Of Mice and Men essay on Crooks character. :: English Literature

Of Mice and Men essay on Crooks character.Of Mice and Men essay=====================I am doing my essay on Crooks the Stable buck who is black, thenigger. I have chosen to do Crooks as I feel he is a definedcharacter, different to the rest so I thought it would be interestingto go into him with more detail.He has a crooked fend for, hence the name Crooks, he has a crooked back asa horse kicked him when he was younger.Stable buck means he tends the horses on the ranch, and this iswhere he sleeps. He is not allowed to sleep in the bunkhouse with therest of the ranch workers, as they are afraid that they might catch adisease off him, so instead he has to sleep in the barn with theanimals. He lives a life of solitude, being alone in the barn withno-one coming in to talk to him, You got no right to come in myroom, I aint treasured in the bunkhouse and you aint wanted in here.Among his possessions, in his room he has some books, including atattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the Cal ifornia civil code for1905 This tells him his rights as a black man, so he obviously doesnot want to get on the wrong side of the law, so he keeps to hislimits. Him having books suggests to us that he may have been welleducated as a child. When he was young boy he lived on a smallholdingwith his father, so he was probably treat with a bit of respect,however, now he is just a black man working on a ranch with a lot of colour men, and now he is treated with no respect at all, he is anoutcast which nobody wants to know, If I say something its just anigger talking. So from having people liking him to no-one liking himat all is quite a big jump.The other ranch workers see him as entertainment, as you can slowwin a fight against him if you were put up to it, when the boss comesalong Crooks knows to get out of the way, The boss gives him hellwhen hes mad and he goes and finds something to do so he is notnoticed. So if the ranch workers see the boss having a go at him theymust think that it is right to push him around. At the cartridge clip when thiswas set, black people were still seen as an inferior race to whites.