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Crooks - Coggle Diagram
Crooks
Who is he?
He is the 'stable buck' for the ranchm the man who provides the support for the many horses and mules the farm uses. He has a bent or 'busted' spine and the characters refer to him by a term we find very offensive today.
What does he do?
Crooks taunts Lennie with the idea that George might desert him and is frightened by Lennie's response
Candy and then Curley's wife joins them and when Crooks challenges her and deands that she leave, she humiliates him with the threat that she will accuse him of rape
Crooks lets Lennie talk to him in Crooks's own room on the Saturday night when all the other hands are at Susy's brothel
Having initially been drawn in to George and Lennie's dream of a small farm, Crooks withdraws his support
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Quotes
'Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him. The boss gives him hell when he's mad. But the stable buck don't give a damn about that. He reads a lot. Got books in his room.' :pencil2:
Despite being the 'stable buck', Crooks is proud, independent and intelligent. But none of these admirable features stop the boss from giving him 'hell'.
'Crooks was a proud, aloof man... his eyes... seemed to glitter with intensity... he had thin, pain tightened lips.' :pencil2:
Crooks's life is dominated by pain - the pain of being the only black man and of his 'busted back' - but he has managed to rise above that pain.
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' "I had enough," he said coldly. "You got no rights comin' in a colored man's room."' :pencil2:
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'Nobody gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.' :pencil2:
Crooks has a double burden. He is not only a black man in a society that immediately discriminates against non-whites, but is also partly disabled in a society that values human beings on the ability to provide a service.