Crooks Body Bio Journal

Heart: What are the things that are most important to the character? What does he hold closest to his heart? The big dumb one came into my room today. I swear I have never seen one so thick and dense as that man. He is more of a child than a man, and I couldn' help but tease him.  I pride myself on my sense, my attention to the hard realities of this world. I am no fool. I know my lot. I know that life is misery. He thinks he is going to buy a ranch with that man whom he follows like a puppy. " I seen hunderds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. Th...

1.         Brain: What does the character think about? What are his goals, aspirations, or dreams? Sometimes I wonder if the men on the ranch realize that their lives are just as lonely and miserable as my live is. They force me to live out in the stable house and call me "nigger", but what do they really have? They have nothing. They are lonely, miserable, illiterate fools. At least I have my books. I can escape into that world. Their lives consist of the fields, card games, booze, and the cat house. If that is what their privilege buys them, then I do not want to buy in.  But then I get angry! If I were one of them, I would not even be here! My knowledge and my experiences would pull me to the grandest heights! Instead I am here, lower than low. I remember my childhood.  "I was born right here in Southern California. My old man had a chicken ranch, ‘bout ten acres. The white kids come to play at our place, an’ sometimes I went ...