiences of the unknown. When Lewis and Clark arrive back to civilization Ambrose explains, “..he had accomplished the number-one objective of the expedition, to find the most direct and convenient route across the continent … the journals of Lewis and Clark provided the introduction to and serve as the model for all subsequent writing on the American West”(404-405). The expedition started the beginning of welding a path that would help the United States become one of the most powerful countries on the planet. Their journey helped many future settlers cross over to the west, and made a huge impact across many…
The Expedition of Lewis and Clark has been known for many years and known to many people. Most people don’t know the challenges that they had to face, and the role of Natives on their journey. But the thing that people don’t really know was the great impact that it had for the fate of America... When they started their journey, they had to pull or row the boats up the Missouri River, which flows downstream. As Lewis and Clark were getting well into their journey, consequently they found out that they at one point had to carry everything including the boats over hills and mountains.…
The Lewis and Clark Expedition is most commonly known as the exploration that led to the westward expansion of the United States of America. William Clark is highly under-credited for his role as one of the two explorers on the trip with most of the credit given to Meriwether Lewis. William Clark is responsible for the making of maps along the journey, especially his master map of the West. Without the detailed maps that Clark created, there would have been a delay in westward expansion in an attempt to conquer the idea of manifest destiny. What is not talked about is Clark’s life both before and after the trip as he is just solely known for this particular expedition.…
Exploration, encounter, exchange. When I heard of the theme for this year’s history day competition, I knew immediately that Lewis and Clark would be the ideal project. I have always been interested in Lewis and Clark’s monumental discoveries as well as what their journey was like. Exploration encounter and exchange, being vital during their journey showed I would have a well rounded topic for researching. I started my research with background information.…
“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 struggling to be accepted by the ranch workers and at what price they must pay for it.…
The characters in this book work and reside of a farm together, but not everyone on the farm gets along. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, he develops the concept of loneliness through Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife in order to demonstrate that loneliness affects how people think, feel, and act.…
This quote shows that Crooks is lonely to the point where he is on the verge of going mad and it is obvious that he would do anything in his power to escape the state of miserableness that he is in, contributing to the theme of loneliness. As the chapter continues, Lennie describes the dream farm that him, George, and Candy are going to eventually have. At first, Crooks doubts that it will ever happen and then out of the blue, he changes thought. He claims, “...If you guys would want a hand to work for nothing - just his keep, why I’d come an’ lend a hand” (Steinbeck 76). This quote shows that Crooks is willing to contradict his own opinion to escape loneliness even though the dream is unrealistic and will never happen which contributes to the theme of…
The few exceptions to the pattern have known what it is like to not be lonely and, because of this, depend on other people. The other characters have not let themselves be dependent on others; they feel they must rely on only themselves. Curley’s wife has no real friends and neither does Crooks and in hearing their stories, the reader discovers that they have not had someone they were close to for many years or perhaps forever. Candy, George, and Lennie, however, have had friends to care for for so long that they are more likely to seek out other people’s company. Loneliness is something that everyone experiences at some point in their lives, and Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men does a good job of displaying the negative effects of too much loneliness and…
In Of Mice and Men, Crooks demonstrates the detrimental effects isolation has on one’s body both mentally and on their actions. Crooks fails to communicate in a kind manner with Lennie after his isolation. In addition, Crooks also loses hope in both himself and others, and becomes depressed from the constant isolation. One learns from the character Crooks how seemingly unimportant details such as including others may greatly impact their behavior towards…
This tells that Steinbeck understood what being isolated felt like. The social barriers that Crooks encounters interferes with him…
It causes people to become desperate for companionship, for conversations, for friends, for human contact, and this theme is explored through the characters, most of whom experience some degree of it. Some of the loneliest were Crooks and Curley’s wife. Curley’s wife has no one to talk to and uses the excuse that she’s “looking for Curley” to talk to the guys on the ranch. Crooks is black and therefore has to live in a separate room attached to the barn and is very isolated as well as lonely. So lonely that even people coming into his room make him happy.…