A Retrieved Reformation By O Henry

Character actions are the things the characters do. In “A Retrieved Reformation”, Jimmy or “Ralph” saves Agatha from the locked bank vault. “With the act, ralph D. Spencer passed away and Jimmy took his place… -he threw the bolts and opened the door”. However , Jimmy had to show his old self. In the past Jimmy had a criminal life.

Scarce research is available on active offenders due to their unwillingness to corporate with researchers and past and convicted offenders may have changed their perspectives after being convicted or left their lifestyle of crime. The most reliable data on these offenses and their perpetrators may come from active burglars themselves. Richard T. Wright and Scott Decker’s book, Burglars on the Job seeks to explain the reasons why burglars commit the crimes they do. They have taken their research to another level by gaining the trust of active offenders in the St. Louis area and gaining inside knowledge of these criminals’ daily lives and their crimes. This paper will address

The Protestant Reformation was a major 16th century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. The Reformation in western and central Europe officially began in 1517 with Martin Luther and his 95 Theses. This was a debate over the Christian religion. At the time there was a difference in power. Roman Catholicism stands with the Pope as central and appointed by God. Luther’s arguments referred to a direct relationship with God and using the local vernacular to speak to the people. Luther’s arguments remove the absolute power from the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church in general. The revenue from the taxes paid to the Church would be reduced with Luther’s ideas, in part because of

William Tyndale born in 1494, was a leading figure in ‘The Protestant Reformation’ in England. William Tyndale was the first to translate the Bible into english drawing text straight from the Hebrew and Greek text. Like Martin Luther, Tyndale took advantage of the Printing Press using it for the mass production of the newly English bible, this allowed the wide spread of the English Bible throughout the England. William Tyndale’s actions were noticed and seen as a direct challenge to the Roman Catholic Church.

In the seventeenth century many people left Britain for America to seek new opportunities. Most of these colonies were segregated by religion. The Puritans settled in New England, while the Anglicans journeyed to Virginia. These sects had very different lifestyles and approaches as to how life should be in America. The Puritans were much more strict about their religious observance.

Trying to make ends meet, he turns to selling drugs. By the time Jimmy finds love ones more and decides to settle down tragedy occurs. Trying to escaping from a drug bust at a friend’s house his attempts end up with a conviction for murder. Due to his illiteracy, Jimmy couldn’t read the false accusations he never committed.

For example, “My Finn informed me that Gatsby had dismissed every servant in his house a week ago and replaced them with half a dozen others” (114). This infers how Gatsby uses his money to protect him from rumors by paying his servants. In addition, Daisy and Tom escaped from justice and went on vacation. This example shows how Tom and Daisy are manipulated into thinking that money can solve any issue.

There were two men inside the modest one-story building; the bank cashier and a lawyer named William McDowell. One of the robbers, possibly Jesse, walked up to the cashier and asked to have a $100 banknote changed. As the cashier wrote out a receipt, the robber drew his revolver and fired two shots, one into the man's chest and another into his forehead. As McDowell ran for the door, he was shot in the arm. Jesse grabbed a portfolio of bank paper and raced outside.”

Why Jimmy Valentine from “A Retrieved Reformation” is a Good Character I argue that Jimmy Valentine from “A Retrieved Reformation” is a good character. He is a good character for the following reasons. Firstly, Jimmy gives money to a blind man. Secondly, Jimmy frees a little girl from a safe.

Anyways, back to the story, his house was being robbed by not the brightest of robbers, or one who didn’t whose house he was robbing. We may never know, because the next thing the robber remembered was lying in a cell. Nonetheless, Jimmy Jackson was up.

This time he continued to be neglected by his mother, Cecilia, who later, has an affair with Richard and abandoned her own three children live in a better life. According to Jimmy, Cecilia dyes her hair to blonde and lie about her cultural heritage to get an approval from Richard’s family, “Little did I know that my mother had eloped to San Francisco with Richard, fleeing into a white world as “Sheila”, where she could deny her past, hide her identity, and lie about her cultural heritage”(17).  In addition, she does want any connection between her and her children, “Richard turned to Mom and explained that, since his parents were old- fashioned, it would be best if she said she was Anglo and that she was just babysitting us for a girlfriend” (15). Jimmy already lost his father, but now he was about to lose his mother to another man. Unfortunately, the loss of these two relationships later leads Jimmy and brother being sent to an orphanage after the death of his grandpa. Eventually, he was sent to a detention center. During his time in a detention center, Jimmy is personality became shattered.  At the detention center he exposed to individuals who were neglected by their parents and states, “Even as blood ran through the wounded kid’s fingers and down his arm, his eyes announced that it didn’t hurt, it was nothing, he had no feelings” (21). Those kids in the detention center in a

We told Jimmy about the robbery on the February 19, 2017, and Jimmy said “I didn’t rob anybody and I don’t remember what I did on the February 19, 2017.” We told him about the cameras and that we saw both of them then Jimmy summary this “ yes, i was in front of the building smoking and Donny rob somebody and try to blame it on me.”

Martin Luther’s protests against the Catholic Church led to the Protestant religion. This led to Calvinism and eventually to Puritanism. King James I feared the Puritans would cause political problems and wanted to drive them out of England.

The intent of this paper is to evaluate the distinct character and quality of the expressions of the Protestant Reformation. This paper will discuss Lutheran Reformation, The Anabaptist, and The English Puritans as well as the Catholic Reformation also known as the Counter Reformation. It is the hope that after the reader has had the opportunity to view each of the characteristics and the expressions of each of the reformation the reader will have a better understanding of each and will be able to articulate the differences of each.

After receiving the news about the murder, Jimmy explodes with emotions. “I remember, I was more afraid of my little daughter than I ever was of being in prison” (Dennis 34). This quote shows the fatherly love Jimmy had for Katie. It compared the strength Jimmy had through the rough times in jail and how afraid he was of losing Katie. Ultimately, Jimmy follows the wrong path. Jimmy not only fails to find his daughter’s murderer, but he also kills Dave along too. By looking though a psychoanalytic lens, one can interpret Jimmy’s fatherly instincts which are to try to unearth his daughter’s murderer no matter the cost.