Edward Pierce's Penchant

He is also described throughout the book as wearing expensive clothes and riding in elegant carriages. So Edward Pierce did not “need” the gold because it seemed that he could live a lavish life without it.

Edward Pierce is a peculiar and puzzling man. And though he does not have conventional reasoning for his acts. His self-esteem and pride drove him to pull off one of the greatest heists the world has ever

Taught only to acknowledge what he is told to, the conforming individual will not realize his surroundings until somebody deliberately makes him. The rich control the poor and the intelligent control the ignorant. Edward Pierce’s heist was in response to the rampant manipulation of society by those in power. Throughout The Great Train Robbery, Pierce realizes that the power of perception is vast. Used to test how far this power could take him into a manipulator’s mind, the robbery was Pierce’s challenge to the societal ladder.

The Thomas Crown Affair is a film depicting a very rich man, named Thomas Crown, who struggles with creating meaningful relationships but yet is widely known, and finds entertainment through stealing famous paintings from a museum. Throughout the film the audience creates a relationship with the character, Thomas Crown, and his likeable, playful attitude that soon enough has the viewer siding with him, the criminal, instead of the police enforcement trying to catch him. By closely looking at a scene between Thomas Crown and Detective Catherine Banning, it is possible to analyze both the dialogue and cinematography used for the viewer to understand Crown’s viewpoint, as well as where Banning’s attitude may play in later. By understanding the attitude’s of both Crown and Banning in the film, I believe it can

John Winthrop and John Adams and their respective works were heavily influenced by their times. Winthrop was a devout Puritan Christian that was escaping a persecuting king in the early to mid-seventeenth century. As a learned and religious man, he came to be the leader of this puritan sect that was to establish a society unlike any other, free from religious corruption that his fellow people saw in the Church of England, that would be a model community much like the “Citty upon a Hill” described in the bible. On the other hand, John Adams experienced the “tyranny” of the British monarchy in a contrasting way. This era was marked with worsened conditions for American colonists in terms of economic and social taxations. Their literary

The nature of her crimes reflect a general fear of intimate and buried violence, suggesting a growing anxiety about being threatened from within. Her moves are calculated and planned. Murders and robberies spring from a specific social context, not from psychosis or vindictive malice (Kalikoff, 81). Murders in Victorian melodramas are often the result of elaborate plans to conceal identity, right a wrong or improve social status.

In Stephen King’s book, On Writing, he says that the main character of The Green Mile, John Coffey, is “an innocent man likely to be executed for the crime of another, [and that he] decided to give him the initials J.C., after the most famous innocent man of all time.” He goes further, saying that he “first saw this done in Light in August (still my favorite Faulkner novel), where the sacrificial lamb is named Joe Christmas.” Not unlike Christmas, Coffey is a character about whom the reader, or, perhaps, the viewer, is given bits and pieces of information - all of which are vital, and most of which are easily overlooked. Undoubtedly, Coffey’s most notable and defining characteristic is his innocence - in the sense of both his legal absence

Viktor Frankl argues that “man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.” Individuals agonize over how they will introduce themselves and make a mark of their existence. In Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery, Edward Pierce organizes the crime not for the money but for the renown.

John Winthrop was seen as a “medieval man” for many reasons. By definition, being a “medieval man” is to live an old-fashioned life. He enjoys living a simple life and lives untouched by the modern ways of life. Winthrop’s simple life is exemplified when Morgan states that “[John Winthrop] liked all the things that God had given him, and he knew it was right to like them, because they were God-given.” (Morgan 6)

Irving was born on April 3, 1783, in New York City, New York (May 519). He was “the eleventh and last child” (May 519), three of which did not survive beyond infancy (Neider xi). He was named for General George Washington (xi). Irving, himself, was “somewhat frail” (May 519). He “was the favorite child of his Anglican mother” and father (519). Irving’s father was “a successful merchant”, as well as a “Presbyterian minister” (519). Irving’s nephew, Pierre M. Irving wrote a biography of his life’ in it he stated: “His education was completed before he had attained his sixteenth year” (Neider xi). He did not continue his education at Columbia College, as his brothers had (xi), but rather “Irving studied law in the office of Josiah Ogden Hoffman” (May 519). In 1804, twenty-one year old Irving was sent to Europe, by his family, “for the sea air, a change of scene and a rounding out of his education” (Neider xii). Irving returned in 1806, after visiting “France, mainland Italy, Sicily, Switzerland and London” (xii). At twenty-three, he passed the New York bar, and “began to work as a lawyer on Wall Street”, although he spent most of his time writing “serial essays” (May 519). Not much seems to be known of his early years beyond his poor health and unconventional

When feelings of subordination and powerlessness arise, people may turn to devising plans in order to defy their superiors and attempt to break their feelings of importance. Pierce was a high class man who was respected in society, but in most times and places, a great respect is openly shown towards members who are in positions of power, such as the police and rulers. With feelings of insubordination when compared to the word of policeman that was always believed, Pierce’s unruliness brewed inside of him until he unleashed his defiance. Listening to those of the wealthy class brag about their riches annoyed Pierce to a point at which he wanted to prove his intelligence and defy the unthinkable in society. Robbing the bank was Pierce’s

As Edward storms through the neighborhood his anger gets the best of him, and pushes him into a stage of destruction. Those in the community become frightened of his unusual behavior, and decide to take action into their own hands by calling the local police. His family, in particular Pegg, question if bringing Edward into society had been the best decision and go out in search of the naïve lad.

Adding Greek mysticism into the book was what drew me into reading the novel, but one of the things that disappointed me, upon reading the novel, was the pacing of events. Throughout the book, Pierce’s narrative often switches between the events of the present and the past, I was hoping that it would focus more on her present, than switching between the years. The chapters stretch out more of Pierce’s thoughts than the present events, which did take up two-thirds of the entire book, though it did make the readers have a closer connection with the main character. The author focused more on Pierce’s point of view, rather than adding a few more sentences to John’s existence in the novel. I absolutely loved it when the author talked about the

His house is very ornate in contrast to the Puritan value of simplicity and not caring for material goods. Governor Bellingham is supposed to be looked up to as a leader yet he strays far from his Puritan morals. For these reasons the Governor is corrupt and this is showing the

A standout amongst the most noticeable and disgusting indecencies, to be sure, in Richard's character, his pietism, joined, as it generally may be, in his individual, with the most significant ability and dissimulation, has, inferable from the different parts which it impels him to expect, most physically added to the notoriety of this play, both on the stage and in the storage room. He is one who can "outline his face to all events," and in like manner shows up, over the span of his profession, under the differentiated types of a subject and a ruler, a government official and a mind, a fighter and a suitor, a heathen and a holy person; and in all without breaking a sweat and constancy to nature, that while to the traveler of the human personality