Examples Of Crooks In Of Mice And Men

John Steinbeck uses the character Crooks in Of Mice and Men to show how black people were treated As an example, Crooks is introduced by Candy telling George and Lennie “An’ he give the the stable buck hell, too.” (Steinbeck 19). Crooks is discriminated against because he has to live in the stable with the horses whereas everyone else on the farm to whom are white get to live in the bunkhouse. John Steinbeck did an excellent job of showing how bad black people had it in life by using Crooks as an example. John Steinbeck showed us how black people were treated by showing things were separate but equal, Crooks was equal as in he got paid, was given a place to sleep, and that he was fed but was separate to everyone else that he didn’t get a nice …show more content…
When Crooks gets to talk for himself he kind of takes advantage of it and tests his limits with Lennie and scares Lennie and makes him kind of aggressive by asking what Lennie would do if George didn’t come back which makes Lennie ask who hurt Lennie and that he will crush the person that hurt George. As time continues we see Crooks is tired of people speaking for him and that he would much rather be treated as everyone else …show more content…
Lennie also helped Candy see a bit of hope when he told Candy of the farm that Lennie and George were going to buy and Candy saw a chance of happiness of having a solid job even though he can’t work that well anymore. The part when Lennie and Crooks meet has a very strong meaning to it, Crooks being a black man on a white ranch wasn’t the safest thing for him, Crooks was introduced as getting whipped because George and Lennie weren’t at the ranch that morning to work. The fact that Crooks is introduced in that way shows the reader that Crooks has it pretty bad being the punching bag of the ranch and he know this, so when Lennie and Crooks sit down to talk together and start to become friends it really means a lot to Crooks because he’s used to being beaten and mistreated because his skin tone is different but that not every white person wants to hurt him and that it’s just how society making it this way. Crooks was trapped, trapped that no matter where he went he would likely be treated the same. Until Crooks heard about George and Lennie’s plan to get their own farm and when he heard about this he wanted in on that dream “…If you… guys would want a hand to work for nothing- just his keep, why I’d come an’ lend a hand” (Steinbeck 76), that chance at