Killing kids

The way the plot of Killings by Andre Dubus is arranged changes how the reader sees the characters in the story. This plot starts out in the present, then goes into the past, then back to the present. There are two main characters, and three secondary characters in this story. The way the reader views all of these characters is affected by the plot arrangement. The two primary characters who are most important to the plot, and also most affected by the plot arrangement, are Matt Fowler and Richard

Entrails torn from the body with bare hands, eyes gouged out with razor blades, battery cables, rats borrowing inside the human body, power drills to the face, cannibalism, credit cards, business cards, Dorsia, Testoni, Armani, Wall Street; all of these things are Patrick Bateman’s world. The only difference between Bateman and anybody else is what is repulsive to Bateman and what is repulsive to the rest of the world. Bateman has great interest in the upper class life, fashions, and social existence

Slang can sometimes come off a bit rudely. With the words duh, yeah, and right, they don’t sound very happy. Here’s a quote from Kirk Johnson’s article, “Today’s Kids Are, Like, Killing the English Language”: Parent: Good morning, son, it’s a beautiful day. Eleven-year-old boy: Duh p.168 Now Johnson isn’t saying that it is rude, but to most other people that can be insulting. If

1. When Ponyboy awoke in the church he felt stiff, sore, scared, hungry, and confused. Ponyboy was also panicky because at first he forgot where he was, and Johnny was not there. Pony tried to convince himself that what happened last night was a dream, but he could remember every detail of the whole night. 2. Johnny cared for Pony by buying Pony’s favorite book, got supplies for the two of them, bought bleach to disguise Pony, comforts him, tells him not to smoke too much, and lets him sleep on his

Radiohead, in a Motion Picture Soundtrack, tie together the negative effects of popularity and pop culture. By leaving out the more optimistic view of fame, it prevents the sugar-coating of details. This technique, while dreary and glum, sets the perfect tone for the writer to reach the reader on subjects not frequently talked about. Ironically, in order to ‘shine light’ upon this topic, Radiohead creates as gloomy and dark of an environment as possible to convey their ideas. Within the song itself

Jack was motivated by hunting and killing. His obsession for this began when he was frustrated with himself for not killing the pig in the first chapter: ‘"He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy" (29).There would actually be no mercy from Jack from that point on. Eventually all of the boys, except for Ralph and Piggy, turned to Jack's evil ways, even to the point of participating in the killing of Simon. Effectively, Ralph was

Jack was motivated by hunting and killing. His obsession for this began when he was frustrated with himself for not killing the pig in the first chapter: ‘"He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy" (29).There would actually be no mercy from Jack from that point on. Eventually all of the boys, except for Ralph and Piggy, turned to Jack's evil ways, even to the point of participating in the killing of Simon. Effectively, Ralph was

Meghan Putnam English10H Summer Assignment Book I, Chapters 1-2 Where Raskolnikov lives in St. Petersburg is a crowded, filthy and run down area. The streets near his garret are always filled with drunks and tradesmen. Rivers and canals run through different parts of the city. Raskolnikov lives in a garret of a five story house. His living conditions aren 't great and he lives in constant fear of his landlady. His room is extremely small and he sleeps on an old, run-down couch. The pawnbroker

The alley’s light gleamed Bruce’s path. It was if as the alley knew what time Bruce walked this path. “Ring,Ring,Ring,” Bruce’s phone echoed. When Bruce had hung up the phone his panic dropped the phone. He rushed through the muddy puddles. “How”,“When”,WHY!!,” Bruce repeated these words in his head until it hurt. He rushed out of darkness,and the bright powerful lights of the New York’s Hospital shined Bruce’s grubby,filthy face. He rushed into the clean, white room. He asked the receptionist women

makes people like Jeffrey Dahmer or Jim Jones evil, yet makes being a butcher a typical profession? It can’t be because the meat from a butcher’s kill gets eaten, because so did the meat from Dahmer’s kills. It can’t be because they directly did the killing, because Jim Jones never directly killed anyone; he just led his followers to commit mass suicide. I believe that evil is not only technically nonexistent and subjective, but it is also completely unnecessary. To clarify my opinion, I want to delve