Essay On Clare's Killer

Clare Kendry in Larsen’s Passing, is a very complex character. She is an African American woman, who is “passing” as a white Caucasian. It all started when her Dad died when she was little, and was taken to her white aunts. Her aunts treated her like she was the help, so this made her want to be wealthy when she is older. Irene is her childhood friend, who saw Clare go through her tough times. They grew apart for a while, but met up in Chicago a couple of years ago. Clare has made herself an outsider through her actions. She is an outsider because she tries to pass as a Caucasian, uses her friends for her own benefit, and secretly wants to get back to her cultural roots.

During her shopping trip with her friend, Felise, Irene accidentaly met Jack Bellew. Irene considered warning Clare that Jack might aware of her racial status and possibly Clare’s too. However, Irene told nothing for she was worried that Clare’s divorce might encourage Irene’s husband, Brian, to leave her for Clare. Irene relationship with her husband was not good at that time, and she noted that Brian might like Clare more than friend. On one night, Clare accompanied Irene and Brian to Felise’s party which was held on a top of a building. Clare husband, Jack, suddenly came and shouted at Clare “You’re a nigger, a damned dirty nigger!, and tragically, the story ended with Clare’s death which she fell from an open window of the top of that

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, a crucial statement is declared about how he views the inner workings of men, as well as how men interact with women in society. The narrative is based around the horrific murder of two defenseless women, which seems to have been committed by a mystery “beast”. Poe demonstrates the primitive violent forces that exist within people, particularly men, which have the ability to escape in shocking ways, often against a woman. Poe uses violence as a negative, inhumane act, in order to reinforce the innate brutal impulses that are just under the surface of all male beings.

Although Irene feels that there is "nothing sacrificial in Clare's idea of life, no allegiance beyond her own immediate desire," it is apparent that Clare's desire to return to her African American race is honest, even if the motives seem rather one-sided (Larsen 144). Irene considers Clare to be "selfish, cold and hard" (Larsen 144). Irene also feels that Clare does not have "even in the slightest artistic or sociological interest in the race that some members of other races displayed…[She] cared nothing of the race, she only belonged to it" (Larsen 182). This may be true, but it does not diminish Clare's own pain at having to deny her African American heritage, and her desire to return to it. Irene represents a portion of society who feel that people who pass must have a morally acceptable reason to return to their African American roots such as a desire to rebel against a white society that has forced them into the role of a white person. Just because Clare feels "no permanent allegiance to either the black or white worlds or any of the classic anguish of the tragic mulatto" does not mean that she is not a tragic mulatto (Washington 48). In her own way, "Clare Kendry belongs with that group of tragic mulattos…emerg[ing] as an individual, not as a stereotype" (Davis 98). Because she wants to return to her own race on her own terms illustrates her individuality in the face of the

Meyer, Michael. "A Rose for Emily." The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing. Ninth ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012. 84-90. Print.

Poison throughout the ages has been a subject of fascination. This is particularly true in Victorian era Britain where the population became fascinated with poison as a means for murder. Although poisoning had not been new, the Victorian era produced an apex in poisoning cases. This essay hopes to explore the progression of murder through poison in Victorian society from its humble beginnings in the home as a common household product to a tool of deliberate murder and the subsequent fear it instilled that inspired legal reform that exists today. Firstly, this will be explored through the place poison had in the common home and Victorian society. Secondly, I will explore the professionalization of poisoning and growing fear of murder that became prevalent in the 1840s. Thirdly, I will explore the legal framework that changed in hopes to limit access and reduce the chance of poisoning. Fourthly, given this as context I will explore how the poisoning trial of Christiana Edmunds in 1872 became sensationalized because it reinvigorated fears of poisoning throughout Brighton.

I read “Driver’s ED” today, and Remy crashed her driver’s ed car into the sidewalk. Remy was not paying attention to the road and drove up onto the sidewalk and kept driving while everyone in the car ordered Remy to stop. Remy did not stop the car even though her driver instructor, Lark ordered her to stop. The driver instructor had to punish Remy and tell her that someone could have been there. Near the end of my reading today Remy was very embarrassed and did not want anyone to know that she wrecked the car, and I also found out more about

Amy Trauber introduces the article by letting Clare, one of the subjects in her research tell her first hand account of her daily routine as a sustainable farmer in Central Pennsylvania, and the challenges she faces in a male dominated work space. Clare says “I get up early, eat breakfast and start picking blueberries for market at six o’clock. After picking for a couple of hours, I wash, sort and package blueberries to sell at the farmer’s market in town. After selling all day, I might work a few hours at my off-farm job since I am there. On my way home, I stop at the top of the mountain and sell more blueberries out of the back of my car. I feed the lambs, horses, rabbit and dogs. After dinner I supervise people who come to our house to pick blueberries until dark” (Trauger, 2004, p. 289).

Irene wants to control her relationship with Clare and seems frustrated as she loses control when Clare is around. One occasion, Irene tries hard not to accept Clare’s invitation to meet her but ends up going. Later, Irene’s anger goes away just by the power of Clare’s smile, "And under her potent smile a part of Irene's annoyance with herself fled”. This constant loose of power makes Irene vulnerable and the possible affair between Clare and Brian gives Irene a motive for hating her instead of admitting her lesbianism and losing the life she has worked so hard to build.

Ending in death most foul, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” feature revenge and a painstaking cruelty. Pushed to the point of insanity and retribution sought over trivialities, the narrators tell each story by their own personal account. The delivery of their confessions gives a chilling depth to the crimes they have committed and to the men themselves. Both men are motivated by their egos and their obsessions with their offenders. Prompted by their own delusions, each man seeks a violent vengeance against his opposition in the form of precise, premeditated homicide.

Although Clare 's desire to return to the African American community outwardly seemed merely whimsical, inwardly, Irene begins to see "something groping, and hopeless, and yet so absolutely determined" inside this woman (Larsen 200). Clare will stop at nothing to leave the life she once desired in order to re-enter the African American community. Clare begins to realize that her desire to return to her African American heritage overshadows any disaster it may cause. In order to "get the things she wants badly enough, she 'd do anything, hurt anybody, throw anything away" (Larsen 210). In reality, Clare 's ultimate "loss of soul" is realized in the fact that she is willing to forsake her family, including her daughter, in order to reclaim her racial identity. This, not her eventual death, becomes Clare 's ultimate tragedy. She loses something of her own soul living in the world of white men. Clare feels that society forces her to abandon her family simply because part of her is African American. The fact that Clare pretends to be white in order to

The murder by Ellie Nesler on the man who was molesting her son is difficult to assume if she was right or wrong with her actions. On one side she knew that the legal system was going to fail and this perverted man was going to walk free again. Also, according to his past he would probably molest more children in the future if he wasn’t stopped. However, no matter the crime she should not have “played god” and decided that he was to die. I do think that Ellie was morally justified in killing this man because she was protecting her child from a man who could hurt her child again if he were set free. Ellie Nesler said after the shooting that, “she and her son lived in mortal fear that Driver would come and kill them,” so if this man was

The person in the book that would be considered the “villain” would be Herb as he did many evils as the book progressed. Some of the evils Herb convicted included innocents not being allowed into the neighbourhood, killing people who tried killing him and his suburban neighbourhood. Most importantly, this was done for the survival and protection of Erin Mills. Herb is Adam’s retired next-door neighbour. He is the sort of adult who won’t yell at you for being on his lawn. Mostly he’s just a fair, friendly, nice guy, but occasionally there are times, something in his eyes that makes you realize you don’t want to ‘mess’ with him. He’s a retired government employee who says he worked as a ‘paper pusher’ at U.S. embassies around the world. As the

As he thumbed off the safety, he allowed himself one last, stolen glance at the sculptured head, arching up to grasp an apple. Jamie swallowed and bang the explosion of the gun kicked back. The deer jumped up and next thing you know there was blood. Jamie was thinking to himself, yes! I shot him! I shot that big Heffer. Jamie went searching for the wounded deer. After many hours he couldn't find the wounded deer so he kept looking and looking still couldn't find the wounded deer and by then it got dark. Jamie was in the house and he ate dinner and he was telling his parents I shot a buck, but I tried tracking that buck and I couldn't find the buck so I came in and I'm gonna go back out tomorrow morning. I'm going to bed, he said then he went

The concept of race is being criticised utterly. We need a racist in the story to really make this clear. This person is Clare's husband, who is unaware of the fact that Clare did pass. He is clearly racist and not shying away to show and communicate it. Irene feels extremely offended by this. She is shocked and while hiding her true feelings she overreact with