The Blind Assassin Analysis

The subject of the book “The Midnight Assassin” by Skip Hollandsworth is focused on uncovering the truth behind who is truly at fault for the murders of Mollie Smith and, several other victims. The murders occurred in Austin, Texas during the 19th century. Based on the first three chapters, three prominent characters have been introduced. All three characters are currently prime suspects. At the time, Austin was a prestigious town, equipped with the finest law enforcement made first hand by god himself, the Texas Rangers. When the young yellow skinned slave Mollie Smith was murdered, terror truly struck Austin. News reporters from all over Texas came to cover the story, thus creating conspiracies about each suspect. Evaluation of each suspect and their motives to perpetrate such a gruesome murder-Walter Spencer, a hardworking slave, who had never done any harm; Tom Chalmers, the brother of the land owner where the murder took place; Lastly, Dr. Ralph Steiner, the esteemed doctor.

John Cox is the author of To Kill a People and a professor at UNCC. Meeting John Cox was very exciting because I never met an author before. I can't believe he took the time to sit down with us, discuss his book, and answer our questions.

​Darn Paul O’Connor, he just gets more and more interesting, doesn’t he? After writing about him throughout this chapter, I did just a little bit more researching into him. And boy, it gets better! Seriously. Remember how he said – well, first of all, let’s recount a bit. He told author David Lifton in 1979 that Kennedy “didn’t have any brains left…The wound in his head was terrific…eight by four inches…The wound was in the occipital-parietal area…clear up around the frontal area of the brain…the cranium was empty…” His story seemed to be consistent over the years. Yes, I said “seemed”. Ready for the big change? In the 1988 documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy, apart from telling us everything he had claimed before, he said something quite

The United Kingdom born writer Kristy Mckay was inspired by many things to write “The Assassin Game”. Kristy Mckay was inspired by others writing involving a same situation in their novel, but she just wasn't receiving the excitement and suspense in their writing. Mckay proceeded to then write her own novel that she knew she would be able to incorporate her own twist and style. Mckay knew of others books alike to the boarding school scenario but, choose the proceed with her idea in hopes of creating a better sequence of events during the book.

The Blind Side is a movie based on a woman, her family and a boy she took in. The movie shows the struggle and differences of people from different nationalities and the way their race reacts to certain circumstances. This review is going to describe the Storyline, how it held the audience’s attention; the Characters, wither they were believable or not; and Conflicts in the story, what they were and how they were resolved. This is a family movie that can be watch and made memoires with. The movie captured multiple audiences and appears appealing to multiple audiences across the life span. The movie is very moving and touching to many people.

The way the plot of Killings by Andre Dubus is arranged changes how the reader sees the characters in the story. This plot starts out in the present, then goes into the past, then back to the present. There are two main characters, and three secondary characters in this story. The way the reader views all of these characters is affected by the plot arrangement. The two primary characters who are most important to the plot, and also most affected by the plot arrangement, are Matt Fowler and Richard Strout. Because the first thing the reader reads in the exposition of the story is “On the August morning when Matt Fowler buried his youngest son, Frank, who had lived for twenty-one years, eight months, and four days…” pg 93, and not Richard Strout’s backstory and reasoning for his actions, they are immediately persuaded by the author to feel sympathy towards Matt. The author needs the reader to feel this sympathy so that when Matt kills Strout at the climax of the plot, Matt is not viewed as the antagonist of the story, but rather as the protagonist. The author needs the reader to view Strout as the antagonist so that the reader does not dislike Matt, and so that the story is one of justified revenge and not just another murder. If the reader had been presented with the plot in chronological order, with Strout’s backstory and reasoning for killing Frank first, then the reader might almost feel bad for Strout. If seen like this, one might conclude that, while he did not take

Told from the point of view of Saul, “The Man Who Killed a Shadow” looks closely at the concept of hierarchal fear, as well as the intersection of differing identities in the mid-1900’s. This piece, by Richard Wright, examines Saul’s growing resentment and fear of shadows, a representational symbol used to recognize and personify racialized fear and oppression in Saul’s life. This resentment comes to a head when he rejects the advances of a white woman, and is forced to face the consequences of non-conformity to the shadows he feared. However, by examining this fear in conjunction with the intersecting identities of the story’s pro- and antagonist, the reader can achieve a deeper understanding of the power imbalance at work within the aforementioned

The Blind Assassin’s protagonist is an elderly woman names Iris, who is troubled by a rough family past and her sister, Laura’s suicide which opens the novel. Iris’s troubles become especially apparent when she notices that she has difficulty sleeping, and that is when she visits her physician, who tells her that it is due to her trauma. However, she does not give her doctor any details, and rather than “spill the beans” (Atwood, 448) to anyone, or verbally tell anyone about her past in other words, she resorts to writing her memoir.Unfortunately, as Iris wishes to write everything that she experienced in her lifetime in her memoir, she finds herself unable to come to terms with her past, and overwhelmed with “the shameful and painful secrets that propel her narrative”, as described by J. Brooks Bouson, writer of “A Commemoration of Wounds Endured and Rested”: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin as Feminist Memoir (244, 255). Furthermore, Iris seems to blame herself for the suicide of Laura, since Iris was more of the “dutiful and self-sacrificial daughter” of them both when Laura was still alive, while Laura was “Iris’s shadow self”, according to Bouson

In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s Europe was becoming a tinder box for a possible great war. Every country was extremely determined on spreading their empires. Additionally they began to form alliances, France with England and Germany with Austria-Hungry. Then on June 28th 1914 a Bosnian-Serb nationalist assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife practically igniting Europe and the world into a massive war. This assassination was viewed as an act of war and Russia came in to assist their ally Serbia. Germany naturally had to declare war on Russia to help Austria-Hungry. France and England then joined in to assist Russia.

Assassinations and targeted killings have been topics vastly debated around the world throughout history. As a matter of fact, this matter can be discussed through the eyes of Michael Walzer from a just war theory perspective. This viewpoint can be used in order to explain just assassinations of political and military leaders as well as other individuals. For example, a person can be the victim of targeted killings if their death would result in less future violence or warfare. However, the individual must pose an imminent threat, capture is not feasible, and the operation is executed in observance of the applicable laws of war. Yet the burden of proof and responsibility resides with those in highest power since it is their duty to maintain order among everyone below them. As a result, only those in power can decide who is assassinated and for what reason. All arguments against this belief can be annihilated by the fact that targeted killing will lower the chances of further combatant and civilian casualties. Ultimately, just assassination or targeted killing are blameless if the outcome will create less vehemence.

The story The Invisible Man is written by Ralph Ellison. The author takes his personal experiences as an ignored man and creates this character that shows the characteristics of a man whom few people would stop to acknowledge. This story can be seen as a symbol of an educated black man whose life has been controlled and oppressed by a white society. Throughout the story one will notice that the man is nameless. The is because the narrator in The Invisible Man is invisible not only to others but himself as well because of racism and trying to live up to expectations of others. There are certain tools that are given to him by outsiders and things he will use that will ultimately develop him into student and man. The author has written about events that made the invisible man who he was. It is important to notice that the invisible man has been searching for his identity the whole time and will later discover that his identity is in those things he has always had.

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The Assassins are a Shiite-Ismailite sect that used to spread fear and panic in the Near and Middle East for more than one century. They did carry out political murders with as much publicity as possible and therefore they are compared with terrorists. But there's one big difference - they never carried out their murders indiscriminately,but rather always selectively. Today, we can hear the term modern-day Assassins and that's the reason for making this historical review trying to find resemblance between the assassins and the terrorists.

The relationship that his wife and this blind man have just irritates the author. An example of this is at the start: “This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to spend the night” this quote was hard to connect to the story. I wanted to understand the purpose of the quote. The author is looking for a connection with his wife life he sees with the blind man. It displays jealous behaviors and is very unsure of himself. In the story he talks speaks about never going to bed together, and stays up late smoking marijuana by himself. The silence that is displayed between the author and the blind when the wife falls asleep is very noticeable. The author is trying to connect more with the blind now that he knows his wife is sleep. Additionally, the blind man tried to connect with the author more by asking if he is religious. In other words it can show the author is not attached to a religion and is not wanting to connect with the blind man. By this I mean that he does not want the blind man to know his religion or what he believes

The performance, Assassins, premiered last weekend was a must see for many students. Directed by Professor Lee Blair and choreographed by Professor General McArthur Hambrick, the show focuses on a group of people who have tried to assassinate many different Presidents of the United States. Instead of it being informative about these events, the performance went all out and made the story into a satire, or a form of mockery, about the kinds of people who wanted to murder a President. The show included a lot of humor, ironies, exaggerations, and ridiculous moments to exposed and criticize the reasonings for why they even wanted to kill them in the first place.