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The Westing Game
Who was the Westing murderer? The answer is no one, Westing faked his death. Why? He did it all to frame someone, his ex wife.
Bertha Erica Crow, 57, once married to a man named Windy Windkloppel. I believe Sam Westing is Windy Windkloppel. I believe this for several reasons, my number one reason is because of Grace Windsor-Wexler. My bad, I should have said Gracie Windkloppel, her maiden name. You might be wondering, why doesn’t that mean Crow and Grace are just related through marriage? If you remember, earlier in the book Grace said that she is related to Sam Westing, he is her real uncle. Another reason Sam westings name isn't Sam Westing is, just think about it. What are the coincidences that his real name is Sam
“The Westing Game”, a story of people that had to solve the mystery of who killed Sam Westing. “The Westing Game” is a story by Ellen Raskin. This story was made into a movie 2003. “ The Westing Game” book and movie contain many similarities and differences that are worth exploring.
The Westing Game is about an old billionaire, named Sam Westing. He looks for an heir to inherit his fortune. The pairs of heirs were given a set of clues. Sam Westing was not really dead but playing three other roles. Turtle Wexler solves the mystery. The Westing Game book and movie have many similarities and differences.
Soon after this is when she married her first husband named Martin Van Bergen who was a cowboy singer. Together they had a child and it was a boy. They named him William Logan Van Bergen. When he was five years old he was living with his grandmother in Kansas. During this time Lucille had recently divorced Martin. Martin Van Bergen was furious and filed to sue Lucille for divorcing him. He charged her with desertion and also naming Homer Wilson in other serious ways. He wanted to take custody of William. The petition had argued that Lucille had deserted him more than a year before and had been traveling around the country with a Wild West show. She had been one of the most popular performer in the “Stampede” shown in Winnipeg the year before. All of her success shown in roping and tying steers had made her many admirers. She won the world’s championship women’s bucking contest defeating several remarkable
The most reasonable belief is that Gary Howard Olivia did it. It sounds reasonable because Olivia is reported to be a sex offender, and child pornographer. Olivia is also known for uploading several sexually explicit pictures of children. When he was arrested in 2000, he was allegedly carrying a picture of Jonbenet Ramsey. The second suspect was John Mark Karr. Many people believe it was him because when Jonbenet was murdered he was able to tell people everything about Jonbenet, he could tell you what type clothes she was wearing to the type of bracelet she had on. He was able to tell the strangulation of Jonbenet in graphic, sexual detail. He has also confessed that he had a sexual fascination with Jonbenet. The last victim that fits the case is Michael Helgoth. Michael Helgoth, known as the electrician, could have had a role in the Jonbenet Ramsey case. Helgoth was mostly referred to as a “hellraiser”. He was tied to an alleged property dispute with the Ramsays. Lots of people believe that could have been his motive seek revenge on the Ramseys, by kidnapping and killing Jonbenet. When officials arrived at the crime scene, they found a boot print that did not belong to anyone in the family. In 1997 Michael Helgoth committed suicide, but when officials checked his home they found a pair of boots that could possibly fit the boot print found that day of the
I believe that Sam Westing was not murdered. He isn’t dead and the body that Turtle found in the Westing house, she said to J. J. Ford “‘But Mr. Westing didn’t look murdered,’ Turtle argued. ‘He looked asleep, like he did in the coffin. He looked like a wax dummy.’” (129). In the newspaper it said “Samuel W. Westing, the mysterious industrialist who disappeared thirteen years ago, was found dead in his Westingtown
There was a game. The Westing Game. To find an heir. To win it all. Sixteen players. Eight teams. One winner. Who became the heir of Sam Westing. Sam Westing died, or supposedly did, and his sixteen heirs were trying to figure out who killed him, or if he was killed at all, which we found out, later in the novel was true. All of the teams had different clues, and they tried to figure out what those clues meant. In the mystery novel, The Westing Game, written by Ellen Raskin, the elements that were mysterious were: the main conflict, setting, characterization, and the technique the author gave clues to the reader.
Westing got his victory, so did Turtle, and all the heirs. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin has lots of similarities and differences using chess (queen’s sacrifice) the characters, the setting, the relationships, and the mystery. The Westing Game had mystery, murder, suicide, and bombs, but yet it brought people together and had them meet new friends. Yet, in the end in both book and movie the mystery of The Westing Game remains to all but one: Turtle
It all began on a frostbitten Halloween, when coming from the chimney of the old Westinghouse came a billow of smoke, making the whole town of Westingtown have an eerie feeling. Sixteen people, all heirs of the deceased Samuel Westing, are chosen to play in the game of chance and choice. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is an eye catching mystery novel that will create suspense, causing you to have a guessing game on who committed the murder of Sam Westing. The conflict, setting, and characters are all main parts of what make this story what it is. Also the technique of how this story was written plays a big part in how it makes you feel. This mystery novel has many ups and downs that continue to take you on a reading roller coaster.
was also charged as an accomplice. The three were sent to trial and one was executed, Hayes,
When the man pulled over, Lyga immediately drove off and called the police for help. The man chased Lyga until they both raised their weapons. Lyga shot and killed the man. Police investigated and discovered that the man shot by Lyga was Kevin Gaines, an undercover Los Angeles Rampart CRASH police office...
Brian Evenson 's "Windeye" is a story about a man reminiscing about a memory from his childhood. The memory in particular, he is thinking about is when his sister disappears. After losing his sister, he finds out no one but he remembers her. And because of this he is treated as an mentally ill person, living the rest of his life wondering and waiting to see if his sister is real or not. If she was taken by the Windeye or if she was just a figment of his imagination the whole time. Evenson uses diction and memory to show that from when his earliest memories of her to him being an old man, that she was just part of his imagination.
The coldness felt in the house as the sheriff and court attorney entered the house symbolized the same coldness brought about by Mr. Wright. For the house to be cold and gloomy and everything else outside the total opposite, was much more than just coincidence. It was as if when you entered the house a cadaver, cold and clammy, had embraced you in its arms. “ I don’t think a place’d be any cheerfuller for John Wright’s being in it”, Mrs. Hale told the court attorney (11). Mrs. Hale knew perfectly well what kind of personality Mr. Wright had, which is why she specified that she wished that she had gone to visit Mrs. Wright when only she was there. “There’s a great deal of work to be done on a farm”, says Mrs. Hale, yet they are seen as mere trifles because it is the women who take on these tasks.
Although there is little information on Nelly Butler during her life, the evidence gathered from the time Nelly was alive suggests she was a kind woman. One interesting piece of information about Nelly when she was alive was given by her spirit when she explained that she had received an experience of spiritual salvation on her deathbed, possibly the reason she came back to Sullivan (“Testimony” 101). Nelly was legally named Eleanor Hooper, and born on 25 April 1776 (“Genealogical” 115). Her parents were David and Joanna Hooper, and she had eight siblings (115). Some time during 1795, Nelly married George Butler at the age of nineteen and lived on Butler’s Point in Franklin, Maine (115). While giving birth to their first child, Nelly tragically passed away on 13 June 1797, only to be followed shortly after by her baby (115). Although there are no headstones to confirm this, it is said that Nelly’s grave is located on Butler’s Point in Franklin, next to her child and husband (LiBrizzi 8).
There are two witnesses of the crime. At the junction of the robbery Mavis came to the post office to send a parcel, once she has seen the crime she fainted and collapsed in the doorway. Charlie after seen Mavis made the second shoot in the crime scene to the window. When Bert was trying to drag Mavis aside he cuts his hand on some of the glass on the floor. Johne saw the incident and tried to stop them and Ali hit John on the head with the butt of the gun and fired in his leg. Wilfred a retired soldier saw perpetrators during the perpetrators were changing cars and informed to the police.