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Please take some time to post two responses to Of Mice and Men before you return to class on January 4. Each post should be at least 100 words long and should include direct references to the text you are discussing. Even if you are responding to a quote in the prompt, you should bolster your own response with other references. Those references should include internal citations to note where you are in the book (p. #). When you make a post, please read all other posts for that question so that you are participating in a conversation. Please do not repeat what other students have already said. There are many questions from which to choose, so you should be able to discuss your ideas somewhere without being redundant. Remember to make some post-it notations about symbols and archetypes, along with any other ideas you would like to discuss when we get back to class.
Feel free to respond to as many prompts as you would like. If you respond to more than two, please asterisk the responses that are NOT for evaluation. Be sure your name appears on each comment, so I can see who you are. I think you will need to log in to your Google account as you work. If you can, please post with your school Google identity. If you post as "Anonymous" without your name, you will not be able to receive credit for your work, so be sure your name appears within the comment if you do that.
I do not agree with Candy because isolation can create negative feelings within a person, as shown through Crooks’s hostility towards others. Although his irritability is reasonable because he is forced to be alone, this set boundary between him and the other men only highlights how he is different from them because he is a person of color. Crooks explains his feelings about being in a room by himself, saying, “A guy needs somebody—to be near him...A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody...I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick” (72-73). His separation does not allow him to socialize with many people, which can have a drastic affect on his mental health. He becomes closed-off and allows only a select group of people into his room. Candy points that out when entering his room: “I been here a long time...An’ Crooks been here a long time. This’s the first time I ever been in his room” (75).
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It is difficult to take a side on this perspective, because having "a room all to yourself this way" could be both positive and negative. In a positive light, Crooks does not have to share anything with anyone; he has as much space as he pleases to do whatever he wants. This, however, could also be taken in a negative outlook, as Phyllis mentioned above, with a mention about Crooks' loneliness. This feeling is constantly pushed out by Crooks, especially during his conversation with Lennie, when he states "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick... I was talkin' about myself" (73). This loneliness only lingers the longer Crooks is there, and this is obviously a huge negative to having the room to himself. All in all,the negatives seem to outweigh the positives in this specific scenario, and thus disagree with Candy as to his statement.
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