Two men do not usually stand up for each other and when they came along people stare at them like they are crazy. The men also thought that they were always up to something. When they first went in for the job on the ranch, George told Lennie not to talk, to let him do all the talking. When he asked Lennie and question and George answered it for him, he got suspicious. The boss asked “why don’t you let him talk?
We are first introduced to racism when we hear about crooks the stable buck who is referred to as a negro. This indicates that even though slavery was abolished blacks were seen as second class citizens and therefore were treated like them too. Crooks has his own room and a lot more possessions as well as privacy then the other men however he is deprived of the company of fellow humans which in turn drives him crazy.Curleys wife is not regarded as a human and has no name she uses her body to gain the attention of men for that is the only way people acknowledge her unfortunately this causes trouble for her husband and others. One of the ranchmen make a statement to Curley about keeping his wife in the house this shows that women are seen as house workers and there only purpose is to clean the house and fulfil the desires of men. Lennie is usually kept back from all the activities of the men in their spare time due to his disability however Steinbeck does not clarify whether this is by choice or not.
How would you feel if every day of your life others made you feel like you didn’t belong? People all around the world with disabilities are treated like that every day. Just like Lennie, the protagonist in Of Mice and Men, who was tall, big, and a very strong guy with a disability who was treated horribly by everyone other than his one friend George. Not only are they treated horribly, disabled people are separated from society into their own group, and more vulnerable to abuse and violence. They’re many examples to prove this.
For this assignment, you will be writing a formal literary essay based on this statement: Show how three different characters in the novel Of Mice and Men are marginalized* from society for different reasons (ex. racism, ageism, sexism, socio-economic status, physical or intellectual challenges) and how they suffer as a result. *marginalized = placed or kept to the outside, disadvantaged, or discriminated against. BRAINSTORMING ORGANIZER Name: ________________ Mark: ____/10 Fill out the chart below to organize ideas for your essay. These will eventually help you to create your body paragraphs.
Soon’s he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it…I never got that letter…I always thought my ol’ lady stole it. Well, I wasn’t gonna stay no place where I couldn’t get nowhere of make something of myself, an’ where they stole your letters. I ast her if she stole it, too, an’ she says no. so I married Curley. Met him out to the Riverside Dance Palace that same night.
When Novalee was only seven years old her mother ran away with a baseball umpire named Fred. That left her living with other people who still did not truly care. She finally thought she had found someone who loved and cared about her, his name was Willy Jack Pickens. Novalee thought that she was going to marry him some day. But on there way to California he proved her wrong by leaving her at a Wal-Mart “He was going to California and he had left her behind...left her magazine dreams of old quilts and blue china and family pictures in gold frames” (16) thats when things went wrong.
Outcasts in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men In the book Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates the loneliness of California ranch life during the early 1900s. Throughout the story, Steinbeck introduces characters that are isolated and lonely as a result of discrimination and prejudice. The racism towards Crooks, the physical disability of both Crooks and Candy, and the fear towards Curley’s wife causes them to suffer from loneliness and the pain of being outcasts. Crooks is an outcast because of his race and physical disability. He is a black man, and black men were discriminated against during the early 1900s.
During the 1930’s, racism was quite common in the American Society. While the other men on the Ranch are mentally separated from each other with no body aside from George and Lennie being particularly close, Crooks is physically separated from the others. Crooks is initially mentioned when Candy is reflecting with ‘relish’ upon an event that happened on the previous Christmas. We learnt that after getting drunk, the
Not only is Lennie discriminated, but when George and Lennie enter the farm, discrimination has already occurred. Lennie is often prejudiced from his mental disability. Especially at the ending of the book when Lennie is killed by George. Other victims of discrimination in this novel are: Crooks, a black stable buck; Curley’s Wife, the farm owner’s neglected daughter-in-law; and Candy, an old, disabled housekeeper. Crooks is discriminated from his skin color.
When daisy left Gatsby she married a very wealthy man, tom Buchanan, and has a girl with him. Even though daisy was married Gatsby still went for daisy, and they started having an affair. Gatsby goal was to get daisy back no matter the cost, and also to break the relationship between her and tom. Gatsby wanted nothing less of daisy than that she go to tom and say. “I never loved you”… after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house just as if it were five years ago (Fitzgerald 125) Gatsby didn’t know when to move on.