Argument Against Ethan Couch

In this article Ethan is having a party, and having fun with a bunch of other friends that he invited to his party.On one tragic night where a church group was having a get together, a mother and daughter just outside with a woman that was in need of some help, and another group of teenagers were having a party where they were drinking and doing drugs. A teenager decides that he needed to go to a store to purchase some items, the catch is that he is drunk and not in very good condition. On the way back, he is horsing around and hit four people out on the open street and ends up putting an end to their life and changing people's lives.The justice system didn't do the correct thing by not setting him off with no charges what's so ever and no jail time. Now that is just unbelievable, I am sure many people believe that he should be either in prison or in some sort okay house arrest. Ethan needs to strongly learn that he is taking the action of killing these innocent people and putting their families in a crisis. According to the court,”The judge sentenced Ethan Couch to 10 years of probation and time in a rehab facility. “The judge should have sentenced him to at least house arrest or some amount of time in prison, Ethan needs to face the consequences that he mad on his on. Just like he had the time to create all this damage, he can also pay up the price for all the damage he created. Ethan should have faced many more consequences than what he obtained. Knowing that he damaged other human beings lives and now he isn't obtaining any life changing consequences? In my opinion the judges should've thought this situation thoroughly, but not a single soul can change the decision that was established.

Edith Wharton, author of the novel Ethan Frome, speaks through her narrator to tell the ironically realistic tale of a poor, wishful New England farmer, who quickly realizes that his desire for happiness is futile. Ethan Frome’s acquaintances in town describe him as a man who has lived in the small town of Starkfield, Massachusetts for “too many winters,” yet Ethan is only fifty-two years old (Wharton 10). As the narrator relates the “tale of unremitting isolation, loneliness, intellectual starvation, and mental despair,” it is obvious that Ethan’s suffering is something “neither poverty nor physical suffering could have put there” (Faust 817; Wharton 13). The misery from which Ethan suffers is the heartbreak over the unaccomplished dreams of his past. In Edith Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome, the author examines the effects of reality on the fulfillment of the dreams of the characters and the narrator through social conventions, isolation, and fatalism.

The question of free will has been a never ending discussion by philosophers and ordinary everyday people for decades. In this paper I will be analyzing the case of Ethan couch, a 16 year old boy accused of manslaughter under the influence of alcohol, from the three different viewpoints of free will; a hard determinist, a compatibilist and a libertarian. Then I will discuss which view I agree best with under the specific conditions of this case.

In the book Ethan Frome, the characters are caught between what is right and wrong. Mattie has a torn desire to be with her sister’s husband and Ethan does not stop her because he feels the same way. The theme for the book is duty and desire. Ethan has a desire towards Mattie because she does not complain and is thought of as

Without thinking of the consequences, he let his hand off the steering and closed his eyes. A few seconds later, he was admitted into a car accident killing Lea. This example shows that Brent was careless about his actions, which caused him to take the life of an innocent girl. This might not have affected him, but it affected Lea's family.

Answer: The outcome from this type of court ruling was that Ethan is under heavy supervision for the next 10 years.I known this because on the second page paragraph 8-9 it states “District judge Jean Boyd has not publicly explained the reason behind the decision not to send Ethan to jail.According to the local newspaper,the judge said Ethan's parents could afford to pay for better

In Ethan Frome readers watch a man struggle with his conscience. It seems as if throughout the short book he has a little devil on his left shoulder and an angel on his right, whispering to him. He deals with everyday things, one of the most prevent being regret. Ethan's biggest regret thus far comes from his left shoulder devil. The voice tells him to make his move on Mattie and tells Ethan he is wrong for not kissing her when walking her home or showing affection to her at their dinner while Zeena was away.

Despite the sufferance of victims, they often aren’t entirely blameless, as their poor decisions and irresponsibility is ultimately associated with their upsetting and newfound situation. Therefore victims like Fin O’Neil in The Story of Tom Brennan, who ultimately chose to travel in a car with drunken, inexperienced, and impulsive driver, it becomes questionable whether he is also culpable for his injuries. Despite Fin’s sobriety and awareness prior to the accident, this does not implicate him, however it becomes debatable whether the outcomes would be alike; with Fin’s extensive injuries and crash itself, if the decisions made on Fin’s behalf were different. Similarly in the story of ‘In My Little Town’, Leigh Charter Jnr also decides to travel with a drunk driver, regardless of the risks. Although his alertness was also compromised by alcohol, he holds some level of responsibility in his death. However, in ‘Shattered’, there are no obvious victims who made poor decisions, due to the situations isolation. Although, it is disputable whether the perpetrator; Peter Hodgkins’ friends who witnessed the accident could have altered the outcome. Though, it was voiced to Peter; “don’t throw a rock at a car, that’s stupid,” (‘Shattered’, 2011) this partly ousts some responsibility, especially due to their intoxication, which is similar to the other stories. However, responsibility is never fully removed from others, as it only takes one person, one conversation, and any one action during the lead to alter the outcome of July 21st 2007, in Kiama, New South

The novel "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton was based on the moral of Fate vs. Freewill. Ethan Frome's decisions (free will) caused him many accidents later in life. After meeting Mattie Silver, Ethan's wife cousin, Ethan began to feel thrilled every time he was near Mattie. Despite of being married to Zeena, Ethan began to have an affair with Mattie. After coming back from seeking treatment, she began to suspect that Ethan and Mattie had something going on, so she decided to replace Mattie with someone else. Before Mattie left, Ethan and her went to village hill to purposely commit suicide to died together, but only ended up being injured.

    Though too intelligent for rural life, Ethan finds himself stuck in an average man's shoes. Leaving any opportunity he had to become someone in life, Ethan moves back to Starkfield to take care of his ailing mother and attend to their farm(Wharton 29).  Rather than living a lonesome

Michelle Carter is a teenger who sent texts to her boyfriend forcing him to commit suicide because she wanted the attention she was about to receive. She was later sentenced to 2.5 years for involuntary manslaughter, with 15 months to be served and the rest suspended, followed by 5 years of probation. This case wasn’t handled right because of the amount of time they gave her to serve. She deserved more time than the 2.5 years plus probation because she knew exactly what was going on and still didn't help out enough to where his parents could’ve saved him in time.“The judge also noted that Carter admitted in texts that she took no action; she knew the location of the truck and did not notify Conrad Roy's mother or sisters.” "She ended his life to better her own," the prosecution said, adding that Carter has not accepted responsibility for her actions.” “Michelle Carter, who as a teenager sent texts urging her then-boyfriend to commit suicide, was sentenced today to 2.5 years in the Bristol County House of Correction for

Although Frome can be held responsible for his moral inactivity, he can be considered a morally inadequate man in his present state. His inadequacy, however, was not a constant in life or a sudden occurrence-- it snowballed from his youth and finally solidified through the ‘smash-up’. His earlier experiences in a university and the joy it brought him was quickly interrupted after a year by his sickly parents. The unfortunate circumstance forces Ethan Frome to move back to the depressing Starkfield he had just escaped. His parents’ illnesses bring along Zenobia, who would be another future, unseen oppression along with Starkfield. For years, Ethan lives in depressing conditions that decline as time goes on. The chance to finally leave them behind, however, comes in Mattie, Zenobia’s cousin and maid. Ethan’s inability to act on this chance of escape finally seals his fate when Mattie is paralyzed and he is critically injured. Although jinxed with unfortunate circumstances, Ethan Frome’s life could have been bettered if one small step or action was taken by him for himself with the intention to create personal joy or pleasure.

In recent years, there have been many cases of the rich “getting away with murder.” One example that I absolutely love is, Ethan Couch.All at the age of 16, Ethan Couch was driving under the influence of stolen beer cases. When he killed 4 people and injured 9 people all together. Couch was then indicted with 4 charges of intoxicated manslaughter, but the judge only gave him 10 years of probation. Since it was argued that he had “affluenza.” Affluenza’s dictionary definition is “a psychological malaise supposedly affecting wealthy young people, symptoms of which include a lack of motivation, feelings of guilt, and a sense of isolation.” This basically gave him a get out jail free card, since his parents were too rich to teach him to be a

When it comes to moral and legal problems, what is right or wrong usually gets clouded by details. The gray matter comes to play in deciding who was right or wrong in the short stories “A Father’s Story” and “Uncle”. In “A Father’s Story’, Luke Ripley was in the right for covering up his daughter’s crimes. Who wouldn’t do anything to keep their child safe no matter their age? The length a person is willing to go to keep their child safe in unmeasurable. Whereas in “Uncle” the niece is completely in the wrong. Despite our brains not reaching full maturity until the age of twenty-five, this middle-school-aged should know it is wrong to attack someone who did nothing to her with large gardening tool, continue to torture him after initially

The accusations against him, brought by Briony Tallis, held him responsible for the violation of her cousin Lola. Robbie reflects on this, as Briony plans to refute her statement to the police, “The intricacies were lost to him, the urgency had died. Briony would change her evidence, she would rewrite the past so that the guilty became the innocent. But what was guilt these days? It was cheap. Everyone was guilty, and no one was. No one would be redeemed by a change of evidence, for there weren’t enough people… to…gather in the facts.” (188) Robbie’s loss of security and his future took away the childlike carefreeness he displayed before the accusation. Briony’s conscience weighs heavily on her as she moves from a naïve implication to the realization of the consequences.