Crooks
- Created by: hollybernard
- Created on: 29-02-16 09:23
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- Crooks
- He's the only one with many personal posessions
- 'rubber boots' 'big alarm clock' and a 'shotgun' tell us he's practical and active
- His books show that he reads and thinks: 'a tattered dictionary' and a 'mauled copy of the Californian civil code 1905'
- Tools - show he's skilled and very capable with his hands
- Medicine - shows that like Candy he's getting old and decrepit after a lifetime of work
- Victim of Racism
- Only black man in the book
- He's excluded from and generally not wanted in the bunkhouse
- He's picked on - he's a scapegoat. Candy tells us that the boos 'gives him hell when he's mad'
- He's lonely - he misses the companionship of others (tells Lennie this)
- His face is lined with pain and his back is crippled from overwork
- Only person who has a room of his own
- The fact that he has a room of his own shows how separated he is from the others
- People who try to come into his room get a frosty reception - Lennie, Candy and Curley's wife all find this
- He looks after his room - shows he's 'a proud, aloof man' whose eyes seem to 'glitter with intensity'
- Its small, basic and functional but its homely and its his own - full of his possessions
- Survivor - but has little power in the ranch
- He was kicked and crippled by a horse years ago
- He has been and is racially abused all of the time.
- He's excluded from almost everything
- Crooks has skills at work that no one else has but is still bottom of the pile - shows its not a world where the best get to the top
- He's the only one with many personal posessions
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