James George Frazer

The Dark Side of “The Lottery” Every year a town in the middle of nowhere has a tradition to annually hold a lottery. The whole town has to participate in this lottery . Whoever wins the lottery gets stoned to death. In the story, Tessie Hutchinson gets stoned after getting picked in the lottery. An analysis of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson through the historical and feminist lenses, suggests that the story is really about how the lottery is controlling lives by having male dominance in the

There are many creation myths that have been told for hundreds of years that have served as an explanation for how the world works. Each culture has a creation myth that is unique to them. India, for example, has a creation myth that has been told for hundreds of years, and by examining the myth, it is possible to understand what their culture values. The Indian creation myth is one of the Puranas, or religious texts, within the Veda. According to Barry B. Powell, this myth may have been told around

The book I chose to read and do my book journal on this quarter was In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I really thought that this book was much longer than it really should have been, although it was still a fairly interesting book. The idea that someone you have never met and never heard about could rob and kill everyone in your house is a rather unnerving notion. In this book there is really only one part that I cannot figure out. Towards the end of the book Al Dewey one of the men responsible

There are many different dreams to be had: daydreams, dreams of the future, dreams of, well, practically anything imaginable. Perhaps one of the most infamous types of dreams that has been heard of is the American Dream. Defined as “the ideal that every American should have equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative”, the American Dream is one of equality and desire and those who strive to achieve it are ambition-filled, driven individuals

Perry - Perry is the most complex character in the entire book and we learn more about him than any other character. His childhood is explained very carefully throughout the novel and from what is described, his life as a kid was very frustrating and tough which could be the reason for his mediocre mental instability. Growing up with an alcoholic mother who died when he was thirteen years old, his life was beyond normal. After the death of his mother, he was then sent to a Catholic orphanage where

The best novels are the ones that connects with the reader and just toys with their emotions, as if they too were also in the story by using pathos, the most powerful appeal. This holds true with Truman Capote’s, In Cold Blood and his writing appealing to the reader’s emotions in the portrayal of Perry Edward Smith and Richard “Dick” Eugene Hickock, the two murders with an addition of Capote showing a great deal of favoritism to Perry over Dick. Throughout the novel, Capote uses tone and diction

Ethan Praytor Reading Log In Cold Blood Summary In Cold Blood begins in a small town in Kansas, called Holcomb. The book endeavors into an elaborate investigation of the massacre of the Clutter family. The family includes Herb, his wife, and their two children: Nancy and Kenyon. The two criminals, Dick and Perry, initially avoid being caught, but the law catches up to them when they leave small clues behind. Herb Clutter is checking on his farm one morning, and on the other side of the city, Dick

"Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by ... any … kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing ... from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree." (Cornell) First-degree murder is very clear in its definition in US law. On the fateful night of November 14, 1959, Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock seemed

Perry Smith The Serene Man with the Explosive Temper Perry Smith is perhaps the nicest, most gentle-hearted man I've ever met in my life. If he and I were to have met under different circumstances, I would never have hazarded a guess that this kind man could be a cold-blooded killer. He's such a gentle man that it startles me to think that a man such as he would ever so much as touch a hair on a human head. However, it is the story of his past that lends credence to the fact that he slaughtered

Reason for the Insanity Plea Perry Smith who murdered the Clutter family pleaded the Insanity Plea. Perry Smith had a tough childhood because his father was abusive to his mother and himself and siblings. His mother was a heavy drinker and she later died from choking on her own vomit when Perry was just 13 years old. Perry Smith and his siblings were taken to an orphanage where he was abused by a nun for wetting the bed. The nun beat Smith with a flashlight and when the flashlight broke she