Crooks And His Lifestyle At The Ranch In Of Mice And Men

The character of Crooks in John Steinbeck’s novella, ​Of Mice and Men ​is discriminated against because of the colour of his skin, and he is crippled. 

Crooks is à man with many disadvantages in this book. We haven’t known him for long but from what I have heard, he is disrespected because of the colour of his skin. He has to sleep all by himself and he is often lonely. When Lennie talked to him, Crooks sounded mad, but secretly Crooks was happy because he has someone to talk to, and he knows that Lennie won’t tell anyone about what they're going to talk about because Lennie will forget. In the very beginning of the chapter it says “Crooks, the negro stable bunk, had his bunk in the harness room;à little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn.” This shows how Crooks is treated. He doesn’t get to sleep with anyone in the same room and he doesn’t even get à room like the others. He has à small little shed that is the harness room.

There is another quote in this book that in this book and it also explains how black people were treated years ago. “ Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, tell you, all of you stink to me.” In my opinion, this is really sad. Rasism was à big problem back then and still is now. That is unexceptable, people getting left out because the colour of their skin. There not much different than white people, so treat them how you want to be treated. Imagine being in their feet. You get called bad names and get discluded in activities. That doesn’t sound fun and if you say oh well their black, Shame on you. The colour of their skin doesn’t say anything about them. Like Barack Obama once said “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Racism is getting worse and worse now. Don’t wait and take action right here right now. We can’t live a peaceful life by ignoring life. We as à group need to stand up for black peoples rights because this is just getting out of hand. People who don’t do anything say things like “who cares” or “you are making à big deal for nothing.” But the truth is you are creating an even bigger problem not helping. Imagine not having the rights you have today. You are going to think, “oh ya, that would suck, but at least I do have those rights.” Yea you are right it would suck, and that’s how black people are treated, they don’t have the rights we have. I’m not black, but I do have à handful of friends that are black and they tell me stories of people staring at them, giving them à weird look. BLACK PEOPLE ARE TREATED DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THEY CANT CONTROL! In the end this is how black people are treated today

Crooks has a place we’re he sleeps all by himself, like I mentioned before. "Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good.” Crooks is so lonely he only has books to keep him satisfied, but after so long of only having the same book Crooks got bored. He has nothing to really do when he is alone.

In conclusion the way black people were treated back then was terrible, and they are still being treated that way. Crooks is the perfect example of this topic and also this quote. “Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.” —William Lloyd Garrison.