“Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner” basically describes what Justin Cronin, the author, talks about in his essay. He basically “comes clean” about what it is like to own guns and how they actually are. Justin Cronin is a teacher at Rice University in Houston, Texas. As a novel writer, he has written a trilogy about vampires, as well as two other novels. He got his education, in English, at the University of Iowa as well as Harvard.
We might find this issue to be small, but think about the millions of people who have their family killed by gun violence. The author want us to know by including descriptions on the setting of places such as the freeway “People get killed on freeways all the time” (159) The many moments that involve a gun actually have two meanings in the book. On one hand it signifies violence and destruction, in the story we see that Lauren’s journey up north witnesses countless acts with many guns: “One group chasing the other, both firing their guns as though they and their enemies were the only people in the world”(223). This not only shows us the brutal nature of people but also how people will use the guns to get what they want, knowing that it might kill someone.
In Drums and Bullets by Jim Murphy, the author explains that young boys often join the civil war. Power explains that young boys showed bravery in many ways. One way they showed bravery was that Drummer boys were brave for example “this boy puts you in shame get up move forward ”said the commander. The civil war was hard because there was a lot of dead and wounded people,the drummer boys were brave, they would be trained to not flinch when they shoot.
The Gun” the book from the Blueford series about a young man named tyray who thought of himself as the kingpin of the high school who met his match one day when someone he was bullying him got payback on him and broke his arm. Tyray thought he needed a way to get payback. It was a school day when tyray Hobbs came to the same as usual beating on kids taking there money when one boy had enough named Darrel Mercer said he wasn't taking it anymore and Tyray confront him. At that point Darrel had slammed Tyray and he broke his arm. After all this happen Tyray had been thinking of a way to get revenge on Darrel ever since then.
Shooter Reading Response By: Mandy As a person, you have many different personality traits. For example, a pessimistic, lazy, mean, selfish, and messy/unorganized person is how I would describe myself. In the book “Shooter”, there are many different characters who possess and show some very different traits throughout the book.
In Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies the theme of entrapment is seen multiple times throughout the book, mainly to represent the authoritarian regime of Trujillo. There are several different types of entrapment in the book but the main three are the discovery of entrapment, physical entrapment and the roles of women holding back the women from fulfilling their destinies. These three point mainly surround Minerva, who can be considered the bravest sister for being the first one to get involved with the revolution, but the other sisters deal with entrapment as well.
In the Article James Wilson wrote “Just Take Away Their Guns” has continued to be the focus on gun control and is also debate that is currently viewed in many arguments today. Wilson points out that there are many people who would love to see guns taken away from citizens who should not feel they have the right to protect their homes and families from thieves. He also states that our government cannot protect us from assaults that are brought on by people who are hard criminals because that continues to fail innocent people. He also argues that only a small amount of criminals are walking into gun shops and purchasing guns for the wrong reasons. I do not agree with him at all because I feel that anyone who buys a large amount of weapons is
In “Gun Control is not the Answer,” Robert Farago, the publisher of “The Truth About Guns,” argues that gun control laws do not necessarily prevent homicidal plans by briefly mentioning the San Bernardino slaughter and the French terrorist attack in 2015. However, the publisher fails to persuade fellow Americans to be in accordance with him, because of his false dilemma, double standard, and red herring along with some contradictions that heavily weakens his argument. Although Farago explicitly defends his claim in great emphasis, he devalues his argument by contradiction immediately in the following paragraph. Contradiction is using two or more inconsistent propositions to reach a conclusion. Farago specifically states, “No assault weapons
In the United States of America, at least 19,000 of about 4 million yearly deaths are caused by gang and gun violence. Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds, is a story representing the negative influences of gang and gun violence. After losing his older brother to gun violence, Will Holloman seeks revenge on who he believes is the triggerman. As the story progresses, he is met by the ghosts of those whose lives were taken by gun violence. In Long Way Down, Will’s community, specifically Will and Mikey, is mostly influenced by the intimidation of gang violence and death, which made the act of revenge difficult for Will to carry out.
In Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds, gun violence was a prominent theme that affected the lives of the characters. William Holloman, who was 15 years old, realised it was his responsibility to take revenge for the death of his brother, Shawn, who died due to the neighbourhood’s rule number three: avenge your loved one by murder. When Will makes his way down the elevator with the intention to kill Carlson Riggs, the alleged murderer of Shawn, he encounters spirits that were dead from their involvement with gun abuse. This resulted in the ghosts sharing their life story, and the different impacts that gun violence had on them. As the cycle of revenge circulates throughout the neighbourhood, the role of gun violence deprives Will of his innocent
Elvis The novel GraceLand takes place during the 1970s and 1980s. The main character, Elvis, is a teenager who is trying to escape the problems of the slums in Nigeria. Elvis’s dream was to be an Elvis Presley impersonator, but when that did not work out, he held different jobs that may not be considered morally correct. He knew that he needed to make money in order to leave the slums, even if his jobs were corrupt. Many of the illegal activities that Elvis partook in were influenced by his friend Redemption.
In modern society, guns are seen as a form of control. Those who have guns are able to overpower those who do not. This trend was set when guns were first invented and has stayed the same throughout history. The one place where guns are not a symbol of power and control is in literature, specifically “The Old Gun” and Hamilton. In Mo Yan’s short story “The Old Gun”, the protagonist is a hungry boy who does not even know how to use the titular firearm.
Katie Lee British Lit 13 April 2016 Gun Control Research Paper: An Annotated Bibliography Dickerson, John. " Why Newtown Wasn’t Enough." The Slate. The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company, 17 Apr. 2013. Web.
“Honor,” one of the qualities that guns represent, is a socially constructed factor that can be used to differentiate class. “Human triumph over nature” is a literal presentation of humans supposed ability to dominate nature, and “individual protection” is a means of maintaining one’s socioeconomic status. All of these three qualifications suggest an idea that guns are used to demonstrate or maintain one’s social class (or domination over lower social classes and
"In 1990, handguns were used to kill approximately 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States”. For many years, America has been regarded as one of the world’s most perilous and ferocious countries in the world. The death rate caused by active gun shooters in the US is extraordinary: “since 1968, more Americans have died from gunfire than died in … all the wars of this country 's history”. Hence why public ownership of guns should be abolished in the USA. Can you imagine to what extent the death rate in America has increased by now?
