What do you learn of Crooks and the way he lives from this extract?

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What do you learn of Crooks and the way he lives from this extract?

  Of Mice and Men was set in California in 1939. It is a well written story and includes many things that were true to life back then. In the story we get to meet the stable buck who is called Crooks. He is pretty much an outcast and is avoided as he is black.

  Crooks’ seems to be a very tidy man. The condition of his room is very neat and clean. ‘A little bench for leather working tools’, ‘On pegs were pieces of harness’. This shows that he is a ‘proud and aloof’ man and most of his things have a special place to be kept.

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  His room had very little space inside and he had many possessions to fit into it. Crooks had an injured back and he also possessed many broken things. ‘In one hand he held a bottle of liniment; with the other he rubbed his spine’. This point compliments with the things in his room as they are broken and so is he. He had, ‘a broken hame’. Crooks also had some books. ‘a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the Californian civil code’ He is very aware of the law and maybe has this book to read up about ...

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