Essay about The Partner by John Grisham

In this novel, the reader follows the life of René Enriquez, a lifelong criminal, drug addict, and Carnal (High ranking member) in La Eme (The Mexican Mafia). After years of drug use, theft, and murder, René gets life in prison, and wants out of the

My Sister’s Marriage” by Cynthia Marshall Rich portraits  characters that have many family problems. The father Doctor Landis is a total control freak. He decides every little things in his two daughters, Olivia and Sarah Ann, life. The restrictions that the father puts upon on his two daughters have different consequence on both. Olivia, the oldest daughter, starts having rebellious feeling due to suffocated restrictions, while, Sarah Ann, the youngest daughter, starts to internalize the restrictions and value her limited opportunities. Everywhere in the story, we can see that, the daughters pass through  so many intestinal conflicts that result in either imprisonment or liberation. Since the father is so controlling, he has instructed his daughters to have a perverted view of love which emotionally demolished and imprisons one,

Mrs. Maloney gets away with the murder in the end. This caused by a revolting ending in which he police detectives eat the leg of lamb that was used to kill Patrick. The writer creates an unbelievable ending by making the story, up to the murder, set in a very normal family house. It is not somewhere you would associate with a morbid killing. The writer builds up an impression that the marriage may not be as good as it could be, and both were under strain not to release the tension onto each other.

There’s plenty of meat and stuff in the freezer, and you can have it right here and not even have to move out of the chair’’’ (2). Mary only ever want to please Patrick. She made sure everything was perfect for him and to never do anything wrong. She could not think of anything she had done to deserve such news. She immediately rejected the news and decided to pretend as if it never happened. Patrick was behaving so cruel to her while she was being nothing but nice to him. She even continued to make him dinner and he yelled at her saying not to because he is going out. This angered Mary resulting her to hit him with the leg of lamb and kill him. This shows that Mary is a sympathetic character because she was always compliant to Patrick. He had no right to disrespect her as he did.

For the most part, the novel was very enjoyable. One aspect of it that I loved was that the storyline was extremely intense, which always compelled me to find out what would happen next. For example,

One of the major problems associated with a bilingual country, inevitably, is national unity. In Canada, national unity usually refers to the relations between both the French and English Canadians. English-French relations have always been unstable, ever since the English conquest on the French in the late 1800s. In the twentieth century, this link was further depreciated primarily because of conscriptions during the First and Second World War along with the Quiet Revolution and the October Crisis. Conscription during the First and Second World War was one of the initial major causes that began the deterioration of French-English relations largely because the French had no desire to go to war. The Quiet Revolution was an effort to

Mark Malloy was working his normal day job in the office, when suddenly he was given an assignment to a person who went missing with 5.6 million dollars that was from the law firm’s secret bank account. Mark acquiesced to the terms, but really he had no choice if he wanted to the mission or not. In Pleading Guilty, they send Mark to find Bert, the person missing. They want him found so he can retribution the money back he stole. While reading the novel I found three key settings in the book, which is the office Mark works in, the bar, and the court.

Marriage has been a heated controversy for the past few years because people often marry for the wrong reasons. Anyone who thinks of an ideal marriage would think of two people loving each other and sharing a personal bond or goals together. Marriage is regularly defined as the legally or formally recognized union of two lovers as partners in a personal relationship. This definition remarks there is an actual connection between two people in marriage, but do people actually consider this when committing to “love” and “support” their partners forever? As research and studies have shown, people ultimately get married for many reasons, except love. This philosophy can be easily applied to the short poem, “Marriage” by Gregory Corso. In this emotional poem, the author argues marriage is more effectively understood or known for culture and convenience rather than through the abstract considerations of love. Here, we can identify people generally decide to marry for the incorrect reasons, for instance the story of the author himself. Corso finds himself confused multiple times, wondering if he should marry to not be lonely, for tradition and for his physical and mental health. He disregards love, a relationship or a connection with his future wife. General ways of convenience like loneliness, health and economic status between cultural stereotypes and religion are usually the true reasons of why people chose to have the commitment of marriage with another person.

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson is a book that depicts two different people, that mainly focuses on jealousy, rivalry and the power of obsession over half a century. There are many characters in the novel and they build relationships with one another that eventually become intertwined. The relationships that are built end up having an effect on the character, and contributes something different to his understanding of himself and the decisions he makes. Ian in the novel is an example of that, where the relationships he builds with the others, helps him find who he is as a person and affects the decisions he makes. Specifically through the relationships with Pete, his father, and Jake, he

In “Cheating and CHEATING” by Joe Posnanski in response to an article written by Pete Hamill he argues that baseball has never been an innocent game even since its conception. The main focus is on one the most decorated baseball players in our history named Willie Mays. Posnanski uses a quote in his article from Pete Hamill stating that the only drug from that time of baseball (mid 1900s) was “joy” and says “I didn’t know joy was another word for amphetamines”. Posnanski states further on that one of Mays teammates when interviewed says he saw a red colored drink in Mays locker he referred to as greenies. So if drugs were okay then when taken by Mays among other players then why are we so outraged now when we find out a player has been taking steroids? So what if Mays had a drink of red juice in his locker before games, was comfortable with doing whatever it

One minor critique I had is when the story line would jump around following different characters. Especially at the beginning of the story, it could be confusing on which characters perspective it was. There was always excitement throughout the book mainly during the kidnapping of Mr. Griffin. The climax of when Mark attempted murder on Sue really kept the book alive. This book displayed human nature at best where humans would do the worst to save their skins. For instance, it was implied that Mark killed his best friends Grandma so he could have potential evidence that could lead back to them. Lois Duncan also did a great job on rounding the characters smoothly. At first, I couldn't depict on who Dave was/ what he was like, to being able to give a bibliography about him in a mere one pages. One part of the book I liked was the ending. It left off with a feeling of displeasure because you get a whole new perspective of the characters, and you don’t know who to feel sorry for and who to like. Sue abandoned her innocent side after the arsenal attack on her, when she got back this sincere note from

The book tells us the story of how this all went down, basically there was a Latin American army that was obtaining profits from the illegal drugs that were being sold to the inner city gang groups known as the Crips and bloods. and while all this was happening the CIA was well aware and in fact they were supposedly running the whole operation. Know that the drugs

I thought that this book had many strength and weakness. The strengths of this book are that it has conflict and enmity. I also think it has a lot of symbols in it. Some of the weakness I think are that it kind of strings you along and I think there needed to be some more action in this novel to make it a little bit more interesting. It depends who the person I would recommend this book to. I think that you half to like this kinds of books to read them. If it was someone who loved action and stuff going on at all time I would not recommend

Love makes us do crazy things. It makes us become people we never thought we were. Love gives us an ultimatum about our life. Love is a powerful bond and wicked curse. When we love, we love hard. We will do anything for love and to be loved. In “My Sister’s Marriage,” Cynthia Marshall Rich presents the different views of love upon similar yet different characters. Two sisters, who share a loving yet manipulative Father show the different ways love affects us. Sarah-Ann and Olive have many similar and different relationships with love, their dreams, and their traits.

The film Dangerous Liaison, directed by Stephen Frears remains just about faithful to the epistolary novel, Dangerous Liaisons, by Choderlos de Laclos. Stephen Frears does "betray" the novel towards the end of the film but, it makes the ending that much more better and enticing. The film represents what the epistolary novel only hints at us readers. The novel is composed of letters where we only get a sense of the characters thoughts and emotions. The film tries to put those words into action but only showing one version of each scene. It is different in which the writer of the novel is using words while the film maker is using pictures to describe what's happening.