at him, to which "Piggy wilted"(Golding 58). Piggy, who is a constant target throughout the length of the story, may feel powerless towards the rest of the boys. When he tries to assert leadership, he backs off timidly because he feels irrelevant. This position makes him an easy target. Through Kuther's definition of bullying, Piggy is classified as a hopeless
Though the pet was once a great sheepherder, it was put out to pasture once it stopped being productive. Candy realizes that his fate is to be put on the roadside as soon as he’s no longer useful; on the ranch, he won’t be treated any differently than his dog. Worse than the dog parallel, though, is that Candy (unlike his dog) is emotionally broken by this whole affair. He can’t bring himself to shoot his pet himself, and we suspect this is going to be the same fear and reticence that keep him from making anything more of his life. Candy can’t stand up for his pet because Candy can’t stand up for himself.
This highlights the main theme of the novel: loneliness. Living alone in his room Crooks craves the company of others but, because of his coloured skin and the era he lived in, he is shown to be separated from the other ranch workers and thus suffering from loneliness more than his colleagues. Because of his skin colour, Crooks is shown to have “kept his distance and demanded that other people kept theirs.” Steinbeck describes how crooks wants others to stay away from him and reciprocates their feelings towards him but, later in the novel, he reveals that he is very lonely all by himself and would like to have someone to talk to. However, because he is so used to being shunted away by society, he pushes everyone away from him before they have the chance to do the same, portraying him as a “proud, aloof man”. Again, this fact highlights Crooks' loneliness and, even though he has convinced himself he doesn’t need anyone else, he knows the pleasure of having company and this is something that can’t be replaced by the many possessions he has acquired.
Say what the hell kind of bed you giving us anyways. We don't want no pants rabbits" it shows that the bunkhouse inhabitants are unkempt because they need to have something that will kill all the lice, roaches and other scourges they have whereas people who are clean won't get any lice and therefore won't need any lice killer. When George says "We don't want no pants rabbits" it shows that he may be uneducated because he is referring to the "lice, roaches and other scourges" but he doesn't
The uses of commas are used to give slight pauses after ‘arm’ and ‘wrist’ to highlight the words relating to his disability. It’s due to this disability that Candy is given a job very different to those of the other ranchers: he is a swamper. This is one of the few jobs that he is able to do with one hand. It is a menial task and isolates him from the other men. portrays that Candy has trouble with socialising with other men since his
Crooks is wary of being exploited even though he has not much to lose but it seems, like everyone else on the ranch, he is isolated by others and even himself because he is coloured. This links in with the 1930's america Great depression where people isolated each other. This also links in with the racism at the time where coloured people were thought as inferior to the white men. These two facts suggest it was difficult to live at those times
I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse and you ain't wanted in my room." He continues by saying that the whites believe he stinks and one can interpret this as a way of saying that the whites would find it a disgrace that a nigger should breathe the same bunkhouse air as them. "S'pose you couldn't go into the bunkhouse and play rummy 'cause you was black...Sure, you could play horseshoes 'til dark, but then you have to read books." shows that Crooks pities his own circumstances and vulnerability. However, "his tone was a little more friendly" and, "I didn't mean to scare you" gives us the impression that Crooks has a kind heart under his blunt exterior.
He is ignored by everyone on the ranch because he is black , this makes his character bitter and mean"Books ain't no good . A guy need somebody to be near him . "Crooks mainly keeps his distance between himself and the other men at the ranch to ensure he doesn't cause any problems . When Lennie approaches him in his bunk house his first reaction to him is fuelled by envy by his and Georges friendship .Crooks teases Lennie and makes out that George wont be coming back for him *quote*. He only does this to Lennie to show him what it like for him having nobody there and how he needs a companion , like Lennie and George ."
He, unfortunately, cannot do anything about it, so he is forced to listen and do as the white men tell him to. This unfortunate type of manner was common back in the early to mid-1900s. Laws, which were known as the Jim Crow laws, were put into place by white men to substitute for the end of slavery, to keep the black men “in their place”. This type of behavior is pitiful. It shows how inconsiderate and cruel humans can be.
Steinbeck also suggests that Crooks is extremely lonely, when he quotes, 'Crooks could leave his things about'. Therefore, Crooks had no worries that someone will enter his room and mess things about because never experienced another man entering his personal quarters which is highlighted by the scattered personal items on the floor. On another point, Crooks is mean to Lennie to make himself feel better but I guess the reader could forgive him for it because of his awful state and lonely life he leads. His possessions