The Worst Crime: Matt’s or Richard’s “Killings”, written by Andre Dubus, illustrates how the death of a loved one may lead to dire consequences for all the parties included. Matt Fowler’s son, Frank, was murdered in cold blood by a jealous soon-to-be ex-husband, Richard Strout. When the death of Frank sunk into the lives of the Fowler’s, Matt believed he had to retaliate in some sort of fashion. The sort of fashion he chose was to seek revenge and kill Richard for his wrongdoings, which he did. Some people believe that the murder committed by Richard Strout can be considered more serious because of his act of passion and his lackadaisical style of living without worrying about his future.
These passages show that Esther is caring, innocent, and not at all racist. An example of a character’s reflection showing indirect characterization is a passage from Leanora. When Leonora reflects on the death of Lewis, readers can see that she is lonely, isolated, and despondent. Because Hesse’s style shows the opinions and reflections of the characters, it enhances
Setting Note #1: The setting in the beginning of the novel is shown to become a character. This is because the brightness and the weather outside reflect that Zeena is gone so Mattie and Ethan are happy. They are happy because they finally get to spend some time alone with each other. When Zeena is with them, the weather is dark and stormy, so it is ironic that the weather changes because of this. Character Note #1: Zeena is seen as a static character in this quote.
In Sarah Ellis’s “Gore”, she uses its significance in the story, and evidently creates a compelling dramatic irony. The narrator’s use of a dramatic irony unfairly implies a negative image of the story’s antagonist, Lucas as opposed and when compared to Amy. Lucas began doubting his instincts and “[his] voice [had shrunk],” when he anxiously told Amy to “quit it.” Either way, the narrator provided the reader with a negative image of Lucas which supposedly portrayed him as a foolish, and ignorant man from his actions earlier. The narrator tends to portray his stupidity acknowledging the fact that Lucas is lacking the knowledge of Amy’s act, which was hidden from him for an intended purpose.
The chapter that I want to write about is Chapter Eight: Wilma Derksen, “we have all done something dreadful in our lives, or have the urge to”. In this chapter I find the story line I quite interesting as it exemplified the current problem paced by society nowadays; crime. First of all, this chapter can be regarded as the chapter that tied most of the stories in the book including the undesirable difficulty, the inverted U-shaped concept and the principle of legitimacy. As I read the book, the topic discuss by Gladwell makes me think critically of the action taken by Mike Reynolds and Wilma Derksen. Both of them faced the same situation or what we like to called, difficulty, which is the death of their child.
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Andre Dubus, short stories contain a common theme of revenge, morality, and justice. In “Killings” published in 1979, Andre displays the theme of revenge and justice through the development of characters, the title of the story, and the thrill of the suspense. Dubus neglects to take sides with the characters in the “Killings”, which leaves it upon the readers to make assumption whether the killings were justifiable. Dubus has a very unique style of writing, the main characters in “Killings” were given a choice that could’ve led them to a completely different outcome. Dubus keeps the readers on their toes because the opposite usually ends up happening.
The Holocaust is still a heavily reviewed subject and is debatably one of the worst if not the worst atrocity that has happened on this Planet up to date. To think that the Nazi’s were able to kill millions of people it has made us question what kind of people they were and if they were anything similar to us. It is hard to think of a perpetrator to be a normal human being. The Holocaust has made us question if the Nazi’s had any sense of moral sensibility when killing innocent and defenseless Jewish men and women. In the book Ordinary Men, Author Christopher Browning argues that these Nazi’s especially referring to the Reserve Police Battalion 101 were normal people who had instructions given by Hitler and their government to follow through with by devaluing all Jewish life.
He closed the book, sat it face down on the table in front of him and thought “Well that was complicated”. For Sebastian, Dasa Drndic’s book was not complicated in a sense of her sentence construction or word choice, but in its actual composition. As he found himself in one single page going from reading long unpronounceable German names, with small double columned paragraph descriptions (pg. 222) to being thrown into a full page interview of a Jewish victim (pg. 222). However, it was still more complicated than this for even the interviews were not always from Jewish victims, nor from people who were actually still alive. For some of the interviews were from dead German “S.S.- Untersharfuhrers”, much like is seen in “Otto Richard Horns” interview
It is equal parts history lesson, biography, and courtroom drama. The author’s lucid prose proves that top-notch scholarship doesn’t come at the expense of readability. If the book has a weakness, it is that Boyle never questions the defense’s version of events. He dismisses the prosecution’s case that there was no mob attacking the Sweets and the two men shot were innocent passersby.
The narrator and Robert were the two characters who helped each other to see differently. The narrator was able to change as a result of Robert’s presence. The narrator did not understand the friendship of Robert and his wife since Robert was blind. He was also not able to comprehend the
When reading a story written in first person, the reader is taken on a journey inside the mind of the narrator. The story is observed from his/her perspective. Whether or not the elements of the story are believable, the reader is able to capture its true essence from the narrator’s point of view. As the story unfolds, I will show you how the narrator is incredibly important and how his personality and persona is vital to the way this story is told. Without him, there is no Ligeia.
Throughout this story the characters see and can't see figuratively and literally. Each character come to a gradual understanding of each other and see each truth that is uncovered. In this story each character does and doesn't see or understand each other such as his friends, his family, and also himself. First of all, in this story His friends play a big role. One important friend was Victor.
As a clearly flawed character, he makes some poor decisions but since Scorsese puts the audience into his mindset, then the viewer can at least understand the motives behind LaMotta’s actions. Meanwhile, omniscient narration has no such restriction—it can tell the audience any information
The Nuremberg Trials began three years later after the most relevant Nazi authorities were convicted of war crimes for four judges, who took legal decisions that previewed sterilization policies and ethnic cleansing in Hitler 's Germany. Judgement at Nuremberg, based on the real Case Katzenberger, is a demonstration of the efforts of a judge at the tribunal to determine how the defendants, and even also the German themselves, could have been involved in the Holocaust’s atrocities. Judgment at Nuremberg is a representation of the first trial, that is mainly based on justice principles and international law, of the country leaders that pursued threatening battles and were involved in crimes against humanity. This film is an overview of real events that highlights the conflict between morality enclosing both the behaviour of the defendants and the process of providing them with justice (Teach With Movies, 2015). These processes offered the opportunity of enhancing the debate between positivism and natural law, highlighting that the position taken would have significant consequences
