“Read and annotate the passage and write about how Steinbeck uses details to present Crooks in this extract. Explain the importance of what the reader learns here in terms of the novel as a whole” In the first four paragraphs of Chapter four‚ the reader is already aware of how lonely and broken‚ both physically and mentally‚ Crooks is. However‚ he is clever and proud. Crooks‚ “the negro stable buck” is restricted from communicating with the other workers as he had “his bunk in the harness room"
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Book analysis of mice ond men. The authors name is john steinbeck‚ and he lived from 1902 – 1968. He won the nobel prize for literature in 1962. And he has writen alot of books. Like the pastures oh heaven (1932)‚ in dubious battle(1936)‚ the long valley (1938)‚ the gapes of wrath (1939)‚ the moon is down (1942)‚ cannery row (1945)‚ the pearl (1947)‚ the red pony (1949)‚ burning bright (1950)‚ east of eden (1952) sweet Thursday (1954) and the winter of our discontent (1961). It start whit Georg
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Wednesday 21st November 2012 Quaiyum Miah Explore how Steinbeck presents the theme of power and powerlessness in the relationships between characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’. Focus on the events in chapter 4. The theme of power and powerlessness in chapter 4 of ‘Mice and Men’ is presented by Steinbeck in various ways. For example power is displayed though imagery‚ characterisation and dialogue. The main theme of power in Steinbeck’s novella
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In this section of the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Steinbeck presents the black Stable Buck‚ Crooks‚ as petulant‚ lonely‚ yet he is not portrayed by Steinbeck in a stereotypical manor. In the setting description of Crooks’ isolated bunk‚ it is described that he owns a “tattered dictionary” and a book on Californian Law. This demonstrates to the audience how he is well educated. A working-class black person during the Depression era of 1930s America would have been unlikely to grow
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In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ John Steinbeck tells the story of two best friends living life on the run‚ struggling to keep a steady job working as ranch hands. George and Lennie are faced with many obstacles throughout the course of this book‚ beginning with Lennie and his slow mindedness‚ George is always side by side with Lennie‚ practically holding his hand to coach him through life. The story begins with the two men running away from Weed‚ the ranch they were previously employed at; we later
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How does John Steinbeck present Curley’s wife in “Of mice and men”? John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” is set in 1930’s America during the Great Depression and gives the reader a glimpse of the hardships of life back then and the social oppression. The theme running throughout the book is of a friendship between two men amidst dreams that they have‚ and of dreams being crushed. Curley’s wife is an important character in the book. John Steinbeck presents her in different ways throughout the novel
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In the novel‚ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ foreshadowing is used to give the readers an idea to what could happen towards the end of the book. There is slight reference‚ which hint slightly‚ and also direct parallel of the situation‚ with Candy and his dog. There are episodes in the novel where Lennie’s physical strength and childlike incompetence‚ which are presented to emphasise the instinctive threat‚ which he poses. When George talks of what happened in Weed‚ he proclaims that Lennie
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life. In Of Mice and Men‚ John Steinbeck shows good examples of social isolation affecting humanity and exposing how helpless and pathetic people can become without relations. No matter how strong or prosperous people are‚ Steinbeck shows what becomes of people when loneliness manipulates their attitude towards life. Discrimination is a form of social isolation that Steinbeck uses to show how people can be secluded from others. Take for example‚ Crooks‚ one of the most reclusive character in the novel
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Lennie and Crooks are two weak characters in of Mice and Men. In the tough working environment which was America’s 1920s‚ the time of the Great Depression‚ there was no place for mentally or physically insufficient people‚ it was survival of the fittest and “every man for himself.” We learn of Lennie’s non-existent capacity to care for himself early on in the novel. Even at the very start of the novel we see that “The two men walked in single file down the path‚ and even in the open one stayed behind
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10th October 2013 York notes "crooks is an illustration of the way in which loneliness can corrupt and destroy and man" crooks: no one gets into heaven and no one gets their dreams takes a very sinister view on life and likes to worry people about the negatives doesn’t believe that dreams can come true crooks and loneliness page 77- five quotes about crooks past‚ five on isolation and five on being a twisted human being past "I was born right here in California" "my old man
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