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    barn until I could see who was inside. There were crooks‚ Candy and Lennie. I tried to stay quiet but as I tiptoed near the horses they all got alarmed and gave away my position. Their heads all turned in synch. “Curly ain’t been here‚” Candy Immediately hissed at me. Why does no one ever want to talk to me. A slight rage was starting to build up inside me. Like I didn’t know where Curley had gone. I looked around at their faces. Candy and crooks kept looking down at their feet. Meanwhile lennie

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    Compare how Shakespeare and Steinbeck present villains and victims in ‘Othello’ and ‘Of Mice and Men’. By Bushra Begum Both ‘Othello’ and ‘Of Mice and Men’ are tragedies about society’s villains and victims and how their pursuit of love‚ hopes and dreams leads them to death and destruction. William Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ (1603) is based on a Greek tragedy; the setting is in Venice and then Cyprus‚ which reflects Othello transforming into a powerful and dominant hero to a ‘Monstrous’ devil. Briefly

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    John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” John Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men was published in 1937‚ it tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small‚ two displaced migrant ranch workers who move from one place to another hoping to find new job opportunities during the Great Depression in California. This book refers to being independent‚ and finding “yourself”. Loneliness is a significant factor in several characters’ lives. The companionship of George and Lennie is the result of loneliness.

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    John Steinbeck was born on 27 February 1902 in Salinas‚ California. "Of Mice and Men" was published in 1973‚ it was immediately successful and Steinbeck was beginning to be recognised as an author. The novel is set in Soledad‚ California and is about two migrant agricultural labourers‚ George Milton and Lennie Small. The two workers travel together which are unlike most of the other migrants. Lennie has a body of a grown man but a mind of a child and relies on George to look after him. The story

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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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    Steinbeck’s book “Of Mice and Men”‚ one of my many obvious characters that experience loneliness is Crooks. Crooks is lonely because he is African American‚ he distances himself from the other men‚ and he comes off a bit too strong. One of the reasons he is lonely is because he is African American during the 1930’s. “’Cause I’m black. They play cards in there‚ but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well I tell you‚ all of you stink to me” (Steinbeck 68). The characters main problem with

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    Of Mice and MenCrook Analysis The old stable-hand admits to the very loneliness that George describes in the opening pages of the novel. ‘Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’’ Crooks speaks these words to Lennie in Section 4‚ on the night that Lennie visits Crooks in his room. His resentment typically comes out through his bitter‚ caustic wit‚ but in this passage he displays a sad‚ touching vulnerability too. Steinbeck describes Crooks as ‘a proud‚ aloof man’‚ which

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    Lennie. Don’t let him do it’” (Steinbeck 63). Since Lennie is extremely strong‚ George knows that he should let Lennie stick up for himself and not allow Curley to make him feel weak and inferior to the rest. George also accepts the fact that Lennie cannot remember tons of information that he has been told‚ “‘I’ll tell ya again. I ain’t got nothing better to do. Might jus’ as well spen’ all my time tellin’ you things and then you forget ‘em‚ and I tell you again’” (Steinbeck 4). This shows

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    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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    novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck some characters‚ when given the opportunity exercise their power over others to manipulate them. The characters that use their power to manipulate other characters is Crooks‚ Carlson and Curley’s wife. Each character in Of Mice and Men have some type of power‚ some are not as noticeable as Crooks’s power to manipulate others. Crooks is not a character the book tells a lot about but it does show the reader what kind of person he is. In the book Crooks tries to

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