Chapter Analysis : ' Kill The Dead Bodies '

John Cox is the author of To Kill a People and a professor at UNCC. Meeting John Cox was very exciting because I never met an author before. I can't believe he took the time to sit down with us, discuss his book, and answer our questions.

The way the plot of Killings by Andre Dubus is arranged changes how the reader sees the characters in the story. This plot starts out in the present, then goes into the past, then back to the present. There are two main characters, and three secondary characters in this story. The way the reader views all of these characters is affected by the plot arrangement. The two primary characters who are most important to the plot, and also most affected by the plot arrangement, are Matt Fowler and Richard Strout. Because the first thing the reader reads in the exposition of the story is “On the August morning when Matt Fowler buried his youngest son, Frank, who had lived for twenty-one years, eight months, and four days…” pg 93, and not Richard Strout’s backstory and reasoning for his actions, they are immediately persuaded by the author to feel sympathy towards Matt. The author needs the reader to feel this sympathy so that when Matt kills Strout at the climax of the plot, Matt is not viewed as the antagonist of the story, but rather as the protagonist. The author needs the reader to view Strout as the antagonist so that the reader does not dislike Matt, and so that the story is one of justified revenge and not just another murder. If the reader had been presented with the plot in chronological order, with Strout’s backstory and reasoning for killing Frank first, then the reader might almost feel bad for Strout. If seen like this, one might conclude that, while he did not take

The Man I Killed is the story of the man that Tim O’Brien killed. However, this story is not true. He later mentions that he did not in fact kill the man, yet he was present and that was enough. This story, according to him, is told to show the reader how he feels, because O’Brien feels as though the truth is that by doing nothing, he killed the man, so in his story, he does kill the man. Imagery is the biggest literary device seen in this story, but diction also helps make the story seem more true, it helps the reader to truly believe that O’Brien did in fact throw the grenade that killed the man. This story is told from O’Brien’s point of view, which would be first person, despite the fact that the word “I” is

“Don’t look down Jacky, don’t look down I told myself as my hands trembled on the green rope. I gazed up and I had a long way to go. The wind blew my hair as one hand after the other touched the chilled twisted vine. The smell of the beans got to me half way through the stalk. I noticed when I got to the top some chattering, but I chose to ignore it. The warm air welcomed me as I walked into the mysterious abode when I got closer the ground shook now I started to wonder I walked further and further into this home I saw treasures and lots of beans they seemed to glow. THUMP!, THUMP! It started to get louder and louder f g and soon I saw a shadow it was huge at seemed to be crying. I walked over to it. HE WAS A GIANT! Me Jacky strong stared at him and swallowed my fear I finally worked up enough courage and asked him what was wrong he jumped back and screamed. After we met he told me his name Gordon and why he was crying his brothers and father yelled at him and made fun of him.

uttered a long, single note…when all of a sudden a young woman…and stood beside her

Is not knowing the pain that you will face in the future a good thing or a bad thing?

The Book of the Dead is a story that was written by Edwidge Danticat in 1999. Ms. Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1969. She lived there until she was able to move to Brooklyn, New York at the age of 12 to join her parents who had moved years earlier. Since graduating from Brown University with a master’s degree in creative writing, she writes books based on her homeland, Haiti (Biography Editors). This tells the story of Annie and her muse, Annie’s father. Annie looked up to her father and admired him for overcoming his painful past as a prisoner at Fort Dimanche, located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. So made a statue of him to symbolize him as a hero for overcome the abuse he suffered (Danticat). In this prison, men were blinded, electrocuted, castrated, and beaten to death by the prison guards for about 30 years. In Haiti, the prison is looked at the same way the world looks at Auschwitz (Bragg).

Carmilla shrugs, looking up at her with faux innocence, "But where's the fun in that?"

“Damn, I forgot to bring my disguise.” Malessica mumbled. “We’re going to have to push through the crowd.”

Redeployment, a national book award winner by author Phil Klay is a powerful, informative book about the Iraq war. It is composed of twelve incredible stories. The most memorable story for me is titled “Bodies.” The title got my attention emotionally and logically. Making sense of life, to readjust in the civilian world is the main theme of this story, which I believed it is a struggle to find direction to continue to live life and not just exist. Manipulation was another theme that made the process of connecting with people less stressful. However, it was not the most effective method.

Lasting over six years, the Holocaust is frequently considered to be the largest annihilation of humans in history; yet, even during its climax, the western powers were practically unaware of the scope of genocide Hitler’s army was committing until after Germany lost the war. Although Robert Brown aptly described the Holocaust as “such depressing subject matter” (v), he furthers, “Those who hope for hope--after an eternity--are entitled to do so only if they have measured that which has the power to obscure hope, only if they have lived in the shadow of utter denial. The rest of us, who have not inhabited the innermost circle of hell, can never know what it was like to be there” (vi). Yet, there are

Animal Abuse. Shrinking Biosphere. Mass Extinction. Like animal activist and writer, T.C. Boyle says, “Everyday's Auschwitz for the animals” (6 Boyle). These are all dreary topics that are occasionally brought up to our attention. Being the naive creatures we are, we choose to try and push these ideas into the bottom of our subconscious. When asked about human’s role in the environment, T.C. Boyle says, “It’s quite clear to me that our species is on the way out” (Nazaryan). Boyle relays in multiple interviews that humans destroy the ecosystem and then feel guilty and try and act as a dominion power over nature resulting in messing up things more. T.C Boyle’s view on human intrusion on animal rights are the driving force behind the themes and

She ran and ran again and lastly she located a sight that light was coming from.

This chapter will include a case study of the fictional character Sarah Lund (Sofie Grabøl), protagonist of The Killing (Danish: Forbrydelsen, meaning The Crime) and Saga Norén (Sofia Helin) protagonist of The Bridge (Swedish/Danish: Bron/Broen). The protagonists’ characteristics and how they are portrayed on screen will be explored with a multifactorial perspective. Psychoanalytic, cognitive, textual and behavioural as well as trait perspectives serve as a backdrop of the analysis of these contemporary Scandinavian female detectives. An introduction of the themes, issues and generic gender roles of the series are included for context and a close evaluation of Lund’s and Norén’s behavioural traits will follow, drawing on material from the series over all the seasons broadcasted to date. This chapter demonstrates why Sarah Lund and Saga Norén portray in many ways interesting, but primarily new noir heroines, situated in a postfeminist context.

Fictional novels, in this case, The Graveyard Book, can teach us about ourselves. A fictional novel is imaginary and is not necessarily based true facts. The Graveyard Book was published in 2008 by Neil Gaiman. This book is about a normal boy named Nobody Owens but is known to his friends as Bod. Bod is raised in the graveyard by educated ghosts, a solitary guardian who is neither living nor dead and is under attack by the Man Jack. Two ideas that have been demonstrated throughout the novel is that life is full of endless possibilities and relationships are a key part of our identity. This novel teaches us about ourselves and the experiences that we have with our relationships with other people in our life with