What Is The Theme Of Miss Genovese By Martin Gansberg

On March 13th, 1964, in New York, a young woman by the name of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese was just coming home from her late shift at work. It’s three a.m., and as she’s walking to her apartment building, she notices a suspicious, hooded man some distance away. Rightfully concerned, she goes to the phone booth, aiming to call the police, but never makes it in time. She’s stabbed in the back, and then in her gut. When her screams cause the neighbors to turn the lights on, all they do

The short story’s plot begins by introducing the main character Carolee Mitchell. Carolee is in her home doing her daily chores when suddenly she looks out her window to find many policeman, police dogs and police cars outside on her street. Carolee did not know what was happening so she continued on with her chores. In a few moments Carolee notices a young man drenched in blood in her garden outside. Carolee wants to call the police but questions what good it would be considering they are already on her street. She wants to call someone but none of her neighbors were home. Thinking that he was injured and maybe was not even the man the police were after, she looked out the window

The assailant came back to further hurt Kitty a total of two separate times in over half an hour and no one called the police. Martin Gansberg does an extraordinary job of capturing the scene of the murder and those who aided in her death. Gansberg further captures this through powerful displays of diction, tone, repetition, and appropriate use of dialogue. Gansberg’s diction throughout the passage is one of extreme formality as he is writing for the New York Times and must stay neutral. However, this formality also comes with an undertone of passive aggressiveness. For example, he writes about the thirty-eight who could have saved her, “Twice their chatter and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights interrupted and frightened him off...Not one person telephones the police during the assault” (Gansberg 120). While Gansberg is being professional and formal, he is showing hints of emotion through his tone. He is berated that many people didn't help and yet doesn't actually express his uneasiness. Additionally, another characteristic of the article is how Gansberg repeats the time, “This is what the police say happened beginning at 3:20 A.M.” (Gansberg 121). Again recalling the time, “The assailant got into his car and drove away. Miss Genovese staggered to her feet...It was 3:35 A.M.” (Gansberg 121). Further recollection, “It was

     The author wrote this story as a literary genius. There is an extreme level of suspense that leaves you wanting

A great deal of the paper is comprised of dull facts. Kleinfield’s writing sounds like he just asked a bunch of questions and wrote them down with exactly every detail he could. For example, “He consulted the mirror and blended into the next lane” (283). It seems as though Kleinfield has taken a mainly closed stance on the paper. When Kleinfield says, “A transport team from the medical examiner’s office drove it to the morgue at Queens Hospital Center, where it was deposited in one of some 100 refrigerated drawers, cooled to 35 degrees” (274) it demonstrates my point that this paper sounds factual. It doesn’t matter what temperature the drawer is or how many drawers there are. Kleinfield mentions the weather, scenery, and day in the following quote, “In the frosty gloom of Dec. 30, as a hissing wind spun litter through the air…” (284). We are bombarded by these unnecessary facts Kleinfield

Also, Kitty has a disease called Usher Syndrome. Before reading this book I had never heard of it, and thus never realized how common it really is. This disease takes away two vital senses; hearing and vision. Kitty really opens up about her fears about losing her sight. The idea of total isolation is scary, without a doubt, and in my opinion she handles it with more courage than I could have ever imagined. Sign language is visual, and once Kitty loses her ability to see it will be very difficult to communicate with her family, and nearly impossible to communicate with hearing people who she most of the time needs an interpreter to communicate with anyways.

This book explores lots of different emotions, all tying into each other. Each emotions feeds off others, and different people experience different feelings. Emotion is a major part of the book because, while it doesn’t often go that deep into it, it is the driving force for lots of the plot

Most of the cats were hiding deep in their cages, as if they were ashamed of being in the humane society at all. But little Vin, he stuck his paws out the bars of the cage, begging for attention. As I crouched down to look at him, I was greeted by his big, pastel green eyes. And then a meow, of course. He was tiny, not just in the fact he was just a baby, but he was skinny. Now, I had seen slim cats, but I could see poor Vincent’s ribs even through his black striped fur.

The author did a brilliant job of putting together all the facts of every aspect of what happened but at times I felt bogged down with all the information. Therefore, the prose was not badly written it felt overwritten also containing an overabundance of

They were afraid that if they were supposed to testify against the killer, he himself was going to attacked them the same way he attacked kitty. Example: Miss Genovese screamed: oh, my God, he stabbed me! Please help me! Please help me!” And from one of the upper window in the apartment, a man called down: “Let that girl alone!”

What did we learn from these paragraphs?  Well we’ve learned that the four topics in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” are mental illness, hatred, murder, and guilt.  How important are the cause-and-effect relationships and those four topics?  These four topics and the cause-and-effect relationships are important factors to understanding why these two stories cause intense suspense for the reading audience.  These are the reasons why the “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” cause intense suspense for the reading

5. I think the story is depressing. "Shocks you, my husband!" cried Georgiana, deeply hurt; at first reddening with momentary anger, but then bursting into tears. "Then why did you take me from my mothers side? You cannot love what shocks you. These couple sentences were stated in the novel, in my opinion, it shows that the novel contains sadness and makes it very depressing when you read it.

I thought it was a good story, up until the climax ended. I felt like as soon as they were caught, there wasn’t much the author said after that. If I were to finish this story off, I would have put more detail into what the man in the Buick said to them. Also, I would have said something about the rest of the day.

Although as the story progresses the letters get less accurate and do not come to Poirot on time. Rushed to find the murder the detective, Poirot, is ready to jump to conclusions and convict Alexander Bonaparte Cust, a traveling salesman, who just happened to be at the scene of the crime on each day. Super unlucky! Also Cust was epileptic so he has no memory of committing the murders but after looking guilty by showing up at Andover police station he was taken into custody and at that moment the case seemed over. Cust did not have a strong case, he was not even 100% sure he had not committed those crimes. There was conflicting evidence, Cust had a solid alibi for the Bexhill murder but he was at the movie theater the night of the murder with the victim's blood on his sleeve and the murder weapon (knife). What's a good murder story without a plot twist especially when it has to do with the murder. Poirot is smarter than people thought and he can see that Cust is innocent and someone in the very room they were standing in was the true

I must admit that writing reviews for books that you equally like and dislike are mighty difficult since I struggle with writing reviews that don’t just repeat the blurb anyway. The book's plot even from the start was peculiar as the story progressed the plot proceeded to become outrageous at times. Certainly, I love a good thriller therefore in one hand this plot might be a tad bizarre for some readers while on the other hand, certain readers would find it unique. Consequently, I am still indecisive about which hand I land in though I found it hilarious that the town of Cottonwood, California had one volunteer police officer/sheriff Jim Kent who was a plumber by trade. Indeed that is one crazy combination of careers. As for the quality of the actual writing, Mr. Burley has a specific style all his own. Hence, fitting for the story that was written such as, the fact that it took place in the mid-1950’s various unique aspects from that time were mentioned which I thought was interesting especially the way the phone system worked, Belladonna was in a medicated cigarette, and everyone knew their neighbors.