Discrimination is not just based on skin color, but also on age and gender. A book that shows this is John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, a story about two friends, that have a dream to live on there own farm, Lennie Small and George Milton, who go to a farm where they see discrimination first hand. The victims of discrimination in this novel are: Crooks, a black stable buck; Curly’s Wife, the farm owner’s neglected daughter-in-law; and Candy, an old, disabled housekeeper.
The most obvious form of discrimination is skin color. Crooks is discriminated because of his skin color. “They play cards in there, but I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink.”(pg 34) This quote illustrates how the boys on the farm won’t allow Crooks to play cards be
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This is shown by the fact that all three characters insist that their rights be observed. That's why they give me a job swampin'. Throughout the book Candy keeps to himself, away from others, because he’s rejected by others, just like Crooks and Curly’s Wife. They just think she’s bad because she’s a woman and that’s prejudice. ” Nobody ever really goes into his shack “…You go on get outa my room.
Curly’s wife is the only woman on the farm. Steinbeck, through Of Mice and Men, wrote to the world against the evils of discrimination. I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse…”(pg 33). They always think he’s unable to do things because he’s old, even though he can do it “I lost my hand right here on this ranch. She’s not aloud to talk to anyone because everybody thinks she’s a tart. They don’t even know what she’s like and they judge her with no evidence.
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