Gcse of mice and men crooks pleasee markkkkkk!!

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men; the character Crooks provides the reader with an insight faced by minorities such as African Americans in the 1930s.

Steinbeck’s description of Crooks ’the Negro stable buck’, emphasises the difficulties that coloured people faced due to the racial attitude that was widespread across society. This conveys to the reader the emphasis of colour and race during the 1930s America, and how it was acceptable to dehumanise an individual by solely referring to their race. Candy introduces Crooks as ‘the nigger’. This implies how casual it was to racially degrade a person of colour; suggesting the struggles coloured people faced at that time.
Crooks bunk is described as ‘narrow’, this suggests the lack of freedom that Crooks had because of his skin colour, emphasising on how black people were marginalised in society. This also emphasises to the reader how colour was very important and key to being able to achieving the American Dream. Even though Crooks was an educated man, his freedom was limited due to him not being white. Perhaps this could suggest that Crooks was ‘narrow’-minded and this is how society has made him due to isolation and loneliness. Him being kept in the barn and treated like an animal, as well being around animal as taken an impact on him causing him to think like an animal because this is what society expect and he has finally given up.

Steinbeck conveys to the reader that Crooks had ‘a tattered dictionary’, illustrating how he was more intelligent than the average man as literacy rate were very low at that time period. Steinbeck conveys to the reader, even though he was more sophisticated than his co-workers, he was still perceived as an inferiority solely due his racial background. Perhaps this could be suggesting how Crooks was underpaid and unable to buy himself a new dictionary. Steinbeck also emphasises to the reader how black people were discriminated because they were seen as animals because of their skin colour, emphasising how racism was at a high point in the 1930s.
On the other hand Steinbeck portrays Crooks not as innocent even though he receives the most hate on the ranch. When he gets to torture Lennie, ‘his face lighted in pleasure’, implying he is not a holey innocent character, emphasising to the reader that black and white people are both capable of carrying out such cruel acts. Steinbeck is trying to emphasis to the readers who were white people in the 1930s that racism was bad and that all races are the same; mankind is one.

To conclude in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men; the character Crooks shows us an insight to the reality life of coloured people in Americas 1930s society and the struggles they faced.

whats the question you were answering?

explore the character of crooks

id give it around an A- some parts are too repetitive eg "this emphasises" so try "this illuminates/exemplifies/elucidates". You also need to focus more on techniques used by Steinbeck, for example juxtapositions with other characters and what this then portrays and finally alternative interpretations but this is still a very well structured essay.

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men; the character Crooks provides the reader with an insight faced by minorities such as African Americans in the 1930s.

Steinbeck’s description of Crooks ’the Negro stable buck’, emphasises the difficulties that coloured people faced due to the racial attitude that was widespread across society. This conveys to the reader the emphasis of colour and race during the 1930s America, and how it was acceptable to dehumanise an individual by solely referring to their race. Candy introduces Crooks as ‘the nigger’. This implies how casual it was to racially degrade a person of colour; suggesting the struggles coloured people faced at that time.
Crooks bunk is described as ‘narrow’, this suggests the lack of freedom that Crooks had because of his skin colour, emphasising on how black people were marginalised in society. This also emphasises to the reader how colour was very important and key to being able to achieving the American Dream. Even though Crooks was an educated man, his freedom was limited due to him not being white. Perhaps this could suggest that Crooks was ‘narrow’-minded and this is how society has made him due to isolation and loneliness. Him being kept in the barn and treated like an animal, as well being around animal as taken an impact on him causing him to think like an animal because this is what society expect and he has finally given up.

Steinbeck conveys to the reader that Crooks had ‘a tattered dictionary’, illustrating how he was more intelligent than the average man as literacy rate were very low at that time period. Steinbeck conveys to the reader, even though he was more sophisticated than his co-workers, he was still perceived as an inferiority solely due his racial background. Perhaps this could be suggesting how Crooks was underpaid and unable to buy himself a new dictionary. Steinbeck also emphasises to the reader how black people were discriminated because they were seen as animals because of their skin colour, emphasising how racism was at a high point in the 1930s.
On the other hand Steinbeck portrays Crooks not as innocent even though he receives the most hate on the ranch. When he gets to torture Lennie, ‘his face lighted in pleasure’, implying he is not a holey innocent character, emphasising to the reader that black and white people are both capable of carrying out such cruel acts. Steinbeck is trying to emphasis to the readers who were white people in the 1930s that racism was bad and that all races are the same; mankind is one.

To conclude in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men; the character Crooks shows us an insight to the reality life of coloured people in Americas 1930s society and the struggles they faced.

This is actually very good but try include how he fits into the theme of loneliness but don't write to much about it, explain it briefly.

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men; the character Crooks provides the reader with an insight faced by minorities such as African Americans in the 1930s.

Steinbeck’s description of Crooks ’the Negro stable buck’, emphasises the difficulties that coloured people faced due to the racial attitude that was widespread across society. This conveys to the reader the emphasis of colour and race during the 1930s America, and how it was acceptable to dehumanise an individual by solely referring to their race. Candy introduces Crooks as ‘the nigger’. This implies how casual it was to racially degrade a person of colour; suggesting the struggles coloured people faced at that time.
Crooks bunk is described as ‘narrow’, this suggests the lack of freedom that Crooks had because of his skin colour, emphasising on how black people were marginalised in society. This also emphasises to the reader how colour was very important and key to being able to achieving the American Dream. Even though Crooks was an educated man, his freedom was limited due to him not being white. Perhaps this could suggest that Crooks was ‘narrow’-minded and this is how society has made him due to isolation and loneliness. Him being kept in the barn and treated like an animal, as well being around animal as taken an impact on him causing him to think like an animal because this is what society expect and he has finally given up.

Steinbeck conveys to the reader that Crooks had ‘a tattered dictionary’, illustrating how he was more intelligent than the average man as literacy rate were very low at that time period. Steinbeck conveys to the reader, even though he was more sophisticated than his co-workers, he was still perceived as an inferiority solely due his racial background. Perhaps this could be suggesting how Crooks was underpaid and unable to buy himself a new dictionary. Steinbeck also emphasises to the reader how black people were discriminated because they were seen as animals because of their skin colour, emphasising how racism was at a high point in the 1930s.
On the other hand Steinbeck portrays Crooks not as innocent even though he receives the most hate on the ranch. When he gets to torture Lennie, ‘his face lighted in pleasure’, implying he is not a holey innocent character, emphasising to the reader that black and white people are both capable of carrying out such cruel acts. Steinbeck is trying to emphasis to the readers who were white people in the 1930s that racism was bad and that all races are the same; mankind is one.

To conclude in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men; the character Crooks shows us an insight to the reality life of coloured people in Americas 1930s society and the struggles they faced.

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Just call him black

This is really good! Its good how you linked your ideas to the context and how America was at the time. Although, i noticed that you constantly repeated the phrase 'emphasises' , which could be replaced by words like , 'reinforces, highlights, indicates'. You could also include ideas about his loneliness and how he 'kept his distance and demanded that other people kept theirs'. Loneliness is further shown when he says 'I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick'. And it would be good if you included some alternative interpretations and zoomed into specific words, which you've done briefly. Overall, I love it, well done!


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Around B+ to A- , if you zoom more into specific words and add more embedded quotes, it will shift it to a solid A/A+
Also introducing more themes e.g loneliness etc


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