Of Mice And Men Crooks Body Paragraph

Body Paragraph 2 Subsequently, people turn to cruelty in order to fulfill their esteem needs. When George and the rest of the guys are out in town to have a drink, Lennie sees Crooks light open and decides to go inside of his room. “Well I got a right to have a light . You gone on and get outta my room. I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in my room”(68). Back in the 30’s, segregation was a big problem. People whose skin was colored didn’t have the same rights as white men. Crooks is isolated from the rest of the guys because he is black and he gets put into a broken old shack instead of a real bunkhouse. In this quote, Crooks feels that if the men aren’t letting him in the bunkhouse, why should he let some white man come

After all, that was the only place he could go in without being afraid of getting kicked out. As the Golden and Silver Rule state, “Treat others the way you want to be treated. Don’t treat others in ways that you would not like to be treated.” These two rules are significant because they tell why Crooks isn’t letting Lennie into his bunk. In other words, the men were treating Crooks cruelly by not letting him in the bunkhouse, so he did the same thing to them. When Curley’s wife comes in looking for Curley, she finds herself looking for him in Crooks cabin. Crooks starts complaining that she has no right to come in his room so Curley’s wife responses. “Well you keep your place then, Nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny. Crooks had reduced himself to nothing”(81). Curley’s wife is showing her true power of cruelty here. This quote telling us that colored men didn’t have much power in the 30’s and they were