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- He tells Lennie about his own life, recounting his early days on a chicken farm when white children visited and played with him. Still, he says, he felt keenly alone even then. His family was the only Black family for miles, and his father constantly warned him against keeping company with their white neighbors.
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What were James Cook's beginnings? Cook was born in the small Yorkshire village of Marton on the 27 October 1728 to a humble rural family. Marked out early on from his siblings and peers, the young Cook received a good education thanks to the patronage of the local Lord of the Manor. At 17, he worked for a shopkeeper in Staithes near Whitby.
James Cook married Elizabeth Batts, on December 21, 1762. They had six children together; James, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Joseph, George, and Hugh. When he was not exploring and out at sea, he would spend time with his family in the East End of London.
Early Life. James Cook was born on October 27, 1728, in Marton, Yorkshire, England. At age 18 he became a sailor on the North Sea. While ashore he studied mathematics. In 1755 Cook joined the British Royal Navy. He was promoted quickly and took command of a ship at age 29.
Crooks hastily backs down, promising that George will come back, and begins to talk about his childhood again, which returns Lennie to his dreams of owning the farm. Crooks bitterly says that every ranch-hand has the same dream.
While Cook was still a child, his father became the foreman on a farm in a neighbouring village. Young James early showed signs of an inquiring and able mind, and his father’s employer paid for his schooling in the village until he was 12 years old.
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In 1745, when he was 16, Cook moved 20 miles (32 km) to the fishing village of Staithes, to be apprenticed as a shop boy to grocer and haberdasher William Sanderson. [1] Historians have speculated that this is where Cook first felt the lure of the sea while gazing out of the shop window.
Race is the central reason why Crooks has his own room set apart from the other men at the ranch. When Lennie visits Crooks’s room trying to make friends, Crooks keeps his guard up and explains the situation, saying, “You got no right to come in my room . . . You go on get outta my room.
