Dreams In Of Mice And Men By John Steinbeck

Theodore Roosevelt once said “Believe you can and you're halfway there” But this isn't true, dreams don’t always come true. No matter how hard you try to achieve them, some dreams are just impossible. And this is prevalent in the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The book is set on a ranch in California during the great depression. The main characters are George Milton and Lennie Smalls, they are migrant workers on the ranch and it is their dream to own their own farm and live off the land and not have to work for anyone. George takes care of Lennie because Lennie is mentally disabled and cannot take care of himself. Lennie himself and George in trouble a lot, before they came to the ranch they were at a town called weed Lennie

The other men on the ranch do not allow him to stay in the bunkhouse with them and he is excluded from their group. Crooks dreams of companionship. On the ranch he is isolated and the other men do not talk to him and when they do it is to insult him. In chapter 4 on slide 11 it says “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya,” he cried, “I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.” In this quote crooks tells Lennie that a man gets lonely if he doesn't have someone and that he gets sick, because of not having anyone to talk to and being isolated on the ranch. Crooks is black and crippled during the great depression, segregation is still legal and it is common for people to be racist, Crooks is discriminated against and is not allowed to live with the other men and he cant play cards with them or live in the bunkhouse. An example is in chapter 4 on slide 4 “They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me.” Crooks is segregated from the other men, he does not talk to them and he has to stay away from them. He is the only black person on the ranch so he is incredibly lonely. Crook’s dream is destroyed when Curley's Wife comes to the barn and insults him. She tells him that she could get him lynched if he does not stop talking to her. In chapter 4 slide 23 it says “Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego-nothing to arouse either like or dislike. He said, "Yes, ma'am," and his voice was toneless.” In the beginning of the chapter crooks was engaged and when he was talking to Lennie and Candy. He defended himself when Curley’s Wife first came in but when she put him in his ‘place’ he stopped talking and when Curley’s Wife left he made Lennie and Candy leave. In the beginning