Executioners Way Short Story

Joel F. Harrington’s The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century, is about Meister Frantz Schmidt and the role he played as an executioner and healer in Germany and the life he wanted and pursued during and afterwards. Fulfilling an inherited and unwanted roll as executioner, often considered a curse, Schmidt was determined to seek redemption through social respectability and not fall into the normal stigma of an executioner’s life. “Establishing a good name among wary locals remained a lifelong endeavor for Meister Frantz.” (p. 131) Armed with self-discipline and self-righteousness, he committed to this endeavor by not falling for the normal traps (public use of prostitutes and drunkenness) that usually followed the dishonorable position. Schmidt was “faithful” in his duties but also as a respectable man of society.

The rooms are arranged from east to west with the blue room on the east and the black one on the west. East represents birth because of sunrise and west represents death because of sunset. Also, each of the 7 rooms represents a stage of one’s life, with the black on the very end representing

Seeing as there was nowhere else to go, you shuffled over to the opening and frowned. It was dark and you could just barely make out a doorway to what was most likely another room. What really threw you off guard was how nicely the doorway was carved. An intricate pattern wove itself around the exit. Did that mean… someone else was here? At the thought of possibly being able to get out of here with the help of another person made you scurry over to the patterned doorway with little hesitation. The sleeves of your two-sizes-too-big sweater fell down to wrap loosely around your forearms when you reach over and grabbed the wall to peak around into the next area.

The seven rooms in the house also conveyed stages in life ending with death. These rooms were set up from east to west. This meaning that the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west, and death comes in the darkness. "In this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet--a deep blood color." The guest's avoided this room because it was a sign of death.

north side of the hall was a full bath and long narrow linen closet. Off the west side of the hall was a small bedroom, with a small walk-in closet. Off the south side of the

door from the rear building, a locked door where he had hoped to wangle his way in.

They found a dark wooden staircase running up in a rectangle and descending in a corner, hinting the remains of coffins, it wasn’t expected though as they thought they were looking at a grave of cholera victims.

A night-chamber brightly adorned. Ða cwom wundorlicu wiht ofer wealles hrof, Then over the east wall came another

One of the most apparent symbols in the text are the bizarre colored rooms. The rooms represent the cycle of life, blue is birth, purple childhood, green adolescence, orange adulthood, white is the elderly years, violet is dying, and finally black is death. The rooms are arranged like the sun rise and set with the blue room all the way in the east and the black at the west end. Furthermore, the rooms have similar styles, all one color with the decor and windows matching said color. However, the black room is different with black velvet curtains, and the windows a blood red color. The light from the hall isn’t able to enter the room so a candelabra was placed behind each window so that it “projected its rays through the tinted glass… And produced so wild a look upon the countenances of those who entered” (2) The

The Room itself represents the author’s unconscious protective cell that has encased her mind, represented by the woman, for a very long time. This cell is slowly deteriorating and losing control of her thoughts. I believe that this room is set up as a self-defense mechanism when the author herself is put into the asylum. She sets this false wall up to protect her from actually becoming insane and the longer she is in there the more the wall paper begins to deteriorate. This finally leads to her defense weakening until she is left with just madness and insanity. All of the characters throughout the story represent real life people with altered roles in her mind.

Jim and his mother hear footsteps outside, and run out of the inn; they hide under a bridge, where no one will see them, but they are still within earshot of the inn

Each one having its own unique design and finesse about it. All the rooms were beautiful colored with there own color theme for each. The window pains matched the decoration in all chambers, or did they. The chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture.”Having black curtains and blood red glass panes. Due to the fact that this chamber matched did not match any of the others, which can be matched with an emotion for each, it most likely has a different meaning. The meaning of pain and suffering is the vibe that this chamber gives. The meaning of each chamber can also be related by the feeling of a person. Each room, whether happy, sad, angry, then the last on of course

I believe that the movie Dead Man Walking impacted my life greatly. It was a very emotional and moving movie. This was an excellent movie because it portrayed the feelings of both the families of the victims and the murder himself. It shows how much pain and suffering the families had to go through with all the sadness and hatred against Matthew Poncelant. The movie also showed how that the families' hatred did not go away after Matthew was executed. The greatest emotional part of the movie was when Matthew confessed that he did kill the teenagers and that he was truly sorry. From there, he was able to at least die with dignity and also he asked the parents of the teenagers for their forgiveness for him. This movie also showed how the

Crime in America is something that has been around for many decades. While a large number of crimes are considered minor, many more result in the serious injury or death of another human being. “When we think about crimes, we … normally focus on inherently wrongful acts that harm or threaten to harm persons or property” (Bibas 22). The death penalty, also called capital punishment, has been used as a means of punishing the most violent of criminals in an attempt to prevent others from committing similar crimes. Over the centuries, the methods used to conduct these executions have evolved and changed due to effectiveness and public opinion.

The Executioner's Song is a story of a rather eccentric man - Gary Gilmore; and the events in between his phase of being released from the prison and being executed. The story begins with the reunion of Gary and Brenda,who are cousins. Gary gets another chance to work and improve his life. While he begins well at the professional level, he fails at his many attempts in the dating scene. He then meets Nicole, with whom in the rest of the novel he shares a tumultuous relationship with. Given his obessesion with Nicole, Gary gets back to his old bad ways. This same obession turns into a rage and Gary subsequently starts