Of Mice and Men has influenced how many people think about their lives and the everyday things they can do to better understand people. Many can feel the things that Crooks felt about his dreams, almost everyone can appreciate how George handled the situation with Lennie, and several can learn topics like loneliness, the American dream, and discrimination. The issues listed are difficult to find in the books people ignore. You must be able to dissect the words and learn what they say. So many have been through things that relate to these subjects and have felt and learned much from the underrated characters in this novella. Firstly, Crooks was a diminished and beaten-down man who once had goals, ambition, and drive in life. Unfortunately, it …show more content…
Crooks was someone who kept to himself and didn’t make friends easily, he was shoved into a corner and told that he couldn’t do the things he wanted to do just because he was different. I don’t have the same problem as he did, but I do have the problem of not being able to make friends easily, being shoved into a corner, and being told that I’m not smart enough or good enough to do the things that I want to do. I relate to crooks so much because I feel that I'm caged and can't do anything good with my life. I wished that I could see Crooks go with Lennie and George on their journey, because if he did then it would feel as though I could do it too. Crooks was beaten and bruised, he felt lonely and excluded just because he wasn’t like everyone else and I relate so much to that. There is a constant fear in me that I can’t be like everyone else and because of that, I feel alone in this world where you have to be like everyone else to be understood. Lennie may not have been trying to, but he helped crooks in a way that could change his life, he gave him hope. To add to the mention of Lennie, I deeply appreciate the way that George handled the situation with …show more content…
Most would think that it’s inhumane to do, that you shouldn’t kill someone you love, but what happens when they’re sick? What happens when there is no recovery? Many would want them to die peacefully and be with the people they love. I wouldn’t be able to bear it if I were George and allowed those men to hunt down the person I consider my brother and kill him in what I assume would be the most painful way possible. I deeply appreciate the way George killed Lennie because I think it was the only way that he could live. I wouldn’t be able to recognize and learn from this novel if I hadn’t learned that annotating novellas and classics like Of Mice and Men, can change the meaning of the book for people. Talking about the American dream is one thing, but talking about the broken American dream is another without annotation, you wouldn’t realize that is what Steinbeck is trying to say. Another thing I noticed when annotating, was the amount of times loneliness is talked about and mentioned, especially in a book about the story of
There are moments in which they are driven out of an emotional need to show immortalization to George or show deference to him. In the altercation between Lennie and Crooks, the controversy of companionship is raised. Crooks lives a life alone and he possesses a sense of enviousness towards the friendship that Lennie have a hand in with George. When Crooks wanted to make his point, he talks to Lennie about how his (Lennie's) world would fundamentally change if George left and went out on his own: Crooks advances this in discussing with Lennie the assumption such an action, suggesting that George might simply fall victim to getting hurt. However, Lennie paraphrases this vision as a threat of harm against George: At this moment, Lennie threatens Crooks through body language and voice inflection because of his motivation to chaperon George. The motivation of bulwarking George initiates his actions of becoming aggressive, something that Crooks immediately realizes in backing down from his initial stance. Lennie's motivations to champion George inspire his actions in wishing to do harm to anyone or anything that would cause danger to George.
The story ‘Of Mice and Men’ is set in a period of time known as the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a time where the stock market crashed, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless or striving exceptionally hard to keep their roof from falling in. The characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’ face many dilemmas, for instance Curley’s wife doesn’t get much attention from her husband and seeks it out from the other ranch members and Crooks can’t live a day without being singled out because of his race/colour. Both these problems relate to what I believe is the biggest problem in this book, loneliness. Loneliness has made Crook a very bitter and isolated individual.
Nobody likes to be forced to live in a barn, let alone to work only with the horses. Crooks spent most of his nights reading and he keeps away from others because of the way he is treated and this eventually leads to his very own emotional downfall. He is treated as an outcast and is forced to find friendship the only way he can, through the books that he reads. Crooks is fascinated by the strength of the friendship of Lennie and George, especially how close they are. Crooks said, "Well, s'pose, jus' s'pose he don't come back.
In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there is only one woman and one African American male announced in the reading. The women is Curley’s wife, her name is not stated in the novel, who is the only woman that lives on the farm. While Crooks, the African American male, lives on the farm in a little cottage away from the rest of the men that live there. As we keep reading, we soon get the idea that Steinbeck’s purpose of women and African Americans is to present: discrimination towards race, gender stereotyping, and the double standards in the predominantly male workplace.
Crooks was excluded from the group and had his own barn which was his only freedom. When Crooks said “Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he’s goin’ to come back. S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ’cause you was black. How’d you like that? ” (Steinbeck 72), he wants to seek someone’s company like Lennie has George’s. Crooks threatened Lennie into the fact that George might not come back because he wanted Lennie to feel loneliness, but to his disappointment he was in vain. Crooks also conveys through his body language and the way he speaks that he doesn’t want to be excluded from the others and wants to participate in all the activities with them.
If George wouldn’t have met Lennie, he would be a drunk in a whorehouse dying of cirrhosis. If Lennie didn’t meet George he would of died soon after his aunt did, because he would either have got himself in a bind with no one to help him or he would of simply wondered off and died of loneliness. & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp ; Crooks suffers from loneliness, because he is black, not because he is an unfriendly person. Crooks, though, may seem mean, but he is just tired of being rejected and disrespected by everybody around him. Crooks has a horrible life. He will never have a companion or anybody that will respect him unless he meets another black person.
Being lonely, bullied, and disabled are all problems in everyday life. People go through struggles like this just as Crooks did in the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. In this story, two main characters are searching for the American Dream. When they arrive to their job, they meet an African American man named Crooks. Crooks is mistreated by everybody around him and abandoned because of the color of his skin. Crooks faces many challenges throughout the story while dealing with the fact that he will never be treated the same as the others. The reader should feel sorry for Crooks because he faces many obstacles while being disabled, bullied, and lonely.
Loneliness is the central theme in the novel Of Mice and Men. Many of the characters show signs of being lonely, some more than others. Loneliness haunts Crooks deep inside. Crooks accepts things the way they are though. Crooks does not talk to the other men and they do not talk to him. This causes the greatest amount of loneliness in Crooks out of all the characters. Rejection can cause most people to become crazy, as it
In conclusion, the themes of predatory nature and the bonds between two men are important to the novella ”Of Mice and Men” because of when Curley got into a fight with Lennie, when George would be mean to Lennie, and when Crooks was also being mean to Lennie. There was a lot of great scenes in the novel. It seems that in this novella there is a lot of antagonists and only one main protagonists who is Lennie. There is so many themes that you could get out of this. This novella is definitely a good
In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck brings out the themes of Lonliness and companionship, and strengths and weaknesses through the actions, and quotations of the characters. Irony and foreshadowing play a large roll on how the story ends. Lennie and his habit of killing things not on purpose, but he is a victim of his own strength. George trying to pretend that his feelings for Lennie mean nothing. The entire novel is repetitive in themes and expressed views.
Steinbeck uses crooks as a symbol of racial injustice, he shows this throughout the novella omam to show how race affected people during the period of the great depression. In the Novella, Steinbeck depicts Crooks as someone who is ostracised from the bunkhouse and lives by himself. Steinbeck describes crooks bunk as "a long box filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung."
How would you feel if you were completely cast out and ignored, not being able to talk to anyone? John Steinbeck, who wrote Of Mice and Men writes about many characters who feel a similar feeling of complete aloneness. Out of the decent amount of characters in Of Mice and Men who generally feel alone, Crooks stands out as the most forlorn. Crooks is the loneliest character in Of Mice and Men because he is mostly isolated from his co-workers, and he is discriminated against because of his race, which is african-american.
Crooks has faced many conflicts and problems throughout the book. He is an old and lonely man who works and lives on a ranch. In the book Of Mice and Men, he is considered different and less important than the others. “Crooks’ bunk was a long box filled with straw, in which the blankets were flung” (Steinbeck 66). Since he is a Negro, he has his bed and belongings in another, more dirtier place than the rest of the workers.
Of Crooks and Friends: A Literary Analysis of the Character Crook In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, he stresses the impact of surroundings on human behavior and how humans react. The ranch that George and Lennie work on has several people working on it and all of them seem to be quite individual whether it is their mental state or physical state. The book demonstrates how the past of a person can affect how someone reacts and interacts in present time, along with the effects of preconceived notions toward stereotypes. Crooks s a man working on the ranch is black and Crooks demonstrates this point.
The overall setting of Of Mice and Men is a farm in California; however, this novel has four major settings. These include the clearing by the pond, the bunkhouse, Crook’s room, and the barn. Each is important in its own unique way. The clearing by the pond is important because it is the place where George and Lennie meet when Lennie is in trouble. The Bunkhouse is important because it is where all the men live and where they entertain themselves. Their lives are very plain and they are all very lonely. All of the details about the bunkhouse describe to the reader the lifestyle of the characters and provides a view of what they have to live with. For example, “Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted.” Crook’s room is where we learn the inner lives of Crooks, Lennie, Curley’s wife, and Candy. This part of the novel sheds a light on the life of Crooks. It shows that he is a man of learning because he has all of these books and magazines lying around the floor and his bed. These four major sett...