Of Mice and Men analysis
In John Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men, the character Crooks continues to suffer from loneliness as an adult because of the discrimination he faced growing up as an African American and his lack of a community. First, after Lennie tried coming in the room to talk with Crook about being friends, he angrily answered,”Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me”(Steinbeck 68). Crooks has been experiencing loneliness throughout his life because he has always been segregated due to the color of his skin. He was always discriminated and left out. The loneliness causes him to always become angry or depressed because he has no one to even talk to about what happens in his life or about what happened throughout his day. [unique_solution]He has no one to play cards with and because he is always alone, he has developed a tendency to always be frustrated at others. He is constantly trapped in solitude and reading books instead of talking to anyone else. Furthermore, Crooks tells Lennie about his childhood, “There wasn’t another colored family for miles around. And now there ain’t a colored around. And now there ain’t a colored man on this ranch an’ there’s one family in Soledad”(Steinbeck 70). Often times, people need a community to feel a sense of belonging. However, Crooks did not have that community because of the color of his skin so he did not feel important and worthy of sleeping or playing cards with the others. When Crooks grew up he had white kids to play with but his dad never appreciated it because whites never were supposed to play with blacks. This caused him to become more and more lonely over time. Help with concluding sentence