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...d 10 years later in prison of complications from cirrhosis. In the meantime, he had attacked a girlfriend at her house. He stabbed her in the stomach and dragged her into the backyard to rape her and then kill her before the girlfriend’s sons chased him off. He also was arrested for threatening neighbors and dealing heroin. When he died, his mother thought so little of him that she pocketed the money that the state provided for burial expenses and let her son be buried in a potter’s field.
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Billy is not happy to stay behind and tells the elderly couple not to mess with him because he knows they don’t really want to keep him and he knows that he has just been dumped off. The couple
According to Mr. Rignall's story, a plump man with a flashy car had approached him. The man invited him to join him in the vehicle to smoke some marijuana. Once in the car the man pushed chloroform soaked handkerchief into Rignall's face and drove him, unconscious, to a house where he was beaten with whips and raped. Rignall regained consciousness then next morning where he had been dumped in Lincoln Park.
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The boy’s body, terribly battered, with a bullet hole in the head and a cotton-gin fan affixed to the neck with barbed wire, was found three days later in the Tallahatchie River.... ... middle of paper ... ... Works Cited Baldwin, James.
Billy is the main Character I already talked about him in last paragraph, so you can just look there for more info on him.
Billy learned his philosophy of death from the Tralfamadorians, the aliens who abducted him. They believed that time was virtually nonexistent, so when you die, they were only deceased at that moment and alive all the others. Billy has traveled in time all throughout his life, so he has seen a lot of death; The deaths of many American and Russian soldiers in the train and slaughterhouse, the death of his wife; dozens of others in a plane crash, and his own death. Everything that Billy saw was death, so he quickly became used to it to the point where it didn’t matter much to him. He awaited his death; at his speech he would say “hello, goodbye, hello, goodbye.” to tell his audience and “adoring fans” that he would never truly leave, that when he would be shot on the scene they should just let it occur, because they would always remember him, he would never truly leave. Whenever Billy saw death or spoke of it, he would just say “so it goes.” Billy used this phrase to help cope with the loss of someone and move on, unlike Tim who spent countless hours dreaming and crying over someone’s death. Billy also knew when a death would occur so it never came as a shock to him. Overall Billy became numb to all the death he saw each and everyday that he had no other choice but to accept it, and he was happier that
It is clear that the author, Roald Dahl, utilizes a variety of literary devices in order to create an element of suspense in the text, “The Landlady.” An example of this would be Dahl’s use of foreshadowing in the text. The Landlady states in the text, “But my dear boy, he never left. He’s still here. Mr. Temple is also here. They’re on the fourth floor, both of them together” (Dahl 5). It is evident how this would contribute to the component of suspense for the reader. The use of foreshadowing throughout “The Landlady” is meant to hint towards Billy’s impending doom, and thus would compel readers to anticipate Billy’s fate, creating suspense. Foreshadowing contributes a great deal to the dark humor/mysterious aspect of Dahl’s style of writing.
But instead of putting charges on Billy, the British man offered him a job. Billy took this offer as a way to move forward and not go on as a criminal. The British man when to go settle this feud with Irish immigrants that were competition but, when as he was riding towards their factory, the Irish men shot him and his horse. They put the British man and his horse in a ditch. Many days later Billy went to go search for his friend but only came to find 2 carcasses. This enraged Billy so much, that he went to go kill the men, but the sheriff would let him. So, he killed the sheriff
Ted’s young son, Billy, is at a loss without his mother. He doesn’t understand why she has abandoned him and his normal everyday routine is disturbed. Billy’s behavior starts to spiral out of control. After a dinner table showdown between father and son, it becomes apparent that young Billy blames himself for Joanna’s absence. He realizes that he has changed for the worse in his mother’s absence, and believes that it was his behavior that caused his mother to flee, and he is afraid his father will leave him as well.
Billy the Kid was undoubtedly one of, if not the, most infamous outlaws of his time. The Kid was charged for numerous murders and thefts, and succeeded in outrunning the law in more than one occasion, but he could not cheat death forever. However, he was not always a criminal, he was once just a normal boy who was dealt a bad hand. He did not have a father due to the fact that he left the family, and his mother died of Tuberculosis when he was just fifteen. Soon after that is when his life of crime began by a petty theft he and his brother committed. That was his first step onto a road paved of crime and apprehension.
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We can?t tell. So as the door was being opened by a latchkey everyone ran through the long stair case and found ?Brently Millard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella?, then Louise was so flabbergasted that she had a heart attack and eventually died.