essay on sympathy and dislike for the chracter crooks in the book "of mice and men"
Ca Essay on Crooks on why he has the most sympathy and dislike
Steinbeck creates sympathy for crooks with his creation of his appearance to us; he is a “busted back nigger,” which gives us the impression that he can’t do anything Manuel because of his back, with this problem he might be concede as useless by the fact that he works on a ranch and while he is only a stable buck, it still concedes quite a lot for a man with severe back problems who should really be having medical help rather than cleaning out the stables. With his appearance it creates sympathy because of these reasons it makes us give him our sympathy but it also makes us feel privilege because we are lucky to have such good health care and support but in the 1930’s where this book is set in, they didn’t have this and so that is how Steinbeck creates sympathy for crooks with his appearance
Steinbeck also creates sympathy for Crooks with him being black in a time where they were not equal to white men. In the book, the white men do not call him by his own name when they are asking for his help but address him with the term “nigger” which is incredibly racist because it shows that he is just a black man and they do not care about him because he is black. Steinbeck makes the reader feel sympathy for him because of the characters refer to him as a “nigger” and in today’s society this would be a shocking thing to say to a black person but in those times, it was the norm and this makes us have sympathy for him because of the inequality in the time that he is living in. Also there are casual racist remarks in the book that go unnoticed with them banning him from the bunkhouse and only at Christmas “they let the nigger in” which is some kind of special treat for a black person in those days to actually be allowed to be in a white man room.
Steinbeck uses discrimination in his book to make the reader have sympathy for crooks because when Curley’s wife tells him that she could “get him strung up by a
Steinbeck creates sympathy for crooks with his creation of his appearance to us; he is a “busted back nigger,” which gives us the impression that he can’t do anything Manuel because of his back, with this problem he might be concede as useless by the fact that he works on a ranch and while he is only a stable buck, it still concedes quite a lot for a man with severe back problems who should really be having medical help rather than cleaning out the stables. With his appearance it creates sympathy because of these reasons it makes us give him our sympathy but it also makes us feel privilege because we are lucky to have such good health care and support but in the 1930’s where this book is set in, they didn’t have this and so that is how Steinbeck creates sympathy for crooks with his appearance
Steinbeck also creates sympathy for Crooks with him being black in a time where they were not equal to white men. In the book, the white men do not call him by his own name when they are asking for his help but address him with the term “nigger” which is incredibly racist because it shows that he is just a black man and they do not care about him because he is black. Steinbeck makes the reader feel sympathy for him because of the characters refer to him as a “nigger” and in today’s society this would be a shocking thing to say to a black person but in those times, it was the norm and this makes us have sympathy for him because of the inequality in the time that he is living in. Also there are casual racist remarks in the book that go unnoticed with them banning him from the bunkhouse and only at Christmas “they let the nigger in” which is some kind of special treat for a black person in those days to actually be allowed to be in a white man room.
Steinbeck uses discrimination in his book to make the reader have sympathy for crooks because when Curley’s wife tells him that she could “get him strung up by a