The Streetcorner Man

The reader’s first introduction to Butcher is crucial in the author’s construction of his character. Immediately, the characterisation of Butcher as a villain is apparent as “With no warning, his hand shot out and grabbed Jamie’s throat, the grip instant and vice-like…”. This characterisation of Butcher (what he says and does) effects the way the reader responds to him and the corruption and violence that he represents. Jamie has done nothing to provoke Butcher, yet is treated with hostility from the very first interaction between the two characters, as proved by the “vice-like” nature of the grip. Another thing that uncovers the traits of a character is what they say. Butcher uses threatening language throughout a new kind of dreaming, such as when he says “One wrong move, son, and your brains are all over that wall” before handcuffing and injuring Jamie. In conclusion, the actions and dialogue of Butcher is a technique of characterisation that Eaton uses to position readers to respond to his antagonistic character and the theme of corruption with distaste, simultaneously advancing the reader’s empathy for

Of the many literary devices used by writers to make their work more powerful and layered, symbolism is one of the most effective, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a text that relies heavily on its use to develop its narrative. The novella recounts, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the murder of Santiago Nasar in a small Colombian town in the mid 1900’s. Through the course of the novel, Marquez employs various symbols to reinforce key ideas, themes and techniques. This helps the novella break the monotony of a linear storyline and unfolds the plot in a unique way that compounds both effect and meaning.

Values are a vital part of any community. They shape the identity of a culture and help to form the identity of each individual in that society. Sometimes these embedded values have more power over a person than anyone would like to admit. Gabriel García Márquez shows the power of the value of honor in his book, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. In García Márquez’s writing, the theme of honor shows to have control over most of the characters. Through the many characters in García Márquez’s book, we can see that the heavy burden of one’s honor is portrayed as the reason for Santiago Nasar’s unfortunate homicide.

In this story, Edgar Allan Poe (such as in many of his works) uses the setting to create a dark image inside our minds. He makes this specially through darkness, therefore the character makes a connection with death. “The physical setting oppresses him in the visions of his graveyard” (1).

The deaths of his parents, sister and brother, all taken by tuberculosis, lead to Edgar Allan Poe’s obsession around the subject of death. This obsession enterprises historically ingenious writings, that did not just scare the reading population by inducing a death at the climax or tying in a death to create a gasp worthy ending. Poe’s historic greatness was his ability to use death as a catalyst, not an end. His stories, specifically short stories, strengthened the idea that the end of a life, has so much more meaning, than just the end. This precision was formed by how Poe ingeniously used the knowledge to not only comprise stories involving the subject of death, but used the stories to create deep ideas of the phantom of fatality. The short stories “The Black Cat,” “The Facts in the Case of M.Valdemar,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” all feature the inventive writing skills of Poe, that have enthralled populations since their publications.

The story opens up with Pablo narrating his own trial, He being charged for illegal anarchists’ activities on behalf of Spain’s Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. The judges demand him to reveal the location of his colleague, Ramon Gris. Pablo tells the judges that he is not aware of where his colleague would be located. He is placed in a cell with two other men while he waits for his verdict. There are two other men in the cell with

Sir Arthur Evans discovered the Palace of Knossos (Fig. 1) when looking for the legendary labyrinth of King Minos on the Island of Crete. According to the myth, King Minos had a complex labyrinth built to house the Minotaur, a monstrous creature his wife gave birth to. The palace’s construction was a maze of rooms with no logical set up and led Evans to think the palace itself was most likely the labyrinth. The myth states, every year seven girls and seven boys of a young age were chosen as tribute to enter the labyrinth.1 The myth of the labyrinth in connection with the Palace of Knossos can be linked to a right of passage or a coming of age ritual in Ancient Greece. The tributes entered, wrestled with their thoughts and finally emerged as adults ready to take their places in society.

In June of 1984, Richard Ramirez began his criminal career as the “Night Stalker.” Ramirez tormented the people of Los Angeles and killed at least thirteen people. He was a Satanist and he was into drugs and violence. He would break into homes and rob them. This evil person was haunting the citizens of Los Angeles and other counties in California for over fourteen months.

The Minotaur, half man half bull, lived in Crete. Trapped in a labyrinth, constructed by the great Daedalus, the king of Crete, King Minos, demanded a tribute of seven boys and seven girls from Athens to satisfy the Minotaur’s savage hunger. But one year, Minos was deceived, for a new hero arose, Theseus, son of Aegeus, Prince of Athens. He won over the heart of Minos’s daughter, Ariadne, and used her ball of string to venture into the labyrinth to slay the Minotaur. After a hard-fought grapple within the lair of the minotaur, the beast fell to the sword of Aegeus, which Theseus had smuggled into the maze. Using the string, he found his way back out. The Labyrinth went underground, void of life, never to be seen again.

It seems like he is waiting someone. Later, a black silhouette appeared and talking with Jonathan. . “The other voice I heard, besides, Jonathan’s was Harley Hofshneider” “I would say I am 95% sure of that” Steph Sablan stated. Black silhouette entered to the cabin. Suddenly, gas burner is working and it sounds like pifft sound. Few hours later the huge fire breaks out and that was the last feature of Jonathan Guerrero. No intention but Jonathan murdered.

Charles Cortimiglia, a grocer’s wife, repeatedly denied the gruesome attack of her husband by a large man in dark clothing with an axe. The husband died and fell to the floor, and the wife was next on the list with her baby. While she asked and begged for mercy, the Axeman came down with the deadly weapon and killing the infant and leaving the mother with a fractured skull (Taylor). Notice the man who died was a grocer, maybe not Italian but the fact still connects with the other murders.

But when each person starts to die in horrible ways like poison, shooting, stabbing. The characters are paranoid and scared for their lives. After everybody dies or so the book states, the police find the victims and start to do an investigation into how they all die. Although the police had good guesses on how the victims died. Their theories were not solved until a while later when a letter in a bottle was found by a fisherman.

Instead, they built a case on the testimony of the victim’s cousin Victor. Toño’s arrest, considering the physical evidence appears to be nothing more than filling a quota. According to trial testimony, Victor says he asked police what Toño’s nickname was and police told him (and for this same reason he found out Toño’s real name); however in his police statement, he said he gave the police Toño’s name and they went to look for him (34:00). At trial Victor says that he shows up at his cousin’s house (Juan Carlos the victim) around two in the afternoon (26:50). While outside, the two of them are blocked off by four men, whom Victor says he knows as Cruiz, Ojitos, Luis and Jose Antonio Zuninga (Toño) (26:50).

A little research and some discreet tailing led me to his hideout. Manuel was a younger guy, no wife or kids. Not really any family at all so it seemed. That is the case often with my kind though. We often find ourselves isolated from the world. I have seen how he operates. First he waits his prey out. Then he follows them until they are alone. To prevent from startling the target, he uses his badge to make the person settle down. His weapon of choice is a knife. He goes to place them under arrest and claims back up is on the way. As soon as their back is turned to him, with one quick movement in which he has perfected he slits the jugular vein. Although he is quick and clean he has one flaw that I have noticed. No matter who the victim is, he always takes the heart…

The first victim was Ricardo Manoukian, a friend of Alejandro. The Puccio Clan hold the hostages in their own house and after they receive the money from the rescue, they execute the hostage. After Manoukian is killed, Alejandro feels guilty of his