Crook

itself when in the right situation. By losing his dog, Candy had hope in the farm. It was a fantasy of the future. Crooks also had part of this dream because of his isolation and how much he hated it. He didn’t want to be alone. “’If you . . . . guys would want a hand to work for nothing—just his keep, why I’d come an’ lend a hand. I ain’t so crippled I can’t work…’” (Steinbeck 37-38). Crooks wasn’t even looking for any pay, just somebody to be around and a warm place to…

go into town and leave Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s wife, Crooks tells Lennie that without George he will be put into a mental hospital because he will be unable to live alone. Crooks warned Lennie, “‘ Want me ta tell ya what’ll happen? They’ll take ya to the booby hatch. They’ll tie ya up with a collar, like a dog‘“(Steinbeck 72). In the quote, Crooks tells Lennie that he will have to go to the booby hatch or mental hospital if he no longer has George. Crooks also tells Lennie that they…

In Of Mice And Men there are a lot of similarities and differences. In both the movie and the book, Lennie has had past issues in Weed. The incident gets mentioned by George in the book and the movie. Another similarity between the book and the movie is that Candy’s dog gets shot, which leads to him getting sad. On another note, he gets another puppy from Whit in both. Lastly, Lennie gets in a fight with Curley; Curley’s hand gets busted and the boys agree to tell everyone he got it caught in a…

hopelessness in the novel in many ways. Hopelessness is like having all of your dreams crushed because of an inability to accomplish those goals. Hopelessness is the feeling or state of despair, i.e. Lack of hope. For instance when Lennie goes into Crooks room and starts to talk about his…

Wife, Crooks, and Candy. The first character that portrays loneliness is Curley’s Wife. There are many moments in the story where she comes to the bunkhouse and would ask “have any of you guys seen Curley” (31). When she comes into the bunkhouse and asks for Curley it shows that she is lonely and she just wants someone to talk to. Curley is never around as he is always with the guys in town. There are many more instances in the story where Curley’s Wife demonstrates loneliness. For…

American struggles throughout the great Depression, financially, socially but mostly discrimination. While focusing on the struggles of these times, the theme of this book consists from an exaggeration of total inequality of power between race, with Crooks being segregated and being treated differently because of his skin color, age, with Candy living in fear of getting kicked out due to his increasing age, and gender, with Curley's wife representing the female presence in an atrocious way,…

groups like ageism, sexism and racism and how these thing can affect them achieving there dream. Crooks is affected on the ranch by racism. Crooks is not aloud to sleep in the same building as the other workers in fact he sleeps in with the horses. “They play cards in there, but I can’t cause I’m black“ At this part of the story, all the workers finish there day with a game of cards. But they exclude Crooks from the game because of the colour of his skin. Nobody talks to him (and if he try to…

historian David Crook he ousts the idea that Butlers education act was responsible for the ’11 plus’ or for the introduction of the ‘tripartite system’. He does however move quickly away from the discrepancies surrounding the Butler act and instead focuses on the development of the education system in the British state, and how these developments link back to the Butler act of 1944. Before he moves on to this development however, Macleod discusses, again with reference to David Crook, the…

also get him the worst job but the worst living accommodation and the fact that he is segregated from the white members on the ranch. Lennie isn’t as racist as the other ranch workers as he tries to grow a relationship with crooks while the rest of the workers are in town but crooks is very sceptical of him and doesn’t understand what he wants, this shows that Lennie is lonely and without George would have to find somebody else to look after him . Another foreshadow of Lennie’s future death is…

Hopes and dreams play a role of great importance in the novel Of Mice and Men. The author, John Steinbeck, uses the motivation provided by the dreams of characters to keep the novel progressing. In many ways, the individual dreams of the characters and the so-called “American Dream” provides the basis for the novel. Towards the end of the novel, many dreams are crushed when the characters were actually finding real hope. George and Lennie are two men who dream of having their own land with a…