Neil had lived his entire twenty-one years in the nine room apartment on West End Avenue in New York City with his mother Esther Outwater. Safety and protection from the outside world was the uppermost priority for has mother. It was their castle; the Doorman was their sentry on duty. When the cab pulled up in front of the apartment chaos, noise, police cars and officers writing on pads and holding back photographers and reporters stunned him. Getting out of the cab he heard someone say “her son,” and a policeman approached him and addressed him as Mr. Outwater. Every segment of energy in his body retreated and he had to grab the officer’s arm to steady him self. “What’s wrong? Where’s my mother?” His wallet in his hand after having paid the driver fell to the ground. Someone picked it up and handed it back to him. “Please come inside with me.” The officer reached for his arm to steady him and usher him into the lobby. “Where’s my mother?” He asked again. “We are here because your apartment has been broken into.” “Is my mother alright?” The officer didn’t respond immediately. “No son, the medics are up there right now.” He took him up in the elevator. Neil wanted to run up the stairs knowing he was faster. The hallway was bustling. Mrs. Cantor, their next door neighbor was crying and talking to another officer who was writing down what she was saying. She noticed Neil and let out a loud cry “I’m so sorry son, so sorry.” Police, medical personal and detectives were standing inside and out of the kitchen door. He ran toward the door and was stopped by one of the detectives. Then he saw his mother, lying on the floor face down in a circle of blood. A man crouched over her describing something to a female officer who ... ... middle of paper ... ...o the carpet. Mr. Cantiller sat beside him, with a protective arm across his shoulders. It was determined that she had been killed by a blow from an ordinary skillet. Esther was small and frail. The blow was sudden and instantly fatal. DNA was taken from everyone who had possible access to the apartment. “It’s routine . . .” Dr. Lancing was contacted and informed Aunt Kitty. Neil insisted that he had to be near by and so when Mr. and Mrs. XXX, the superintendents told him he could stay downstairs with them, he accepted. Mr. Cantiller, knowing both of them very well did not debate his choice. Mr. XXX had become an exhibiting artist because of his sponsorship, and in the Young man’s childhood he sorted him out as a surrogate father figure. Mr. XXX loved wood and sculpted in his spare time. Neil often made and assembled different things with XXX. They were close.
In “War” Neil’s attempts to communicate non-verbally through his behaviour are ineffective. However, in both stories Neil reaches understanding through powers of observation, even when the adults are unable to communicate through words. In reaching understanding, Neil takes a step towards adulthood himself. Through the process of looking at Effie’s smiles and looking at his father’s wounded face in the photograph, Neil is able to decode the mystery of their actions.
This coursework focuses on how each character contributes to the suicide of a poor girl Eva Smith/Daisy Renton.
With this in mind, Brenda cleverly obuses Neil’s open mindedness in formulating a scenario to enable a source of faith and new level of relation to develope among themselves. Once brought into action, she uncovers the other side to her integrity. Respectively, Neil shows benevolence to that part of her that seems to understand him deep inside, “There among the disarrangement and dirt I had the strange experience of seeing us, both of us, placed among disarrangement and dirt: we looked like a young couple who just had moved into a new apartment; we had suddenly taken stock of our furniture, finances, and future [...] ” (68) However since she has grown accustomed into a new rank of social status, and away from “the disarrangement and dirt” of Newark, she has become more attracted to life she occupies anon in Short Hills. This knowledge disillusions her that wealth advantages come with power, and that power is her responsibility. She through her selfish and noble heart feels the need to improve Neil, because it’s her past for a reason. Meanwhile, he interprets “the strange experience of seeing us” as a gateway into a compromise of “furniture, finances, and future” in their relationship. In this case, Brenda is unable to welcome the real and raw elements of Neil, distorts the possibility for them to experience love for one another. Thus, the misinterpretation and
The following day, a fisherman was at the Treeland Blvd. pond when he spotted some stuff floating in the water. Upon closer inspection he noticed it was firefighters gear and figured something must be wrong since firefighters do not just leave their equipment. The police had the pond drained and found a green Chevy truck at the bottom. Inside the truck was a substantial amount of blood; when the blood was tested it was that of Brandy Hall. The amount of blood in the cab of the truck makes it unlikely she will be found alive. The woods around the pond were also searched but nothing more was found.
A. Stephen C. Bandy and Kathleen G. Ochshorn try in separate occasions to analyze the final scene between the grandmother and the Misfit.
The childhood of Frances Piper consists of inadequate love, loss of innocence and lack of concern, ultimately leading to her disastrous life. As a six year old child, she encounters several traumatic events, explicitly the death of her loved ones and the loss of her innocence. Over the course of one week, there have been three deaths, two funerals and two burials in the Piper family. “Frances was crying so hard now that Mercedes got worried. ‘I want my Mumma to come ba-a-a-a-ack.’”( McDonald 174). As a young child, there is nothing more upsetting than losing a mother. A family is meant to comfort each other to fulfill the loss of a loved one; however, this is not the case in the Piper family. Mercedes, only a year older than Frances, tries to console her even though she herself is worried. The loss of motherly love and affection has a tremendous impact on her future since now her sole guardian, James, expresses no responsibility towards her. Instead, he molests Frances on the night of Kathleen’s funeral to lessen the grief of his lost daughter. As a result “These disturbing experiences plague Frances with overwhelming feelings of low self worth and guilt that haunt h...
In the commencement of the story, the narrator is shocked and in disbelief about the news of his brother’s incarceration, “It was not to be believed” (83). It had been over a year since he had seen his brother, but all he had was memories of him, “This would always be at a moment when I was remembering some specific thing Sonny had once said or done” (83). The narrator’s thoughts about Sonny triggered his anxiety that very day. It was difficult to bear the news of what his brother had become, yet at some point he could relate to Sonny on a personal level, “I hear my brother. And myself” (84). After the news had spurred, the narrator experienced extreme anxiety to the point of sweating. Jus...
Upon my arrival, I heard several people yelling at each other from outside of the door. As I entered the house, I notice a man standing next to the couch with blood on his hands and running down the side of the left temple. The man was then identified as Brandon Clodfelter. At this time I detained Brandon and as I moved to the first bedroom on the right in the hallway, I notice blood on the outside of the door. As I enter the bedroom, I see an older woman sitting on the ground with blood running down her forearm. The woman was then identified as Nicole Clodfelter, the mother of Brandon Clodfelter. Also, standing in the living room was Michael Clodfelter, the father of Brandon. At this point I called for Acadian.
... crying into the house, passing over the unholy mess her killers made and found you in our bedroom. You were in your crib, next to your mother on the bed. She'd been..." He cleared his throat before moving on. "The blood had even sprayed you. The police came and took their reports but I knew who was responsible."
“Get the doc now!” Mother shrieked. Bump, crash, bang, the stretcher carried my lifeless body down a populous hall. “Get and I-V now! Heart beats are slowing, we may need resuscitation, get me the shocks now!” “Oh my lord, no please don’t take my boy lord! Not now…” My mom snuffled. *Whimpers and cries”
...e of joy and pain in Catherine’s life, as their love was so powerful that it can only be embraced by the extent of death. With many other important messages in the novel, the most important is the changes that occur in and between the characters. The numerous characteristic aspects, the characters in the story are enthralling. Although, Cathy Linton may be recognized as a duplicate of Catherine Earnshaw due to the parallelism of generations, their traits and personalities are entirely individual. Cathy is an innocent and fine young lady, and Catherine is a selfish evil monster. Throughout the progress of the story the reader can clearly appreciate the mismatched traist of the mother and daughter. And like, psychologists have said, “Often children avoid the ways their parents have gone”. Although Cathy doesn’t experience her mother ways, she lives the opposite way.
This leads Neil into committing suicide when his father forbids him from acting and moves him into a Military Academy. Throughout the film Neil is shown to be under pressure to complete difficult aspects of life, placed on him by his father. Mr Perry guilt trips Neil into carrying out tasks he wants him to complete. His father does not seem to take in what he is doing to his son, placing the blame on Keating. One of the most significant ways Mr Perry inadvertently caused Neil’s death is that he placed too much pressure on him.
The scene played out as a motion picture just as Dr. Bernard said it would. Only she was not the viewer but a participant. She held her son, Patrick, close to her breast as her father came through the door. Looking into his angry face made her heart sink and fear rose to the surface. She ran back to the nursery to put Patrick in his crib and returned to confront her father.
Although “The Grave” seems to be about two children playing in their grandfather’s grave, it is actually about the realization of gender roles, coming of age, and mortality. Katherine Anne Porter wanted the reader to look beneath the surface of the story to find the many different underlying meanings. The main character Miranda is faced with the cold hard truth that life isn’t always sweet and pleasant as she watches her brother kill and skin a pregnant rabbit.
...d shots and Alan’s hand had gotten hit. The boys were back inside and the police called and told them that Doctor Curt had arrived. Doctor Curt spoke to the boys and told them that the first shot had been an accident; and that he had read the paper and it looked fine, so they could come out. The kids all walked out, they dropped their guns and were handcuffed, except for Zach who went to his mother and got his medication.