Crooks

    Cards (5)

    • bitter
      • “You guys is just kiddin’ yourself. You’ll talk about it a hell of a lot, but you won’t get no land.
      • Crooks demoralizes Lennie’s dream in the quote because as a black man dreams are unrealistic for him  
      • Crooks uses bitterness to give Lennie a sense of his reality so that someone can understand how the world is different for black people  
    • lonely
      • “A guy needs somebody – to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.”
      • This quote shows Crooks’ need for human connection 
      • Shows he is aware of the importance of having a companion so it causes him to painfully struggle  
    • lonely
      • "Crooks’ bunk was a long box filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung.
      • The quote explains his physical loneliness due to his living conditions compared to the other men 
      • Highlights the immense exclusion he is exposed to which cause his mental health to be poor 
    • resilient
      • "You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me."
      • Crooks uses dominance which shows his resilience, due to him having very little power, to have control over the situation  
    • context
      • In the 1930s there was a lot of racial segregation due to the Jim Crow laws that were enforced in the South
      • African Americans were often made to live in poorer conditions on farms and had significantly less power
      • This explains why crooks was separated from the other men in poorer facilities and had a worse job