The Great Taos Bank Robbery, Full Circle And The Wasps Nest

“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lesson crime and reform criminal” -Elizabeth Fry. This quote describes life as punishment is not for retaliation but for justice. Almost all English students will analyze the mystery and criminal unit. “The Great Taos Bank Robbery”, “Full Circle”, and “The Wasps Nest” are all appealing stories because of the Characters, Theme, Suspense. First, the characters relate to each other because they all are messed up in some ways. The two main characters who rob the bank in toas are the oddest. Who goes into a bank dressed as a female with a gun in his purse that anyone can see? Not to mention that they waited in line. In “Full Circle” the man who kills the girl has some problems, he gets so mad that he kills Caroline and didn't do the best job hiding. In “The Wasps Nest” the guy who wants to kill himself with the cyanide is pretty smart, not that it's a good idea, but his plan to make the other guy kill himself would have worked if the detective wasn't so good. So the characters in “The Wasps

In “The Great Taos Bank Robbery” The Theme is Comedy. If you read this to a child he would laugh out loud around 5 times. Many of the parts in “The Great Taos Bank Robbery” are so stupid that it is funny, like waiting in line for the bank trying to rob it during rush hour or a man dressed up as a woman. In “Full Circle” the theme would be revenge. Not the revenge that one man does to another but one does to himself. Killing a girl is very bad. So when you read that part at the end that he crashes into the crane that is fixing the sign the girl broke when he shot her, you can only think, Karma. In “The Wasps Nest” the theme is probably about how just because you are dying doesn't mean you should take someone else with you. Making Claude buy cyanide so Harrison can kill himself and that will make Claude hang himself is pretty