Also by referring to the quote ‘Three walls there were small.. .’ and ‘against the walls were eight bunks’ this suggest that it’s very crowded and unhygienic. It also shows that all the ranch workers sleep in the bunkhouse. We also get a feeling that they try to make the place more homely by adding personal things in the apple box. We know this because it says ‘these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razor and those Western magazines ranch men love to read, scoff at
The way he has been treated and brought up makes him who he is today and how he relates to other people, especially white skinned people. Crooks, first of all, is the stable hand who works with the ranch horses. Along with Candy, Crooks is a character used by Steinbeck to show the effects of discrimination. This time the discrimination is based on race, and Crooks is not allowed in the bunkhouse with the white ranch hands, therefore he has his own place in the barn with the ranch animals, and he is treated as such. Crooks is a man, supposedly young but disabled, that likes books and keeps his small room neat, but has been so beaten down by loneliness and prejudicial treatment of that he is now suspicious of any kindness he receives.
In the bunk house there is 8 bunks, Steinbeck chose to have bunks as it represents the way that although the men are together in the way that they are sharing a bed with someone, however because it is on top or below you are still actually alone. This is then a link with their outside lives in the way that the men are all working together on the ranch but actually alone, each man for themselves. For each man to store their belongings they have one shelf, and everything on these shelves is similar, “soap, talcum powder, combs”,
helohhb kdbdjd dfnf fdnSteinbeck only uses one chapter on Crooks, however he has fully described him and helps the reader to understand his life at the ranch; Crooks is a ânegro stable buckâ who lives all by himself in the harness room, a little shed that leans of the wall the barn. His bunk is a long box filled with straw, with blankets on it. He had his apple box over his bunk, in which he had a range of medicine bottles, both for him and the horses. Being alone, he had a lot a number of âpersonal possessionsâ scattered around. This signifies his singleness because the fact that he lives all alone in room which he has all to himself, which not only allows him have as many possessions as he wants but gives him privacy, contrasting with
Some of us are lying in our bunks, uncovered, showing our heavy grey woolen underwear--regulation Army issue. The heavy odour of stale booze and women is in the air. A few jaundiced electric lights burn here and there in the barn-like bunk room although it is long
The entrance itself is decorated with artifacts that you would usually see in a museum such as maps and art from Native Americans. What I personally found very impressive was the huge clock in the entrance that Jefferson designed himself. This clock had a face inside the house and outside as well. It was powered by two cannonball type weights which had to be wound each Sunday. There were also hidden stairways for the slaves to enter and disappear as needed as well as dumbwaiters throughout the house to lessen the need for slaves to actually be seen.
A pot hangs from the fire place. The wood at the bottom is messily thrown underneath the pot. A simple sturdy wooden table is placed slightly to the left of center stage, simple chairs placed around it. There are some flowers in the center of the table not yet placed in a vase or pot. In the kitchen you can see the wash barrel for the dishes and a small wooden stool sits in front of the wash barrel.
Local color is a literary device used to help the reader understand the certain features of where the story is taking place. For example, “I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp of Angel’s, and I noticed that he was fat and baldheaded and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance” (Twain lines 10-13). Twain uses local color by describing Simon Wheeler’s characteristics and how he was drunkenly sitting at Angel’s tavern. Angel’s camp tavern is an old and rundown saloon. Twain also shares with us in this story, “He never smiled, he never frowned, he never changed his voice from the gentle-flowing key to which he tuned his initial sentence, he never betrayed the slightest suspicion of enthusiasm, but all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity which showed me plainly that, so far from his imagining that there was anything ridiculous of funny about his story, he regarded it as a really important matter and admired its two heroes as men of transcendent genius in finesse” (lines 21-27).
Analysis of Crooks’ Room- Of Mice and Men Crooks, a character from Of Mice and men lives in a separate room than that of his colleagues at the ranch. Crooks is Black and in representation of the times (late 1920’s-30’s) he is segregated from the rest of the workers, singled out as entirely different and because of this is shunted to the side like an animal .That is not the only comparison to animal that we could interpret from this text, in fact ,there are many implied messages that he is regarded as more animal than the other workers by the fact that he sleeps in a room with manure under his outside window or that he is forced to use the same medicine box as the animals, not mentioning that his makeshift home was just built to suffice and was just built to house him away from the eyes of others, as though he is prisoner because of his skin colour and that his room is built on the side of a barn ( again with the animals, not humans). He also has a bed of straw (normally placed in a barn) and uses ointment on his back normally used on animals such as horses. There is evidence to suggest to us that Crooks is a more permanent fixture at the ranch, form the fact that he has his own separate room and also when he says “I seen too many guys. Lennie here’ll be on road in two, three weeks” showing that he was an experienced head and that he had, as the quote suggests, seen many men come and go- with him staying a permanent fixture.
Summer reading journals I formed a number of rationalizations. It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth. It would be an interesting and reflective way to reacquaint myself with the scale and beauty of my native land after nearly twenty years of living abroad. It would be useful (I wasn't quite sure in what way, but I was sure nonetheless) to learn to fend for myself in the wilderness. When guys in camouflage pants and hunting hats sat around in the Four Aces Diner talking about fearsome things done out-of-doors, I would no longer have to feel like such a cupcake.