Jean-San-Galazzo's Ransom

This article goes over the heinous crime Gerard and Charlene Gallego committed. How the match made in hell met, became dependent on each other, and started their killing spree. It goes over the complete lack of empathy they had for their victims. It also shows the gendered sentencing as Gerard was sentenced to death. While Charlene was sentenced to only 16 years in prison.

1. “Villefort started in spite of himself. The coincidence shook his usual impassivity and struck a chord of sympathy in the depths of his soul. He, too, was about to be married; and he had now been called upon to destroy the joy of a man who, like himself, was on the point of attaining his supreme happiness”(Dumas 25).

The hero trope is used in many different genres in many different ways, but the genre in which this trope and the ‘hero’s quest’ appear in their traditional form is that of narrative heroic poetry. One such example being the eight century poem Beowulf. Which when tied and compared to a much more modern take on the traditional hero genre in the form of David Malouf’s “ransom” showcase the different ways in which the hero trope can be explored. Throughout both these texts, the author directs and challenges the reader's ideas of heroism. Within Beowulf especially where the traditional ideals of being a hero are challenged and reformed, to create depth and interesting new ideas thus come into play that co-exist with traditional hero tropes and the unique genre to become a new thing. Also within David Malouf’s ‘Ransom’ the genre is challenged by modernising a familiar traditional hero tale and inter-textualising it. Creating a whole new form of telling the heroes quest, without relying heavily on the original tale for details and instead brings forth more attention to characters that are in the background or barely mentioned in the original text.

The Palace Thief, a short story written by Ethan Canin, explains the bond through the narrator communications. The interactions with the characters demonstrate the character's personalities, experiences and the family shapes of individuals selfhood. The narrator of the story mainly focuses on the twist of an individual character. In this essay, I'm going to go over the relationships and correlations of characters William Hundert (Mr. Hundert), the three-year teacher at St. Benedict Academy, Charles Ellebry, who went against Mr. Hundert for teaching duties, Sedgewick Bell, who was a very clever student, and Senator Bell, who was a powerful demagogue.

The day the quest of the Seven Swords began, the day in the Year of Our Lord 1488 when the cloaked stranger came to the High King’s court, Ridmark Arban showed his youngest son how to hold a sword. It surprised him how much he enjoyed spending time with his sons. Ridmark had not been close with his own father. Leogrance Arban had been a great and noble lord of Andomhaim, a man who had done his duty and done it well, but he had spared little time for his youngest son. As Ridmark grew older and experienced losses and griefs of his own, he came to understand that Leogrance had thrown himself into his duties after Ridmark’s mother had died. By then Ridmark had been a page at Dux Gareth Licinius’s court, and Dux Gareth had raised him more than Dux

You will never believe the magnificent painting I came across while on the online J. Paul Getty Museum. It is this beautiful piece called “The Abduction of Proserpine” by Alessandro Allori. It said it was painted sometime between 1535 and 1607. I am sure you remember the mythical stories we loved to read in history class back then. That is why I fell in love with this painting at first glance. This is just another painting about Roman gods and their myths. You know how intrigued I have always been with Roman history and mythical stories about gods and goddesses. Especially the one about Hades and Persephone, except in this case it is the Roman version with Pluto and Proserpine.

This case record will tell us about four notorious traitors to the French crown that fascinatingly were born of noble birth, all being lords of various French villages. All the criminals mentioned M. Godfrey de Harcourt, M. Olivier de Clisson, M. Jehan lord of Rigny, M. Henri de Malestroit, and other knights and squires were upper class citizens that committed treason against the King of France and then experienced punishments that were usually given out to people of lower class, due to the gravity of their crimes. This court record could be used for historians to see why kings and justices ordered certain punishments for

Throughout history, a theme for many writers has been the conflict between peace and calamity in life. In his work The Red Keep, Allen French has also thoroughly ingrained this idea. Whether it be the forces of the Sauval against the defenders of the Red Keep or internal conflict amongst the people of Burgundy, this work not only portrays the relationship between an ordered society and chaotic behavior, but also discusses the manner in which the people of Burgundy ultimately achieve order.

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When agreeing to the reading “The forgotten victim from Florence and Normandie” an article from the LA Times, by Steve Lopez, about Fidel Lopez story, it had me anxious, a man who was “dragged from his truck” (Lopez, pg. 2) and was brutally beaten in the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Many like author Steve Lopez never heard back from Fidel after the riot or have ever heard his story about him surveying the LA riots, some assumed Fidel never made it out alive, someone who had helped author Steve Lopez fundraise money for the Lopez’s family told Steve “she thought Lopez might have died” (Lopez, pg. 2) stated in the article. Even after his brutally attack was being broadcast on national television all over the Los Angeles area, in which Fidel wife, Coralia, witness her husband being beaten nearly to death not knowing it was her husband, Coralia stated in the article “I didn't know is was Fidel. I could’t tell is was him.” (Steve, pg. 3) Listening to her words made things hard to imagine how Coralia must have felt watching her husband on television nearly pass away. The rest was nothing but jaw dropping moments as you continue to read further

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