Theme Of Honor In The Killer By Hon Wong

This book is an emotional roller coaster ride. The moment you start to read this book, you can no longer put it back down. The author of the book “ On My Honor” made opposite characteristics for Tony and Joel. The opposite characteristics of the two characters really caused the plot to be like an emotional roller coaster ride. Joel has the characteristics of a cautious, smart, and usually honest boy.  (Bauer, 1) Joel yelled, “ CLIMB THE STARVED ROCK BLUFF? YOU’VE gotta be kidding! Joel’s spine tingled at the mere thought of trying to scale the sheer river bluffs in the state park”. On the other hand, Tony is a self-centered, daredevil, and unintelligent boy. (Bauer, 1) Tony just casually says, “ Nobody even knows if the guy was really trying to climb the bluffs.” Tony just says that as if dying on the Starved Rock is like eating a piece of cake! In all, the details and characteristics put into the story allow readers to understand the story a lot better.

Chinatown is based on Roman Polanski’s lifeworks. Polanski’s goal is to emphasizes the meaning of how cinematography is made, and how it inspires by understanding the concept of setting, lighting, and how the image is captured. This film was released in 1974 by director of Roman Polanski to focus on private investigator J.J. Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson to investigate the elements behind the truth. Polanski’s goal is to emphasize the audience to give an ominous feeling of the main character, J.J. Gittes and his point of view by showing in color instead of black and white pictures. Due to these reasons, Polanski wanted to use Panavision to give a flawed vision about the past, which the story is set in the years of 1937. Polanski states, “a traditional detective story with a new, modern shape” for Paramount picture. (1) This paper focuses on the film Chinatown which is neo-noir, not only because of the setting, but the concept of cinematography that connects duplicates occurrences together that describe three categories: background of the cinematographer, point of view of the main character, and the interpretation of the ending scenes.

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.

How is family honor portrayed in the novels Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Marquez and Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel?

In his book, More Than a Movie: Ethics in Entertainment, F. Miguel Valenti examines nine “hot buttons” of violence – “creative elements that filmmakers use to manipulate viewers’ reactions to onscreen violence.” (99) These elements, posited by researchers conducting The National Television Violence Study (Valenti, 99) are “choice of perpetrator, choice of victim, presence of consequences, rewards and punishments, the reason for the violence, weapons, realism, use of humor, and prolonged exposure” (Valenti, 100) .

I watched helplessly as Dean Moxley, the infamous Kronosville Killer, shoots him in the head. “Oopsies!” he yells. Enraged, I grab my gun off the floor and shoot him. He grabs his leg as he falls down. I rush over to the body and call for backup. It’s finally over. But at a great cost.

It’s hard to second guess the individual soldiers and their actions in the case of the two Afghans that attempted to elope. I’m sure they were just doing what was correct procedure for security threat at the time. Had they interpreted the Father’s intent or motivation for wishing to see his daughter they likely would’ve reached a different conclusion to the conflict. This scenario highlights the need to have interpreters that are well versed in local customs and culture, had any of the soldiers or interpreters been dialed into the fact that what the two young elopers were doing would be grounds for an honor killing they would likely choose a different COA. I’m also interested in the timeline that this case occurred, I know early on in the conflict US service members were not clued in on the honor killing to restore a family’s name and reputation but after a couple of high profile cases here in the States I would think that someone might have seen the danger in allowing the father to see his daughter. The soldiers were no doubt applying the golden rule in allowing the father to see his daughter. Being a father myself if my daughter ever ran away I would place a pretty high premium on seeing her and most authorities would allow that once she was detained, not thinking twice about what my motivations to see her are.

As our society has evolved and progressed, so has the content in film. In the early 1990’s, a new wave of violent matter, referred to as “new violence” appeared on screens, taking a leading role in many films (Slocum 1). Stemming from this genre arose comedic violence. In Peter Kramer’s essay, “‘Clean, Dependable Slapstick’: Comic Violence and the Emergence of Classical Hollywood Cinema,” he discusses the execution of comedic violence and the violent attractions that are evident in Hollywood classicism. Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction includes the hilariously entertaining aspects of comedic violence that Kramer details in his text. The movie simultaneously maintains the dramatic appeal of classical cinema that Kramer draws upon as

Later in the film the song comes on the radio, and when the detectives check outside, it has started raining. They try to call for backup to search the grounds near where the other bodies were found, but all backup is busy. This is not only extremely dramatic, but also keeps with the crime drama as well because all of the other police are occupied already. The darkness that comes with utilizing tropes such as these is counteracted by Boon Jong-ho’s use of comedy. Throughout the film there is slight play on the good cop/bad cop trope seen in so many crime dramas. The “bad cop” does nothing but drop kick and beat suspects, until his kicking leg gets infected with tetanus and must be amputated. Although this sounds like a serious moment, because of the situations the character is seen in (almost all just getting into physical altercations) makes the moment humorous, because he will no longer be able to perform his favorite activity. Although Memories of Murder is clearly both a drama and a crime film, the director's use of comedy along with the subversion of the original genres helps to offset the dark themes slightly, making the film more unique and

The short story “Killings” starts off with the death of Frank and although at the beginning of the story most characters are showing sorrow in view of this event, the conflict is not Frank’s murder; instead the conflict revolves around Frank’s father Matt committing murder himself. “Killings” seems to have been written flat, as if to make the characters lack emotion, and instead show very descriptive actions. The characters show some sort of emotion but it is not love like it seems to be; Matt and Ruth’s suffering for their son’s death makes them blind to see right from wrong. Their only wish is to have revenge for their son’s murder; however at the same time they’re causing the sons of Strout to feel the same pain. Richard Strout is the man

1.) I chose the book, Confessions of a Murder Suspect because my grandma recommended it to me. She recommended it to me because she has an obsession with the author, James Patterson. 2.) The setting of the story is present time New York in the Angel’s apartment.

“How could you do that?” She shouted.” My family? My life I was suppose to have? How? I don’t understand.” she fell to her knees and began to weep. “My son, he was only 16, and they killed him because they thought he was a disguised soldier. I never even told him he could fight in the wars. He didn’t know,” still crying she continued for the rest of her family, “They killed Jojo, right in front of me and told me he was nothing, but a little chinese baby, they cut him piece by piece in front of me with a bayonette. My daughter, they took her into the camps, where they forced her to sleep with her brother before they both were rapped then killed by getting stabbed to death by a bayonet. I was walking home one night and they followed me home and taunted me till I got to my front

In Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, honor is a very prominent theme in the town and its culture. The need for honor influences many actions taken by individuals and traditions that characters strictly follow. As the narrator’s mother states, honor is love. The reader sees this statement supported throughout the story through beliefs and actions of the Vicario twins, Angela’s mother, and the townspeople as a whole. Honor is such a guiding force in the small community that it almost replaces what love should be. Pura Vicario, Angela’s mother, for example, values honor more than she values true family cherishing and love. Angela’s twin brothers have high respect for their own family honor, and they strive to uphold it by showing their love for their sister in hunting Santiago to retrieve her honor. The townspeople display their devotion to honor as they do not attempt to stop Santiago Nasar’s death. The qualified statement honor is love applies to the novel in actions by the twins, Angela’s mother, and the townspeople, and how their desperation to defend honor controls them.

     Hemingway's "The Killers" illustrates that unexplained violence is an integrated part of society.  To acknowledge the cruelties of life is to come to terms with horrifying events that can not be denied.  A person may lack the maturity to cope with everyday life if they do not realize that evil can exist in any given society.

The South Korean movie Blind, starring Kim Ha-neul as Min Soo-ah, is an investigative thriller in which a police academy cadet loses her sight after being in a tragic highway accident with her brother, Dong-hyun. Three years later, Soo-ah becomes an “eyewitness” to a hit and run that is linked to a series of missing women, having survived a melee with the assailant. The irony of it all isn’t only lost on the viewers, but on Detective Cho, who oversees the case. Kwon Gi-sub, a young delivery man gives a contradictory statement to Soo-ah’s testimony. The added twist brings the witnesses together when they both become the targets of the psychopath named Yang.