We are introduced to the author of the book, Bryan Stevenson who is a member of the bar in two states Alabama and Georgia. He then receives a call from the local Judge Robert E. Lee about a case which involves a man called Walter McMillian’s. He knew that he could have gotten into great danger but he decides to do the right thing and confront the case. In the county of Monroe an eighteen-year-old woman is brutally murdered. The murder took everyone by surprise and even after a few days of investigating no one could find concrete evidence to point out who was the killer.
Her book will go down in history as a means to educate students about the appalling tale of the atrocities committed by John Wilson. Simmie aimed to create a book that would repair Polly Wilson’s,also known as Mary Hutchinson’s, reputation. With each book sold, Simmie continues to accomplish the task of amending the memory of Polly as well as spreading the truth of John Wilson. “In a story carefully reconstructed from letters, police files, and court documents author Lois Simmie creates a book that is a compelling mix of true-crime, history and the vagaries of human nature” (back cover). Simmie proves to reader that though someone may be a person of the law, they may still be capable of horrendous actions and they are not above the persecution of the justice system.
The murder of Lynne Harper was a tragic and uneventful occurrence to have taken place in the small community of Clinton, Ontario. What is also uneventful is that an innocent fourteen-year-old teenager, named Steven Truscott, was wrongly accused and charged with Lynne’s death. This was all because Steven last saw helping Lynne out by giving her a lift on his bicycle. The legal system failed Lynne, Steven, and their families because the Police and Crown did not follow proper procedures. Even after Stevens’s exoneration, the real murder was never caught and was able to continue living their life, unlike Steven who loss a part of his childhood and adulthood.
They were there with their tongues cocked and loaded” (185-186). Even though Janie was judged in front of both races--black and white--she was unexpectedly dismissed by her own black community. The black townspeople of Eatonville in the trial relates back to the porch, since both communities rejection and judgment of Janie are deeply ingrained in internalized racism. As someone who is supposed to be a part of the black community, one would expect that Janie would have the full support of the townspeople, especially during the Jim Crow era. However, because of envy, judgment, and self-hate, the black community is so divided, that even in one’s worst times, they will doubt them and be unsupportive in order to feed their own dignity.
Pain, both physical and mental, affects every character in The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. However, the biggest loss, which is that of the Price family’s youngest child, Ruth May’s, life also brings about some positive effects as well. Here, similarly to in Twelfth Night, a person is sacrificed for the greater good. Naturally, it may be more difficult to imagine the benefit of Ruth May’s sacrifice than to imagine the benefits of Viola’s, but if given adequate thought, it becomes clear that the death of Ruth May helps the other women in the Price family to realize Nathan Price’s destructive ways. Kingsolver first exposes Leah Price’s newfound argumentative and bold personality, and her opposition towards her father in the following exchange, “”She wasn’t baptized yet,” he said.
The murder of Andrew and Abby Borden has been referred to as an unsolved mystery for centuries. Investigators questioned a single suspect, commonly known as Lizzie Borden, the eldest daughter of Andrew Borden. After finding no physical evidence linking her to the murders, Lizzie was acquitted and the case was never opened again. Several sources have provided eye-opening facts that make me reconsider the true culprit. Lizzie Borden is the person guilty of both murders because of her contradictory testimony along with her alibi, the mental instability she displayed, and her strange behavior prior the murders.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a powerful novel in which we follow the life events of the central character, Janie Crawford. While the novel revolves around the men that shape and distort her life, the principal element is the quest in which Janie undergoes in search of self fulfilment and her own identity. While many of her relationships do not flourish, they teach her many valuable lessons and allow her to progress in her search for spiritual enlightenment. Race and gender prove to be some of the most crucial themes in the novel as they exert prominent influence on the series of events that unfold throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God. In this essay, I will examine race and gender as well as examining the relationship between the two and how they play such a significant role in the life of Janie Crawford and her partners.
The stories “Minister’s Black Veil” and “Young Goodman Brown” both portray the theme of loss and secrecy. Women, specifically Faith and Elizabeth, bring to light some of the conflicts and foreshadow the outcome of the story. The women in the stories “Minister’s Black Veil” and “Young Goodman Brown” represent the outcomes of the story with their name or their secrecy towards the main character. “Minister’s Black Veil” reveals the theme of secrecy and grief among people. The main character, Mr. Hooper, wears a black veil over his face like a blanket of secrets.
In “Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Wright is accused of murdering her husband. While the sheriff, Mr. Peters, is having difficulty finding the motive. On the other hand, Mrs. Hale and the sheriff’s wife, Mrs. Peters, discover three significant clues in their ability to relate to Mrs. Wright. Although Mrs. Wright claims to have been asleep during her husband’s murder, the women conclude she strangled her husband, Mr. Wright, as evidenced by the errant quilt patch, broken birdcage, and slaughtered canary.
In the unknown there was fog and darkness. The light changes everything, and Grace doesn’t believe in the manner of the ghost life.
The author of this story use it in this story as an ironic. The author wants to show that Mary Grace, who is suffering from some emotional instability of emotion, is the only one who reacts to the prejudice that been demonstrated by Mrs. Turpin. 7. The background music played on the radio contributes to maintain the theme of the story that God’s grace is for everyone. It contrast with the Mrs. Turpin’s believe that the God’s grace is given by following the class of people.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in the tale of sin, revenge, and punishment, Hester Prynne involves herself in self-deception due to being caught up in a fraudulent interpretation of her sin and lives in an opaque concept of a better life. Hawthorne 's emotional and psychological drama revolves around Hester Prynne, who is convicted of adultery in colonial Boston by the civil and Puritan authorities. She is condemned to wear the scarlet letter "A" on her chest as a permanent sign of her sin. Consequently, Hester is complicated by her own interpretation of the letter and is embittered by the fact that she deems her punishment and the trials of her punishment will disappear along with the removal of the Scarlet Letter revealed by the characterization of her attitude in the novel. In the beginning, Hester attempts to prove that she does not care about what other people think, but later becomes paranoid and wants to escape from being the product of wrongdoing that the town perceives her as.
Underscoring the reasons for and consequences of misunderstandings and misinterpretations, Ian McEwan implements a non-linear narrative structure with multiple perspectives within his novel Atonement. By making the reader compare each individual’s conflicting points of views, McEwan demonstrates that every characters’ own biases and assumptions are merely indistinct reflections of the external reality. Serving the purpose of highlighting how the story can so easily be misunderstood, the split perspectives prompts a sense of empathy for the most consequential misinterpretation, Briony’s false incrimination of Robbie. “[P]ossessed by a desire to have the world just so,” and the need to be in control, the young girl’s series of self-centred reasoning
McEwan uses narrative structure to reveal certain truths throughout the novel about how the character Briony’s false testament as a child which resulted in Robbie’s wrongful conviction caused her to develop guilt and a wish to atone. The author structurally reveals after Briony falsely testified “how guilt refined the methods of self torture” which creates “an eternal rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.” This foreshadows how Briony’s guilt would last eternally, no matter how many times she would try to atone by metaphorically fingering her “rosary.” It is structurally revealed at the end of Part Three, how Briony finally conjures the courage to “begin” her atonement by writing Robbie and Cecilia a novel so they could experience “happiness” together. Although,
All characters are accused and redeemed of guilt but the murderer is still elusive. Much to the shock of the readers of detective fiction of that time, it turns out that the murderer is the Watson figure, and the narrator, the one person on whose first-person account the reader 's’ entire access to all events depends -- Dr. Sheppard. In a novel that reiterates the significance of confession to unearth the truth, Christie throws the veracity of all confessions contained therein in danger by depicting how easily the readers can be taken in by
