James M. Cain Essays

this genre is to show the experience of regular people turning to a life of crime and having to face the consequences. American author James M Cain is best known for this in his story, The Postman Always Rings Twice. James M Cain is a successful author due to his life experiences, his writing style, and his knowledge of crime. Cain’s life

“The Free Radio,” by Salman Rushdie is a short story that describes societal expectations of gender roles in a traditional Indian culture. Ramani, a young rickshaw puller, is seduced by the beauty of the thief’s widow to undergo a government sterilization program for them to get married. The thief’s widow, already having five children alive and two dead, did not want to conceive any more children. Ramani was further convinced on complying with the widow when being told that participants were to be

In the book, “Crabs Dig Holes According to Size of Their Shells” by James McPherson He talks about his ‘shell” which is his room, and crabs which is himself. The story is mostly about him being alone and him seeming like he is sad about something in life, which brings me to my thought of what his message is. My thought of his message is McPherson’s message is that at one point in life you are going to hit a low in life then develop a shell you want to hide in. My first quote is “Something was denying

Beowulf is an Anglo-saxon story that would have been sung around a fire with the purpose of teaching morals and traits to the listeners. There were three separate parts to the story: the fight and defeat of Grendel, the attack and defeat of Grendel’s mother, and the fight with the dragon which resulted in the death of Beowulf. Each part of the story was added by a different author-thus making each part of the story subject to being analyzed for containing the aspects of the archetypal “Hero Quest”

multiple times throughout the story. Beowulf versus all the different monsters throughout the story are the most prevalent examples of this dichotomy. Many of the evil forces were Cain, Grendel and his mother, and the dragon. These three portray evil in their fighting and their reasoning for fighting/ murdering others. Cain, the allegory, was evil for fighting out of anger and jealousy. In the bible he murdered his own brother, because he was jealous of God favoring him. In Beowulf he is the ancestor

that breaks a rule that goes against the culture of the Anglo-Saxons. One of the monsters that broke a rule was Grendel. This was the first monster to break a rule. Grendel, “spawned in that slime, / Conceived by a pair of those monsters born/ Of Cain, murderous creatures banished/ By God, punished forever

allusions in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. The aim of this work was to prove that John Steinbeck used many Biblical allusions, notably the allusions referring to the Biblical story in the fourth chapter of the book Genesis, which is the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, to show the inseparability of the good and the evil and the importance of man’s free will in his life and in the case of overcoming the evil. I found out, that although the readers may acknowledge many similarities and the Biblical allusions

to other stories in Genesis such as Cain and Abel or Esau and Jacob shows how when God used a more “hands off” approach, people could learn to forgive by themselves. In Genesis, in the Cain and Able story God was young punished immediately and harshly, which created turmoil between Humans and God. During this story Cain became jealous of his brother Abel and killed him. God immediately looked down upon Cain and treated him to the harshest of punishments. Cain would have to walk the earth as an outcast

are both decedents of Cain, the first killer on earth. This is an Anglo-Saxon piece of literature, so it’s domineering that you comprehend that faithfulness and bravery are huge principles of the culture which are expected to be kept. Killing someone is evil enough, but to murder a member of your family (his brother) is considered one of the worst sins you could commit. This is one motive given for all the unhappiness that Grendel and his mother suffer. Their ancestor Cain murdered his brother Abel

Book Review: Sons of Cain a. Overview Sons of Cain, by Peter Vronsky, is a book that focuses on serial killers dating back from the stone age to modern day serial killers. Not only does the book talk about specific killers, but it also slightly talks about the criminal theory behind some of the killers and their tactics/motives. Vronsky has written the book objectively, he mentions how many cases of serial killing and other severe crimes are not taught fully in schools, because it would shed a bad

Religion in Things Fall Apart Religion is the belief in a greater power, which shapes the way someone lives their life. Religion can bring people together, or it can pull them apart. The novel Things Fall Apart, a work by Chinua Achebe, is about a man named Okonkwo and how he and his village deal with the colonization of Christianity. In the end, it pulled Okonkwo away from his people, leading him to his death. Not only did Okonkwo face the new idea of Christianity, but so did Chinua Achebe. During

Heroism, tends to be difficult to define and remarkably ambiguous in literary works. In the Odyssey, however, Homer clearly defines a hero as a humble, determined, and loyal individual; thus, according to Homer, it is not enough to claim to be a hero, but it is also important to exhibit those qualities that Homer values as heroism. Odysseus, despite claiming heroism, upholds these traits inconsistently, as seen in his taunting of Polyphemus. In contrast, Telemachus, Odysseus’ overlooked son, dramatically

Shelsea Lopez-Massella Contrast in the Usage of Pride within the Biblical text and Homeric Epic Differing texts, the Odyssey and the Hebrew Bible serve to exemplify how “pride” is a term whose definition can be a spectrum with opposing ends rather than a solid meaning. As a word, it is able to connote a definition ranging from narcissism and self-adsorption, to self-assurance and respect for one’s reputation. Pride is an essential aspect of the Greek “hero”, being a characteristic that separates

an allusion within it. This story seems to make a reference to Cain and Abel. Charles was jealous of Adam because their father Cyrus favored Adam over him and same with Cal and Aaron when Adam favored Aaron over Cal. There seems to be a motif in the four main characters. Back to the allusion of Cain and Abel the first letters of each their names is also the first letter of their corresponding representation just like Cain to Charles and Cal and Abel to Adam and

A Midsummer Night Dream In ‘A Midsummer Night Dream’ by William Shakespeare , Shakespeare uses five major themes .Love is the dominant theme,which is predominant in most shakespearean plays . Shakespeare asserts marriage as the self-realization of romantic love . Appearance and Reality play a key role in the play in the fact that the idea that things are not as they appear to be at the heart of A Midsummers Night Dream and in the title itself. Order and Disorder come into effect when the natural

one another as well as a quest for their own personal paradise. Steinbeck uses the stories of Cain and Abel, The Garden of Eden, and woman as temptress to portray themes of brotherhood, an ongoing quest for paradise, and woman as a temptation for failure. Steinbeck uses the biblical story of Cain and Abel to portray a theme of brotherhood between Lennie and George. In the story of Cain and Abel, Cain is unhappy that Abel's gifts conjure more praise from God than his, so he ends up murdering Abel

Testament, there are examples of betrayal. In Genesis, Cain kills his brother Abel because he was envious that God looked upon him with favor. Another example is in Exodus when the Israelites betrayed God because they wanted even more than what He had promised them. It can be seen that people betray because of greed and jealousy. In the Old Testament, there are several examples of people being greedy and jealous. One example would be the story of Cain and Abel. According to Genesis 4 within the Old

How does exile as a theme apply to Beowulf and Grendel? Exile applies to Grendel because he is related to Cain from the bible, and in the story of Cain and Abel, Cain kills Abel through jealousy. God punishes Cain by exile, he would have to wonder the land for the rest of his life and we can see how Grendel is alike. Grendel would not pay the price for death since he killed for fun so he was exiled, from humans and from God. Exile to Beowulf is different, he is on a hero's exile meaning he is separating

The conversation between Cain and Yahweh is about his personal choice of what he does with his own anger or sin. The same applies to us today, if we personally recognize the sin at our own door it could lead to maturity, if not mastered it could lead to death. (Towner, 61) It is

the story of Cain and Abel or “The First Murder.” As the name implies, this passage tells how Cain murdered his brother Abel out of greed, making him the first murderer in the Bail. After this event happens, God punished Cain for the evil he had done. Although the suffering Cain goes through is brutal, the outcome of it is that it sets the outline for how criminals should be punished. As one of the first crimes committed in the Bail, God brings forth his dark side and shows Cain no one can ever