The Ransom I Robert Lucas got out from his car. He was a short, plump man with a very kind heart. He had donated a large portion of his fortune to cities ruined by crime such as Compton and Baltimore. Robert looked at his surroundings and sighed. Bronx was a city ravaged by poverty and violence. He started walking through the street. Turning around, he saw a man with a gun charging toward him. Quickly, Lucas ran back to his car, but not fast enough. The man fired the gun. Lucas lay crumpled on the street. The shooter jogged over to where Lucas lay and dragged him back to his van. Jumping in the van, the man took off his mask and smiled. II William Riddick was driving to his favourite restaurant in Queens, La Salsa. They had the …show more content…
best burritos stuffed with crisp beef, juicy beans and milky cheese. William looked out his side view mirror and saw the flashing lights of a cop car. Riddick looked at his speedometer and realized he was going one km over the limit. William thought to himself: “That’s odd. I was barely speeding. Why would the cops pull me over?” He veered his car over to the side of the road with the police in suit. The cops exited their car and came to his window. “What seems to be the problem, officers?” asked William. “Well, we are not actually cops,” said the fat officer as he reached down and grabbed a sack from his pocket. Hurriedly, the man grabbed Riddick’s neck and stuffed the sack over his head. III A Ferrari roared down highway 478. Inside was Dennis A. Becker, CEO of GCM, a multi-billion dollar corporation. He was tall and wiry with clumps of jet black hair upon his shiny nearly-bald head. Becker was known for his unruly personality and determination for getting what he wanted. Even though he was a billionaire, that wasn’t enough. He had to have more money than everyone, even if it meant using inhumane methods to do so. Dennis was a much feared man in the business industry. Everyone who met him thought that he was bizarre. Perhaps, it was because he smiled a bit too big or maybe it was that he looked at you with his big clunky spectacles giving you the impression that he was analyzing you. But whatever it was, Dennis was viewed as a strange character in the world. A loud pop sounded. Dennis realized his tire was deflating and he pulled over. He got out of his car and examined it. There was a nail in the tire of the front right wheel. Looking up, he saw two masked men sprinting toward him. Dennis nodded in approval of his logic. Before he could get back in his car, the men reached him and knocked him out with some kind of strong sedative. IV Donald Shockley got up from his seat in his house. He was a very fit man with a big bristly moustache and short hair. Suddenly, he heard a scraping sound coming from the side of his house. He looked out the window, but only saw his backyard covered with piles of snow. Sitting down again, Donald heard the shuffle of footsteps coming toward the front door. He strode to his front door and opened it. Someone popped out from behind the door and pepper sprayed him. A bag was shoved over his head and he was thrown into a van. V In a bus, Alexis Lugus, a recently retired detective from the FBI, picked up the Times magazine. On the front cover, the same heading was there. “Four rich CEO’s gone missing,” it said. Alexis sighed. Crime was not rare in this world anymore. He looked out the window and saw his reflection. He was a tall man with dark tousled hair. A bushy black beard concealed a scar on his chin. His eyes constantly darted back and forth. There was something slightly odd about him, but you couldn’t put a finger on it. Alexis ran over the mysterious letter he had received from Mr. Saunders. “Dear Mr. Lugus. An unexpected dreadful event has occurred and I am in need of your services. Take the first bus to Baltimore and then take a cab to Oriole Square. I will be waiting there and we can talk it over. Yours Sincerely, Mr. Saunders.” Ten minutes later, Lugus arrived at Oriole Square. A man in a black trench coat, black sunglasses and toque was looking directly at Alexis. Slowly, Alexis exited the cab, very alert. The man approached him. “The name’s Thomas, Thomas Saunders and I presume you must be Mr. Lugus,” the man said. Alexis shook his hand. “That’s me,” Alexis murmured. “You must have heard of Robert Lucas, William Riddick, Dennis A. Becker and Donald Shockley. They are all CEO’s of major automotive companies. They all attended a conference in New York yesterday night and then they vanished. I am an agent from the FBI and I have been tasked with solving this case.” Thomas sighed and then continued. “My sources have told me that you were an impressive detective before you retired. I was hoping you could help me find them.” Alexis thought hard. Although he enjoyed retirement, he was getting very bored and he figured a good mystery would be enjoyable and help Mr. Saunders. “I’ll do it!” Alexis exclaimed. Mr. Saunders handed him a file. “Thanks. This file contains all the information we have on Lucas, Riddick, Becker and Shockley. I have booked you on a flight to New York, where the conference was held. Hopefully you can find some clues there.” VI On the plane to New York, Alexis pondered over the case. Aside from money, why would anyone want to abduct four CEO’s? Even if it was for money, why had a ransom not been made yet? It didn’t make any sense. Alexis got off the plane and drove to a lofty tower, where the conference was held. Alexis reached the 39th floor and got out. Getting out, he started to search around for clues. After about an hour he stumbled on a piece a paper tucked under the carpet. Money for the following people: Robert Lucas – 35 million dollars, William Riddick – 17 million dollars, Dennis A. Becker – 7 million dollars, Donald Shockley – 5 million dollars. Drop Zone: North Side of Central Park, January 16. Anything suspicious and we will kill them all. Obviously, it was the ransom. Alexis left the building immediately and went to contact Mr. Saunders. “We will not concede to the demands of the kidnappers,” Mr.
Saunders stated. “Unless you find them in four days, we have no choice but to close the case.” VII Alexis returned to the tower and scouted for any more clues. After about an hour of searching, Alexis came upon a woolen glove made by the brand MolliverMerchandise which is only located in Eddyville. After some research, Alexis found out that MolliverMerchandise only sells items directly out of their factory, so, whoever bought the glove was in Eddyville. Alexis got in his car and drove there. The factory was only twenty minutes away from the tower. Getting out, he saw the factory. It was a large rectangular structure that had streaks of white paint everywhere. There was a piece of metal on the outside of the building that functioned as a door. There was no handle on the outside, so it could be opened only from the inside. Alexis knocked on the door and someone opened it. The factory was filled with smoke and you could hear the continuous creaking of mechanical machines making the fabric. “Have you seen anyone buy a black woolen glove?” asked Alexis flashing his badge to a short man with grease stains all over his clothes and …show more content…
face. “Indeed I have,” replied the man. “A man with a colourful sombrero and a very expensive suit came in here and purchased it.” “Do you know where he headed?” “He headed south on highway A2 in a grey truck,” mumbled the man. Alexis thanked the man and ran out the door.
After driving down the highway for half an hour, Alexis spotted a truck that resembled the description the man from the factory gave him. Alexis pulled over to where the truck was parked. When looking around the truck for clues, Alexis spotted a hidden trail behind nearby bushes. Alexis grabbed his gun and flashlight and carefully scouted through the bushes. There were two tracks of fresh foot prints on the trail. After trekking through the bushes for ten minutes, he came to a wide clearing that had a large wood building in the middle. VIII It was an old abandoned hotel. The rickety building was barely kept up by the rotting wood pillars. A sign nailed on front read “Mortimer’s Inn.” As he walked in, Alexis noticed the cobwebs hanging on the bookshelves. Nervously, he crept forward. A broken wooden door was kicked in with a faint red stain on it. Alexis kept on going. Soon, he came to a very narrow corridor that opened into a room. It was very grand, with many dining tables and a massive stage with something on it. With a gun in hand, he sprinted forward to the stage where he saw the bodies. There were three of them. Each one with woolen sacks over their faces, and their feet and hands entangled in chains. Rushing forward, Alexis untied them one by one. Three worn down and beaten up men came
out. Alexis identified the men as Robert Lucas, William Riddick, and Donald Shockley. Lucas had a poorly stitched up gunshot wound and was limping. When Alexis was assessing the damage to the men, Dennis Becker came out from a corridor chatting with another man. Seeing Lugus, Dennis froze in his tracks and then started sprinting back. Alexis shot him in the leg and Becker fell to the ground. Calling the police, Alexis arrested both Becker and the other man who was Becker’s henchman. IX Alexis sat down on a bench and picked up the newspaper beside hm. On the cover it read: “Dennis Becker sentenced to twenty years in prison for kidnapping three people and faking his own kidnap in order to get more money in the ransom.” Alexis kept reading. “After being interrogated, Becker revealed that he faked his own kidnaping in order to get more money in the ransom. The other men were freed and sent home. Becker will receive twenty years in prison.”
Characters: Buck is one of the three people who are kidnapping the children. He is tempered easily. He doesn’t really care for others much. Rita is Buck’s wife. She is not very pretty and gets drug into schemes by Buck. She feels he will leave her if she doesn’t follow directions. Juan is the other kidnapper who does more of the dirty work. He is the one who calls the parents for the money. He’s the one who shot the bus driver. Glenn is one of the boys who were kidnapped. He’s very popular and has friends and thinks that nobody dislikes him. He’s handsome and very athletic. Glenn’s brother Bruce is into more technology stuff. He is not very handsome and looks up to his brother a lot. He is physically challenged because his body is underdeveloped. Dexter doesn’t have a mother or father. He lives with his bachelor uncle who’s always away on business trips. He is liked fairly well. He is happy with his life. Jesse is new to everyone. She moves around the world quite a lot. She’s very mature compared to the others. Marianne has two brothers. Her parents are divorced and her mother remarried another man. She thinks that her real dad still loves her and will rescue her and doesn’t care much for her new father.
Everyone knew by then, if not before, that any chance of a reprieve was impossible. The young men would die, and the village would be saved. Only the sound of the loud, heavy truck starting its engine gave thought that perhaps this would not be the last carnage, the last sacrifice to this village, or the neighboring villages. Perhaps the big, lumbering truck would forever hold the watchful eyes of those evil enough to order the massacre of innocence.
This sonnet tells the struggle between youth and death, mainly how youth does not accept the idea of death. Piazza Piece, by John Crowe Ransom, is a petrarchan sonnet that tells the struggle of an older man trying to grab the attention of a younger woman. A petrarchan sonnet includes an octave, a sestet and a turn. The choice of a petrarchan sonnet enhances the story’s meaning. A man is the speaker in the first eight lines, the octave. A woman is the speaker in the last six lines, the sestet. The two speakers provide clarity while creating the obvious divide in the sonnet. This divide, found in line nine, is the turn of the sonnet. This turn develops the main message of the sonnet.
The police officers escorted the seventeen men into cars and took them to the county jail, but on the way they were halted by a group of armed men, which called themselves “Knights of Liberty”. Knights of Liberty took the seventeen men out of the car and tied them to the tree. As Ellsworth reports, “They were wiped on their back and then hot tar and feathers were then applied to the bloodied backs of the seventeen men” (30).
We are first introduced to Lewis, the narrator of Perelandra, in Worchester as he struggles to make his way to the cottage of the main protagonist, professor Elwin Ransom, a rather intelligent philologist. Upon arrival, Lewis is made aware of the constant presence of Maleldil, a supernatural being that supposedly created all the planets and those who inhabit them, as Ransom stresses his own importance in Maleldil's plan to save Perelandra from the bad eldila of Earth. With Lewis's assistance, Ransom is prepped for travel and returns over a year later, informing Lewis of his success. Lewis narrates Ransom’s tale, providing an outsider’s perspective into the Eden-like setting of Perelandra, where Ransom learns to walk on the water-like surface of the land and meets with the Green Lady, a green-skinned representation of Earth’s Eve. Despite the freedom and ownership she and the King bear on her world, she stresses to Ransom that Maleldil has willed it forbidden to spend the night on the single fixed land. Trouble surfaces with the arrival of a long lost acquaintance named Weston, who attempts to manipulate the Green Lady into disobeying Maleldil's commandment, determined to bring about the destruction of her kind. His torturous treatment of Perelandra’s creatures reveals him to be possessed by an evil, non-human force. Aware of the powerful influence of the Unman in Weston’s body, Ransom fights intellectual battles against the creature in order to dissuade the Green Lady and reveal Weston for what he truly is: the Devil himself. When it becomes clear to Ransom that he is losing the Green Lady’s faith, he loses hope in his ability to succeed in stopping the Unman. Maleldil reaches out to Ransom in the dark of the night, willing him to...
On August 24, 2016 it was a dark and gloomy night it was around two in the morning when the elderly neighbor, Mrs. Smith, heard fighting and screaming from the mansion next door. She called the police suspecting something was wrong, but when the police arrived to the mansion it was strangely quiet. He broke into the house to investigate further as he walked in the huge mansion he saw that at the end of the long, narrow hallway there was a single room with a light on. The police officer, Officer Adams, went towards the room he realized it was an old fashioned theater when Adams opened the creaky door completely he heard high-heeled footsteps and a tear of fabric. Probably some type of clothing he thought. He didn’t
It was a village on a hill, all joyous and fun where there was a meadow full of blossomed flowers. The folks there walked with humble smiles and greeted everyone they passed. The smell of baked bread and ginger took over the market. At the playing grounds the children ran around, flipped and did tricks. Mama would sing and Alice would hum. Papa went to work but was always home just in time to grab John for dinner. But Alice’s friend by the port soon fell ill, almost like weeds of a garden that takes over, all around her went unwell. Grave yards soon became over populated and overwhelmed with corpse.
The house on Peregrine Lane was legend. It had been the focal point of countess legends and superstitions. Its stone turret dominated the end of the street, slicing the house in two identical pieces. The entire house was made of stone and covered in unusual purple ivy. To most of the town it a place to stay well away from, but for the Widow Fowler and her two tenants it was home. Alex and Mark ghosted around the side of the house. Mark walked pointedly towards an oblong rock that would have been non-descript to anyone else. But even as he drew near, a symbol started to burn into the lower left hand corner of the stone. . Casting a quick glance over his shoulder, Mark drew a small pendant and held it over the symbol.
As we read further, we find that there are multitudes of problems inherent within the South Bronx. One of the only ways of determining where these problems stem from is by looking at the possible reasons as to why they exist. Drugs, violence, AIDS infections, are not new, ...
In the short story, “Ransom Of Red Chief”,by William Sydney Porter, Sam, the narrator, and Bill, his partner, decided to kidnap the child of Ebenezer Dorset because Ebenezer looked rich and they thought that they could make some good money off of him, and the whole town would not be able to find them. The third paragraph states, “We knew that summit couldn’t get after us with anything stronger than constables and maybe some lacksided bloodhounds and a diatribe or two in the Weekly Farmers Budget,” (Porter, Paragraph 3). Summit is a small town in Alabama. Bill and Sam knew that Summit could not track them with anything that would be able to find them. Since they did not have anything that could find them, they decided to hit that town. They
"a man seized me from behind. He pinned me down with his stubbly beard pricking the back of my neck…He dragged me to my feet and started to march me through the village…We arrived at the edge of the forest. Beneath the trees there were about thirty other children huddled together"(Nazer 97).
There are multiple differences between the movie and the short story. Some of the differences were pretty major such as were the antagonists Bill and Sam kept the little trouble maker. In the short story Red Chief is kept in the cliché of a cave but the antagonist decide camping in the woods would keep the child more situated. The Ransom of Red Chief also had a difference in which the ransom note was placed I personally see this as the biggest difference because the entire concept is based around the ransom note. They still managed to change up the story line in the movie by giving a child the ransom note to give to the parents in the story the old post office Did the trick.
The room is dark and melancholy, corners cannot be seen and the only supply of light in the room is a small window. Although the room is miniature the two women find it a challenge to navigate. As she collects filth Mrs. Samsa finds herself staring at the hospital located on the other side of the street and wonders, “how could help be so near and yet so far?” an impression of guilt and regret appears on her old timeworn face, her hands tightened on the old wooden broom. Suddenly a shriek is heard, Gregor’s deceased exoskeleton had moved, concealed by a white sheet. It turns out that the lethargic servant woman had done nothing but put the corpse under a white sheet in the darkest corner of the unused room. Grete stands in a firm weary stance, her mother approximates herself fearful yet more curious. Unexpectedly a crack is heard; the atrocious stench from the inside of the rotten exoskeleton overwhelms the small room and moving can be heard from within the cadaver. Out of the blue, a life giving gasp for air comes from the corpse. The shape of a human backside rose fr...
The building was a mile long, at the other end was Navistar. Both companies are in the same building, Navistar builds some of the parts for Freightcar America. As I walk inside we have to wait on the safety guy name Michael Hallman. He explain that we’ll get a batch sometime to today in order get in the gate outside and inside. We follow Michael inside the plant, he gave us a tour of the job site of what we’ll be doing. I came across a heavy big metal train up in the air hosted by an overhead crane, while the train is moving this loud alarm going off letting everybody know the train is in the air.
He had a revolver in his hand, but he did not point it at them.