The Discrimination action of the 1930s
By reading “Of Mice and Men”, John Steinbeck, is showing a huge piece of discrimination by putting Crooks in the book as the only African American on the ranch. They push him around and don't even want him there but come to accept him. Are able to work with them as a person of color and it shows major respect to the colored. To see the perspective of a northern colored guy getting accepted. He wants to show how it is being the only black guy for miles and for being the only colored guy in a white society, they just want everyone to know how they were treated in the 1930’s.
They welcome Crooks to the ranch but he still isn't “equal” with the white people on the ranch. He is seen as a payed slave that they can make fun of and he can't do anything about it. “I’m smarter than you guys think”. They also only allow him to play with them and do anything but when bedtime comes around they send him off to the “bedroom” which is in the barn as a side room. That alone screams discrimination by not letting him sleep with the white folk then they keep making fun of him. I mean he is one of the most
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It is 30 times worse back then compared to now and now kids can't even handle being called the N word by white people. This crazy because back then that was the last thing to worry about.looking into the book by Steinbeck was showing how northern African Americans weren’t slaves but they weren’t people either. They were these figures that no one cared about like they were pointless things on the earth. They just wanted to show how it feels to be an nothing black guy in a white area. If it comes to the fact they don't even know or call him by his actual name is disgusting. He wants to show how it is being the only black guy for miles or for being the only colored guy in a white society, they just want everyone to know how they were treated in the