“Saboteur” written by Ha Jin is the beautiful depiction of the cruel but true image of our society. The story focuses on Mr. Chiu who was on his honeymoon with his wife. Everything was fine until they encounter the police. During his honeymoon he was concerned about his acute hepatitis and afraid of the relapse. But after he was arrested by the police for showing his attitude, although he had not done anything wrong, everything started worsen. His health starts deteriorating as he was not supplied with his medication and the unhealthy food of prison. The cruel circumstances make the innocent man as cruel and evil as it is. His decision of taking revenge on those policemen even worsens the situation that is represented on the last sentences
of the story. “Within a month over eight hundered people contracted acute hepatitis in Muji, Six died of the disease, including two children. Nobody knew how the epidemic had started.” This is the actual reflection of life. We plan for many thing in our life and work hard to avoid grief, sorrow, pain and departure. But more we are desperate to avoid these thing more we are hunted by them. We work hard for our family, but the same work snatches our most of the time and departed from them. We start our life with the innocent cute child but end up with the evil monster struggling for the better life and to adapt with this harsh evil world.
The story Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, provides a theme for the readers. In the story, Monster, Steve Harmon, a sixteen-year-old boy, creates a script and writes notes about his character’s time in jail. Harmon is in jail for felony murder of Mr. Nesbitt, a drugstore owner. Along with Harmon, James King is also accused of being involved in the robbery and murder. Throughout the story, Harmon writes a script explaining what would be going on throughout his time in jail and the courtroom, along with the character’s personal notes. In this plot, an evident theme is present. Without a doubt, the lesson taken away from Monster is: Trust one’s self and issues will be solved with less harm.
The novel is nurtured with a very soft but sophisticated diction. The essay itself portrays the author’s style of sarcasm and explains his points in a very clear manner. In addition, the author has used vocabulary that is very easy to understand and manages to relate the readers with his simplistic words. The author is able to convey a strong and provoc...
Such a series of tragic events has a great toll among the two main characters (Cox ) . For a vicious, careless indivi...
In Harry Mulisch’s novel The Assault, the author not only informs society of the variance in perception of good and evil, but also provides evidence on how important it is for an innocent person experiencing guilt to come to terms with their personal past. First, Mulisch uses the characters Takes, Coster, and Ploeg to express the differences in perspective on the night of the assault. Then he uses Anton to express how one cannot hide from the past because of their guilt. Both of these lessons are important to Mulisch and worth sharing with his readers.
Life is a wheel rolling inexorably forward through the temporal realm of existence. There are those that succumb to its motion and there are a certain few, like Christ and Napoleon, who temporarily grasp the wheel and shape all life around them. "Normal" people accept their positions in life and are bound by law and morality. Extraordinary people, on the other hand, supersede the law and forge the direction and progress of society. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is the story of a group of people caught beneath the wheel and their different reactions to their predicament. One individual, Raskolnikov, refuses to acknowledge the bare fact of his mediocrity. In order to prove that he is extraordinary, he kills two innocent people. This despicable action does not bring him glory or prove his superiority, but leads to both his physical, mental, and spiritual destruction. After much inner turmoil and suffering, he discovers that when a person transgresses the boundaries of morality and detaches himself from the rest of humanity, faith in God and faith in others is the only path to redemption.
In this paper, I will discuss how the criminal justice system acts like a carnival mirror. However, first, I will define Jeffrey Reiman’s interpretation on carnival mirror and make a connection to our criminal justice system. Then, I will illustrate a couple of examples of how the carnival mirror plays in our society. My goal in this paper is to bring a new perspective on the criminal justice using the carnival mirror reflection.
...us on deadly revenge. In each case, a retribution that is carried out in a cruel and callous fashion. The men fulfilling these actions are cold, calculating, and contemplative. They have painstakingly endeavored to seek retribution against what has plagued them: Fortunato and his insults to the Montresor and the old man’s piercing, chilling eye for the man from “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Driven to the point of madness by their own obsessions, they plot to murder their offenders. The tales are told each by the man who has indeed committed the crime. Each man’s insanity becomes more and more clear as they narrate confession; the Montresor with the unfailing ease with which he dictates his account and the man from “The Tell-Tale Heart” with his jagged and rough delivery. Their distinct mental instability calls into question to reliability of the report they give.
I’ve realized that I have been writing essays and papers for the majority of my life, and every time, I learn something new. Being able to connect multiple articles or books on a deeper level has made my understandings of the pieces better. However, in my first paper, I only had to connect a common theme within one short story. By doing this, I was able to find multiple examples of how the interaction of characters created a certain type of authority. Making the specific revisions to my paper helped me overall to create a more in depth analysis of the story instead of a summary.
Dostoevsky's 1865 novel Crime and Punishment is the story of an expelled university student's murder of an old pawnbroker and her sister. The idealistic ex-student, Raskolnikov, is ultimately unable to live up to his own nihilistic theory of what makes a "Great Man" and, overcome by fits of morality, betrays himself to the police. Exiled to Siberia, suffering redeems the unfortunate young dreamer. Crime and Punishment is similar in many ways to Balzac's Pere Goriot, especially in respect to questions of morality. In Balzac, the master-criminal Vautrin lives by an amoral code similar to Raskolnikov's theory of Great Men--unrestrained by conscience, Vautrin holds that laws are for the weak, and those clever enough to realize this may overstep any boundaries they wish and dominate the rest of mankind. But where Balzac's characters act on this idea without repercussion, Raskolnikov makes a transgression and then begins immediately to question it. The result is a psychological inner battle between rationality and sentimental moralism which is as much a contest between Empiricism and Romanticism as it is a contest between good and evil, or God and the Devil.
In Conclusion, the novel Memoirs of a Prague Executioner by Josef Svatek is a very interesting read for a variety of reasons. The historical accuracy and genuineness proficiently portrayed the struggle and ongoing isolation Jan Mydlar, the executioner, faced on a daily basis. I believe that his predicament was unfair due to the fact that he was just simply and instrument of the state, yet he endured everlasting shunning and persecution for the fellows of society. The story and theme of justice and injustice is very evidently seen in this resounding aspect and The Memoirs of a Prague Executioner are ones I will not soon forget.
The story starts out with Edmond Dantes, a nineteen year old boy who started out his career early and well, as he was about to take command over his own ship, but out of jealousy, his comrades betrayed him and charged him with treason. About to be proven innocent, he admits to these charges and includes the name of the judge’s father, and from fear, sentenced Edmond to a lifelong penalty in prison to protect his father. He is then thrown into a high security prison where he is meant to spend the rest of his life. With Dantes out of the way, the conspirators were able to take over his ship, lands and steal his love from him. Thrown into the depths of despair and having tasted the greatest sadness of life, Dantes desires to reunite with his beautiful Mercedes, grieves for himself and all his lost possessions, and attempts to take his own life by starving himself to death.
During the investigation, police found a note in his room that condemned “rich kids”, “debauchery”, and “deceitful charlatans.” Seung-Hui reasoned that they had provoked him to take action, and that it was only right to get even for all the years he had been bullied. Objective morality would state that Seung-Hui’s judgment does not concede with the system of moral ethics established by society and would without a question, be considered a high-level crime. However, according to subjectivism, his actions are justified based on judgment and his perception of what is
?Sheet after sheet, article after article, each da-zi-bao was a bitter accusation. One was titled, ?Teacher Li, Abuser of the Young.? The student had failed to hand in her homework on time, and Teacher Li had told her to copy the assignment over five times as punishment. Another student said his teacher had deliberately ruined his students? eyesight by making them read a lot, so they could not join the Liberation Army. Still another accused Teacher Wang of attempting to corrupt a young revolutionary by buying her some bread when he learned that she had not eaten lunch.? (42)
To gain insight into the cannibalistic representation of society, the writing style of Lu Xun must first be addressed. The preface of ?Diary of a Madman? is written in classical Chinese language, where Lu Xun uses an ironic technique to suggest a false, polite world made exclusively by social appearance. This traditional approach to literature shows the conventional method that is followed by those who act upon the ways of the past and the culturally accepted methods of the masses. As the story unfolds the story leaves the classical Chinese language and moves to the informal language that is known by the common societies. Lu Xun also incorporates the diarist and main character of the story, and uses him as a reflection of the curre...
The novel Tsotsi, by Athol Fugard, is a story of redemption and reconciliation, facing the past, and confronts the core elements of human nature. The character going through this journey, who the novel is named after, is a young man who is part of the lowest level of society in a poor shanty town in South Africa. Tsotsi is a thug, someone who kills for money and suffers no remorse. But he starts changing when circumstance finds him in possession of a baby, which acts as a catalyst in his life. A chain of events leads him to regain memories of his childhood and discover why he is the way he is. The novel sets parameters of being “human” and brings these to the consideration of the reader. The reader’s limits of redemption are challenged as Tsotsi comes from a life lacking what the novel suggests are base human emotions.