Examples Of Discrimination In Of Mice And Men
The Hardness About Discrimination
In this world there are people that don’t accept that there are others out there that look different from them. While others will hate the fact that someone different lives in the same world that they do. Some will try to bring others down that look different from them or can’t do certain things that they can, and because of who they are. Like Crooks, Curley’s wife and Candy learn this in the Book. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, discrimination will show you how hard it can be on people and change their thinking. For example hurting them mentally, and making them feel like less when around different people.
Crooks the “stable buck”, is a black man that has that certain name because he got his spine bent from a horse kicking its back. When talking about crooks he is different from the others mainly because of his skin color. People treat him horribly and he lives in small crappy shed in the side of the barn all because he is different. Crooks now explains what people say to prove that people won’t like crooks, “‘Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black.They say I stink’” (68). This shows that crooks has to go through all the hate and can’t even play cards because the people that are different from him won’t let him do certain things. …show more content…
Candy is an old man that has spent a lot of years living and working on the ranch.
Other than being old he is also handicapped with only one arm. In the novel he is being looked on as a man that people wait for to die off. Meaning that people find him useless because of his lost hand and don’t take him when the rest of the guys leave the ranch to go have fun. Curley’s wife says “‘Saturday night . Ever’body out doin’ som’pin’. Ever’body! An’ what am I doin’?Standing here talking to a bunch of bindle stiffs - a n****r an’ a dum - dum and a lousy ol’ sheep’” (78). This shows that Candy was left behind because he is very old and is
handicapped.
Curley’s wife is a girl that likes to wander around the ranch a lot. People that live on the ranch don’t like her as much because they know that she is a walking trap. People also discriminate her because she is a female. People in the novel say that she should stay in the house and not bother the men all the time. She says “‘What’s the matter with me? Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am anyways?’” (87). This shows that the men living on the ranch discriminate her for being a female and calling her a trap.
In the end of the story, discrimination can lead to more hate and make more conflict than peace, and looking at people in a lesser way is not okay. Knowing this, people like Crooks,Candy, and Curley’s wife have to go through discrimination while living with other human beings l
In this world there are people that don’t accept that there are others out there that look different from them. While others will hate the fact that someone different lives in the same world that they do. Some will try to bring others down that look different from them or can’t do certain things that they can, and because of who they are. Like Crooks, Curley’s wife and Candy learn this in the Book. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, discrimination will show you how hard it can be on people and change their thinking. For example hurting them mentally, and making them feel like less when around different people.
Crooks the “stable buck”, is a black man that has that certain name because he got his spine bent from a horse kicking its back. When talking about crooks he is different from the others mainly because of his skin color. People treat him horribly and he lives in small crappy shed in the side of the barn all because he is different. Crooks now explains what people say to prove that people won’t like crooks, “‘Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black.They say I stink’” (68). This shows that crooks has to go through all the hate and can’t even play cards because the people that are different from him won’t let him do certain things. …show more content…
Candy is an old man that has spent a lot of years living and working on the ranch.
Other than being old he is also handicapped with only one arm. In the novel he is being looked on as a man that people wait for to die off. Meaning that people find him useless because of his lost hand and don’t take him when the rest of the guys leave the ranch to go have fun. Curley’s wife says “‘Saturday night . Ever’body out doin’ som’pin’. Ever’body! An’ what am I doin’?Standing here talking to a bunch of bindle stiffs - a n****r an’ a dum - dum and a lousy ol’ sheep’” (78). This shows that Candy was left behind because he is very old and is
handicapped.
Curley’s wife is a girl that likes to wander around the ranch a lot. People that live on the ranch don’t like her as much because they know that she is a walking trap. People also discriminate her because she is a female. People in the novel say that she should stay in the house and not bother the men all the time. She says “‘What’s the matter with me? Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am anyways?’” (87). This shows that the men living on the ranch discriminate her for being a female and calling her a trap.
In the end of the story, discrimination can lead to more hate and make more conflict than peace, and looking at people in a lesser way is not okay. Knowing this, people like Crooks,Candy, and Curley’s wife have to go through discrimination while living with other human beings l