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1
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who?

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  • Stable buck
  • support for the horses etc
  • he has a ‘busted’ spine
  • many characters are very offensive to him.
2
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purpose?

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  • Tells Slim that Lennie is handling the pups.
  • Crooks lets Lennie talk to him in Crooks own room when Lennie is in the Brothel
  • Crooks taughnts Lennie
  • Put back in place by Curley’s wife when she accuses him with rape
  • Crooks is drawn in to the idea of the farm, but withdraws.
3
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Description of Crooks being proud and aloof, intelligent. How he is looked down on.

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  • ‘Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him.’
  • ‘The boss gives him hell when he is mad.’
  • ‘He reads a lot, got books in his room. ‘
4
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Crooks life is dominated by pain?

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  • ’ Crooks was a proud aloof man … his eyes… seemed to glitter with intensity… he had thin pain tightened lips.
5
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Crooks is the victim of racial prejudice?

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  • ‘Iain’t wanted in the bunk house… ‘Cause im black’
6
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Crooks has enough pride and independence to stand up to Curley’s wife.

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‘I had enough, he said coldly. You got no rights comin in a colored man’s room.’

7
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The futility of Crooks stands shows how little real power a black person has in the world of this novel.

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‘Crooks had reduced him self to nothing. There was no personality.’

8
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Crooks structural role in the novel is to appear two-thirds of the way to foreshadow the events that are going to occur.

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‘You guys just kiddin’ yourself. You’ll talk about it a hell of a lot, but you won’t get no land.’

9
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Crooks is very negative on life because of his social status.

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  • ‘Nobody gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land’.
10
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INFO WHIT:

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  • Young ranch hand
  • Finds letter in a magazine written by an ex-worker on the ranch.
  • He is very superficial, and has no real involvement in the book
  • He is sent to tell the sheriff about the murder of Curley’s wife.