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Crooks (R.C.)

Crooks has a dream of being respected and working with George and Lennie on the farm.

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Crooks (R.C.)

“'You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me'” (Steinbeck 68).

By reading this you can infer that Crooks is the type of person to push people away at first. This is most likely because he knows they will always end up hurting him in the end. You know this because of his race and the way he looks, it’s a defense mechanism he probably picked up in his life due to the many horrors he has had to go through.

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Crooks (R.C.)

“'If i say something, why it’s just a nigger sayin’ it'” (Steinback 70).

At this point in the novel, Crooks is just explaining to Lennie the concept of how since he is a certain race no one gives him respect. He says something, but it goes in one ear and comes right out the other. No one cares about him since he is surrounded by white mean, even when he was younger he was in a white neighborhood, and when he started getting older he learned that he was not appreciated, and that’s just the way it goes.

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Crooks (R.C.)

“'...If you...guys would want a guys to work for nothing--just his keep, well I’d come an’ lend a hand. I ain’t so crippled I can’t work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want to'” (Steinbeck 76).

In this line of dialogue, Crooks is subtly commenting that he wants to be thought of as equal, instead of an old, black, crippled stable buck. Obviously he dreams of being thought of as equal, but by this he wants to be an important part of George and Lennie’s “dream farm”, craving the unfamiliar feeling of being surrounded by people who what he’s capable of.

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Crooks (R.C.)

“‘Well, you keep your place then, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny,’ Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego-nothing to arouse either like or dislike. He said, ‘Yes, ma’am,’ and his voice was toneless” (Steinbeck 81).

This is the ideal example for Crooks’ hope versus lost hope. He tries to have a legitimate conversation with a fellow human, a white woman to be exact, and he gets completely torn. She talks back like he’s an animal, nothing more. Telling him how he’s worthless and she can get him fired by just the point of a finger. After being shut down like that, Crooks knows that there is nothing he can do, he can’t fight back because he’ll just be put down again.

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Crooks (R.C.)

“Well, jus’ forget it… I didn’t mean it. Jus’ foolin’, I wouldn’t want to go to no place like that” (Steinbeck 83).

After Curley’s wife completely ripped his confidence to shreds, he went back into his shell, realizing that during that time period he is considered a burden, or a hassle, maybe even just an item with no heart or soul.

#crooks

George (F.T.)

"I could build a smoke house like the one gran'pa had, an' when we kill a pig we can smoke the bacon and the hams...An' when the salmon run up the river we could catch a hundred of them. We could have have them for breakfast" (Steinbeck 57).

George is a big dreamer and is very detailed and knows what he wants when it comes to his dreams.

Nothing will stop George from hoping or dreaming. When he gets there it will be perfect.

#george

George (F.T.)

"'We gotta keep it till we get a stake. We'll get out jus' as soon as we can. I don't like it no better than you do'" (Steinbeck 33).

George is telling Lennie that they have to stay at the ranch until they reach their goal.

George won't lose hope

He still believes in the dream even when they were at their worst time.

#george

George (F.T.)

"‘Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta.’ And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. He pulled the trigger" (Steinbeck 106).

George lost the dream and hope once he killed Lennie

The dream died because it was something they dreamt together and without Lennie, all hope for it is lost.

#george

George (F.T.)

"'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. they don’t belong no place'” (Steinbeck 13).

This influences people like George to not hope for anything or dream of anything because of how society classifies them.

#george

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