Dashiell Hammett's Life And Accomplishments

This mystery follows the escapades of Sam Spade as he hunts for the missing Maltese Falcon, and the killer of his partner. Spade is described as a “Blond Satan” (1). This is not a rather flattering way of describing your protagonist, and Hammett knew this. He knew that when solving crimes, one must place himself into the mind of the criminals to truly understand their reasoning. To do this for a living will take its toll, as Hammett knows all too well from his life as a private detective in L.A. His private eye is gruff, cynical, and drinks far too much alcohol. Spade is known for being far too honest at times saying, “people lose teeth talking like that” (94) when trying to gain information. These are the coping mechanisms that Hammett gives Spade to show his readers the human aspects of him. Spade might not be the most enjoyable company but if you give him a case to solve he will give his all to solving it. This sounds like another brilliant detective from the past. Sir Doyle would understand why Sam Spade is an effective detective just by looking at his habits. Sherlock Holmes and Sam Spade are akin to one another in the fact that they are both fallible humans with a knack for solving mysteries. Hammett is brilliant in the way he uses the influence of perhaps the first hardboiled detective to add a human side to the private eye. This type of writing is far above the caliber expected of a pulp fiction author, and to this day literary scholars site “The Maltese Falcon was vastly ahead of any other work in its weight class.” (Smith, 178) Dashiell Hammett proved the worth of an entire subgenre, and helped the hardboiled detective become a part of American literature. To this day, when people think of the private eye they jump straight to the cliché of a tough man of few words drinking bourbon and hunting down the bad guys in a dark city street. This is

For the first eleven years of his life, Clerc was not sent to school. At the

As a result, she lacked confidence in her education. She stated, “My early education did not partake of the abundant opportunities which the present day affords and which even our common schools now afford. I was never sent to any school; I was always sick.” Even though she did not attend a formal school it did not put her out of reach of a proper education (Peterson, 9).

He started attending school after arriving at his grandparent’s home in Mountain View, California. Here, he learned the English language, history, mathematics, and everything you would expect a citizen to know. His love for his new home and the culture that surrounded him continued to grow. In his studies, he excelled in spelling and English. And it was his school that helped him discover a passion for language. He would later take what he learned and apply it to writing.

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elie wiesel was born on september 30 1928, he was sent to a nazi death camp at the age of 15 during WWII. elie and his family was sent to auschwitz as part of the holocaust that killed over 6 million jews. wiesel had to overcome death, starvation, and poor living conditions. these adversities made elie wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian.

Wiesel published his first book “Night” in 1960, which was also his most famous. He wrote 57 books in his entire writing career. Later on in life he joined many associations to try and help the jews. Elie decided to go to school and then became a very successful author. His life progressed very rapidly once he was released from concentration camps and his life was turning for the better.

Hard-boiled detective fiction sets the scene for a cold and harsh reality. Dashiell Hammett’s, “The Girl with The Silver Eyes” is no exception to this rule. In this short story Hammett paints a picture of a brutally realistic urban center filled with characters that not many people would want to call friends. The realistic qualities of Hammett’s story are drawn from his own life’s experience working as a Pinkerton detective. The detective in “The Girl With The Silver Eyes” works for the Continental Detective Agency and is, therefore, known simply as the Continental Op. In the beginning of the story the Op professes, “a detective, if he is wise, takes pains to make and keep as many friends as possible among transfer company, express

Kirk Hammett was born in San Francisco, California on November 18, 1962. In 1979 Kirk Hammett formed a group called “Exodus”. It lasted for five years and after that he joined “Metallica”, the best heavy-metal band in the world till nowadays.

Hammett is one of those rare writers whose critical esteem overcame a small genre in which he wrote. Former detective himself, who wrote about the business with a keen eye for the details of the case, but also showed a special ability to engage in dialogue and understanding the depths of the human soul. Hammett in his life, he was considered a great detective writer , producing five novels, over eighty books and numerous scripts for Hollywood and radio. Today, he is respected as one of the most important and original writers of the United States.

“The Gutting of Couffignal” is a detective fiction short story written by Dashiell Hammett that focuses on the mystery surrounding the attack on the town of Couffignal by an unknown gang, and more specifically, the robberies and murders that ensue. Hammett’s story is classified as hard-boiled fiction, which Encyclopaedia Britannica defines as a “tough, unsentimental style of American crime writing” (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). Due to its hard-boiled nature, “The Gutting of Couffignal” mainly focuses on the issue of large-scale crime in the city. However, throughout the story, Hammett uses gender stereotyping of both the protagonist and the antagonist by the readers

James Dashner was born on November 26, 1972 in Austell, Georgia. Dashner is a very successful author. His most successful series is The Maze Runner. It spent over a year on the New York Times Best Selling list. He has been writing books since he was a little kid and has tons of published books.

Dashiell Hammett’s novel, The Maltese Falcon, is a hard-boiled detective novel; a subset of the mystery genre. Before the appearance of this sub-genre, mystery novels were mainly dominated by unrealistic cases and detectives like Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. As Malmgren states, “The murders in these stories are implausibly motivated, the plots completely artificial, and the characters pathetically two-dimensional, puppets and cardboard lovers, and paper mache villains and detectives of exquisite and impossible gentility.” (Malmgren, 371) On the other hand, Hammett tried to write realistic mystery fiction – the “hard-boiled” genre. In the Maltese Falcon, Hammett uses language, symbolism, and characterization to bring the story closer to

Leo Tolstoy also started schools for peasant children. The peasants were like Tolstoy’s second family. Tolstoy realized how important a good education is and wanted to make it available to the peasants who, being the lower class, wouldn’t normally get any education.

While American and British authors developed the two distinct schools of detective fiction, known as “hard-boiled and “golden age,” simultaneously, the British works served to continue traditions established by earlier authors while American works formed their own distinct identity. Though a niche category, detective works reflect the morality and culture of the societies their authors lived in. Written in the time period after World War I, Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and “The Gutting of Couffignal”, and Raymond Chandler’s “Trouble Is My Business” adapt their detectives to a new harsh reality of urban life. In “hard-boiled” works, the detective is more realistic than the detective in “golden age” works according to the