How Is Skidmore Guilty

This statement raises suspicion, not to mention he died from eating that pretzel. How is one not supposed to instantly suspect the person who gave him the pretzel, of murder? An individual might think, "No wonder he choked on that pretzel, all that pocket lint and unsanitary packaging. Not to mention who knows how long he carried that thing around in his pocket!" A reader must think of all possibilities as to why Manchester suddenly died and, considering the information provided by the author, there really is no other explanation except Creepy Pretzel Giving Skidmore is the murderer. Further influencing scrutiny, the author attacks Skidmore, yet still never claiming he is guilty of murder.

Summarize why the townspeople think Victor is the murderer. The townspeople think Victor is the murderer because several people saw ‘his’ boat in the water and then 2 boys found the dead body 3. Who has been murdered? Henry Clerval was murdered 4.

Hurst utilizes foreshadowing to demonstrate how the brother’s selfishness and pride leads to the death of Doodle. Not long after Doodle was born, the mother explains to the brother that Doodle might be mentally handicapped as well as physically handicapped. The brother could not accept the fact that his brother is different, so he “began to make plans to kill him [Doodle] by smothering him in his sleep” (Hurst 1). From the very beginning, Doodle’s brother is unable to except the fact that his brother is not normal and never will be. His selfishness and pride leads him to want to kill

From the beginning of the novel, readers are informed of a murder that took place prior to the novel’s introduction which would become a major point of tension in the story. The entire Blackwood family, including Merricat’s parents died due to an abhorrent poisoning. This poisoning was incited by an unknown suspect who laced sugar with arsenic. The first to provide the inside story about the murder comes from Uncle Julian, the only survivor of the lethal sugar cubes. ‘They arrested [Constance] at once,” uncle Julian said. “It was Constance

Discuss the irony of the following statement and the situation which it describes on pg. 153. “…there fooled what I later realized was a sickeningly comic aspect of an unfunny situation: the men talked in near-whispers.”

To start it all off, Manchester was a three hundred pound baseball loving, sweet treat addict with a kind heart. Unfortunately for him his brother Skidmore was an evil man who was envious, and down to no good. He gave everyone around him the creeps and that could be another reason of why other people thought he was guilty was because nobody liked him so they wanted to accuse Skidmore. Initially, Skidmore hated Manchester and finally decided to do something about it like poisoning his pretzel because he knew he could get more than one thing from his death. One of the things that he can get is the family wealth, and another is a better feeling that your brother who everyone loved is now

The article displays an appeal to credibility through detailed accounts of Debrow’s life, yet there is also careful consideration to elicit specific emotions throughout the text. Hollandsworth makes a prominent appeal to pathos through literary devices and specific use of detail. “The night of the robbery, Edwin drank Thunderbird wine mixed with grape Kool-Aid” (para. 23). This is an example of selective use of detail and literary devices together; he juxtaposes the crime and Thunderbird with the nostalgic and childlike connotation of grape Kool-Aid. Hollandsworth constantly reminds the reader that Debrow was 12, even though he may seem to be so hardened and already involved with a gang, crime,

Mother tended to blame others for Mugg’s awful actions. In paragraph three, the narrator says that Muggs had bitten a Congressman who his father called to see on business. The narrator's mother never liked the Congressman, she said that “Muggs could read him like a book;” also mother said that the congressman's horoscope sign could not be trusted. In paragraph four, the author explains that Muggs was irascible in the mornings. Then goes on to tell a story of when Muggs chewed up the morning paper just has his brother Roy was coming down stairs. Homever the narrator told the end of the sorry saying “Muggs bit Roy viciously in the leg.” In paragraph seven, the narrators says that the police were called because of Muggs biting Mrs. Rufus Sturtevant.

In the passage “Cover-ups”, Richard has to unveil his thoughts on the negative history between his and his best friends Jenna’s family history. The negativity is that when Richard was very young, he owned a successful manufacturing business. When his best

We all know how it is to live with guilt. The word guilt means the fact or state of having commited something wrong. Many have trouble keeping Secrets because of a guilty conscience. Today we can easly figure the ones who are gulity and those who arn't. As a result, in "The Curse of The Poisened Pretzel", there is a contreversy against skidmore killing his brother.

Finally, the reader is introduced to the character around whom the story is centered, the accursed murderess, Mrs. Wright. She is depicted to be a person of great life and vitality in her younger years, yet her life as Mrs. Wright is portrayed as one of grim sameness, maintaining a humorless daily grind, devoid of life as one regards it in a normal social sense. Although it is clear to the reader that Mrs. Wright is indeed the culprit, she is portrayed sympathetically because of that very lack of normalcy in her daily routine. Where she was once a girl of fun and laughter, it is clear that over the years she has been forced into a reclusive shell by a marriage to a man who has been singularly oppressive. It is equally clear that she finally was brought to her personal breaking point, dealing with her situation in a manner that was at once final and yet inconclusive, depending on the outcome of the legal investigation. It is notable that regardless of the outcome, Mrs. Wright had finally realized a state of peace within herself, a state which had been denied her for the duration of her relationship with the deceased.

In the first part the readers sees him contemplating whether to commit the murders as he states, “Oh, God, how loathsome it all is! and can I, can I possibly . . . No, it’s nonsense, it’s absurd!” he added resolutely. “And how could such an atrocious thing come into my head?

This was the time that Tom Buchanan confronted Gatsby about his illegal doings, but Gatsby didn’t care he doesn’t mind when other people know what he does to make his money as long as he doesn’t get locked up because he knows that Tom won’t tell on him in the book. So, both of the paragraphs tie into each other because it deals with money and how they got it. The next paragraph will talk about how Tom Ford and Jay Gatsby are different from each other by how they got their money.

Sibling rivalry can create motivation for chaos. Many crimes have been committed on the account of sibling rivalry. Jealously within families can lead to insanity and regretable actions. This is exactly the game Paul Haven plays in this excerpt from "The Curse of the Poisoned Pretzel". The brothers Manchester and Skidmore are both very clever in the food industry business, but Skidmore might think his brother is too successful. Skidmore was involved the possibly accidental death of his older, richer, more attractive older brother, Manchester. In this text the author hints that Skidmore is guilty of poisoning his brother by giving him a shady look, revealing to the audience that Skidmore has an allergy to bubble gum, and that Manchester was very successful and rich too.

This is a good example that not only did the author believe that Skidmore poisoned Manchester, but that everyone else, especially the sluggers, thought he did too. The pretzel a curse for the sluggers, especially after Manchester choked on it. When Manchester choked, that is when the Sluggers started their losing streak. The author states in his text, " From the moment Manchester Boddlebrooks choked on the world's first ballpark pretzel, the Sluggers began a string of failures never before seen by any team in any sport." This goes to prove that the pretzel cursed this team, and it may have been exactly what Skidmore had wanted all along. His brother was dead, poisoned or not, and the Sluggers were not