An Outsider's View

     In Chapter 4 of the book "Mice of Men", we learned about how Crooks is treated. Crooks is the only African-American, who has a crooked back. Everyone treats Crooks diffrently, so he basically stays in his room all the time. There were times in my life where I was treated, or that I felt like an outsider. Last year I got all this hate from some of my "friends" and it made me feel like nobody would be friends because of what they were saying about me.

     They called me hurtful, yet bad names. There were three people who were doing that. I felt happy sometimes because I had my actual friends stay with me through this. One of them is in this class, too. Last year was the year where I was an outsider. My friends talked about bands that I never even heard of, and I acted like I knew what they were saying. I hated feeling like an outsider because it made you feel different.

     In some of this year, even though it's already a month or two in the school year I felt like one. I made new friends, and they talk about things I don't even know. Right now I feel like one basically because I lost one of the friends who had my back last year. When I say lost I mean we aren't really speaking to each other. It's going to feel awkward when I sit down at our table at lunch because one of our friends will be talking to her or me, and we will both just sit there quietly not knowing what to do. As you can tell Crooks and I are kind of similar in ways since we are both outsiders.