How does Steinbeck present the character Crooks in Of Mice and Men? To what extent do you sympathise with him as a character? Steinbeck represents the character‚ Crooks‚ by showing the effects of discrimination. He is referred to as the ‘black’ stable buck and is named Crooks‚ due to the crook in his back‚ which was a result of being kicked in the back by a horse. The character is shown as reasonably literate‚ due to the possession of his books‚ which he uses as compensation to his loneliness. The
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saving up. He and his wifey been fussing‚ It’s time for making up. The recessions been digging in you‚ It’s been really rough‚ But he believes his change is here to stay. It was a Thursday night‚ April first. He’s sitting there in traffic on his way home from work. He checks his voicemail it’s his mother. She’s got multiple lumps in her breast and they hurt. She wants him to pray that it’s not cancerous. Broke the news to your daddy and he’s takin it the worst. Cause honestly she knew for
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Brandon Gonzalez Per. 3 APUSH 1/25/11 APUSH Ch. 33 Assignment I. 1. The three adjectives I would use to describe the Kaiser portrayed in this cartoon would be evil‚ defiant and powerful. The Kaiser’s sword‚ hat and cape and altogether his outfit give me the impression that he is a powerful figure. The cartoonist creates an evil impression of the Kaiser by the dark color the cartoonist uses for the Kaiser and also the skull on the flag that is located next to the Kaiser. Also the disapproving
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1 Discuss the various ways in which drug and alcohol abuse affect quality of life. Be sure to include physical‚ mental‚ social‚ and economic effects. Both drug and alcohol dramatically change the way they behave. Some of the effects of alcohol it can cause more than 30 medical problems the book lists many different problems. The book includes brain damage. It mentions that it messes up your cognitive functions which will cause you to have the coordination of a 10-year-old. It also causes fetal alcohol
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The truth is not always going to be the same for everyone. In Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck‚ the narrator John Steinbeck and his poodle Charley go to the Badlands in North Dakota While on this treacherous journey they meet two people who seem like polar opposites. He meets a man of few words who had mere conversations and a talkative old woman who could not seem to know when to keep her mouth shut. These two people live in the same environment‚ yet they reacted differently to the environmental
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Compare the ways in which the theme of insanity is presented in the novels “the Wasp Factory” and “the Collector”. Miles Cooper Iain Banks and John Fowles have successfully written books portraying insanity‚ with the effective use of many techniques. Language‚ in the books‚ “The Collector” and “The Wasp Factory” has been used to great effect as well as enthralling plots and the development of characters exhibiting strange behaviour to achieve realistically insane characters. Misogyny
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Lujayn Hourani Compare the ways in which Othello and Gatsby are presented when they are first introduced to the reader. (Focus on chapters 3 & 4 of Gatsby and Act 1 Sc 2 & 3 in Othello.) Upon reading Shakespeare’s “Othello” and Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ many similarities can be identified between the protagonists Othello and Jay Gatsby. These two pieces of literature (Although written in different periods of time‚ where the dominant themes in literature varied) posed questions of love and
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the parable‚ The Pearl‚ Steinbeck uses symbolism extensively to create and develop the novel’s themes. The pearl of the book’s title is a symbol‚ which develops from a paradise of hopes and dreams‚ to a destructive centre of evil. The key symbol of the pearl generates the theme of the destructive nature of greed throughout the book. The doctor as a symbol develops the theme of oppression. Steinbeck elaborates the theme of humanity in the natural world by changing the way he describes nature. The
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and Kino’s fiery wrath obviously displayed a disturbance within “the hierarchal order within the family” (GCB). Stereotypically‚ women are thought to be the ones rendered useless by their hysteria‚ and in the “The Great Chain of Being”‚ the man is supposed to be above his wife. The Pearl then goes on to directly state that Kino “was helpless‚ he was in the way” (Steinbeck 6)‚ while Juana took swift control of the situation. But as stated by “The Great Chain of Being”‚ betraying one’s nature and leaving
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John Steinbeck was born on February 27‚ 1902 in Salinas‚ California. He died at the age of 64 on December 20‚ 1968. Steinbeck is best known for his novels; East of Eden in 1952‚ The Grapes of Wrath in 1939‚ and Of Mice and Men in 1937. His mother was a school teacher‚ and his father a Monterey County Treasurer. Often‚ Steinbeck himself worked on local farms as a laborer (“John”). He attended Stanford studying both marine biology and English‚ but after making the decision to pursue writing Steinbeck
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