The Lake Ladies, by Walter Paul Gullen, delivers a classic mystery novel with detail and plot, along with the representation of the individual vs. society. Throughout the novel, the mention of Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, and his work is constantly repeated to provide helpful insight of the characters portrayed in the book. Within the first few pages of the novel, the readers are presented with a renowned scholar, Marston Bates, who studies the works of Nietzsche. Thus, when murders start to occur around the town during his vacation, Marston joins with the Chicago Police Department to help put a stop to the crimes. Upon each death, Marston is left with a note by the murderer referencing Nietzsche to whom Marston needs to find hidden hints and clues. Personally, I found the novel enjoyable as a person who enjoys reading fiction in …show more content…
The novel provides very descriptive and colorful imagery within each chapter to help recreate the scenes. Each character introduced plays a role and can show their relation with the plot despite how short their essential “screen time” is such as Louella, a victim of the murderer. The theme of an individual vs. society within the chapter and can be seen when in several different ways. My personal view on how The Lake Ladies, provides this, is from the point of view of the murderer. Throughout the novel, the reader is constantly given the question “Why would the murderer do this? What is his reasoning, his line of thought?” Thus, in the conclusion of the story, we are presented with the motives of the murderer. The story is well written and well-paced as to not present the reader with much information early, but rather only provided in the end to essentially connect all the gaps of information missing prior. The Lake Ladies, by Walter Paul Gullen, is a great piece of literature, both for entertainment and education, providing an enticing mystery novel with several quotes and thoughts from several
everything around it. And it goes on with the character she is famous for Cassie Louise Lightfoot. She uses the character Cassie a lot in her quilts and children’s books; in addition, the character is a persona of the artist herself. The book and quilt is about Cassie about having the freedom to go wherever she wants to go and be whoever she wants to be for the rest of her life.
The Rock and the River, by Kekla Magoon, is a book about an African-American pre-teen named Samuel Childs, who is living in 1960s Chicago. The quote: “Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is acting even though you’re afraid,” can relate to this book. Throughout the book, Sam faces the realization that his childhood is leaving him. So, as an effort to become an adult, Sam feels that he must be brave, even though he is scared of what could happen to him.
In some paragraph, the author will give his own opinion. His opinions are straight to the point. We can understand what he tries to tell us through his word. From some specific words, we can also feel the state of mind of author, whether he is angry, happy or sad. One of the wonderful parts of this article is the question that asked by author.
The demonstration of the narrator's imagination unconsciously leads his own thoughts to grow into a chaotic mess that ultimately ends in a death. By murdering, it’s his own way of finding peace. He is portrayed as being a sadist, sick man with an unnatural obsession for
In Karen Russell's short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, a pack of wolf-girls are sent to a church to transform them into human-girls. As they journey through their transformation there is a guide called, The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock that helps the nuns running St. Lucy’s. The book describes the transformation in stages to help determine the girls’ place as a human. Claudette, the narrator, arrives at St. Lucy’s with her pack to begin their transformation. She struggles through most of the stages, but succeeds in only a couple of them.
In The Bass the River and Sheila Mant, W.D. Wetherell uses character development of Sheila and internal conflict of the narrator in order to show that the choices you make to please others are not as good as the choices you make to help yourself. In the beginning, the narrator explains character development to describe Sheila and why she is so desirable. The narrator likes Sheila so much because she is a little bit older than him and that makes it harder to be with her, which drives the narrator more and more. The narrator is describing Sheila, in the beginning of the story to show how interested he is with her.
It is of the utmost necessity to analyze all pieces of evidence in order to reach a valid conclusion on one’s nature. If just one component is removed, then the entire decision is altered. 2.2 presents the audience with the final piece of insight on the true intentions of the characters that is needed to fully define their
PREDICTIONS Even till the point in which I have read through, the novel shows few signs of his mental condition shifting toward improving nor disproving even days after him committing the crime. However, his condition between the moral superego and the immoral id is yet extremely unstable, therefore, I would describe the possible end of the character into two dividing possibilities. The first one is that the instability keep increasing that he eventually reach a stage of mental breakdown, which could cause the taking place of more murder, toward either whoever he believe might know about the situation or himself which means suicide.
Once the reader begins to question the lack of explanation surrounding the event, a suspenseful tone beings to grow. Due to the unexpected
Pomeroy plays on the heartstrings of women by not including the kind stories that men did for women during these times, although there were probably few. I would recommend this to others who want to know more about the treatment of women and the roles that they played in history. It is hard for me to believe all that was stated in the book was factual because of the fact women did not write during the time and the written scripts could have been written from a male perspective. As well as that there were not lots of information left behind, and paintings can be hard to
For instance, the execution of the main character, the culmination of his guilty mind,
The characters of many popular movies tend to have various mental and physical illnesses, but they are often romanticized and not portrayed correctly. In Silver Linings Playbook, both of the main characters have a mental illness and they are displayed fairly accurately. However, it is slightly romanticized and leaves the viewer with the impression that everything is okay after a kiss and that together, the main characters will both be much better with their illnesses. Silver Linings Playbook is about a man named Pat Solitano who has just returned from an eight month stint in a mental hospital and has been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. He was required by law to be treated in the mental hospital because he had previously almost beaten a man to death after discovering he had an affair with his wife, Nikki.
The beginning of the story raises indeed the setting of an execution scene that logically should end with a death. However, in a very subtle way, the author manages to create in the reader the hope of a happy ending. While maintaining the suspense, the author appeals to the emotion of his audience by describing Peyton Farquhar 's thoughts before his death. This excursion into the
Main Characters physical appearance 2 quotes: In the novel "Red Queen", Mare Barrow’s hair colour is what her town calls, “river brown. Dark at the root, pale at the ends, as the color leaches from [her] hair with the stress of Stilts life" (Aveyard 23). Also, unlike most people in her town, she doesn't cut the grey in her hair as a reminder of her poverty filled life. Additionally, Mare is quite short, for instance, when she is pick-pocketing people in her town, she runs into her friend Killorn who is very tall and as they're walking, she has trouble keeping up with him and he says, "sometimes I forget you have the legs of a child" (Aveyard 12).
The basic motivation to investigate the murder is the curiosity over the town’s awareness of the approaching murder, he also suggests that he finds in the incident that happened a reflection of his own experience: “I returned to this forgotten village, trying to put the broken