Authority
MADE BY...
- Curley's wife uses her only bit of authority , as a white woman,against him
- "I could get you slung up on a tree" This implies that Crooks has no authority on the barn, as the a permanent worker.
- Genesia Lessey
- Panna Bodnar
- Chloe Kirchen
- Charlotte Heard
Historical Times
- During the 1930s black people did have the same equal rights as white people but they were segregated.
- Crooks is the only black man around and is made to be isolated by his colour meaning that he cant hanging out with the other men on the barn.
Intelligence
What is the importance of Crooks in OMAM?
- Black people wanted to learn but they had to educate themselves
- Books that he had in his room, an old copy of the California Civil Code, which suggests he is concerned about his rights.
- His spectacles
Well-being
Crooks has injured his back in an accident and it gets him constant pain but he is not given the well-being treatment because of the how it was in the 1930s.
Belongings
The American Dream
Crooks' Dream
- The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.
- He is deprived of the basic stable facilities that white people would have.
- 'Medicines in an apple boxes'
- He doesnt own much but what he has he is proud of.
- This has also made him aloof.
- Crooks dream is in the Past whereas all the other characters dreams are looking towards the future.