Comparative Essay
In this essay, a comparison between the novels False Impression, and The Brethren will
be made. Although the authors captivate their audience with compelling quotes and
facts about the characters, their sudden turn to misleading statistics sometimes
failed to persuade the reader that what he is saying is true about some characters.
In the book False Impression, the author shows how anybody who wants something
bad enough will go and get it, even if it means murder. Anna Petrescu is running
around the world to save her life. She has worked at Fenston finance for 2 years now and
she’s finally figuring out that every couple months, people are slowly being murdered.
These people are being murdered because of an impression painting by Van Gogh. Anna
is now seeing that she is being followed by men who work for Fenston finance and she is
soon being run around the world for a painting that has been in Anna’s family forever.
This part of the book shows that people, especially people with power, will do anything
to get what they want. Bryce Fenston murders innocent people to get what he wants.
Comparatively, in the book The Brethren, there are three former southern judges, serving
time together in a federal prison for various bad deeds, which have taken away their
freedom and their status in the community. However, inside the prison, they continue to
practice law without a license, and concoct a blackmail scheme that begins making them
some money, that is, until they bag a powerful 'mark’ that could jeopardize everything.
When they are planning this scheme they are not aware of how many people they could
hurt, or even kill. A quote from the book backs this up. “Who cares about how many
people are killed; its how much money we get in the end”. (pg. 129)
Mystery books are easy to predict the unfolding of. In False Impression, it was very
easy to predict the ending because, in the story, there were only bad guys and good guys.
The good guys always win in mysteries because that’s what the reader wants to happen.
Half way threw the book, I could automatically tell what was going to happen to Anna
and Bryce Fenston. Even through Anna had to overcome big struggles and dodge getting
killed, she fought threw it and came out winning. Bryce, on the other hand, was fired,
Power is a great privilege to have and a person can take advantage of the power if they have it. Getting the privilege of power can be abused and misused depending on the person it is given to. Sometimes if the power lands in the wrong person’s hands they can use it to benefit themselves. In the novel called Montana 1948 by Larry Watson, the power of the law is being abused in the situations occurring throughout the book. Having power and privileges can make a great impact on your life and other people’s lives and give you a variety of advantages.
The desire for power is prevalent in our day to day life from wanting control over little insignificant aspects to control over others. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is
thing" ' this excerpt from pg 22 shows how everybody seems to think that power,
that the main character will not realize the fallacies of his ways until he has
hurt and she falls because of the wounded hand and Winston helps her up. But the
Therefore, people forget their morals and defy their personality. Shea states people can change their morals due to the effects of power (Shea). Fromm claims that an individual’s decisions reflect his or her conscious because their conscious is what brings them “back to ourselves, to our humanity” (Fromm 126). Fromm would state that Jessup believes he could do anything because of the power he holds; therefore, Jessup allows power to rise above his conscious. This demonstrates how easily authority can corrupt an individual. Jessup knew Santiago would physically not be able to handle the “code red”, yet power overrules his morals (A Few Good Men). Fromm would admit that Jessup’s authority trumped his morals, yet also believes that Dawson and
I liked how at the end of each chapter,there was suspense which made it impossible for me to stop reading.
Many people who have power and authority have the ability to have a strong influence over the behavior of others. They show great dominance over them, and have a lot of say in their actions. And many characters demonstrate this in John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. The novel stresses us to view the advantage power has in its characters’ actions and
are there until we reread the book. By setting up the mystery in this way, Crispin makes his book one that the reader cannot put down. His entire way of introducing the characters, settings and mystery make this a very remarkable book.
From the displays of power that have been shown through out this essay, we see that this story is a story about power. Power is the story is primarily about peoples need for some small amount of power to survive in life and to feel that hey have a purpose within their society which every society it may be whether its is Gilead or Nazi Germany or modern day Britain.
Jacob Burckhardt said, “They are all that we are not,” (pg.400) referring to these men of higher status and control. These people of elite power are made up of men who, from their position, are able to make decisions that in turn might have major consequences. They are given these important positions of power and can choose to act or not to act on certain decisions and procedures
Often, too much power can go to that particular person’s head, and he/she can become corrupt. As readers have seen in literature, abuses of power are often harmful to the abuser and their subjects. Corrupted authority and abuses of power eventually lead to the collapse of society. This concept is shown many times throughout the novel Lord Of the Flies and the short story “I Only Came to Use the Phone”. Displayed through characters and actions, abusive power has dominated what should be morally correct in literature.
I think that mystery stories are so popular with people today, and with the last couple of generations because they are so intriguing. The author tries to give the story an element of surprise and also put twists in the tails to keep the reader guessing. Rather than just watching a film it allows the reader to build up their own imagination and interpret the story in their own way. The author will also try to integrate a ghost or spirit into the story, whether it be physically there or just psychologically, this gives the sense of mystery and usually results in the protagonist of the story dying. During the Victorian era mystery stories were especially popular, this was due to television and cinema not being in existence, so people had enliven themselves in other ways, in this case with books. In Victorian times religion was cogent and people believed in God more than people today, this meant that people thought what happen in mystery stories was very plausible. However with the advancement of science, people regard mystery stories as fully fictional, conversely some individuals and groups do still believe in the existence of ghosts and spirits.
This conclusively demonstrates that lust for power can drive people to do the cruelest things in order to capture it. Works Cited The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare
The most important part of any type of book or story is that it be interesting. This proves to be particularly important in detective fiction as well. What could be more interesting than having a crime committed in front of you, given all (or most) of the details and still not be able to figure it out? This is exactly how detective fiction authors draw people into these stories and books. By weaving an intricate and interesting plot full of fascinating characters, and all types of details about the crime, readers get drawn into the plot and cannot stop reading until they find out the solution to the mystery. Simply put, readers are drawn to detective fiction because it is so easy to become completely engrossed in the stories. The trick of the author is how to create such an environment to keep readers coming back again and again to the genre.