Of Mice and Men: racial discrimination and its effects In Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck, several characters were used to portray the effects of societal discrimination during the 1930’s. One of these characters was Crooks, a disabled African-American horse tamer who is alienated due to his race; causing him to doubt the possibility of attaining a better future for himself. Like Candy, --a swamper who is becoming fearful for his own future as a disabled elderly man--, his biggest aspiration is
“No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.” Said: Zainab Salbi. In the book Of Mice Of Men by John Steinbeck showed a lot discrimination towards people in the years of 1930’s and during the Great Depression Era. Like in the book Curley’s wife, Crooks, and Lennie are discriminated because of their Race, Gender, and of mental disabilities. Steinbeck uses discrimination in the book because that is how life was in the 1930’s; people
Steinbeck). In the novella Of Mice and Men, discrimination is a major part of the plot; it makes people feel lonely and fend only for themselves. Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curly’s wife are discriminated against immensely, in ways considered racist, ageist, and sexist. Discrimination is a major part of society in the 1930’s, which is when this novella was written and based upon, and is represented in the plot. Racial discrimination is very prevalent in the plot of Of Mice and Men and is represented by
“Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.” (Charlotte Bunch). In the novel, Of Mice and Men, three characters are distinctly faced with different forms of discrimination. This story shows how the United States was very inequitable, unfair, and hateful in the 1930’s. When the characters withstand discrimination, it shows what type of negative influence and outcome it brings upon their lives. Overall
” many assume it is referring to racial issues. Yes, racial discrimination makes up a large part of prejudices in America, and according to USA Today, 51% of people show signs of anti-black attitude in the U.S.. However, prejudices doesn’t just refer to racial bias, but instead refer to any sort of disability or difference of an individual that the society contemplates to “not fit” within the society (Junis). The novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck focuses on two friends, George and Lennie
ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination” (Nelson Mandela). The book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, it gives many examples of discrimination throughout the book. The main type of examples are; mental and physical disabilities, women, and race or ethnicities. By showing these types of discrimination, John Steinbeck portrays different characters in the novel. Mental and physical disabilities were used to
Discrimination “Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike” Ban Ki-moon. The book, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, was published around the 1930’s which was during the Great Depression. In the book, three main characters experience discrimination. Those three main characters are Curley’s wife, Crooks, and Lennie. Crooks experiences racism, Lennie is taught differently because of his disability, and Curley’s
Crooks also suffered from a variety of prejudice and discrimination because of his race. Crooks was made to feel inferior, substandard to the other white men on the ranch, Also he didn’t really speak too anybody that often. However he was intelligent, he could read and write but none of this was recognized. He was just known as the ‘black man’ the ‘nigger’ of the ranch. He was forced to live in a barn isolated and segregated by the other men. My evidence for this is his room; he lives in a harness
Discrimination has been the cause of many troubling issues throughout the course of history, including lynching a person for who they are, killing them, starting a war, and even changing a person from who they used to be. Lennie is traveling with his friend George ,looking for a ranch to work on, but Lennie is no ordinary person, he has a mental disability which causes him to forget things easily and is shy to even speak for himself. Curley's wife is a housewife who's married to Curley, but she has
happened in life whether its wars, eras, or time periods. Novels, and to an extent films, are analyzed and discussed in detail. Some novels deal with heavy issues; human rights and controversial topics are more often analyzed and criticized. Of Mice and Men – a novel written during the Great Depression – deals with labor during that time period, and the disabled in the workplace; issues like labor and the disabled have been discussed in several novels and films. Although the book was written in the