Crooks Flashcards
1
Q
Represents
A
- plight of black people
- loneliness
- cynical about dream
- mistreatment made him cruel
2
Q
Context
A
- race separates him from others
- failure of American Dream
- segregation, Jim crow laws
3
Q
Quote to show crooks wanting friends
A
‘Crooks scowled but Lennies disarming smile defeated him’
- can’t deal with niceness
- secretly happy
- black people not used to people talking to them
4
Q
Loneliness
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‘It’s just being with another guy. That’s all’
- basic want
- craves connection
- human right, no rights
5
Q
Possession of small things
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‘You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room’
- room is only true possession
- migrant worker
- responds with violence, predatory nature of society
- no hope for friendship, been alone for so long
6
Q
Futility of dream
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‘Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s it’s in their head.’
- understands futility, lost everything
- experienced
- lost hope in positivity
7
Q
Marginalised
A
‘This is just a nigger talkin’
- doesn’t mean anything, invisible
- would probably get rejected if tried to make friends
8
Q
Predatory nature of society
A
‘Crooks’ face lighted with pleasure in his torture’
- need for torture building up
- taste of their own medicine, understanding how he feels, perhaps wants them to understand eachother?????
