Powerlessness Flashcards
1
Q
Quote showing crooks being worse than curleys wife
A
‘Listen nigger (…) you know what I can do to you if you open your trap’
- crooks forces to accept segregation, even curleys wife is better
2
Q
Elderly being forced to live life of segregation
A
‘When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me’
- dog has more rights
- no way out, no where to go
3
Q
Crooks not meaning anything
A
‘This is just a nigger talking’
Even if crooks wanted to make friends he’d get rejected
4
Q
Crooks being dehumanised
A
‘Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego - nothing to arouse either like or dislike’
Not a person, knows it is too much of a right
- not allowed a voice
