I hear a sharp hiss interrupting my thoughts. I tightly close my eyes shut then I open them. Light beams the entire room. Out of nowhere, a Smokey, black coffin sits right in the middle of the bright room. I try to find a way back out, but the doors are locked!
The mansion was large although very cold and fairly unfurnished. There was nothing really except the occasional old fashioned leather lounge or cupboard, although it did suit the place. He climbed the wooden staircase to be confronted by his father. His father’s old weathered face suggested a feeling of content “John my boy, come in” Jonno walked into a spacious room with two huge bookshelves on each side and a wide window at the end. Richard gestured Jonno to sit and walked back out.
This highlights the main theme of the novel: loneliness. Living alone in his room Crooks craves the company of others but, because of his coloured skin and the era he lived in, he is shown to be separated from the other ranch workers and thus suffering from loneliness more than his colleagues. Because of his skin colour, Crooks is shown to have “kept his distance and demanded that other people kept theirs.” Steinbeck describes how crooks wants others to stay away from him and reciprocates their feelings towards him but, later in the novel, he reveals that he is very lonely all by himself and would like to have someone to talk to. However, because he is so used to being shunted away by society, he pushes everyone away from him before they have the chance to do the same, portraying him as a “proud, aloof man”. Again, this fact highlights Crooks' loneliness and, even though he has convinced himself he doesn’t need anyone else, he knows the pleasure of having company and this is something that can’t be replaced by the many possessions he has acquired.
‘Of Mice and Men’- Crooks essay In this section Lennie, Candy and Crooks are in Crooks’ room. Crooks lives by himself because he is the only black man on the ranch. He is bookish and likes to keep his room neat, but he has been so beaten down by loneliness and prejudicial treatment of that he is now suspicious of any kindness he receives, when Lennie enters his room, he soon realizes that Lennie is mentally disabled and find pleasure in tormenting Lennie about what would happen if George didn’t return, this reveals a mean streak in crooks that he developed from being alone. Candy then comes in and he and Lennie accidentally reveal to him their dream of the ranch. In the extract we see that Crooks is very cynical towards the American dream, “‘you guys is just kiddin’ yourself.’” Crooks dismisses the dream as nothing more than something that is just in the heads of these workers.
It was the sound of dangling keys and clanging metal. I thought nothing of it because I figured it was my grandpa coming back from work, so I put the covers over my head and tried to go back to sleep. I heard the door open and close and footsteps leading from the door. I took the covers off my head to say goodnight to my grandpa but to my surprise there was no one there. I felt a chill and covered my face with the covers.
Name Miss Connell English 1 (H) Due Date Loneliness in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men suggests that loneliness and isolation drive different social outsiders together. George is the first character in the novel to suggest that the loneliness itinerant ranch hands naturally face leads them to seek companionship. When he and Lennie settle in for the night before going to the Tyler Ranch, he says to Lennie, “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They ain’t got nothing to look ahead to.
The description of Gatsby's mansion is juxtaposed to the hyperbolic opulence Nick uses to describe it in Chapter 3. Instead, there is an "inexplicable amount of dust everywhere" and the rooms are "musty" as Nick believes "they hadn't been aired for many days". As opposed to arriving as a partygoer, Nick arrives to comfort Gatsby who sits "down gloomily" after they sit "smoking out into the darkness". Fitzgerald draws attention to the gloomy setting to reinforce the atmosphere Nick feels in the house as Gatsby still Gatsby "couldn't possibly leave Daisy". Fitzgerald narrates Wilson’s journey to find the yellow car using a multiple perspective.
Chapter 7: `Of Mice and Men` The early evening sun began to fade in the bunkhouse. Dust particles danced in the beam of light that slowly crept back along the floor. The afternoon’s events now seemed like a distant memory. The shadows in the room slowly retreated into every corner of the bunkhouse. George sat on his bunk holding Lennie`s denim jacket.
Lennie was very isolated also from the ranch workers because he wasn't normal and acted very childish, this mustn't of been nice for Lennie and that is how the ranch is unpleasent for him. Carlson made Candy's life on the ranch very hard because he depised Candy's smelly old dog, in the book Carlson kills the dog because it was old and it stank but he never cared about how Candy felt about the dog he just cared about himself. Carlson killed the dog eventhough he knew how much Candy loved it, when Carlson suggested killing the dog “Candy looked for help from face to face” but nobody helped him. The reason why Candy couldn't stop Carlson from killing his dog was because he was a very brittle old man and was mainly over powered by people stronger than him. This event was very unpleasent for Candy.
Homer “aimless[ly]” walks around his house and sits around doing nothing. Homer, obviously accustomed to his loneliness, is surprised when Harry Greener comes into his life and turns it upside down. Harry, the complete opposite of Homer, comes into his home and spreads his exuberate character all over the place. In doing this, Homer begins to leave his house and do more things in his life. The different styles of narration that occur within the novel may be an indication into the author’s real life