Overview Eric Wright’s Twins is unique and original story about a writer and his wife that leaves a lot to the mind while you are reading it. It is a story that makes you predict the outcome and keeps you interested on whether or not those outcomes will come true or not. It is a short story that has excellent characters that are in conflict against each other from the beginning but is not revealed until the climax. Any reader of this story will put this down feeling satisfied with the fantastic plot and great setting. Background Have you ever heard that twins could have completely different personalities, they could be friends, siblings, or possibly even enemies. Author Eric Wright creates a story about a writer who specializes in writing …show more content…
crime novels and is known his his infuriating plots as well and making sure his plots work and are actually plausible. In Twins, he created two characters that can be mistaken for twins and made them the protagonist and the antagonist. This story details a Mariani2 husband and a wife scouting out an area in the north for the husbands next book when he reveals the plot of his murder mystery was a real plan and attempted to kill his wife. The husbands plan worked perfectly for the wife Discussion Plot A writer and his wife, mr and ms coates. Mr coates has a plan to kill his wife because he has been cheating on her with another women. He take Ms. Coates to a mine shaft in Sudbury Ontario, he lead her there by convincing her he wanted help making his story seem plausible. He then attempts to pull a gun on her but when he fires there are no bullets because the wife suspected this and took the bullets as well as a gun of her own and killed her husband. She then proceeded to follow the rest of the husband's plan and did not get caught for the murder. Characters. The only two characters in the story are conflicting against each other. The wife and husband appear to be happy with each other but it is soon revealed that it was the opposite. Mr. Harry Coates characterization can be described as a writer of detective stories that often creates intricate plots about how his characters die and how the murder is covered up and solved,this is Mariani3 explained in this quote; “His wife had often criticized his plots for being too complicated, but this one worked.
“I want to get it right,” he said. “After making the mistake in the last book about how long it takes to get from Toronto to Detroit, I want this one to be watertight. So just go along with me until I’m sure that it’ll work.”” he is portrayed throughout the story to be superior, yet he is killed by his wife with his own plan that he created because he was cheating on his wife with another women. Mrs Coates, starts her story as believed to be less intelligent than her husband but proves the theory wrong by turning his own plan against him, her and her husband have been known to be similar in appearance, and also similar in personality. This makes the story a tad outlandish because if the couple was so similar why would he cheat on her, and why would he plot to kill …show more content…
her. Setting. This short story takes place in Sudbury, Ontario at an old mine shaft that Mr. Coates found when he was hunting with a his friend Art. The mine shaft was hard to get to, Mr. Coates had to pick two locks to get and walk through dense pine trees to get to where they needed to be “They were standing on the edge of an old mine shaft about ten miles north of Sudbury. The shaft had been sunk in the thirties and they had had to claw their way through dense scrub pine to reach it, and pick the locks on two chain link fences that guarded the hole.”. The story takes stays here until later in the story where the wife has to cover her tracks and she eventually ended up at the motel the husband planned to go to “Two hours later the night clerk at the Sturgeon Motel in Parry Sound signed in Mrs. Harry Coates, a blonde lady with sunglasses (though it was quite dark), while her husband unloaded the car. “. Mariani 4 Point Of View This story follows a third person limited point of view. The narrator follows Mr. and Mrs. Coates together during the beginning of the story but once the murder happens it is revealed that we were following Mrs. Coates’s story and she is the main protagonist throughout the story ““It’ll work, alright. It’s going to work.” He pulled the trigger once, twice, three times. Everything else went smoothly. His wife had often criticized his plots for being too complicated, but this one worked. Two hours later the night clerk at the Sturgeon Motel in Parry Sound signed in Mrs. Harry Coates, a blonde lady with sunglasses (though it was quite dark), while her husband unloaded the car. During the night the clerk had to call them twice to ask them to pipe down because they were fighting and arguing so loudly that the guests on either side had called to complain. “ Theme. This story follows a strong theme of deception. This is a common theme among stories with criminals and crime. In Twins by Eric Wright this theme is at its peak during the climax of the story, when Mr. Coates pulls his gun on his wife and attempts to kill her without her knowing he was planning this, when the husband finds his gun empty and the wife pull her gun on him, this is the second deception in the climax alone.”He reached inside his jacket and pulled out a little handgun he had bought in Detroit. “Don’t turn round Lucy,” he said. She turned and saw that her last question was answered. It wasn’t a game. She said, “It isn’t going to work.” “It’ll work, Mariani 5 alright. It’s going to work.” He pulled the trigger once, twice, three times. Everything else went smoothly. His wife had often criticized his plots for being too complicated, but this one worked. “ Critique I found Twins confusing at first, after the first read the fact that the wife murdered the husband completely flew over my head.
I thought that the husband was just telling his story then they went to a motel and fought then went home, it was only when I saw the police get involved where I found out I missed something. I enjoyed this story the most out of all the stories we had to read, after reading it I found the feud between the two characters to be a exceptional battle of wits until they show their hand in the climax and are forced to attempt to kill one another. The other stories I read took a less subtle approach to their conflicts and I think that is where a lot of the other stories fell short to me, the climax is more satisfying when it isn't expected or revealed before that. Overall, Twins by Eric Wright takes on a very underrated approach of having the conflict be mainly in the characters heads until one chooses to make a move, I found this made the story a lot better than the other options and it will without a doubt, leave you satisfied when it is
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In the book Unwanteds: Island of Graves by Lisa McMann, the two main characters, Alex and Aaron, are identical twins on the outside, but are completely different on the inside. Aaron is someone who forced his way into the government. He is a complete snob and he treats others like he is their superior. Alex on the other hand, earned his way as the leader in Artíme. He is caring and does not make others feel down about themselves.
Divided Minds was an intriguing story plot, endowing readers to divulge into the mindset of twin sisters, Pamela and Carolyn Spiro, and their daily struggles within Mental Health. Co-authors and staring twin sister, Pamela and Carolyn fabricated their personal diaries into a lifelong audience, disclosing personal issues, feelings, and emotions throughout their lifetime. However one predominant issues within the mental health field revolved around the symptoms and diagnosis of Schizophrenia, where Pamela expressed her vacillating struggles with multiple symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and grossly disorganized behavior, to her economic and social predicaments.
“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen” (“Brainy Quotes” 1). In Edith Wharton’s framed novel, Ethan Frome, the main protagonist encounters “lost opportunity, failed romance, and disappointed dreams” with a regretful ending (Lilburn 1). Ethan Frome lives in the isolated fictional town of Starkfield, Massachusetts with his irritable spouse, Zenobia Frome. Ever since marriage, Zenobia, also referred to as Zeena, revolves around her illness. Furthermore, she is prone to silence, rage, and querulously shouting. Ethan has dreams of leaving Starkfield and selling his plantation, however he views caring for his wife as a duty and main priority. One day, Zeena’s cousin, Mattie Silver, comes to assist the Frome’s with their daily tasks. Immediately, Mattie’s attractive and youthful energy resuscitates Ethan’s outlook on life. She brings a light to Starkfield and instantaneously steals Ethan’s heart; although, Ethan’s quiet demeanor and lack of expression causing his affection to be surreptitious. As Zeena’s health worsens, she becomes fearful and wishes to seek advice from a doctor in a town called Bettsbridge giving Ethan and Mattie privacy for one night. Unfortunately, the night turns out to be a disastrous and uncomfortable evening. Neither Ethan nor Mattie speaks a word regarding their love for one another. Additionally, during their dinner, the pet cat leaps on the table and sends a pickle dish straight to the floor crashing into pieces. To make matters worse, the pickle dish is a favored wedding gift that is cherished by Zeena. Later, Zeena discovers it is broken and it sends her anger over the edge. Furious, Zeena demands for a more efficient “hired girl” to complete the tasks ar...
The character Mrs. Wright is portrayed as a kind and gentle woman. She is also described as her opinion not being of importance in the marriage. It is stated by Mr. Hale that “ I didn’t know as what his wife wanted made much difference to John” .(745) Her neighbor, Mrs. Hale, depicts her as “She─come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself─real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and─fluttery. How─she─did─change”. (752) It appears that Mrs. Wright is a kind and gentle woman, not capable of committing a murder. But, with the evidence provided and the description of Mr. Wright’s personality it can also be said that the audience will play on the sympathy card for Mrs. Wright. She appears to be caught in a domestic violence crime in which she is guilty of, but the audience will overlook the crime due to the nature of the circumstances. By using pathos it will create a feeling that Mrs. Wright was the one who was suffering in the marriage, and that she only did what she felt necessary at the
Mrs. Wright, however, justified killing her husband due to Mr. Wright trapping her inside the house and how Mrs. Wright job is only to be domestic wife. When Mrs. Hale (farmer’s wife) and Mrs. Peters (sheriff’s wife) discovered a dead bird with her neck bruised all over, they start to put the pieces to the puzzle together and ...
Recently, I readied the book called “The other Wes Moore”, the book is about two boys both raised by their single mother but raised up in two totally different environment, cause they went to two complete different schools, one went to a public school where most of the kids went there are poor and has a lot of problems; the other one went to a private school which is really nice most of b his peers are excellent. Their mother has totally different personality education levels and expectation to their children, one graduate from a community collage and the other one graduate from a famous four collage. After all, than they become two extremely different people, after all, one Wes becomes a successful well-know author, and the other Wes end
First, “Mrs. Charles Bliss” was ready for a divorce. She was ready to leave her husband and he was ready to leave her. Reverend Wiley advised her not to for the sake of the children. And Judge Somers told her husband not to go through with it. So they stuck it out even though they hated each other. Two of the children sided with the husband and blamed her for it. The other two sided with her and blamed him for it. This family had to live life hating each other and pointing fingers. To the average person walking down the street, passing by their house might seem normal or even peaceful. But inside the locked doors life wasn't so great. People would have no idea what is going on in there.
The quiet town of Starkfield, Massachusetts silently and solemnly watches as the story of Ethan Frome, his repulsive wife Zeena, and the lively Mattie Silver and their tragic love triangle unfolds. When Mattie Silver, a cousin of Zeena, comes to live at the broken down Frome farm to take care of Zeena and her constant illnesses, Ethan begins to realize what real love can do to a person. Mattie starts to put light and meaning back into Ethan’s life, appearing to him as “a fairy maiden, a princess of nature” in Ethan’s dark and tedious world (Ammons 2). The dilemmas that Ethan faces about whether or not to choose duty over personal desire occur frequently, causing Ethan to experience many abrupt changes of heart. One minute Ethan speculates about “what he and Mattie were to live on when they reached the West” (Wharton 116). The next minute, he reverts back to a life with Zeena due to a new financial or obligatory obstacle, continuing the internal cycle of arguments he holds over his future. The reader knows from the beginning that Ethan turns out to be hopeless and “the ruin of a man” through the thoughts and relations of a newcomer engineer (Wharton 3). However, the spark of hope that remains in the reader for happiness for Ethan- or any of the characters- throughout the book is annihilated as the ending comes. The sledding suicide attempt of the two lovers, thwarted ironically by Zeena’s loathsome face appearing in Ethan’s mind and swaying his concentration, transformed Mattie “into a mirror-image of Zeena” and forces her to stay at the Frome household until death (Ammons 2). The last chapter in Ethan Frome reveals the horrible situation that “traps all three of them” and forces them to despise each other and relive their past eve...
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Fraternal twins and inseparable friends, NoahandJude, live with their parents, Benjamin and Dianna. The twins grow up in a stable home environment where they are instructed in both reason and emotion, knowledge and art. Both Noah and Jude are intelligent, and well-adept in art. Their mother insists they both apply to a private high school, the California School of the Arts. Noah and Jude get along very well together, and do everything together, until they are 13. When they turn 13, differences between them become apparent. Noah positions himself as the better artist of the siblings (and as his mother’s favorite), the more rational of the siblings, and is a closeted homosexual. To prepare for acceptance into CSA, Noah spends his summer sketching models through the school’s
“I almost had a boyfriend, once. Elly would have let me. She thought it was O.K She shut down whenever I talked to him. Whenever he came around, shed cut her voltage way back and stayed quiet. She wanted me to go ahead and love” (Dunn 280). This is just part of the entangled life of conjoined twins Katherine Dunn describes in her novel Geek Love. Conjoined twins live every second of their lives as one, which immediately raises question about not just intimacy, but more centrally identity and personhood. Most importantly for thought for the life of conjoined twins is the argument around separation. Current science and mainstream thinking categorizes conjoined twins as their own individuals, because primarily their separate cognitive abilities,
Because most of these principles originate from her marriage with Edward Robbins Wharton, they take a truly feministic approach. The novel is about the narrator’s experience and meeting of Ethan Frome, a character of much depth. Throughout the novel, one finds out that Ethan Frome faced the troubles of a failing marriage. The story’s plot revolves around a love triangle between him, his wife Zeena, and Zeena’s cousin, Mattie (Kitto). Zeena and her cousin prove to be immensely divergent characters with contrastive personalities and behaviors. Zeena holds a controlling, unnerving, commanding type of personality, showing that Frome married her because of an inner sense of duty. On the other hand, Mattie has a more appealing, ambrosial personality with a more submissive nature in comparison to Zeena. Throughout the novel, Ethan Frome suffers internal conflict by not being able to choose between a sense of obligation to commit to his wife and his sense of desire to be with Mattie
From the beginning of the story, the narrator does not appear to be happy with the situation that his wife has put him in. The narrator states in the first paragraph, “I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I
Creative Writing Topic: Fred and Frank are identical twins who live in a rural village in England. A rape has occurred, and the police are asking for voluntary DNA samples to help narrow the search for the rapist. Fred is ready to volunteer for the DNA testing, when Frank asks him not to…
The plot of the novel follows traditional plot guidelines; although there are many small conflicts, there is one central conflict that sets the scene for the novel. The novel is about an embarrassing mismatched couple and their five daughters. The novel begins with Mrs. Bennet, telling her daughters of the importance of marrying well. During this time a wealthy man, Charles Bingley, moves close to Netherfield, where the Bennets’ reside. The Bennet girls struggle to capture his attention, and Jane, who judges no one, is the daughter who manages to win his heart, until Mr. Bingley abruptly leaves town.