Crooks retaliates with this: “Cause I’m black, they play cards in there but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well I tell you, all of you stink to me” (Steinbeck 68). This is Crooks’ attempt in showing that he desperately wants to join in, to be accepted, but because of his color he can’t and he feels the only way he can make himself better is to cut himself off further, it is a vicious cycle. When Crooks realizes that Lennie means no harm, and will not leave him alone, he invites him to “Come on in and set a while” (Steinbeck 69).
“Here you get hacked into pieces just for wearing glasses!” (Babel 231), the commander’s response to the fact that the narrator was an educated person who could read and write unlike other members of the Sixth Division and consequently did not fit in with them. The quartermaster warns the narrator, “a man of high distinguishings they’ll chew up and spit out - but ruin a lady, yes, the most cleanest lady, and you’re the darling of the fighters!” (Babel 231). This gives the Lyutov a clue about the fact that people in the Sixth Division value violence and cruelty and they only treat
The fact that he is named after him shows he was brought up in a family who agreed with the Southern ideologies. We immediately therefore before he speaks are prejudice against him. As he walks up to the stand he is described as a “little bantam cock”, this shows that he had a confident smugness to him as he strolls up to the stand. This makes the reader not only agitated at him due to his arrogance but also the fact that that he is smug about beating Atticus, who by now in the novel the reader is loyal to. The novel then goes on to describe him as a “red neck” and therefore a labourer who is not entirely civilised.
The other men would not allow him to use his feet due to Crooks’ back but thought it perfectly fine to be fighting him. When Crooks comes into the novel he is described as a “lean negro head, lined with pain,” this is important because it’s the introduction of the many pains which Crooks has. Crooks is both in emotional and physical pain. The emotional pain which Crooks carries with him is due to his loneliness; his isolation from man is causing him to go mad, “guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody”. In isolation from the other men Crooks begins to doubt what he sees.
When he uses phrases such as “eyes of chipped granite” and “years of waddlesome sloth” are extremely effective at showing and not just telling. Bill Bryson shows insecurity about his “Manly hood” and is ashamed that he is not as rugged as those other men that he sees at the diner. A great example of this is when he says that seeing them makes him “feel like such a cupcake”. He is unhappy with his current “manliness” and is determined to do something about it. He creates a mixed mood in this paragraph because you don’t know whether you should feel bad or fall on the floor laughing at him.
How does Steinbeck present Crooks and how does Steinbeck use Crooks to show attitudes towards black people? Steinbeck presents Crooks as an intelligent person who is proud of himself and speaks up for himself and he is also presented to be an outcast from others on the ranch and he also has little hope for things. He seems to be intelligent because the passage says that he has a “tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905” and this suggests that he’s well educated and knows how to read and write properly whereas the other ranch members wouldn’t because they wouldn’t have got a proper education. He also has some magazines and a few “dirty books” which could be interpreted as sexual magazines and he has them because he gets very lonely in his isolated room. In this passage he seems to be quite a self-standing person because he owns a copy of the California civil code for 1905 so he knows what rights he has out of the few that black people had and when Lennie came into his room he was really defensive over his rights of having his room and that no one else had a right to come in accept him.
Dickens castigates this class system through the foils of Estella and Biddy, Magwitch’s generosity, and Jaggers’ coolly indifferent ethics. The drastic differences in social status of Biddy and Estella molds them into very different people, with conflicting values and traits. Biddy is compassionate and approachable, Pip “repose[s] complete confidence in no one but Biddy” (95). Biddy, being raised lower class, is shocked at first to discover Pip’s desire to become a gentleman, “Oh I wouldn’t, if I was you!” (128). A working class citizen is no less respectable than a gentleman in Biddy’s eyes, it is the character of the person that truly matters.
In Animal Farm, the author, George Orwell, shows how “Absolute power corrupts absolutely!” For instance, the first sign of corruption is shown by Farmer Jones ill treatment of the animals. He is a drunken man whose life is poorly living. He works his animals to the last pulp, whips them for the fun of it because in his mind he is the one in charge and who they must obey and he feeds them the minimum rations of food. Farmer Jones is neither considerate nor passionate for his animals and it is noticed that he only tends to the animals because of the profit he is receiving. The first thing he does is drink whiskey and polishes bottle after bottle then he attempts to tend to the care of his animals which is performed poorly.
III. I bet many of you would say, “Oh, I hate this noisy guy and we should sent him to a night club or other places.” Preview Statement: It seems that none of us would welcome a noisy guy in the dorm room. Therefore, if we want to be a good roommate, we should learn to be quiet in the dorm room. Transition: Today I will show you why you should not make any noise in the dorm room when it is bedtime. I.
A man’s cynical actions are under no circumstances justified; unless such actions have a clear justification; therefore, although the action is bad, but the motivations behind it make it justified. In the play written by Shakespeare, Othello, the antagonist Iago is a cynical figure, and has committed many deeds in which results in everyone around him getting hurt. However, humans are never born evil, and the only way for a cynical man to be born, is when the individual submerges in justifications of his own evil deeds. Iago is no different from any other antagonist; he grew up as a low class citizen, which made him very vengeful; therefore, when he suffers a single fall, he will seek revenge. During the Othello era, noblemen are among the highest ranks in every way, which in turns made them very well educated, and polite.