... 'pin. Ever'body! An' what am I doin'? Standin' here talkin' to a bunch of bindle stiffs "a nigger an' a dum-dum and a lousy ol' sheep "an' likin' it because they ain't nobody else- (Steinbeck 78). "Being the only woman on the ranch, she has no one to talk to who could emphasize with her. She has no friends, no future, [and ... this. Crooks shows his resentment of his bitter, sad, and solitary life when he confides in Lennie: " A guy needs somebody "to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya a guy gets t...

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... an attitude that seems to back of the term. At one point in the novel a man a service station declares "Them goddamn Okies got no sense and no feeling. They ain't human They ain't a hell of a lot better than gorillas" (301). As victims of such injustice, the novel treats the Joads with nothing short of respect. They are depicted as a tightly knit, compassionate ... idealized by Walt Whitman, and the pragmatism of Henry James. When the reader is first introduced to Jim Casy, he tells Tom that "the sperit ain't in the people much no more; and worse"n that, the sperit ain't in me no more, ...

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... seen as a rat trap none of the men on the ranch want to deal with her and this makes Curley's wife very upset ""Whats the matter with me?" she cried. Ain't I got the right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am, anyways?" Curley's wife suffers from extreme boredom on the ranch and "has got the eye" ( page 29) due to ... building. The loneliness affects Crooks deeply, he remains in his room when he has some books to read but as he says "Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody- to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody." The way that Crooks has to rub his own back with l...

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... 'pin. Ever'body! An' what am I doin'? Standin' here talkin' to a bunch of bindle stiffs "a nigger an' a dum-dum and a lousy ol' sheep "an' likin' it because they ain't nobody else- (Steinbeck 78). "Being the only woman on the ranch, she has no one to talk to who could emphasize with her. She has no friends, no future, [and ... this. Crooks shows his resentment of his bitter, sad, and solitary life when he confides in Lennie: " A guy needs somebody "to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya a guy gets t...

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... do they come to visit him, "A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin' books or thinkin', an' he got nothing to tell him what's do an' what ain't so. Maybe if he sees somethin' he don't know whether it's right or not. He can't turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He ... 'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here and read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody-to be near him." (Steinbeck page 72). From this quote you can tell that Crooks is sad and lonely and just needs...

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"A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't matter no difference who the guy is, longs he with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick" (Steinbeck, 13) In terms of emotional ... others. Crooks offers his services to clear out his problems of loneliness. " If you guys would want a hand to work for nothing - just his keep, why I"d come an" lend a hand. I ain't so crippled I can't work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want to." (Steinbeck, 84) This quote supports that he is attracted to the friendship of Lennie and George. It also proves ... he had to support the friendship including...

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... of the people to survive. She told Tom that "us people will go on livin" when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we"re the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we"re the people-we go on" (383). She strongly believes that all the migrants will be the "people that live" and this belief serves ... "ll go to Marysville to find work: "If you can take an" make "im mad, why, he"ll be awright. Pa, he didn" say nothing", but he's mad now. He ain't beat. He"ll show me now" (481). Ma recognizes that Pa is still an essential part in keeping the family together, thus she wisely uses r...

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... their life. Through his novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck demonstrates that often times, a victim of isolation will have a never-ending search to fulfill a friendship. "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't matter no difference who the guy is, longs he with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick" (Steinbeck, 13) Crooks is a black man ... others. Crooks offers his services to clear out his problems of loneliness. " If you guys would want a hand to work for nothing - just his keep, why I"d come an" lend a hand. I ain't so cippled I can't work like a son-of-a-##### if...

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... suggesting George won't come back for him. I feel all the years of being picked on for being black and not being allowed in the ranch workers bunkhouse "I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse, you ain't wanted in my room." It his chance to make someone else feel what he feels. While Lennie is in his room he realises in can confide in Lennie ... have often so he tells her to "jus" get out, an" get out quick." So she snaps back at him "I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny" and that's when crooks become insecure and "sat down on his bunk and drew into himself." After al...

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... . He is the one who admits that he is extremely lonely. From the novel, he said, "'A guy needs somebody to be near him.' He whined, 'A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.' (Chapter 4, page 12) From the above quote, Crooks reveals how easy it is to feel crazy when you are alone. Others treat Crooks unjust because he is different ... others. Crooks offers his services to clear out his problems of loneliness. " If you guys would want a hand to work for nothing - just his keep, why I"d come an" lend a hand. I ain't so cippled I can't work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want to." This quote sup...

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... to. "She's gonna make a mess. She's a jail bait all set on the trigger. That Curley got his work cut out for him. Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain't no place for a girl, specially like her" (51). Curley's Wife's gender symbolizes loneliness as she is the only character on the ranch who is a female. All she wants is ... ...

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... gets into trouble. When Lennie had just accidentally killed Candy's wife George takes care of him by putting him out of his misery. "Ever" bodies gona be nice to you. Ain't gonna be no more trouble. Nobodies gonna hurt anybody nor steal from "em." George realises that the best place for Lennie is in heaven. Although Crooks persistently forces that heaven ... ...

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... to settle down with Connie, a neighboring boy)." Granpa also states, "Just let me get out to California where I can pick me an orange when I want it. Or grapes. There's a thing I ain't never had enough of. Gonna get me a whole bunch of grapes off a bush, or whatever, an' I'm gonna squash 'em on my face an' let 'em run offen my chin (90 ... ...

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... the Joad family. Casy has many aspects of Jesus Christ in him but what he always does is he denies that he is nothing like Jesus Christ. One example is ""I ain't sayin I"m like Him, an" I got mixed up like Him, an" I went into the wilderness like Him .""(110) During this journey Casy begins to preach to Tom, but Tom is not ... ...

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... him into the other bunkhouse because he is not white. When he tries to enforce his own rights he is looked unkindly upon. He responds aggressively towards Lennie saying, "You ain't got no right to come into my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me"(P- ) Racism is also represented through the conflict between characters which ... ...

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... all on her family, and then left home. She then met Curley and married him because he was simply there. She does not even like him, and says that "he ain't nice." In order to liven things up in her pathetic life, she is always pretending to be looking for Curly, so that she can go in the barn and flirt ... ...

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... stereotype and are proud of it. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.' George says. Lennie replies, delightedly. 'That's it - that's it. Now tell how it is with us.' Then George goes on to tell a story of ... ...

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... . Funny fella. He's all the time makin" it up to somebody-givin" kids stuff, droppin" a sack a meal on somebody's porch. Give away about ever'thing he got, an" still he ain't very happy" (Steinbeck 92). Most of the family members are described with that method, usually by the narrative voice itself. So the characters have complex psychological backgrounds, which give specificity ... ...

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... an' Connie. Ma, we wanna live in a town."(chapter17) After hearing her story, Ma became in a state of shock, proclaiming "We don' want you to go way from us. It ain't good for folks to break up."(chapter17) Ma demonstrates her leadership and love by telling Rose of Sharon that she should stay with the family and not go off with ... ...

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... carry out the dream by themselves. Crooks" need to be included in the dream shows us that he also is a victim to loneliness. He says, "...A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long as he's with you..." Curley's wife looks for friendship from other men showing that she is also lonely. She ... ...

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... the near side of his river with images of hell and decay. Animals balance the need to drink with the need to avoid predators. A carp tries to come up for air but is drawn mysteriously back down into the dark water. This symbolic scene lets the reader know what to expect. Events in the river will be mirrored by events on ... ...

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... 1939. "It was passenger liners, however, that still carried most people across the oceans, and the launching of the luxurious liners Queen Mary and its French rival Normandie showed that air travel was still seen by the masses as an adventure.""(Tames) Just like transportation, fashion also went through lots of change throughout the 1930's. Both of them were also influenced ... ...

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... jumped into the water and started to dive to the bottom of the sea. When he reached the bottom he started to collect oyster. After a will he rain out of air and when he was going up he saw a big oyster on a large stone. He took the oyster and dived up to the canoe. He sat down in the canoe and ... ...

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... as relief programs from state and federal governments (21% of the great plains' population had some kind of federal assistance). Many suffered respiratory ailments due to the dust in the air. Humor helped; tales about birds flying backward to keep from getting sand in their eyes, housewives scouring pots and pans by holding them up to keyholes for a sandblasting, and children ... ...

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