Crooks is a instrestring character according to the story because he is only mentioned once or twice. He is interesting because by the two times he was mention you could tell right away that crooks is one of the loneliest people on the farm just like curley wife. In the story crooks is the only black person on the farm and this was a time of segregation so white people were not allowed to talk to black people. Crooks was lonely according to the story because he lives in his own bunk and is separated from everyone. Crooks has no one to talk to on the farm.
Crooks (named crooks after being kicked in the back by a horse) is a very controversial character as he is the only black member of the farm and doesn’t actually feature to much in the book. When he is in it though most of what we find out is when Lenny walks into his room. From the start its clear that crooks is a very abused and defensive because he says “You got no right to come in my room” as soon as he notices Lennie stood in his room even though Lennie doesn’t really see any difference between skin colour and doesn’t understand why this is happening. Most of what can be known about Crooks is from the items in his room. His room is actually connected to the barn showing they do not value him as a person but only as a stable buck.
Crooks is very lonely and solitude for being alone every day. As a result, he wants to have friends who he can communicate with. No one has come into his room except for Slim and the boss, so when Lennie and Candy come, it is difficult for Crooks to “conceal his pleasure with anger” (75). Although he wants to express anger about people coming into his room, inside he is happy about it and enjoys it. This instability and loneliness that he has leads him to say how he could work for George, Lennie, and Candy on their farm.
Loneliness can overcome companionship Is it better to love than not be loved at all? It is better to experience love because if you don't then you will be lonely. You may not feel the pain that comes with the price of love, you could also not experience the joy that love provides. The novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Introduces the effects of isolation through its characters. Steinbeck depicts the essential loneliness of ranch life in California and their desire for companionship.
Throughout the course of history the Great Depression affected the United States in their economy , it lasted 10 years it was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. Lennie and George had numerous of risks in the ranches, they didn't have no one who would help them if they were sick or anything else. The author show us the good relationship of Lennie and George how they care of each other. This shows that George is a good friend but maybe this is not his decision to take care of him he feels sorry for him, I also seen in this text that Lennie receives benefits of George friendship because he is being responsible for him he takes care of him, even though he is a trouble maker George is there for Lennie.
When we think of loneliness, the first thought that comes to mind is actually being alone with no one around you. Yet when Crooks is put into the picture with the thought of being alone, he is not classified as being alone when it comes to people being around him, rather he is solo when it comes to his race and the difference when it comes to the entitlement of doing things. Because of Crooks’s skintone, he is classified as just a stable buck and nothing more. As the stable buck, not many workers on the ranch show interest or sympathy for him other than just one or two. On page 75, Crooks talks about one of the only workers that comes into his room other than the boss.
He whines about how books are not enough, and how a man needs an actual person to not go crazy. Crooks acts this way because of his lack of companions, he turned to material items to compromise for it, but what he really needs is an actual person to be his friend. He doesn’t care who it is, as long as it’s someone who’s willing. Crooks, the stable buck, is the loneliest man on the ranch due to racism, and based on the way he acts. He is the only black man on a ranch full of white men, and it’s the 1930’s where discrimination against anyone of his race is
Crooks are the only person of color on the farm and are constantly separated from everybody else. It also does not help his cause because everybody lives in the bunkhouse with the exception of curley and curley's wife, and he is in his own separate barn. Crooks is also one of the lonliest people on the farm and is isolated from others because of his skin color. Because of this, he contains little to no power, but the power he contains is informational. He once said to Lennie, ““Maybe you can see it now.
He is a crippled black man, with a crooked black, which explains the story behind his name. Crooks lives in his own room secluded from everyone else on the ranch. Due to this prejudice, Crooks became truly lonely. He is the only black man on the ranch. The only person who “reaches” out to Crooks in the novel is Lennie.
When Curley’s wife, a White woman, harasses the men in Crooks’ room, he yells at her to leave them alone, only backing down when she threatens to have him lynched. This incident shows that Crooks will not allow other people to walk over him and by yelling at Curley’s Wife he recognizes that he deserves the same respect the other ranchers have. Crooks says to Lennie “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me” (Steinbeck 68).
Crooks is unordinary in a very subtle way, and it’s not because of his race, or because he’s lonely; it’s because of how his loneliness is represented in the text and how the author shows how isolation has affected him as an adult. In multiple novels or even movies, the lonely character is simply represented as someone who is unhappy, quiet, and slightly distrusts or questions people when they make the slightest attempt to be kind, welcoming, and make the feel wanted. Additionally, if the character continues to grow up feeling isolated, then they become cunning and vengeful towards those who they believe are the blame for their distrust and years of loneliness. Though Crooks may be able to partially identify with these characters, his confession is what separates himself from them. In the text, Crooks starts to play with Lennie’s mind, his trust for George, and the confidence that George will always come back for him.
Steinbeck’s character Crooks is the most important character from the novella, ‘Of Mice and Men’ because of the social message Steinbeck delivers through the hardship Crooks faces. Both the language and structural skills used to deliver the message Steinbeck greatly wants the people of the present and future to be aware of, is important in his (the author's) telling of Crooks’ past, present and the impacts it has on the characters views for the future. Of mice and men is set in 1930s America where racism was ever-present and not seen as highly offensive like it is in the world nowadays. Steinbeck makes this clear when Crooks is first mentioned in chapter two: “the stable buck’s a nigger” - Candy. There is a lot you can say about the attitudes
Huy Nguyen. A great man once said “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing”- Abraham Lincoln. Although William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and the novel 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup seem like a very dissimilar texts, both texts develop the theme of appearance vs. reality, particularly through suspense in which order to convey the message to the reader that people are not who they seem to be.
This is due to the absence of friendship because Crooks is well aware he has no one to support him if he stands up against Curley’s wife and he alone can barely prove to be any harm to Curley’s wife. The reader, also realises this is the first time Crooks stands up to protect himself and his new friends which shows that the presence of this new friendship has brought up confidence in
“Guys don’t come into a colored man’s room very much. Nobody been here but Slim. Slim an’ the boss.” Crooks is telling Lennie and Candy no one likes his and he’s lonely because simply of his color.
