Stangeron's Vengeance

      ‘Why?’ " Vivian goes on to say how Grant loves the people in the area more than he hates the place. There is more to it though. Grant is scared he can’t make it in the outside world. He saw it when he was educated there. He shows that he needs someone or something to help him move on, and that someone just might be Jefferson.

Miss Emma did not visit enough to convince Jefferson he was wrong because she was supposedly sick (though the book implies that she was faking her sickness to get Grant to visit Jefferson.) and thus could not visit. She is his godmother but she likely didn’t have the strength to see him in jail thinking he was a hog. She said “Why does Master hate me? What have I done to anger master?”

Jefferson and Stanton direct their piece to different audiences. Jefferson claims in his piece that,

“The third stage of narrative development was characterized by the appearance of rogues… relying on cleverness more than force, and motivated more by profits than by passion” (Williams 14). Rogues defied whatever came in between their pursuit, whether it be law or authority (Williams 14). In the third stage of criminal literature, the protagonists were all rogues despite of their unlawfully ways, they “aroused reader sympathy” (Williams 16). Williams described these rogues as “outsiders, existing apart from the social structure either by choice or by fate” (William 16). He also described these rogues as “individualistic, opportunistic, self-reliant” as well as “defiant of authority and entirely free” (Williams 16). William argues that the evolution of these narratives took place in three stages: the first being the “early execution sermons and final confessions”, the second being “the incomplete narratives of life and, finally the full length rogue narrative” (Williams 17). Williams’ article describes how criminal literature changed from “promoting obedience, [to] encouraged defiance” (Williams

n this novel a lesson before dying jefferson was caught hanging with wrong people at the

These characteristics that Smith showed are traits that have been an embedded part of American history. John also has a unique leadership quality to him. He is able to bring people together to endure the newly found difficulties that is settling into a new environment. This type of behavior is called “grace under pressure”. This type of behavior exhibits in Smith the willingness to embark on a new journey, once again proving that he lives for the adventure, and wants to see the same type of traits performed in the colonies. Finally, Smith usually presents himself as the hero of the story. One

He welcomed everybody into his house and treated them with respect. Martha took care of the visitors that came in after his death. When Jefferson's wife died Martha was the closest one there, she went with him to paris and there she became a very educated person. She later married her cousin and was a daughter to be impressed of. Jefferson was very proud of her. Dr. Dunglison was the expected person to be Jeffersons guest at this important meeting because he helped Jefferson bring to life the university but his guest was Martha instead. She sat in the headquarter spot beside Jefferson. This showed how much affection there was between Jefferson and Martha. Not very many people in Jefferson's life was like him with his personality and intellectual abilities. Ellen however, was very much like him it is seen on portraits their physical appearance but also in the letters she wrote throughout her lifetime. She is today considered the granddaughter that accomplished the most. Ellen was Jefferson's granddaughter, daughter of Martha. Jefferson showed great appreciation for women and their equal

Jefferson is telling us that our actions define us. If we need to know someone, his actions will tell us everything. Jason Hays defined himself as a dumb criminal because of his actions. He tried to kidnap and rob an old women at gunpoint. He enters the victim’s house through the window on Jan. 3. Then woke her up by poking her with the gun. When she didn’t have cash, he made her drive to an ATM and he wanted to withdraw $2.000, but the ATM only let him withdraw $460. After pointing the gun at them for another hour, Hays told them to him in a parking lot with $1.500 by the next day. Eventually he did show up with the same clothes he was wearing the day before and the police were there instead of the old woman and her

Jefferson’s Company’--did not know about the nature of Martha Jefferson’s health problems, nor in fact does anyone, with all the documents of history at our disposal. If she suffered from debilitating monthly hemorrhaging, or from a tendency to miscarry when pregnant, or from dangerous anemia after childbirth, or from all three, one would understand why Jefferson could not bring himself to explain in private letters the nature of any of these problems. Such was the commonplace taboo” (Brodie 125). Since his wife was in such a unstable state, Jefferson could not allow himself to be away from her for long, for he feared she would die at any moment without him. As a child, Jefferson witnessed many deaths, including his father’s and siblings. Due to the health of Martha Jefferson, she could not travel with Jefferson to the political meetings, and thus, Jefferson made a choice to sacrifice his political participation in order to care for his wife. Consequently, this decision prevented Jefferson from fully participating in politics for years, for he could not attend to most of the Continental Congress’s meetings nor travel to France as a delegate that negotiated for their assistance in the American Revolution. Only once Martha Jefferson passed

After waiting ten days to begin the treacherous journey, the Bundrens still rationalized going to Jefferson to bury Addie. Tull explains that Anse “promised her” that she could be buried there and that “she wanted it. She come from there. Her mind was set on it” (Faulkner 89). While it seems logical that a man would want to fulfill his wife’s dying wish, the conditions of reaching Jefferson

Jefferson was left as the only person alive with three dead bodies and the only person to blame for what had transpired. He didn’t know what to do and by then, it was too late. Jefferson would later be put on trial and was referred to as a hog. Jefferson was ultimately found guilty and would be executed. Miss Emma asked that Grant make Jefferson a man before he dies.

In chapters 9-12, She discovers that Mark Gaskell, Mr. Jefferson’s son in law, does not have any money at all. Mrs. Marple (the detective) will not tell, but she believes that she knows how the killer was. One of Mr. Jefferson’s servants thought that Ruby didn’t love Jefferson, but just loved his money. Does Ruby Keene actually love Mr. Jefferson, or does she just want his money?

Like Mary Rowlandson, James Smith was captured during a war between the Natives and Americans. James Smith was a part of a wagon trail building team along with three-hundred plus men. The wagon trails him and the other men were building, were used for them to travel to their American tribes during the wars to trade and have shelter. While James was going through the trails to check on some of the group members, he was captured by Natives. Like Mary Rowlandson again, he was one of the only ones on the trail building team to survive as a hostage. James Smith was very lucky to be spared, because Natives thought that white men should be sacrificed and die when they are captured. James’s life was only spared because he made it back to their tribe without lagging behind. This meant a great amount to the Natives, therefore, they made James into their own and initiated him into their tribe with what he thought was cruel

But that is what Jefferson wants. He wants to live among rich people and be, or at least pretend to be as rich as them. So he decides “never again to speak to black people” (28) that he now considers as a waste of time and money, because they were always borrowing money from him and never pay back. Then, he used all his savings to buy a big empty house in Rosedale. What Jefferson never thought about is how he was going to fill up the house not only with furniture, but with friends and love. He found himself into an empty house, alone and lonely.

John Smith was an agitated Indian man with the will to murder a selfless white man who has done the most damage. He held very close to his spirituality of his Indian ethnicity even though he did not know his tribe. John was impulsive of his