Crooks- quotes

• “I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse… Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black.“ -(repitition)
• “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody”
• ‘A mauled copy of the California Civil Code for 1905’
• “S’pose George don’t come back no more.“ Crook’s face lightened with pleasure in his tortur’
• ‘Crook’s had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego…’
• ‘Crook‘s the negro stable buc had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn.’
• ‘On pegs were also pieces of harness; a split collar with the horse hair stuffing sticking out, a broken hame, and a trace chain with its leather covering split.’
• ’His lean face was lined with deep black wrinkles and he had thin pain-tightened lips…’
• ‘Nobody got any right in here but me.’
• “They’ll take ya to the booby hatch. They’ll tie you up with a collar like a dog.” -(simile)
• ‘Crook’s was a proud alouf man. He kept his distance and demanded that other people keep theirs’
• ‘A range of medicine bottles for himself and for the horses.’
• "He was the only black man on the ranch, and he slept alone in an old abandoned cabin down by the barn." - Chapter 10