Essay on Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender

An individual who’s influenced by power, control and corruption is often the king that chooses how the game is played. In Marele Day’s novel, The life and Crimes of Harry Lavender uses a variety of plots, settings and characteristic features that display how power and corruption can influence an individual’s superiority over an entire city.

had to go through in his life in his attempts for justice to be served.

The actions of ordinary people can be just as evil or wicked as the horrible crimes of a murderer. Sometimes what we see on the outside is completely different from what is really on the inside. No one is perfect, everyone has their faults and some faults are unimaginable.

He is tried for the crime of murder, but is not judged solely on his actions during the aforementioned crime. He is judged on his specific actions that society regards as absurd

He was morally blind. He couldn’t face up to the wrong things that he did.

I don't care cuz now. . . I needs a new jacket to wear” This small quote explains that not only does he not feel bad about the murder but he want to continue this murderous life stating ““I killed to get them but hey . . . I don't care..” This is one big reason why he could be labeled as a monster because he does not feel human

Many people try to prove themselves to other by acting one way in the presence of one group of friends and acting another way in the presence of another group of acquaintances. Such is the case for the “chameleon character” Clarence Hervey in Maria Edgeworth’s 1801 novel Belinda. Through Edgeworth’s use of third person point of view and a negative tone towards the character of Clarence, the reader is better able to get a sense of the arrogance and complexity of this man.

He made the Governments job harder than it already was, but at leased he owned up and admitted it was him who murdered James Scobie.

She begins to lose her innocence when her parents and she arrive at the Četnik checkpoint (84-85) and sees her parents’ vulnerabilities for the first time. Ana states,“the realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could” (85). This quote serves as a distinct contrast to the archetype of a child who innocently view their parents as immortal. In this moment, Ana drifts from her previous point of view where she saw war as a fun game where kids pretend to kill others. She shifts to a new perspective relating war to the memory of the massacre she witnesses that include her parents. This unforeseen shift from a boring drive back to Zagreb to a violent massacre correlates with Ana’s rapid perspective change. This darker perspective on war accentuates her loss of innocence. Ana’s loss of innocence is sudden, unlike the gradual loss of innocence Rahela, an example of a typical child archetype, experiences when learning pieces of her past such as her birth (145-148) by Ana rather than the “whole story” (301) of her parents’ deaths. Perhaps Rahela’s steady innocence serves as comparison to Ana’s swift loss of innocence that could symbolize American children compared to war children in terms of

There was a new concept of childhood being linked to socialization and education that had disappeared with the dark ages (Nelson, 1985). In Postman’s The Disappearance of Childhood,” adulthood is paralleled with the exposure to literacy, hence, Europe had to reinstate schools which he argues developed a necessity for childhood (Nelson). Family became just as involved as the school in pushing for acts of discipline and restraint that needed to be mastered before reaching adulthood. Postman argues that instilling the act of self-discipline and restraint created a sense of shame that kept adults from sharing “secrets” from children concerning sex, money, and violence (Elwell). It also meant that manners of dress, language, and even literature also further separated the line of what constitutes childhood from

In the city that never sleeps, silence fell upon the people. A memorial covered with flowers was transfigured from the steeple. Standing still, staring in complete disbelief, Our hearts were torn with instant grief.

Likewise, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood made sure to make flowers a recurring symbol to emphasize the real meaning behind certain flowers. Offred's first thought when she sees the hanged man with a bloody mouth is the red tulips that bloom in Serena Joy’s garden“The red of the smile is the same as the red tulips in Serena Joy’s garden...” (Atwood, 38). Red tulips symbolize a perfect love due to the

He had the reasoning and understanding of what he did, but he still went through with killing an elderly couple.

It is the occasional fate of artists and potters that after decades of celebration, modern tastes should eclipse their once eminent reputations. Charles Vyse, sculptor and potter, was such an artist. In the new world following The Great War, Charles Vyse was at the vanguard of English studio pottery making. He is a poignant example of a celebrated artist overtaken by the shadow of derision in the post WWII era. His renown as a sculptor and potter during the 1920s and 1930s contrasts to the complete indifference to his art in the 1950s and 1960s. Whereas his status of master potter is indisputable, his aesthetic influence on other potters is insignificant. His figurative work and his stoneware vessels have few disciples among today’s potters. Conversely, for the collector, there has been a resurgence of interest in his figures and stoneware vessels. The acquisition of a Vyse figure is a prerequisite of the modern connoisseur.

“Come on, Harry, you can’t be late for your first day of Sophomore year,” Sirius Black spoke to his godson. “well, you can, but as your legal guardian I say you can’t,” he added as an afterthought. Harry, however, wasn’t truly listening. He hadn’t gone to bed early the night before, his sleeping schedule still out of whack from summer vacation, and now he was insanely tired. He wanted to do nothing more but go straight back to sleep and possibly sleep for twenty years.