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Of Mice and Men, David Akamine, Adeel Khan and Sawyer Radtke - Coggle…
Of Mice and Men
Racism
“Crooks stood up from his bunk and faced her. "I had enough," he said coldly. "You got no rights comin' in a colored man's room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Now you jus' get out, an' get out quick. If you don't, I'm gonna ast the boss not to ever let you come in the barn no more." Pg. 80-81
This shows the unfairness of the time period, to Crooks, having a decent job is one of the most important things in that time period, most African Americans were lynched and couldn't live as freely as they should be able to. The quote shows us how easy it is for a white person to threaten an African American, especially when he is the only African American in the area. This is one of the standards of society, white people thought that they were a better race than African Americans.
She turned on him in scorn. "Listen, N**ger," she said. "You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?"
Crooks stared helplessly at her, and then he sat down on his bunk and drew into himself.
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Crooks seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall. "Yes, ma'am."
"Well, you keep your place then, N**ger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny.”
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“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.” Pg. 41
This quote shows that Slim thinks Lennie is different from other people because Lennie is nice, Slim doesn't know many pure or very nice people. This connects to the standards of society because Slim set his expectations to usually meet rude people and was surprised when Lennie was really nice even though he was mentally disabled.
“Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. Pg. 36
This displays the way people in that time period usually traveled. According to Slim they travelled alone and not in pairs. This also builds on the feeling of fear. People don't want to travel together. This shows how easily people are being scared of being wronged, so they avoid travelling with untrustworthy people and risk getting robbed and beat rather than travel in groups. This shows the standards of society with men that needed jobs, they would travel alone along roads, town hopping till they find a stable job.
David Akamine, Adeel Khan and Sawyer Radtke