Crook

People bully because they aren’t confident, because they feel useless and not important. If they were are above someone else, they feel better about their worth. They bully the weaker because they want to seem more important and confident in their abilities. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about two men, George and Lennie, as they try to find work and achieve their dream during the Great Depression. It starts just after George and Lennie leave their previous job and find a new ranch. At the…

Then there is candy and crooks , They are both lonely because there both handicapped. They don’t fit in like everybody else does. Lennie is a lonely friendly, nice and very strong and tall man compared to all the other guys on the ranch . Lennie has mental disability so he can’t function like other people “What mouse George? I ain’t got no mouse”. Lennie likes to pet soft things , he…

Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, several characters display physical and mental impairments which reflect their humanity. The characters include Lennie, Crooks, and Candy. Lennie is mentally disabled, Crooks has physical trait that isolates him from others and, Candy is old and feels useless. Even though Lennie has strength, Candy is aged, and Crooks has knowledge and courage, it is demolished by their physical or mental impairment and as a result, drifts them away from being perfectly normal…

that have impairments. Some of these people include Lennie, Candy, Crooks and Curley’s wife. One of the many characters with an impairment in this book is Lennie. Lennie has some sort of disability which is not directly stated in the book but, the reader can infer this because of the way he talks and the way he acts. An example of Lennies impairment is when Lennie says “ and we could live offa the fatta the lan” (Steinbeck 105).…

and internal conflict. Dialogue between characters often shows examples of social injustice. This is true because, for example, Crooks talks to Lennie about some of the arrangements on the ranch that are unfair to him. For instance, he states that he is not wanted in the bunkhouse because he is black (Steinbeck 68). This evidence shows social injustice to Crook…

through the characters Curley’s Wife and Crooks, and the non-fictional story of Persepolis – a story narrating the author’s childhood during the Islamic Revolution during the 1980’s in Iran – displays the theme of adversity through the antagonist author, Marjane. In addition to the difficulties each character faces, how the adversity affects them and the ultimate result of their attempts to overcome their struggles will be acknowledged.…

The Book of Semi-Innocent Deaths: An Analysis The book Of Mice and Men was created in a time of political and economical turmoil. John Steinbeck was a developing writer at the time of the Great Depression in the 1930’s, this gave him numerous topics to write about. In 1936, he spent the year traveling with a large group of migrant workers who were in search of work. While he was traveling with them he was horrified of the working conditions, and empathized with their lack of given dignity. The…

have some interaction with someone since her husband doesn’t give her any. While everyone is out, she decides to talk to Crooks, Candy, and Lennie in the barn. When they try to kick her out she responds “[w]ell, I ain’t giving you no trouble”, and as they keep on trying to ignore her she gets angry. After she shows the anger she gets when they ignore her by threatening Crooks in getting him in trouble and showing how much power she has. Another thing she does is persuaded Lennie to listen to her…

a range of literary techniques to effectively portray these themes and the effect they have on the characters. Primarily, racism is portrayed through the character “Crooks”, and the language that the men use to identify him dehumanises and therefore isolates him. It is unclear as to whether Steinbeck intended to create pity for Crooks with this technique, but in the modern day that is the effect that it has on the reader. Steinbeck also created sympathy (whether intentionally or not) with his…

The group headed after Lennie was going to kill him anyways (mainly Curley). From George’s perspective the only way to make Lennie’s death less painful for himself wa to kill him personally because of his care for him. An advantage for George after this moment is the easy ability to achieve their dream without Lennie’s inevitable habit of getting into trouble. However, George is alone and without the amount of money he saw he could gather quickly. George does care for Lennie as he tries to…