Crook

Because of Crooks’ skin color, readers of Of Mice and Men can infer that Crooks has spent his whole life enduring prejudice and outcast. Because of this, Crooks is accustomed to being alone and isolates himself. This dark skin has led Crooks to be discriminated against and receive less rights than he deserves. This life he’s had to suffer through is summarized though Curley’s wife in this scene: “I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny” (81). After further threats, Curley’s wife warns Crooks to “keep your place then n*****... Nobody’d listen to you and you know it” (81). In this argument, we view a short summary of Crooks’ life, where Crooks is being presented with a threat that could jail or kill him because of the color of his skin. However, he cannot do anything about it since no one would believe him over Curley’s wife because, as a black man, he holds a lower place in society. Due to this life of discrimination and outcast from the normal level of society, Crooks find himself pushing people away out of fear that his skin color could be a target of hate and violence. When Lennie enters his room, Crooks scolds “You go on an’ get outta my room… you ain't wanted in my room” (68). He further complains to Lennie, explaining that “They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me” (68). Crooks has been tormented for his…

surrender of Geronimo, the Chiricahua Apache leader who rebelled against the US Government. He did not agree with the American government moving his people onto reservations with strict rules and chooses to fight back. After two months of being on the run, Geronimo met up with Davis and 1st lieutenant Charles Gatewood to surrender and be escorted to San Carlos to meet with General Crook, a friend of the Apache. In fact, most of the white soldiers ordered to track down Geronimo respected him.…

It is estimated that over forty percent of people will feel lonely at some point in their lives. Well in the book, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, three characters by the names of Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife experience loneliness at some point in the novel. Throughout the book, Curley’s wife, Candy, and Crooks stumble upon others and connect, eventually finding success. Each character experiences loneliness with Crooks being his ethnicity, Candy’s age and loss of his dog, and Curley’s…

While Crooks was upstairs reading his favorite book, California Civil Code of 1905, his dad called for him from downstairs. “Boy, stop reading that darn book and help me with feeding the chickens. One of the two roosters got out and are fighting again, and now I have to go and break it up before it gets messy.” Crooks put down his book, but right before he was about to open the door to go outside his mom called for him from the kitchen. “Crooks, that nice, young kid Georgie and his brother Tom…

Twain’s addition of characters to the novel was a great idea and a necessary move. King and Duke’s appearance in the novel create a new challenge to Huck’s journey of what is right and wrong. Also, their presence creates a bad influence on Huck, but it allows Huck to grow up from being the little boy he once was. “...These liars warn’t no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.” (Twain, 125) It shows how the world is full of liars and crooks and how Huck found it best just…

accomplish their dream. While on the ranch they encounter many different characters. One of them being a negro, by the name of Crooks. Crooks is the stable buck at…

to work. In the novel Of Mice and Men there are many characters with impairments, some of these people include Candy, Crooks, George, and Lennie. One of the many characters with a deterioration in the book is Candy. Candy is missing his right hand and is also elderly. An example of this…

farm. Although they share the same dream, they have different reasons for wanting it. The character’s versions of their “American Dream” of living on the farm demonstrate the character values of Crooks, George, and Candy. The reason that George wants the farm reveal that he wants to be his own boss. A phrase that is often repeated throughout the story is, “An live off…

Discrimination Discrimination is not just based on skin color, but also on age and gender. A book that shows this is John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. This story is about two friends, that have a dream to live on their own farm, Lennie and George, who go to a farm where they see discrimination for the first time. The victims of discrimination in this novel are: Crooks, a black stable buck; Curley’s Wife, the farm owner’s neglected daughter-in-law; and Candy, an old, disabled housekeeper.…

character Crooks must fight through discrimination from his fellow ranch mates. Curley’s Wife must also find a way to gain more power. However, underneath this isolation, is something bigger. Each of these characters at their weakest, find a way to isolate someone even weaker. These characters want a friend to talk to, but always end up isolating and making people weaker. Crooks is discriminated and segregated on the ranch. However, this does not stop him from exposing and criticizing Lennie.…