Of Mice and Men
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Of Mice and Men
After reading the book I have decided to write my book report on one of the characters of the story, Crooks. Through him, the subject of racism and segregation is presented. He first appears in the story on Chapter 3 to tell Slim that he had prepared the tar as Slim had asked him to do. Crooks also warns him about Lennie, who had been handling the puppies too much. That’s the all the information we get from him at first. Since I sympathized with Lennie a lot as I think it was the author’s purpose to do so, I got the feeling that Steinbeck also wanted to deviate the reader’s compassion away from Crooks.
Then we get to know a lot more bout him on Chapter 4 in which he is the main character. The writer depicts him as being aloof and we get the idea that he is not a nice fellow. Lennie goes to his room to have the opportunity to pet his puppies a little, and Crooks receives him with much indifference. Later, he starts to torture Lennie about telling him how George would abandon him forever. He does not stop having fun at Lennie until he get somewhat scared by what that huge man could do to him. At that moment, readers feel really disgusted by Crooks and it seems like it was meant to be like taht.
When Candy comes, there is a turning point in relation to what readers might feel in towards Crooks. Steinbeck now depicts him as a lonely person and by the characters lines we learn that he suffers a lot not being able to talk to the white workers or to play games with them even a little bit. What he has are books and all that is due to his color. Crooks also mentions his childhood, how he would play with white kids and how they would be nice to him although his father did not like it at all.
Afterwards, he gets very bitter and tells Lennie how he will never live in the piece of land he was talking about and how that dream is only in the workers’ minds. He also makes a statement about other people not having the right to go to his room...
After reading the book I have decided to write my book report on one of the characters of the story, Crooks. Through him, the subject of racism and segregation is presented. He first appears in the story on Chapter 3 to tell Slim that he had prepared the tar as Slim had asked him to do. Crooks also warns him about Lennie, who had been handling the puppies too much. That’s the all the information we get from him at first. Since I sympathized with Lennie a lot as I think it was the author’s purpose to do so, I got the feeling that Steinbeck also wanted to deviate the reader’s compassion away from Crooks.
Then we get to know a lot more bout him on Chapter 4 in which he is the main character. The writer depicts him as being aloof and we get the idea that he is not a nice fellow. Lennie goes to his room to have the opportunity to pet his puppies a little, and Crooks receives him with much indifference. Later, he starts to torture Lennie about telling him how George would abandon him forever. He does not stop having fun at Lennie until he get somewhat scared by what that huge man could do to him. At that moment, readers feel really disgusted by Crooks and it seems like it was meant to be like taht.
When Candy comes, there is a turning point in relation to what readers might feel in towards Crooks. Steinbeck now depicts him as a lonely person and by the characters lines we learn that he suffers a lot not being able to talk to the white workers or to play games with them even a little bit. What he has are books and all that is due to his color. Crooks also mentions his childhood, how he would play with white kids and how they would be nice to him although his father did not like it at all.
Afterwards, he gets very bitter and tells Lennie how he will never live in the piece of land he was talking about and how that dream is only in the workers’ minds. He also makes a statement about other people not having the right to go to his room...