How Does Oscar Grant: Can We Really Get Better?

It was the beginning of October, and a 17-year-old teenager was hiding by a chain link fence. He had just stolen a purse from a nearby house, and a neighbor had called the police. An officer by the name of Elton Hymon had arrived and was trying to arrest the kid, whose name was Edward Garner. Garner began to climb the 6-foot fence, and Officer Hymon,

The novel is a literate, complicated, tight, a little offbeat and sometimes funny novel following the sleuthing life of amateur detective Joe Sixsmith. Joe Sixsmith is still a run of the mill, regular Private Investigator that lives quite the interesting life dealing with all manner of bizarre clients. Being on the bottom rung of private detectives having just started his investigative agency. His most exciting case for months has been a case in which he was required to investigate a man whose wife thought was teaching. But all that changes when a series of unexplainable coincidences occur in his life and leads three clients to him. These are disparate clients that soon lead him right into an intricate investigation that will tax the energy and intelligence of the amateur detective. One man comes to him saying that he dreamed of a murder and that he is best placed to report it so that the police can act to prevent it. Another client comes to him asking that he investigates an immigration mix up that had led to her husband being held at the airport for days. Another lady believes that someone is out to get her because she is a witch and wants him to investigate who the person could be. It would seem that there are connections between the three cases though at first glance Joe cannot see how they could be related. However, the lives of several people may be in danger if

The book, Acceleration, by Graham McNamee, is about a boy named Duncan, who works at the city’s Lost and Found, discovers a leather diary that belongs to a serial killer that Duncan nicknamed Roach, who is on the loose. Duncan finds out that Roach is targeting humans, specifically women, and tries to find the killer and stop him before it is too late. The main topic of this story is that mystery can make us do the unexpected. Once, the killer writes, “This is kids’ stuff… Need something BIGGER” (Mcnamee 47). Also, when Duncan was searching up books about murders, a certain passage from a book caught his eye, “Mason Lucas has a name for this ‘escalation of increasingly destructive aberrant behavior’... He calls it acceleration”(Mcnamee 88).

June 19, 1975, began a killing spree in Colorado Springs when a soldier from Ft.Carson and his friend who worked on base shot a cook in the head. He only had fifty cents. The next week they stabbed a Fort Carson soldier with a bayonet. On July 1, 1975, they killed Kelsey Grammer’s sister. After raping her, they stabbed her throat and left her out in a trailer park to die. That night they went to Fort Carson and called a cab from a club. That pick up would be Dad’s last. Knowing he was in trouble, Dad called dispatch to ask the distance and the fare to Butts Field, a strange request for a seasoned cabbie on such a small military base. All the fares were thirty five cents except the one to their airport. One of the guys grabbed my dad and slashed his throat from ear to ear, leaving him for dead on the side of the road. They drove the cab through the housing area, across one of its inhabitants front lawns. He had driven a taxi in New York and had his money taken before, but never harmed. Mom laughed hysterically when she told me that even with witnesses, their attorney argued it was too dark to adequately identify them.The local police investigated Karen’s murder, but my dad’s killing had taken place on a military base, putting the federal agents in charge. The murderers were given the death sentence for Karen and the other murders, so the feds decided not to investigate my dad’s case.

The shooting occurred at the Fruitvale train station on January 1st, 2009. At the station, a fight broke out in one of the trains and when the train stopped the fight started again outside of the train at one of the stops. While they were fighting on the train the BART officers were called. The officers came and arrested everyone that was in the fight. A guy named Oscar Grant was in the fight and was also arrested (Meyer). While Grant was being arrested by Officer Mehserle, he resisted the officer’s attempts. Since Grant was resisting he was pushed onto the ground on his stomach to be handcuffed. Johannes Mehserle was having trouble handcuffing Grant so the other BART officers helped him. When Grant was on the ground Mehserle was going to tase him since he would not stop resisting. When Mehserle thought he pulled out his TASER, he instead pulled out his gun. Mehserle accidentally shot Grant with his gun since he thought he pulled out his TASER (Bulwa).

Framed! is a murder mystery book written by Malcolm Rose. Set in an alternate reality of England, Luke Harding is just 16 years old, and a fully qualified Forensic Investigator. He had not been qualified very long before his first case is assigned to him. Two more murders follow soon after, and the prime suspect is Luke himself! Along with his robotic assistant, Malc, Luke must discover who it is that is responsible for three murders and determined to make sure Luke appears as the killer. Throughout Framed!, Malcolm Rose uses description, dialogue, and scenes where the reader know more than the character. By using these strategies, Rose is able get readers predicting, build suspense, and even stir a little bit of sympathy for the victims.

The book is written by Steve Bogira, who is a reporter for a newspaper is Chicago. He goes into the courtroom 302 whose judge

The book that I read is called LockDown By Walter Dean Myers. This book was written in 2010. Walter was born on August 12, 1937 and had seven siblings. Walter Dean Myers is known for writing fiction,nonfiction, and poetry books for young adults and children. He is a New York Times bestselling author and the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, with his family. Unfortunately Walter died on July 1,2014, he has one son named Christopher Myers. Books that he has also wrote is Bad Boy, Street Love,Monster and other books with young adult drama.

The film Fruitvale Station written and directed by Ryan Coogler, tells the story of a young African American man that was shot and killed by a white police officer on a subway platform. The film is based on the true story of Oscar Grant, who at the age of 22 years old was killed by a police officer on the Fruitvale station platform in San Francisco, California. The film shows how Oscar lived a tough life, but still had a caring heart. At the start of the New Year, Oscar wanted to change his life, and make better decisions. Unfortunately, he was a part of a situation that led to him being in police custody, and shot by a police officer. Oscar Grant’s death caused many protests and riots in the Bay Area against police brutality.

Born on July 29, 1909 in Jefferson City, Missouri, Chester Himes faced a plethora of hardships. At a young age, he witnessed racism. Chester Himes’ brother, Joseph Himes, was in a life-threatening accident when chemicals exploded in his face, leaving him blind. Due to the Jim Crow Laws, Joseph was declined treatment at the hospital. Additionally, Chester Himes fell down an elevator shaft while at work. In school, Chester Himes felt as if he was an outsider; he was lonely, which eventually led to his involvement with violence. Despite facing a twenty-five year prison sentence, Chester Himes surprisingly became a famous, detective novelist! Such tragedies that Chester Himes experienced cultivated him as a notorious, respectable author!

In the early hours of the morning on New Year’s Day, the BART officers were responding to a call about a fight on the Bay Area Rapid Transit train coming from San Francisco. BART officers detained Oscar Grant and a few other passengers at the Fruitvale BART Station. Officer Johannes Mehserle and a fellow officer were restraining Oscar Grant who was lying on the ground with handcuffs on. Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant one time in the back. Grant was unarmed, he was pronounced dead the next day a Highland Hospital in Oakland.

Finally Grant deserved to hear that! Grant has pushed his loved ones aside and by doing that he hurts them more.Though Grant is going through problems of his own, by no means does it gives him the right to release his anger and frustrations on the people that care about him. In a way he has developed hatred because he feels inferior to white people and in his eyes he viewed his aunt as his enemy for allowing that. Truly Grant is entitled for all the wrong reasons, he most likely never realized the sacrifices his aunt has made for him. To some extent Grant treats uneducated black people like how white people treat black people. He feels that he is above them and Reverend Ambrose puts Grant in his place during this passage. Attending school

Imagine waking up one-day eager to greet a loved one who’s been away for a while only to find out that their life was stolen by complete strangers. It could cause one to take some crazy actions; it could even make an assassin. In the novel American Assassin the girlfriend of college lacrosse star Mitch Rapp is killed in the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. This prompts him to put his sensational mind and body through rigorous training to become an assassin for the United States government. With his newfound talents Mitch travels around the world executing terrorists and criminals. This journal will predict whether Mitch will let revenge get the best of him, question how Mitch is as talented as he is, and evaluate one of his personality traits.

A man walks into oncoming traffic and is instantly killed leaving Mathew Cade devastated. But he soon learns that the man was shot just before he was run over making it imperative to investigate the case as a murder rather than as an accident. OTHER BOOK SERIES YOU MAY

Grant lets people push him around and he doesn’t stand up for himself, but by the end of the book he learns to be happy about who he is. Jefferson is forced to the unspoken rules of white and black, even though he doesn’t like them he still follows them. Jefferson was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it is going to cost him his life.