Madigan's Deception: A Narrative Fiction

Still unsure and full of suspicion about what had been told to him this old woman, he went home to proceed with the slave girl, since according to the woman she knew about the affair his wife was having. He took the slave girl to a friend’s house where he told her to confess everything because he was already aware of the adultery that was happening in his home. The slave girl denied everything at first. He then gave her two options; the first one being tortured and punished; the second option to confess the truth and she will be forgiven for betraying him and being his wife’s

Deception is an act intentionally inflicted upon others in order to, satisfy one's wants and needs. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby deceives others for both his personal gain and love. While Jay Gatsby lives day by day deceiving others, he thinks not much of it. Gatsby sees himself has merely just moving on from the past and onto a new life. However, through his acts of deception he is stirring up a fatal situation. Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby as a man who is wealthy and as some may say “living the life”. Jay Gatsby however, is merely a mask put on by James Gatz, the same man, to live the life he has always desired. Once settled in as Jay Gatsby, he starts to find it difficult to maintain an image expected by others. In this novel, James Gatz lives a false life as Jay Gatsby to satisfy his wants and needs, but has his act of deceiving others comes to an crumble Fitzgerald is able to showcase the struggle and cost of deception.

us that he went to war as the man she loved but came back an empty shell of the man who left.

My reflections on the orginization of the novel ended with me loving how the book came together. Alex started off as a normal teenager that does normal teenage activities , but then in a blink of a eye his

In Herman Melville’s mysterious novella, “Benito Cereno”, Captain Amasa Delano observes, what appears to be, a distressed Spanish slave ship navigating into the harbor of St. Maria. Disregarding the opposition from his crew, Captain Delano leaves his ship, Bachelor's Delight, and approaches the foreign vessel, San Dominick, via a whaleboat. In addition to offering water and provisions to the vessel in distress, Captain Delano encounters—who appears to be in command of the vessel—Don Benito Cereno, and his “faithful” negro servant Babo. Throughout the novella, Captain Delano witnesses many suspicious behaviors from Benito Cereno, Babo, and the other slaves on board. Although Captain Delano has mixed feelings about Benito Cereno, in which he often views him as a “paper captain” who has “little of command but the name”, Captain Delano fails to latch onto his intuition of who is truly in command of the ship until it’s almost too late.

She was heartbroken and even more hurt when she found out he lied to her. She felt like she’d failed as a mother,whith two kids that sold drugs.

On the other hand, his wife feared the man after he had shared this with her. She proceeded to find a new lover, going behind the Bisclavaret’s back to marry someone else. The lack of emotion that went into this decision is what makes her a true betrayer of her former husband.

When Andrew, her docile servant, punches her in the face during sex, what made him the perfect companion is gone. He not only denies her physical pleasure, but causes her unwelcome pain. She sees that Andrew was not worth her devotion, because the only things that deserved her allegiance were those that brought

Being able to maintain standards and keep promises can be challenging. Many people deceive themselves by making oaths they cannot keep. In the novel, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Chris contradicts his moral goal, to be anti-materialistic, first by discarding his possessions, and then hypocritically living in a trailer, which he pretends is living in the “wild”.

He did his best to support and love her, There was times Janie doubted his loyalness because ladies were all over him but he reassured her she wouldn’t need to worry he was hers.

Kayla is not aware that her mother is sacrificing for the family, rather she believes that her mother is mad at her and that she has done something terribly wrong, “and it made Kayla afraid to ask what she’d

Thirdly, they betrayed his trust. There are no words to describe the anger of a man when he hears that

Patricia Madigan is another patient in the fever hospital who has diphtheria and she begins talking to Frank, immediately becoming good friends with him. Patricia starts reading Frank poetry and it becomes a daily routine of theirs. Eventually, a nurse catches them and gets Frank moved upstairs to a different ward all by himself. The nurse drops a hint that Patricia is going to die soon and Frank understands it, even though the nurse doesn’t expect him to, which shows Frank’s maturity and how fast he was forced to grow up and lose his naivety and innocence. Two days later, Patricia collapses in the bathroom and dies. Seamus, the janitor, retells her last words to Frank on page 199: “She told me she was sorry she had you reciting that poem and

He didn’t flee, nor did he immediately crumble. Already better than whence he came, better than the bitch he’d taken between his loins. But she knew better, knew him well enough even from their single meeting. Stronger than his ilk he might have been, he would not be strong enough. Tine had had no purpose, a would-be jack of all trades without the trades. And so had this one fallen into the trap of complacency. This one did not deserve an honorable death, and would get one neither from her nor by his own efforts.

She was not upset the day her brother died, and felt no guilt for her feelings about him. "I was sad for them [her family] rather than over any loss of mine, because my brother had become a stranger to me. I was not sorry that he had died, but I was sorry for him because, according to his standards, his life had been thoroughly worth living" (p. 55-56).