Am going to talk about my two characters, Crooks and Curley’s wife.
Crooks:
Is the stable buck in the farm, he is the one who provides support for the horses in the farm. He has a busted spine because a horse kicked him. The characters in the farm refer to him by a term we find very offensive today.
quotation:
‘Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him. The boss give him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn about that. He reads a lot. Got books in his room.’
Mean:
Crooks is not affected by being a stable buck, he is pround, very independent and intillgent. He is all these things but his boss dosen’t stop giving him hell.
quotation:
‘Crooks was a proud, aloof man… his eyes… seemed to glitter with intensity… he had, thin, pain tightened lips.’
Mean:
Crooks’s life is controlled by pain, the pain of being the only black man and of his busted back- but he has manage to rise above the pain.
quotation:
‘I ain’t wanted in the bunk house…’Cause i’m black.’
Mean:
Crooks is a victim of racial prejudice
quotation:
‘I had enough,” he said coldly. ‘You got no rights comin’in a colored man’s room.’
Mean:
Crooks has enough confidents or pride and independence to stand up to Curley’s wife.
quotation:
‘Crooks had reduce himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego-nothing to arouse either like or dislike.’
Mean:
The futility(uselessness) of Crooks’s shows how little real power a black person has in the world of this book.
March 4, 2013 at 1:22 am
As we discussed in class – you’ve gathered together some excellent analysis of your character – now your job is to be clear in your head what the over-all answer to the question is, and to develop a plan for how you’ll organise the ideas in your essay – one idea per paragraph.
I hope we can to this together in the tutorial after school tomorrow.
CW
March 4, 2013 at 1:25 am
by the way, all the official information is here:
http://waugh10.www.edutronic.net/category/controlled-assessments/of-mice-and-men/