Have you ever read the book Mississippi Trial 1955? If you haven’t you should. In the book Mississippi Trial 1955 the author Chris Crow portrays the horrible hate crimes against African American’s. In this book the author talks about a young African American boy named Emmett Till from Chicago that went down to Greenwood, Mississippi to visit his uncle Mose Wright. Everything was fine for Emmett until he met RC Rydell which shoved fish guts up Emmett’s nose and mouth.
Limiting the selection of quotations to pages 98-99, analyse how Steinbeck presents the character ‘Crooks’ from the novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ In ‘Of Mice and Men’, Crooks is the black stable buck who suffered from prejudicial treatment from others on the ranch. Throughout the introduction of Crooks, racism is cardinal theme, “Crooks, the negro stable buck…” ‘Crooks’ was the name assigned to him as he has a crooked back, the idea that he was ‘assigned’ a name turns back to the times of slavery where slaves were often given a name by their owners. By being ‘given’ this name, Crooks is disempowered; it is thought that names given an identity and to be recognised by a disability, it would be thought that Crooks may have a low self-esteem. As aforementioned, this also lays emphasis on how Crooks is dominated by the other white ranch hands as they provided him this name. “…The negro stable buck…” The term ‘negro’ denotes black and Steinbeck defines Crooks by his race before bringing in his profession.
Lennie is considered as an outsider because of his mental disability. Crooks is considered an outsider because he is an old black man whom back is hurt and can’t really stand up straight the reason why he’s even working in the ranch is because he’s the only one who knows how to keep the stables in control. Candy is considered an outsider because he’s an old man with one of his hands disabled. Curley’s wife was considered as an outsider
Example 1.) "But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land."
Given the name for his crooked back, he is still a very respectable worker. He is incredibly self sufficient and this highlights the theme of loneliness. Crook’s sleeps in the barn, apart from everyone else. He is racially discriminated against, as he is the only black person on the ranch. Curley’s wife in particular is a bully towards him as she thinks she has more power over him than anyone else, as she is married to the bosses’ son and she’s white.
Crooks is a bitter, cynical person, ‘being alone’ would not encourage him to be any other way. Similar to society Crooks is segregated from the ‘white’ ranch hands because he is a ‘negro.’ It is often a question in reader’s minds if this bitterness has come from him being a black man. Steinbeck’s description of Crook’s room makes the reader aware that Crooks is, ‘more permanent than the other men.’ This isn’t through choice, Crooks is aware of his status and knows that he will be unable to get work anywhere else; not only is he black but a ‘cripple’ as well. There
Additionally, intense descriptions of the landscape further reinforce the precarious image of the environment. The conditions they come across are vindictive. The landscape is wrecked by fire, houses are abandoned and trees are burnt. The setting of the novel is in a bitter and hostile world without meaning. The man and his son struggle to survive in the cruel weather and destructive landscape.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about surviving on a deserted island after a boarding school charter plane got shot down in the midst of WWII. The only survivors are the young boys who are then stranded on the island to fend for themselves. The boys, like Jack, Ralph, Piggy, and Simon, make their own government in the beginning but then struggle to keep the order. Eventually the group brakes apart and order is symbolically gone within the boys as they turn savage because of the beast within them. The boys seem to lose all control of the tribe and of themselves.
He lives away from the others in a harness room, a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn. Crooks is a proud but bitter man and clearly the most intelligent character. Crooks is a very angry man, especially towards the other men, the main reason is his race and he feels isolated. When Lennie wanders into Crooks room in a misguided endeavour to make friends he immediately tells Lennie that he should go but when Crooks realizes that Lennie has no bad intentions he relents and allows him to stay. Crooks attempts to make Lennie realize his isolation from the other workers, he freely admits it.
Vivian Nghiem Mrs. Brothwell English 3 23 May 2012 Ruin Vale Imagine a land where dreams fade to dust, where hopes ride on falling ashes, where skeletons of extravagance pile higher and higher on an increasingly confining wasteland, and where God stares eternally down from faded boards hammered into the sky. Within The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a land forgotten by a lavish society baited on extravagance. Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald’s chosen narrator of The Great Gatsby, refers to this gray, pass-through acreage as the valley of ashes. It is in this desolate wasteland that the ideal of God is mocked with a faded billboard depicting a long passed optometric practice, that people cling onto dreams already ripped from their