Part 4

In part 4 "Of Mice and Men", we were formally introduced to the audacious but sympathetic Crooks who contained many emotional surprises and actions in his pockets. Throughout this section, Steinbeck the author of the novel, had created Crooks to represent and symbolize the racial discrimination of this time period. Specifically stating, "A colored man got to have some rights even if he don't like 'em" (Steinbeck 82). This quote stood out and was surprising, because Crooks was a man with partial to barely any rights and for him to say he doesn't accept the rights is a mind twister. That was said because, "Crooks had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn" (Steinbeck 66). Connecting this quote to why Crooks didn't like his rights was, because  of his race so he lived in a barn alone, which after a while had turned into loneliness and seeking a way out of his isolation.