Guilty Until Proven Innocent In The Literary Context

The children are painfully jealous of Margot, therefore, hurting her because of their own pain. Since Margot was different than the others and stood apart, one of her classmates shoved her and mocked her while she looked out at the rain. Margot didn’t respond to any of this jealousy, as it says in the text “But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else.” The kids kept mocking, shoving and yelling at Margot because she thought that the sun would come out. The problem progressed so much that the children grabbed Margot and locked her in the closet so she wouldn’t see the sun that just came out in seven years. That sentence in the text was “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door.” This shows how mean her classmates were, they knew that

“Why do I want to live? I shouldn’t want to but I do.” (Zusak 487) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is encircled with the idea of trying to find freedom from one’s guilt. Several characters’ in this novel such as Hans Hubermann, Max Vandenburg, as well as Ilsa Hermann all experience guilt throughout the story which slowly eats away at their lives and it’s up to them as to how they will deal with their guilt. Guilt came in to Hans Hubermann’s life when he escapes death in World War I. Hans friend Erik, saves Hans life and now, Hans carries the guilt of Erik’s death and promises to help Erik’s family. Little did Hans know, that in the near future he would save Erik’s son, Max Vandenburg from death. Previously, Max Vandenburg left his family

Unfortunately, wrongful convictions of innocent people sometimes happen in the criminal justice system. According to a new report from the University of Michigan Law School 's National Registry of Exonerations, 2015 set a record for the number of wrongly convicted Americans who received justice; 149 people who were either declared innocent or cleared of their convictions or guilty pleas. Many of them had already served long prison terms for crimes they did not commit (Mencimer, 2016.)

Humans behave in mysterious ways when they are put into challenging positions. This is especially true in Shirley Jackson short story The Lottery and Ray Bradbury’s short story All Summer in a Day. In both of these stories the characters raise hell for the protagonists, compelling the reader to ask themselves what the motivation behind these cruel actions is and why the characters are allowing themselves to act in this unjust manner. Protagonist Tessie Hutchinson of The Lottery is stoned to death by her own townspeople who looked upon her as their equal only moments prior to her death. Young Margot of All Summer in a Day is locked away inside of a closet by her own classmates; the same classmates who end up feeling shameful for their cruelty towards her. Why did the villagers stone Tessie and why was Margot locked away by her classmates? Analyzing the Milgram experiment helps us to understand why these characters behaved the way they did. Tessie was stoned to death and Margot was locked away because disgustingly evil actions were allowed to be committed under the shield of justice which each stories’ authority figures represent.

Regretful, ashamed, and sorry. Feeling responsible for a specified wrongdoing. Guilt. Have you ever felt guilty? Do you ever blame yourself, or wish you could turn back time to change just the smallest of details, knowing that your life will be so much better because of it? Yes or no, or whatever your answer may be, many people, and many characters have. The Book Thief is a prime example in which many of its characters experience guilt. They blame themselves for the fact that someone died while they are still alive, yet they find many ways to deal with this guilt. Throughout The Book Thief, the author demonstrates how survivor’s guilt continues to provide motivation for the characters to alter their lives in many ways.

Just as Bruce Dawe's poem The Wholly Innocent serves to provide a voice to aborted children, the purpose of The Land of Fair Go is very similar, providing a voice to children who came from third world countries detained in detention centres, and are similarly voiceless to people of the first world. Dawe also wrote regarding controversial issues in society, as does The Wholly innocent, which addresses immigration from third world, war-torn countries. The treatment of refugees and asylum seekers when they approach Australia's borders and other first world countries is very controversial, and WRITER'S STATEMENTthere is a lot of secrecy regarding the conditions by the government. Certain government reports and other leaks and speculations by the

Not only did they exclude her but they also hater her for her differences, for the absence of colour on “…her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness and her possible future.” They acted on this hate and “…put her in a closet…” and caused her to miss the sun coming out. They excluded her from all the fun they had in the sun but more than that, they made her miss the event she had been looking forward to since she came to this planet five years ago. By showing us this, Ray Bradbury successfully explains to us how Margot is different from the rest of the children in the way she acts and because of this difference she is ostracised and hated.

Jed Rakoff went straight to the roots of asking and answering the core question in his article, Why Innocent People Plead Guilty, within the criminal justice system. A rhetorical question asked and to overlook the problem that is facing the criminal justice system. Hence, Rakoff referenced back to the Civil War to the current system of trailing defendants. Within our criminal justice system, as quoted from the article, “is almost exclusively a system of plea bargaining, negotiated behind closed doors and with no judicial oversight…very largely determined by the prosecutor alone.” Because as learned in class a prosecutor has the power within the criminal justice system to overlook the process of processing a defendant.

Innocent until proven guilty is the Fifth Amendment of the United States. Today more than 20,000 people are in jail for a crime that they didn’t commit. Did the people in jail, whom are innocent, have a fair trial and be treated innocent until proven guilty? This is equivalent to Adnan Syed. A seventeen year old kid, who was convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee. After listening to the podcast, Serial, it is clear that Adnan Syed is innocent of the crime of murder due to a lack of evidence.

Guilt, according to the Oxford dictionary, can be described as a feeling of responsibility and remorse for a crime committed or failure in an obligation. In Markus Zusak's novel, The book thief, there is an overwhelming amount of guilt experienced by the characters. Guilt is a powerful emotion which can cause one to become unhappy and despondent. Guilt can also be channelled positively to help others, although not all characters are capable of doing so. Analyzing the different characters in the book, Michael Holtzapfel, Hans Hubermann and Liesel Meminger, we will be able to ascertain how they were able to deal with the various forms of guilt that they felt.

Why Innocent People are Wrongly Convicted Introduction Attention grabber: “Wrongful convictions have been documented throughout history with incidents in 1611,1660,1792,1819,1820, and 1835 - not including the Salem Witch trials” (Krieger) Explanation: There are many different factors that contribute to false imprisonment such as: inaccuracy of eye-witnesses, perjured testimony, availability of DNA testing, accuracy of DNA testing, prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective defense representation. These are only some of the few factors that lead to false imprisonment. B. Thesis: False imprisonment should not be a problem in today’s advanced society, there should be more precise ways to ensure that false imprisonment does not occur.

In his essay “The Myth of Justice,“ anthropologist and author Michael Dorris disputes the idea that life is fair and believes that true justice is an unattainable fallacy. Dorris avows that anyone who has ever lived through life’s circumstances would agree that life is not fair and there is no correct balance. He declares that justice is a fallacy people believe to make life endurable. Dorris refers to his youth when he was taught of a Golden Ledger in which salvation can be found through good works. He affirms it is the idea of justice and not religion that soothes people.

Since the children are so young they refuse to listen to the truth of what Margot says, and because of that she is hated. "No it’s not!" the children cried. "It’s like a fire," she said, "in the stove." "You’re lying, you don’t remember !" cried the children. But she remembered and stood quietly apart from all of them and watched the patterning windows.” This proves the stubbornness of the children because they refuse to acknowledge that even a little bit of what Margot is saying might be true. Because of this Margot is forced to keep her opinion to prove herself, but that only furthers the gap between her and the other children.

Have you ever been grounded or punished by your parent’s for something you honestly didn’t do? Maybe your sibling or friend stole something or hurt someone and the blame and the “horrible” consequences were put on you. No phone, no TV, no friends over, confined to your room. Straight tortures and a feeling of betrayal and dishonesty from everyone around you. Now, imagine being an adult wrongfully accused of a major crime such as an armed robbery or murder, which they didn’t commit, except it isn’t being grounded or their parents they 're worried about, its sitting behind bars, no longer a free citizen, fighting for their freedom with most likely one of the following things happened such as an eyewitness identified the wrong individual, false confessions, Perjury, maybe even forensic science error. Imagine as a child how you felt being grounded in the comfort of our own home. Just picture how an individual would feel wrongfully convicted in a cold, 10x10 box with a cold cot to sleep on! The injustice of being convicted and imprisoned for a crime one did not commit is intuitively apparent. I would take being grounded over a jail cell any day.

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 11, “Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense” (Claiming Human Rights). This right to the presumption of innocence is a basic human right, which everyone is entitled to because a human right is a right one has because one is human. However, in some cases people do not presume ‘innocent until proven guilty’ perspective, rather their thinking is the opposite, ‘guilty until proven innocent’. This is illustrated in the case of Denice Haraway, who one day disappeared from her job at a convenience store in Ada, Oklahoma. The police took off on a relentless mission to capture the person(s) responsible for this heinous act and, they did everything in their power to bring someone or anyone to justice, which they did when they arrested Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot. Even though they repeatedly said they were innocent, but everyone including the police believed them to be responsible because they ‘confessed’ to committing the crime, a confession based on a dream. This paper will illustrate the reasons that are relevant to the innocence of these two men. The one factor that is persisted throughout this case is the incompetent efforts of the law enforcement such as inadequate efforts on the crimes scenes leading to lost of evidence, not following proper protocol in