The Character of Crooks is shown as a seemingly minor character in John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”‚ however being the only black man in the novel and through all the attitudes shown towards him‚ he plays a major role in representing how ‘coloured’ men were abused and discriminated during the Depression-era by racism. Due to the racist behaviour towards him we are shown that he is the lonliest of characters. Also‚ throughout the novel we are shown different sides of him by the author to develop
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January 2013 Crooks Crooks (named for his crooked back) is the stable hand who works on the ranch. He was born free on land owned by his father. When Crooks was young‚ he played with white kids and lived in freedom from racists. He lives now by himself in a barn on the ranch because he is the only black man on the ranch. Crooks is bookish and likes to keep his room neat‚ but he has been beaten down by loneliness and prejudicial treatment and now he is defensive to everything. Crooks is afraid to
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personages of Crooks and Curley. When the racially isolated Crooks‚ the stable worker‚ finds Lennie in the barn‚ he is hostile and then taunts him cruelly: ’George know what he’s about. Jus’talks‚ an’ you don’t understand nothing....This is just a nigger talkin’..... So it don’t mean nothing‚ see? You couldn’t remember it anyways....S’pose George don’t come back no more...What’ll you do then?’.... Crooks’ face lighted with pleasure in his torture. At the same time that Crooks tortures Lennie
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This book is a diary that goes through the last two years of a young teenage girl’s life‚ who got infected with the HIV virus after being date raped . The girl in the book is named Nancy and she is important enough to have her diary published because her life went from being a normal teenage girl with normal problems‚ to an abnormal girl with AIDS and abnormal problems. She agreed to have her diary published so that other people who think that AIDS and rape can’t ever happen to them can have
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Two men travel to find work on a ranch in California. The characters Crook‚ Candy‚ and Curly’s wife all exemplify loneliness and isolation. Crook shows loneliness in the book. Crooks is the only black guy on the ranch. Crooks says‚ “S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunk house and play rummy cause you was black”(80). What Crooks is saying is he wants a friend . This is important because it shows how Crooks is excluded out. Crooks is never aloud to play cards ‚ because he cant go in the bunkhouse
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PIONEER DIARIES The Oregon Trail was much more than a pathway to the state of Oregon; it was the only practical corridor to the entire western United States. The places we now know as Washington‚ Oregon‚ California‚ Nevada‚ Idaho and Utah would probably not be a part of the United States today were it not for the Oregon Trail. That’s because the Trail was the only feasible way for settlers to get across the mountains. The journey west on the Oregon Trail was exceptionally difficult by today’s standards
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"A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody." (pg.72) In John Stienback’s Of Mice And Men‚ Crooks was able to live a life filled with loneliness and persecution. He was shoved aside on the farm‚ ignored and alone. He endured the persecution against him because he was an African-American. Because Crooks existed in conditions that could drive one insane‚ he is a survivor. Crooks did not live in the bunkhouse with the other men‚ but lived in the harness room of the barn‚ alone. It was not only not living
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Document 28-1 From a war Nurse’s Diary 1918 This excerpt comes from the diary of a British nurse during World War I. In the entry the nurse is talking about her venture at The Fort of Walamen‚ detailing the lack of water supply and pile of dead bodies of the British and Belgian men. Because water supply was limited they had to use semi-pure water from the Scheldt that they boiled‚ to operate on the wounded soldiers‚ this was known as fomentation. While arriving to Antwerp there was a big explosion
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Write a one or two paragraph diary entry explaining how the soldiers viewed their experience with their enemies. Mention in your diary the propaganda these men may have been subjected to and explain if and how their attitudes had changed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Diary‚ It is 2:00 in the morning and most of our men are asleep in their dugouts - yet I could not sleep myself before writing to you
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I often feel weak‚ and more often than not‚ I fail to meet expectations. I know this‚ and every day I resolved to do better." November 7‚ 1942 Anne reveals the determination and desire to improve herself that marks her character as revealed in the diary. 3. "I wander from room to room‚ climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage. ’Let me out‚ where there’s fresh air and laughter!’ a voice within
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