The Girl Who Was Suppose To Die Analysis

In The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die a girl named Cady is lost and alone. She doesn't know who she is, where she came from or where she is now. All she knows is that she is in great danger. After waking up to a man standing in front of her telling another man to “finish her off” she knew she had to find someway out of the cabin she was in. She escapes and finds an unlikely ally within a worker in a local McDonald's. Still running from an unknown threat Cady and Ty plan to find who she is and why she can't remember anything.

The brutality of the police force has been a long worldwide problem, but especially between the years of 2012-2016. Black people are being unjustly beaten and shot in plain sight for doing nothing while being unarmed. Journal of African American Studies “Blacks are viewed as deserving of harsh treatment in the criminal justice system” (482). “Black males with more “Afrocentric” features may receive longer sentences than blacks with less Afrocentric features like lighter skin and straighter hair”(482). Nowadays it is important to know about the police force. It’s important to know our rights as citizens and be careful around cops. Not everybody is good, but not everybody is bad also. In The New York Amsterdam News 21 people were killed by Chicago police in 2008. Entire families were being attacked. They believe it’s because of their skin color and how they are different. The year of racism started off with the world seeing the police murder of Oscar Grant. “The media have pushed people away from hearing the issue of police brutality, and it has fallen off of the radar screen.”(2) “You can’t give in. They will try to make an example out of you, try to break your spirit!”(2) African Americans say do not trust the cops with anything. “They will ruin you.”(2)

The story begins when Cady meets two friends, Janis and Damien, who show Cady the ways of high school. This is a very normal way in reality and most would not think much of it. Unconsciously, Freud would say, that there is some sort of motive behind this behavior and that there is no possible way that there doing it just to be nice. But as the story goes on we do find out that Janis used to be best friends with Regina (queen bee of “the plastics”) and that their friendship ended due to Regina spreading a rumor that Janis was a lesbian. When Cady is asked by Regina to hang out she is very hesitant to do so and tells Janis what is happening. Janis gets overly excited and instantly her id, the pleasure seeking principle, of her behavior jumps into play causing her to completely ignore

The following piece of work will discuss racism within the criminal justice system by viewing the Black Lives Matter movement, the roles of law enforcement and how that effects citizens, and potential solutions to the problems in the system. Within our criminal justice system, it is evident that there is a problem by the ratio of blacks in prison, and the number of police brutality cases in the country.

Lately in the media police brutality has been a very popular topic. Most of the instances reported in the media are of white police officers killing African Americans for seemingly nothing. These reports have strengthened the divide between both races. In “White Rage” by Carol Anderson the issue of police brutality is touched on within the first few words of her essay. Anderson talks about many acts of aggression at the hands of white men, and she seems to really focus on an unarmed African American male who was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. “Black and Blue,” by Garnette Cadogan continues with the struggles of police brutality in America, but also touches on the abuse in his home country of Jamaica. Cadogan

A young man’s brutal death at the hands of the police is found justified in a court of law due to his “suspicious” appearance: a black hoodie and his hands in his pocket. An elderly woman is fatally shot in her home for her relation to a suspected criminal. A married man with two toddlers is choked to death after a minor traffic stop by an officer who later claimed that his unarmed victim was wielding a gun. These people all have a few commonalities: the color of their skin, their presumed guilt at first sight, and their ultimate unjustified death administered by the law force. These are not uncommon occurrences. Due to the staggeringly disproportionate rate of African-Americans killed by the police, and the underlying rampant racial profiling, police brutality towards blacks in America must be called to light.

Politically, in the article “The Racial Reality of Policing,” Conlon who served in the New York Police Department explains why the right wing politics insists that the police should not be blamed for the practice of racial profiling for crimes because it is in line with the higher crime rates and not the leading cause of death among the black men. Conlon believes that even though “police bias and misconduct are serious problems,” the public ignore one thing that the death among young black men in the U.S. is largely due to homicide by their peers. Rhetorically speaking, Conlon, as a former police, presents solid reasons, credible evidence, multiple viewpoints, and vivid examples to convince the readers successfully that the public should not ascribe a large number of the death among black

‘And now he doesn’t. We changed an evil we saw in the world’”(183). Here Cady is trying to justify the house fire before she knows that the rest of the liars died. This is just one of many examples of her jumping to conclusions before knowing enough information. Now if that was the only problem it would not be that bad the problem is that she puts it on to the reader almost like fact causing confusions and bad information going to the reader.

Kaepernick began his silent, kneeling protest at the beginning of last season, not as an assault against the United States military or the flag but as a dissent against a system that has, with a great degree of consistency, failed to hold accountable police who kill unarmed citizens. Since he did this, forty-one unarmed individuals have been fatally shot by police in the United States, twelve of them African-American, according to a database maintained by the Washington Post. The city of St. Louis recently witnessed three days of protests after the acquittal of Jason Stockley, the former officer who, while still working for the city’s police force, fatally shot Anthony Smith, an eighteen-year-old African-American motorist who had led officers on a chase. Stockley emerged from his vehicle, having declared that he would “kill the motherfucker,” then proceeded to fire five rounds into the car. Later, a firearm was found on the seat of Smith’s car, but the weapon bore only Stockley’s DNA. The issue is not imaginary.

Besides the personality structure, Freud also dealt with the conscious and unconscious of the mind. The conscious takes into consideration the mind’s current awareness while the unconscious is the impulses, wishes, and memories that have an effect on our thoughts and behavior without our knowledge of it. Cady ends up behaving in a way that she cannot believe simply due to the fact that she does whatever she can in order to fit in and belong. Her unconscious is driving her inappropriate behaviors, such as lying and underage drinking, so that she can be part of the popular crowd at her school. She later reflects upon her experiences that school year and realizes what she did was inconsiderate and wrong.

Setup: In the first ten minutes of the movie we learn that Cady is our main character and she has moved from

I realized that whoever wanted Cady dead wanted her dead immediately. That’s when the facts the news had gathered became such a great wall, it was almost impossible for Cady to escape the terrible things the nation now thought she was guilty off. They thought she killed Officer Dilow, killed Michael Brenner, Stole two cars, and burned her family’s cabin down, killing her own family. The odds were stacked against her, and somehow Cady was strong enough to stand up for herself and show everyone who she truly was no matter how dangerous.

Cady is our narrator. Together we see her struggles and her emotions, however Lockhart also gives us how other handle their struggles. One perfect example is Cady's mom. We see how Cady's mother reacts to her father leaving. While it is unfortunate that we can not know how she feels, we see her approach to the situation. Cady says how she wants to fall and die, her mother seems perfectly fine. Cady's mother pretends that everything is fine. She goes out and buys new things to fill up the items Cady's father took with him. She refuses to let other see how much Cady's father leaving affected her. “Be normal, now, she said. Right now, she said.” (Chapter 1. Page

She is the only one who is not concerned with maintaining a virtuous image and she is also the only child who is truly able to show love to others. Caddy often took on the maternal role for her younger siblings due to her mother’s cold nature and her father’s alcoholism. However, Caddy’s storyline revolves around her extramarital pregnancy and how that affects her familial relationships. The tension began when her mother found her kissing a boy. It was said that her mother “happened to see one of them kissing Caddy and all next day she went around the house in a black dress and a veil and even Father couldn’t get her to say a word except crying and saying her little daughter was dead and Caddy about fifteen then…”(93). Her mother’s extreme reaction and judgment only pushed Caddy further away from the strict, traditional values she was being judged by. In “The Evolution of Caddy”, Bauer writes “the love and courage of Faulkner’s Caddy are ultimately broken down by her family, leaving her with a destructive self image, which in turn provides the reader with a sense of ultimate doom” (40). Soon after, Caddy became sexually active and impregnated by a boy from town. No one in the family takes it well when they find out. Benjamin, the youngest child, reacted very emotionally. He said that, “Her eyes flew at me, and away. I began to cry. It went loud and I got up. Caddy came in and stood with her back to the wall, looking at me. I

Despite all of this, she does ends up escaping from Compson family, unlike her brother Quentin, who was unable to escape from his family. She wasn’t part of their southern family tradition and had no place there. Caddy may as well be a representation of feminism as shown by the author. He shows her brothers as being dependent on her, although Caddy never takes advantage of her brother’s dependence upon her. Despite being shown as `fallen woman` Caddy appears to be confident and independent of her actions, she doesn’t rely on any male character on the novel and earns money for her daughter.