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Title: 'Of Mice and Men' Essay Plan - Crooks
Description: This is a comprehensive essay plan that includes points, quotations and context. Plans for Slim, George and Curley's wife are also available. I memorised these plans and achieved 20/20 in the exam.

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point
context
quotation
lives in the

the negro
stable buck

harness room

identity is
defined by race

coinciding with
Jim Crow laws

weak

introduction
educated
ironic; wouldn’t have
had many rights

mauled copy of the
Civil Code for 1905

proud
aloof
eiron

vulnerability
black and
disabled

Ku Klux Klan;
lynch mobs

themes
in theory, the American
Dream is in favour of him

dreams
momentarily plans to join dream
with George, Lennie and Candy

appearance

glitter with
intensity

no in-depth
description

inside a vulnerable
body, there is a fullyfunctioning mind

black

spectacles
intelligent

lowest
ranking on
the Social
Darwinian
hierarchy
arguably
the most
vulnerable
character

Crooks had reduced
himself to nothing

role

metaphor to
show harsh
reality

academically
strong;
contrast

juxtaposes
Lennie

Crooks

physically
only black separated
“This is just a nigger talkin’, person

an’ a busted back nigger
...


Slim
neither like
nor dislike

doesn’t see colour;
unprejudiced mind
is repeatedly
Lennie
called “crazy” difficult for Crooks

represents
hopelessness and
unchangeable fate

consistent; does
not stray from
reality

to conceal his
pleasure with anger

relationships

uses social
Similar;
prejudice to
just as
Curley’s wife taunt him
vulnerable
as each “I could get you strung up on
other
a tree so easy it ain’t funny
Title: 'Of Mice and Men' Essay Plan - Crooks
Description: This is a comprehensive essay plan that includes points, quotations and context. Plans for Slim, George and Curley's wife are also available. I memorised these plans and achieved 20/20 in the exam.