Steinbeck : Diverse Cultures
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Crooks dream is to be treated like a human and be accepted. Because he's black he's always been bullied and picked on by the other people in the ranch. He is never allowed to go out with the other people in the ranch and has to stay in his own room in the barn, he hates everyone at the ranch because they treat him badly, he says to Lennie,
"They play cards in there, but I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all stink to me."
Because Crooks is so lonely he reads a lot, in his library he owns the book California Civil code 1905. I think he has this because he wants to find out the rights he has and if there is anything he can do to be accepted.
While talking to Lennie, Crooks reminisces of his childhood. How his father owned a chicken ranch and the white children used to come and he would play with them, and how most of them didn't care about the colour of his skin and that they were nice to him. How of instead of how he slept all alone now, he used to sleep w ...
