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Crooks In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Crooks John Steinbeck wrote the novel Of Mice and Men of two ranchers, who came across a stable buck that is a Negro. The story of this stable buck is quite disconsolate, he has a crooked back on account of a horse that kicked him, which is how he got his name Crooks. Crooks is isolated from the rest in a separate room, “The boss gives him hell when he’s mad” (Steinbeck 20), and he has to take and deal with these conditions accordingly. However, Crooks is intelligent, lonely, and an expert. In the light of his dreaded life, Crooks is an intelligent man. The novel states that, “He reads a lot. Got books in his room” (20). Those including a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905, for Crooks has nobody to talk
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