Within the limited pages of the story Of Mice And Men, one is impacted by the tremendous amount of loneliness Crooks feels and how he behaves because of his loneliness and what he does to overcome it For example, Crooks is a stable buck, on a farm, which is surrounded by white people that are racist. ... Equally important, as the story progresses Crooks is so desperate for attention that when Lennie a mentally challenged worker comes to the stable, Crooks attempts to scare Lennie. ... Consequently, Lennie becomes scared and panics, then tries to attack Crooks. However, Crooks understands that...

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Loneliness in Of Mice and Men At one point in everyone's life they will experience the feeling of being alone and this feeling of loneliness can cause anger, depression and melancholy. In this novel Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck examines the theme of loneliness. ... Three isolated individuals in Of Mice and Men are Candy, the old swamper, Curley's wife, the only female on the ranch, and Crooks, the stable buck and only African American on the premises. ... He feels that she is untrustworthy around the other men on the ranch. ... Crooks is an Outcast on the ranch because...

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In his book, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck realistically portrays the hardships of life and how people unnecessarily suffered during those years because of that cruel and unjust treatment. Of Mice and Men goes even deeper into the issue and illustrates prejudice in more ways than just skin color. ... The symbols of insignificance and weakness represent Crooks. ... In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows how people are unjustly treated by others simply because they are different by either their race or social class. ... Because of this cruelty that most of the characters in Of Mice and Men suffer, lif...

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The theme of loneliness runs deep through the fabrication of the novel, Of Mice and Men tying a majority of the characters together both male and female. ... They do not however, set out to hurt him intentionally, but the usage of the term "nigger" tells us the reader that black men, like Crooks, were constantly degraded both verbally and physically by whites. ... Crooks owns a copy of the California civil code suggesting that he knows his rights even though he probably is not treated the way men are supposed to be treated in the book. ... Crooks is also very jealous of the relationship that G...

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Of Mice and Men In terms of emotional stability, there is only one thing in life that is needs and that is friends. ... In the novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck makes a descriptive theme of loneliness as it affects many characters on the ranch. The characters, Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife all exhibit some form of loneliness. Crooks is lonely because he is the only black man on the ranch. ... "(75) The full extent of Crook's suffering is being show clearly, when Crooks lashes out at Lennie. ...

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In "Of Mice and Men", the one character that really stands out as being truly lonely is Crooks, the old black stable hand. Crooks gets his name from the shape of his back; hunched over, crooked, and crippled. He is forced to sleep in the stable with the animals, and isn't included in any of the men's leisure activities. When the other men go to town and only Lennie and Crooks stay behind, Lennie goes into Crooks room to talk to him. ... At this time they were not that lucky, and Crooks had to bear the brunt of it. ...

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In the book "of Mice and Men" I am going to look at 3 different characters and compare them and how they cope with this disease. ... Crooks has no reply to this. ... John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice And Men' in 1937. It is based on two men, George and Lennie, who travelled from ranch to ranch. ... The story Of Mice And Men' is set in 1930's America. ...

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Crooks is black and the blacks are seen as outcasts in this time. ... Crooks is the stable buck. ... Crooks is the main person who knows it, and because of that he has moved himself further away. ... That is what Of Mice and Men is about. ...

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Outsiders All of the people in "Of mice and men" are outsiders in there own right, they have all been disallowed, or to a certain extent not wanted to have certain rights because of things such a sex, race and different disabilities. ... Crooks is a black man in the 1930s, this was especially not a nice time to be a black person. ... This point is especially put across in the quote by Curley's wife when Crooks talks to her in a objective way on page 85 "Well, you keep your place then, Nigger. ... The language used to talk to Crooks for example "Nigger", is offensive; it also labels him...

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• Grade Level: High School