In “Murder by Book: The Murder of Karyn Hearn Slover case, It focuses on the murder of Karyn a 23-year-old mother on September 27, 1996, in Decatur, Illinois. Which brought about The Trio Slovers; ex-mother, ex-father in law and ex-husband convicted of first-degree murder in the year 2002. First starting with the disappearance of Karyn on 27 September 1996 at 5 pm, with the leads towards an abandoned Pontiac Bonneville car owned by the victim’s boyfriend, David Swann who did report missing person. On October 1, 1996, remains of an unidentified female body found in Lake Shelbyville and upon confirmation of dental formula found to be Karyn’s body. This lead to an autopsy where the body found to having six shots of guns and body dismembered of
A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial By Suzanne Lebsock ((New York: W.W. Norton, 2003) Suzanne Lebsock is a historic author that enjoys digging into the past events of the American South. When Suzanne finds something interesting she dives into the history of the event and creates a historic fiction novel, that includes her own ideas and historical facts. Suzanne Lebsock has created more works of art like, “Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism”, “A Share of Honour”, “The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town”, and finally, “A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial”. “A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial” takes place in Lunenburg, Virginia in the year of 1895, where a white woman,
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.
Richard Wright, author of the novel, “Native Son” creates a naive tone through the use of stereotyping and man vs. self conflict, to characterize Bigger as curious. The definition of naive is someone who lacks experience or in Bigger’s case, education. Richard Wright uses stereotyping when characterizing Bigger in order to display that Bigger’s opinions about rich whites as well as poor whites are based off of misconceptions. Stereotyping occurs multiple times on page 33 of Book One, “Fear”, for example, “His mother had always told him that rich white people like negroes better than they did poor whites”(Wright 33). In this statement displays the Bigger’s mother has brought him up on opinions, not facts.
Bigger is guilty of murder for both Bessy and Mary Dalton. He had a motive in both the girls murder. He never tried to get any help or show any intention he was not going to any harm anyone. He was trying to hide from all the attention but that didn’t work for him and did end up getting caught for killing both of them.
Through damage, Wright not only shifts blame away from Bigger for his actions due to the conditions of society, but argues that the intent of damage is the removal of humanity and community, the basis for culture. White readers are forced to confront the impact of damage as a test of empathy, as an indictment of Bigger is an indictment of their own complicity in creating Bigger, or at the very least do not directly share the experience and impact of damage. Wright views Bigger as a realistic portrayal of oppression because he based the character on real people, each with a different story of violence, damage, oppression, or rebellion, but all connected through similarities in environment that Wright views as the root cause for producing these specifically archetypal American men. Hence, the focus of Native Son are the conditions that produced Bigger, a criticism of the society that inflicts damage on the
“Bigger took a shoe and pounded the rat’s head, crushing it, cursing hysterically” (Wright 10). The rat relates to Bigger because the police do not let Bigger escape with just one punishment. They continue to
Bigger displays his insensitivity to the Dalton family by doing this it shows that he does not care, and while cutting up Mary, Bigger gets a shot of adrenaline which may have caused him to commit other murders.
“And, yet, out of it all, over and above all that had happened, impalpable but real, there remained to him a queer sense of power.” (Wright 239). He doesn’t feel guilty or regret about what he did, he views his murder as a normal act, “He had killed many times before, but only during the last two days had this impulse assumed the form of actual killing.” (Wright 239). Bigger is becoming evil day by day.
He hated his family too for not loving him just the way he wanted but always asking for things they need. Bigger expresses his anger on Mary Dalton as being of the same age as Bigger, she is enjoying much more rights and freedom where as Bigger is not given any rights to even support himself and his family and siblings. Just like Sigmund Sassoon who is angered on
“The Maniac” by Mary Robinson “The Maniac” is a poem about a speaker utterly transfixed by the figure of the maniac. The speaker sits at her window and watches the maniac go about his life – she cannot fully comprehend why the maniac acts the way he does but she desires to help him through his condition. Although the speaker requests multiple times for the maniac to share his woes, she tends to portray the maniac as if he were something less than human. The fact that the speaker never gives the maniac a proper name can emit verification toward the idea that Robinson portrays the maniac like a creature, multiple times. The title hints to these conceptions as well – it serves as a framing device, setting the audience up to view the maniac as
The author, Wright utilizes this scene with the rat to describe the character of Bigger from an emotional and physiological point of view. The author, Richard
Bigger repeatedly questions and analyses his current actions justifying that white people made him like this and that it was his “fate” that was no longer a question as to what bad thing would happen to him in society as an African-American male. Bigger soon was caught and went on trial for these crimes with the death penalty on the line, Robert Butler in his work The Loeb and Leopold Case: A Neglected Source for Richard Wright’s Native Son spoke on the trial,“But we have had many , many such case to com before the courts of illinois. The loeb and leopold case for example….shall we deny this boy, because he is poor and black, the same protection, the same chance to be heard and understood that we have so readily granted to others?’ (Boris Max addressing the judge in Native Son 376) (Butter 555). This well- known case and crime was addressed numerous times in the novel clearly an attempt on Wright’s behalf to have the reader use the skills spoken of in How to Read
It was a warm night in London a little breezy, but not cold and a lovely night for everyone. For Frank Kindle however, it was quite the opposite. During the night he has sadly lost his life at the Thottle manor for no one knew until early that morning 6:00 exactly when Mr. Thottle realized this tragedy. The heart to be said broken the most was Larry Polker, who was the chef at the house. Although, when Mrs. Thottle checked their safe, there family jewel was gone and their bedroom a mess.
