When Lenny visits Crooks, Crooks says a few things that verify his loneliness and how much he wishes he could be accepted. ‘Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.’ This quote shows how being black has affected Crooks, because he has nobody to turn to. Although this shouldn’t be the case, just by the colour of his skin Crooks is leading a miserable life.
He later says how "I was not enthusiastic about his visit.... A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to” (100). Upon the arrival of his wife’s friend, the husband is ultimately uncomfortable around Robert because he does not know how to communicate with or act around him. His discomfort is revealed when Robert and his wife were sharing their experiences “about the major things that had come to pass for them in the past ten years” (100). He felt it was necessary to join in because he thought Robert would “think [he] left the room and didn’t want [his wife] to think [he] was feeling left out” (103). It is obvious the husband is overly involved with Robert’s handicap and fails to see him as a person with his
In the novel Cry, the Beloved Country, Absalom left his home and everything he was familiar with, breaking away from his family and Zulu culture. Later in his life, he is jailed for murdering a well-known man. For this reason, a broken chain and a starter’s pistol best represent Absalom. Near the beginning of the book, readers are told, “When people go to Johannesburg, they do not come back” (Paton 38). Stephen Kumalo’s son, Absalom, was one of those people.
These characters are all discriminated against because of their disadvantage. Eg: Candy is discriminated because of his disability and also his age, as he said himself, ‘I ain’t much good with on’y one hand’ (p59) and he knows that the boss will fire him ‘as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunkhouses’ (p60). Ex: Candy is disabled; he lost his hand so he works as a swamper, and as he gets old, he becomes less and less productive, and eventually gets fired. This is foreshadowed by the death of his dog, his companion, being killed by Carlson because he is old and useless. This fear of being lonely after being fired ultimately leads him to join George and Lennie’s dream of owning a piece of land.
The king rants about how he was a pirate who lost his crew, robbed the night prior, and put ashore off a steamboat moneyless. Regardless of his misfortune he was glad because poor as he was, he was a changed man; to which they felt pity and shouted, “Take up a collection for him, take up a collection!” (Twain 119). The church people just handed the money over as if it were nothing special. The king’s ability to con people like this will cause someone to get them back someday. Twain points out much hypocrisy throughout the novel.
Jacob's father hides the key to Abe's gun cabinet to keep him from hurting himself or someone else. Later one evening, Abe calls Jacob. He is distraught, certain the monsters he tells in his stories are after him. One of Jacob's friend Ricky drives him to his grandfather's house, only to find it damaged and his grandfather missing. After a brief search, Jacob finds Abe dying in the woods behind his house.
In the novella, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck demonstrates the negative impact of loneliness through Crooks, Curley’s Wife, and George and Lennie. Steinbeck demonstrates the negative impact of loneliness through a character called ‘Crooks’. “S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t enter the bunk house cause you was black…S’pose you had to sit out and read books…a guy needs somebody to be near him…a guy goes nuts if he has nobody…” (72). Crook’s cannot live on without being around somebody, he
Mitch one of Stanley’s good friends and has a crush on Blanche has a sick and elderly mother, so doesn’t have a lot of time to spend time with his friends. Mitch says “I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my-experiences I have never known anyone like you.” (Williams, s.6,103). This scene Mitch and Blanche open to each other, Blanche tells him about how her husband died. Mitch tells Blanche he is also alone to help ease her, Mitch thinks that he has found his soul mate. Blanche is using Mitch to get that chivalry out of him, and to overcome her loneliness.
Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya,’ he cried, ‘I tell ya a guy get’s too lonely an’ he gets sick” (69). Crooks’ illustrates that his lack of companionship manifests itself physically and emotionally. The only alleviation of these symptoms for Crooks occurs when he offers to work on Candy, George, and Lennie’s farm (Steinbeck 76). Similarly, Curley’s wife seeks out other people as a way to cope with her loneliness.
It is at this point, the narrator finally lets go and deals with his own sadness. Certain events in the narrator's life such as the deaths of his uncle, father, and mother have turned the narrator into an unfeeling man who can not forgive his brother Sonny for falling into a life of heroine addiction. Throughout the story the narrator is angered by the the choices his brother makes such as not attending school, drug use, hanging out in nightclubs, and eventually his arrest. The narrator's anger is expressed in one scene where he goes to his brothers apartment and tells Sonny “that he might as well be dead as live the way he was living”(Baldwin, 2007). It is not until the narrator's death of his own daughter Gracie does he try to reconcile with his brother Sonny through a letter to the prison.