Violence And Violence In Townie By Andre Dubus III

Summary David Simon elaborates to explain what happens in an interrogation room to readers in a passage from “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets,” which caused a couple of television shows. Simon gives points of view from the perspective of the interrogator, which can be a detective or a police officer, as well as point of views from the suspect being interrogated. In his book, Simon bases everything he knows from the police station in Baltimore.

In his Wall Street Journal essay, “Violence Vanquished,” Steven Pinker claims that contrary to perceived notions of increasing violence and turbulence in the world, "brutality is declining and empathy is on the rise.” Pinker establishes this argument through numeric comparisons of death tolls, genocides and other aggressive perpetrations in modern society with those in prehistoric times. He credits the fall in these quantifications of “violence” to the processes of pacification, civilization, humanitarian revolution, Long Peace, New Peace and the rights revolution that have together created an environment conducive to “our better angels.”

The wife’s actions often villainize her in this story in comparison to a vulnerable man who has his choices literally stripped from him and who outwardly behaves nobly, even in werewolf form he “...never touched anyone/ nor shown any wickedness” (245-246). At first glance, it appears that Bisclavret has been done a terrible wrong by his wife. She committed the most violent of acts by trapping Bisclavret in a half-animal body, isolating him from society, and taking away his ability to speak of his story or move on with his life after her. Correspondingly, Bisclavret was the victim of an appalling act of emotional violence. Considering the depth of the emotional violence demonstrated by both parties, it would be logical for them to act in a

Families are one of the most important things in life. We have parents, kids, crazy uncles, and weird cousins, but that doesn’t change how it would feel to lose one of them. In the short story Killings, Richard Strout kills Frank Fowler and then suddenly disappears. Matt Fowler, Frank’s father, is suspected of murdering Richard and hiding all the evidence. After losing his son, Matt and his family grieved over the loss of their loved one wanted to see Richard Strout where he belonged, or at least out of sight. Although the story doesn’t reveal what happens to Matt Fowler after Richard Strout is dead, all the evidence, Matt’s PGD, his thirst for revenge, and how he believes the system has failed him when Richard was able to walk free, makes him guilty of killing Richard Strout.

All towns, cities, and areas have their own specific traits. Small towns tend to be more like a family, while big cities tend to be more passive. Then there are the small areas where people do not make much money and struggle to get by. These areas tend to be more violent and more influenced by drugs and alcohol. This is the area that Andre Dubus III grew up in, in his memoir Townie. His parents were divorced and neither of them made much money so he and his two sisters and brother ended up moving from one small crummy neighborhood to another. In these neighborhoods he would get involved in the wrong crowds and end up doing drugs, drinking, and fighting. This became a way to show power. The most powerful people were strong and always came

Through the use of imagery, Beah documents the hardships he experienced, including the exposure to war, loss of innocence, and loss of family. He intricately details these events as frightening and overwhelmingly difficult to tolerate. For Beah, being exposed to combat at age 12 was traumatizing, and he portrays details of the horrifying events through imagery.“When the rebels finally came I was cooking...My heart was beating faster than it ever had. Each gunshot seemed to cling to the beat of my heart.” (Beah 23). He describes how intimidating and alarming each bullet was and how horrific each shot exploded throughout his being. War quickly developed into a regular occurrence for Beah, leaving him deprived of his childhood and innocence. He later illustrates his

All stories must have a conflict in them. Some have only one but the narrator and author of the short story “ The Most Dangerous Game’’ by Richard Connell has not only one but three to give the story a little rage . Man vs man, man vs himself and man vs nature are all included in the story. They all exist in the story and these are some of the examples the author puts on the story when writing it.

“This book is boring.” “This book is full of facts.” “I fell asleep reading this book.” These are the nonfiction genre stereotypes that most people think. Erik Larson changed that stereotype and wrote a nonfiction book with real characters and overall facts. The Devil in the White City does not only tell an elaborating true story, but it tries to grab the reader to believe that they are actually living in 1893 during the Chicago World’s Fair trials and tribulations. To tell this story, Larson combines qualities of a nonfiction book and a generic novel to successfully craft a narrative built on historical facts, therefore developing distinct persons in the cases and elaborating on what their possible feelings were.

Throughout literature there are many characters who exemplify the THS core values such as engagement, perseverance, and collaboration. Andre Dubus in his memoir Townie demonstrate all of these when he runs with his father, overcomes the troubles of his childhood, and rebuilds the broken relationship with his father. At the opening of the book, Andre is looking for sneakers to wear running with his father. When he can’t find his own shoes he wears his sister’s that are two sizes too small for him.

In the short story “Killings” the author, Andre Dubus writes about two different killings allowing the reader to determine the justification of each killing. Focusing on the main character Matt Fowler, the reader learns that Matt has good morals, which are overtaken by the death of his son. As the story progresses, Dubus shows the motivation behind Matt’s anger and revenge. Which leads Matt to a controversy over following his head or his heart. All of these aspects give the reader obvious conclusions that Matt will not follow through with his plan, making it even more surprising when he does.

Violence is a very common theme seen throughout the novel A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. The violence begins when a Civil War erupts in the country of Sierra Leone. Ishmael Beah is forced to be a child soldier by refugees who take over his village. They come into his home town and kill many of the men, women and children who lived there.

In The Shark Net written by Robert Drewe, the facade of a traditional reserved nuclear family is apparent in the discord among the Drewe family. Roy’s addiction to alcohol is constantly looked over that his children are accepting of his condition and are willing to wait until he is finished drinking. Pretending to “just going to see a man about a dog”(Drewe 80) shows the division between the ideal reserved family man and the wild parties in bars because Roy must hide his occasional drinking habits in order to live up to the standards meant for a father during the conservative 1950s. This drinking problem caused the character to have a shift in personality causing him to turn aggressive. The aggression and the drinking problem Robert’s father had is obvious to Robert at a small age, that the issue became viewed as

The two kinds of violence that are presented in literature are those that are caused by the characters themselves, and those that are out of the character’s hands and are caused by the author. An example of a character death by another character is in The Naturals by Jennifer Lynne Barnes. In The Naturals, Cassie, a teenager gifted with the ability to profile killers, joins an elite team of other kids who have the same abilities as her. Throughout her course of working with them, she discovers the secret to her mother’s murder and also who is behind it. Upon being lured out into an abandoned warehouse at the end of the novel, Cassie is brought face to face with her mother’s killer, Special Agent Lacey Locke. As Agent Locke is about to kill

The long- and short-term effects of revenge are one of the major themes that are explored in Andre Dubus’ short story, “Killings.” Dubus uses the revenge in his story to reveal more detailed and crucial information about characters, which is especially important in shorter stories, where conciseness, yet depth, are essential. “Killings” is told from a third-person point of view, but it focuses mainly on the life and family of Frank Fowler, who was murdered by his lover Mary Ann’s soon-to-be ex-husband Richard Strout.

     Imagine an inner city kid having grown u in an environment where real life street violence is a way of life. His body, having survived personal experiences of violence, endured barely life sustained conditions, and many sleepless nights caused by the constant yet unpredictable call of death. His mind doubtful over where his next meal will come from, lost in search of some higher guidance, struggling through a world, not of innocent childish fantasies, but trapped in a forced reality. His only outlet is the loud blaring music coddling his already pent-up rage, an escape from these harsh realities, seducing him to a life of violence. In him is created a “me against the world” mentality that is manifested in