Introduction

My name is Nelson Gomes. This is my first blog, and I’m trying to argue the theme of race and racism, and how it is developed in Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. This story takes place during The Great Depression. It tells the story of two men, George and Lennie who try to escape economic poverty, homelessness, and emotional and psychological corruption.  A man who works on the ranch by the name of Crooks is a dark skinned stable buck who is isolated from everyone else because of his race(African American). Racism is an issue that has occurred over history, and still exists today. In this novel only one example of racism is shown which is racism on black people, but there are so many other races being discriminated in the world today. In this book the theme of racism does not occur in every chapter but it does occur in the story. For every chapter I will write a post about the scenes and characters and how they face racism or contribute to racism.

Even though the only race is the human race, racism still exists.