Crooks Flashcards

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Personality

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Respectful- ‘Mr Slim’
‘A tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code’
‘Don’t come in a place where you’re not wanted’
‘You got George… S’pose you didn’t have nobody… how’d you like that?’

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Physical appearance

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‘Nigger’ ‘I’m black’
‘Cripple’ ‘Crooked back’
‘Thin, pain tightened lips’
‘Face was lined with deep black wrinkles’

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Power status on the ranch

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‘Well you keep your place nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny’
‘He was more permanent than the other men’
‘A little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn’

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Dream

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‘The white kids come to play at our place, an’ sometimes I went to play with them’
‘My old man had a chicken ranch’

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View of friendship

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‘You got no right to come in my room’ -hostile
‘Come on in and set a while’
‘A guy can talk to you an’ be sure you won’t go blabbing’

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Relationship with Lennie

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‘You might as well set down’

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Relationship with Slim

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‘Nice fella’ shows Slim is nicer to him

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Relationship with the boss

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‘He give the stable buck hell’

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Curley’s wife

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‘Listen nigger’

‘I could get you strung up on a tree so easy’

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‘Crooks had reduced himself to nothing’

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