Killers of the Flower Moon was about a series of murders of the wealthy Osage Indians taking place in Osage County, Oklahoma. After the Osage Indian land was found to have large oil deposits, they became very rich. This led to them becoming targets of a murderer on the hunt for their fortunes. The murders led to many corrupt investigators and sheriffs. Throughout the book, it follows the efforts that the FBI took to solve the murders and the methods that they used. This case helped bring attention to the FBI and make it into the organization that we know today. The book primarily takes place in Osage County, Oklahoma during the 1920s. Osage County is known to have very rocky and hilly terrain. Before the 1920s, the Osage Indians owned many …show more content…
One of the main characters in the book is Tom White. Tom, an FBI agent, was tasked with the investigation into the murder of the Osage Indians. Throughout the book, Tom and his team gather evidence, interview many people, and learn about the conspiracy behind the murders. They successfully charged William Hale and John Ramsey with the murder of Henry Roan. After his time with the FBI, Tom became a prison warden where it was said that he tried to look for the best in the criminals. Other important characters in the book are Mollie Burkhart, Ernest Burkhart, and William Hale. Mollie was an Osage woman whose family was being targeted in the murders. Ernest was Mollie’s husband and was one of the main conspirators in the Osage murders. William Hale was also one of the main conspirators of the murders and he was accused of planning several of the murders. The Osage faced many challenges throughout the book, such as the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was what the Osage called the series of murders. Throughout the book, the Osage and others were murdered for their fortunes. Many of the murders occurred in different ways such as shooting, stabbing, and
In The Lilies of the Field, by William E. Barrett, Homer and Mother Maria share the similar character traits of stubbornness, hard-working, and kind-hearted. Homer and Mother Maria are both very hard-working. Homer is treated with inferiority and told he cannot possibly be dedicated enough to build the chapel for Mother Maria and the nuns. However, he stubbornly insists to construct the church in spite of the prejudice against him. Prior to meeting Homer, Mother Maria was adamant about building the chapel with just herself and the nuns. Though most of the town believes her to be an impractical nun with overly optimistic goals, this merely bolsters her commitment to establishing the church. When Homer leaves town, Mother Maria is steadfast
On the day of the Emancipation Proclamation, Jane's master frees them all. On the same day, Jane leaves the plantation with a group of ex-slaves. They have no idea where they are going, but a woman named Big Laura leads the way. Jane wants to go to Ohio to find Corporal Brown. The first morning away, a group of "Patrollers," local white trash who used to hunt slaves, comes upon them and kills everyone but Jane and a very young boy Ned, whom they did not find. Jane and Ned then continue on their own, still headed for Ohio. They meet many characters on their trip, all of whom tell Jane that Ohio is too far and that she should go back to her plantation. Jane's obstinacy persists for a few weeks until she and Ned are completely exhausted from walking. Finally they catch a ride with a poor white man named Job who lets them sleep at his house and takes them the next day to a plantation run by Mr. Bone. Mr. Bone offers Jane a job, but only pays her the reduced rate of six dollars a month (minus fifty cents for Ned's schooling) because sh...
... during this time. Problem involving the racial order in society caused many deaths not only in the book but in real life. Jane was free but lived as a slave her entire life. Jane tried to escape to the south but failed and work the same jobs as she did when she was a slave. Black people were not slaves but law anymore but they still lived in mental slavery, bound by the racial order. Black people suffered for many years after slavery and fought for civil rights just as Jane, Ned, and Jimmy “The One” did.
When Jem and Scout found out that their father would be defending a black person, they knew immediately that there would be much controversy, humiliation from the people of Maycomb and great difficulty keeping Tom alive for the trial. It was not long when Atticus had to leave the house very late to go to jail, where Tom was kept because many white people wanted to kill him. Worrying about their father, Jem and Scout sneak out of the house to find him. A self-appointed lynch mob has gathered on the jail to take justice into their own hands. Scout decides to talk to Walter Cunningham, one of the members of the mob.
Quite notably, Jimmy or “The One”, died at the end of story when he tried to make a change in society and fight for equal rights for African Americans. Jane recalled that Jimmy was in Alabama and Mississippi with Martin Luther King Jr., who was also a martyr in the civil rights movement, and they both were arrested. At a church service, Jimmy tries to convince others, mostly elders, to come with him and protest, although Jane was the only one that was willing to participate. Jimmy then was killed because he wanted to protest that African Americans
In Toni Morrison’s novel, The Song of Solomon, flowers are associated with romance and love, and so the way in which the central female characters interact with flora is indicative of the romance in their lives. Flowers, red roses in particular, are a universal symbol for love and fertility. Though Ruth Foster, Lena called Magdalene Dead, and First Corinthians Dead are associated with different types of flowers in distinctive ways, the purpose of the motif stays the same; flowers reveal one’s romantic status and are a precursor for the romance that is to come. Throughout the entire novel, the flowers share in common that they are not real. Some flowers appear printed, others as fake substitutes, and some are imaginary. This is an essential
Major Characters: Jefferson, black boy who is accused of a crime and sentenced to death; Grant Wiggons, teacher sent to help Jefferson.
Many popular novels are often converted into television movies. The brilliant fiction novel, Flowers for Algernon written by Daniel Keyes, was developed into a dramatic television film. Flowers for Algernon is about a mentally retarded man who is given the opportunity to become intelligent through the advancements of medical science. This emotionally touching novel was adapted to television so it could appeal to a wider, more general audience. Although the novel and film are similar in terms of plot and theme, they are different in terms of characters.
The second part of the book is about Atticus (Scout and Jem's father) defending a black man named Tom Robinson in court. Tom was accused of beating and raping a nineteen year old girl named Mayella. This is the section of the book with the most examples of American history. Everybody in the town of Maycomb looks down on Atticus because he is defending a black man in court. All evidence in the case shows Tom Robinson innocent, but he is still charged guilty because of the all white jury. The actual rapist was Mayella's father. In the end of the book, Tom is shot so that he wouldn't be found innocent.
Coming of Age is when a character in a story goes through a life-changing event they learn a life lesson from. There are many types of books and short stories that are based on Coming of Age, "The Flowers" by Alice Walker is one of them. In the story the main character, Myop, is wandering through the woods. However, she later decides to shorten her walk, after she starts to feel uncomfortable and fearful, of her surroundings. Soon she decides later to find her way back home until she stumbles across something... a dead body. At first Myop was astonished of what she had uncovered . It was something she had never encountered before. After examining the body she began to realize that it was actually something very interesting. Seeing the lifeless
We stood and watched as the dark figures got out of the dusty cars and moved towards Atticus and Tom Robinson’s cell. I had a theory of what they were trying to do: kill the accused. It’s not common for a group of men to be going to the jail in the middle of the night dressed in such a way. I was sure that they wanted to commit an act of lynching when they put the sheriff into this. The men wanted Atticus to draw back, but I knew he isn’t that kind of person.
It was also nominated for ten Academy Awards (including Best Picture), seven Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Drama, and with Gladstone winning Best Actress), nine British Academy Film Awards, and three SAG Awards (with Gladstone winning Best Actress). In the film Killers of the Flower Moon, multiple events had taken place prior to what was portrayed in the movie. These events took place in the early to mid 1920’s involving multiple Osage Nation members. Several wealthy Osage tribal members were targeted and killed for their wealth of oil in their town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The murders and methods chosen were often poisoning, shootings, or bombings.
As the reader followed the plot of the novel, the main conflict is the person versus person or the deaths of the little Indian boys. Lawrence Wargrave has cancer and has little time left to live. Before he died he needed to know that ten particular people served for what they did in their past. He did this by inviting each person to the mansion, stranding them there and killing each one of them. To get away with all of the killings Wargrave acted as one of the victims in the house. “They know therefore that one of the ten people on the island was not a murderer in any sense of the word, and it follows paradoxically that, that person must logically be the murderer.” (274) As the story went on Wargrave was always blaming other people and thinking foolish of people when someone thought he was guilty ”Her husband was
Tears of Autumn In “Tears of Autumn”, the author, Yoshiko Uchida, uses the title to convey the message that struggle and rebirth go hand in hand; having the “tears” in “Tears of Autumn” symbolize the struggles and “autumn” to represent the rebirth. Considering her situation as a Japanese woman traveling alone to a foreign place, Hana Omiya will confront some bumps in the road, or in this case, “tears”. She first experiences a bump when she must decide whether to, “marry a fanner and spend her life working beside him planting, weeding, and harvesting” or to, “go to America to make [a] lonely man a good wife. "(Uchida, 2).
She goes by the name of Waris Dirie, a female Somalian desert nomad who lived to tell her story of pain and emotion growing up as a Somalian woman. The novel ‘Desert Flower’, written by Waris Dirie herself is about the revealing yet inspiring journey of her life, as she was introduced to the ‘Somalian womanhood’, at just the age of five, imagine the brutality on being mutated on just a rock in the middle of the desert, being left alone under a small tree with hardly any shade protecting you from the fiery hot sunrays being let off. Any minute you could die, the cause of death may be being bleed to death or an infection later on causing death. A few years later having an arranged marriage to a sixty year old man you didn’t even know, running away and escaping to England to becoming a model to then later on becoming an ambassador of the UN. (United Nations). These are some of the many experiences Waris Dirie went through during her journey of life.