OMAM Characters Crooks
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- Created on: 19-08-18 22:37
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- OMAM CHARACTERS : CROOKS
- Clever
- p.41 'Got books in his room.'
- p.41 'He reads alot'
- p.98 'a tattered dictionary.'
- p.98 'a manuled copy of the Calfornia civil code for 1905.'
- p.99 'A pair of large gold rimmed spectacles.'
- p,99 ' a few dirty books on a special shelf.'
- Isolated and Lonely
- has own room
- due to race
- due to job
- fortunate
- p.98'his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall off the barn.'
- p.100 'I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse.'
- p.103 'A guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand.'
- p.103 'It's just bein' with another guy.'
- p.105 'S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books.'
- p.105'Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody to be near him.'
- p.105 'I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.'
- has own room
- Manipulative
- p.100 'Don't come in a place where you're not wanted.'
- p.101 'Come on in and set a while.'
- p.103 'Crooks' face lighted with pleasure in his torture.'
- p.103 'S'pose George don't come back no more.'
- likes to see Lennie upset
- p.103 'His voice grew soft and persuasive
- Victim Of Racism
- p.41 'The boss gives him hell when he's mad.'
- p.41 'The guys wouldn't let him use his feet, so he ****** got him. If he coulda used his feet, Smittyy says he woulda killed the ******.'
- used for entertainment
- p.70 'Jesus, how that ****** can pitch shoes.'
- p.100 'They play cards in there, but I can't play because I'm black.'
- p.105 'S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and lay rummy 'cause you was black.'
- p.113 'Listen ******,' she said 'You know what I can do to you if you open your trap.'
- Taken advantaged of by Curley's wife
- p110 'They left all the weak ones here.'
- p111' Sat'iday night.Ever'body out doin' something? Standin' here talkin' to a bunch of indle stiffs-a ****** an' a dum-dum and a lousy ol' sheep.'
- p112 'If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass
- p112'I know you guys.'
- p.113 'Listen ******,' she said 'You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?'
- p113 'Crooks seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall.'
- p.114 'Crooks had reduced himself to nothing.'
- p.114 'Nobody'd listen to you an' you know it.'
- p116 'Well, jus' forget it, said Crooks 'I didn' mean it. Jus' foolin'. I wouldn' want to go no place like that.'
- Victim Of Predjudice due to back
- p.41 'The boss gives him hell when he's mad.'
- p.41 'Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him.'
- p41 'On account of the ******'s got a crooked back, Smitty can't use his feet.'
- p113 'you keep your place then ******.'
- Symbolism of his name
- broken inside
- lower than everyone else physically and socially
- predjudice
- Clever
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