Essay on Alias Grace: Innocent or Guilty?

Once Grace goes missing her parents seem tired, and out of strength. Their mother “dropped her arm as if it were too heavy to lift”. She would later go and “start something and stop it and start something else”. Their father also believes it’s his fault for letting the girls go off to hide the last time. These characters are emotionally lost, but they are on a whole different level from

When I first met Grace in the middle of third grade she was always a nice girl who loved to read and spend over fifty dollars on just books at the book fairs. I faintly remember her crying. Crying because Sona said she did not want to be her

The theme of phoniness, illustrated by J.D. Salinger is the key of a better understanding the story line as a whole. Phony or fake more often than not means not real and is mostly referred to some religions by non believers or sometimes even to people. J.D. Salinger has used the term "phony" in a very common manor. By the interpretation of common manor, many of the people at that time period suited to the style of Holden Caulfield's dialogues through J.D. Salinger. Salinger's view of phoniness may or may not even share a bond with most of the readers' experiences, because this theme is confronted in at least some kind of form or action in the life of all people on a daily bases. The way Salinger has set

Grace Blakely is the main character of All Fall Down. She is very daring and stubborn and she has been through a lot for a girl her age. Her brother and father are both in the military and she is now living with her grandfather in Adria. Grace was thirteen when she watched her mother die in a fire and while everybody says it was an accident, Grace knows it was not. She knows her mother was murdered and she watched it happen with her own two eyes. Everyone except for Noah at the moment, believes Grace is crazy and she was just seeing things because of all the smoke or not wanting to remember the very tragic accident as just that, an accident. Grace has always been daring and that gives her a quality many people look for in a friendship.

I started reading Graceling as a novel study, but the more I read the more I wanted to know!

    One of the most common ways that O'Connor's characters came to a moment of grace was through tragedy. By putting her characters through an intense gauntlet of fear or sadness, O’Connor made the sudden moment of grace much more believable and hard hitting. In “ A Good Man Is Hard To Find” O'Connor devotes a moment of grace to both the Grandmother and the Misfit. During the story the Grandmother is constantly picking apart the world around her. She believes that she is holier than everyone else, however she finally see reality upon meeting the Misfit. After making an unsuccessful attempt at convincing the Misfit that he is a good person, the convict holds a gun towards the old lady. In that moment she realizes that she has been living a false life. She was a hollow woman who did not practice what she preached, a fact that even the misfit noticed. “She would have been a good woman,” the Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life” ( O'Connor 6). The old lady was bad person, and the only way she was going to change was through her moment of grace, which in this case resulted in

Everyone values something like cars or jobs. A lot of people value people or MVPs in their life like their parents, or a sports player. A MVP has to try hard, they won't give up, and respects others. In the book Surviving Antarctica there are five teenagers that work together get to south pole, and they are competing to be MVP. I think Grace should be the MVP because she played her part, and didn't give up.

When one is guilty, it means that he or she is “culpable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing” or, “having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty.” If someone is charged as guilty, they have broken a law or performed an unjust or immoral act to deserve punishment. However, this does not mean that through reasonable suspicion that an individual can be determined as guilty. It means that “a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. In other words, the prosecution must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, each essential element of the crime charged.” In other words, a particular person must be proven guilty of a crime through proof and evidence. In the story provided by Serial, Sarah Koenig narrates the case of the murder of Hae Min Lee. Seventeen years ago, on January 13, Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School, was reported missing. Weeks later, her body is found and the cause of her death was determined to be manual strangulation. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Musud Syed, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life plus thirty years in prison. The case against him was mainly based on the story of one witness, Jay Wilds. Now, past reporter and journalist, Sarah Koenig is reopening this case to find out what really happened. Through documents, police interrogations, testimonies, and interviews, she collects evidence to look for the answer.

"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal."—Flannery O'Connor.

Not only does grace sustain Kevin emotionally, it also helps give Kevin the strength and courage to keep his Dad alive. This is shown when Kevin hears himself saying aloud: “I love you, too, Dad”. (260). Right after this statement, Kevin is sitting by the fire near his Dad and remembers as Bailey says, “of what all along, his father had really been trying to teach Gary David and him about surviving in

During Act I Abigail says, “You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! John, pity me, pity me”. Abigail is wanting John to continue cheating on his wife, despite the consequences he will have to face. She basically wants him to give up his family in order to be with her. This shows that Abigail cares more about herself than others, therefore she is selfish. Along with being selfish, Abigail also displays her lustfulness when it comes to her relationship with John Proctor.

The doll she made Elizabeth “I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair; and passed the time with sewing.” Was really a generous gift until Elizabeth got arrested for it. At first she told the court that she made the doll but now since Abigail…”She’ll kill me for saying that! Abby charged lechery on you, Mr. Proctor!” When she went to court she knew she made a mistake, Danforth sais “Then you tell me that you sat in my court, calloulsy lying, when you knew that people would hang by your evidence?” But when she told the truth Abigail turned on her saying a bird is trying to get her. In order to try and save herself she blamed Proctor “You’re the Devil’s man!” Mary Warren is lie most people in real like they know what’s right but end up doing what’s

Nathaniel Hawthorne was not a Puritan. But Hawthrone’s forefathers were Puritans, so he had an understanding of their belief system and their basis behind it. He stated that he hoped the sins of his forefathers had been forgiven. Hoping to expose those ideas which he understood, yet despised, Hawthorne purposely presented many important Puritan beliefs as import aspects to the Scarlet Letter. In the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne addresses three main Puritan beliefs: providence, predestination, and the strict code of ethics that the settlers of New Englanders lived by.

The main idea behind the film was, how Grace had become a consumable thing to the town and how she changes after the conversation with her father. And, what she does after that, was it healing or further scapegoating? Grace was a “consumable thing” for Dogville. To use Grace, sexually or otherwise, is to consume her, to enjoy her as property or object – to use her completely, as it were, until nothing remains.

Much of Natural Born Quilter focuses on the analyzation of how the novel was triggered and how it evolved from Atwood’s rough sketch into Alias Grace. Atwood talks heavily about the woman who knew the real Grace Marks and who inspired her to write Alias Grace, Susanna Moodie. Moodie’s trips to Grace consisted of many eyewitness accounts of Grace “screaming out of her mind… but people faked…because it was nicer in the asylum (Wiley 5).” However, Moodie stated that Grace may possibly be “deranged…and that accounts for it all (Wiley 5).” When Atwood rummaged through the historical records of Grace Marks, she came to the conclusion that there were “three Graces: the murderer, the clueless ingénue, and the hidden Grace that nobody could discern (Wiley 8).” To be able to understand the real Grace Marks and how she is connected to the Grace Marks that Atwood created facilitates my comprehension of Grace’s mentality, therefore, facilitating my comprehension of the novel as a whole. Wiley also wrote that Atwood “was interested in the process of public opinion and