...1.The speaker of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is third person omniscient. Although the novel’s more emotional scenes are told in first person by various characters, they’re told through dialogue with another character, most of the novel is narrated by the omniscient narrator. Since the narrator is already all-knowing and gives insight to the thoughts of the characters, this person is static. 2.The purpose of this book is to report on the murder of the Clutter family and its consequences, but in the form of a novel. For example, Truman Capote does not just list facts and dates about the murders, but instead weaves a story together based on his own observations, official records, and interviews. He gives background on the family, opinions...
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...Neely worked for Wilkinson (a man who has the motive to kill him, as stated before) as the federal agent to the Chickasaw Indians. According to David Leon Chandler's piece, The Jefferson Conspiracy: A President's Role in the Assassination of Meriwether Lewis, Major Neely had caught a criminal important to the wealthy pioneers in the area, however got lost on his way back to the pioneers and accidentally bumped into Lewis where Neely offered to be Lewis' guide to Nashville then to D.C. On the way to the Inn, it was reported that two horses had gone missing so Neely decided to stay behind and look for them as Lewis and two servants continued to the Inn, and according to the same public statement by Captain Russell that spoke about Lewis' bullet wounds, Neely “could not be found.” This means that Neely was not at the Inn while Lewis was there, negating his letter that talked about how Lewis committed suicide and creates a major dent in the Suicide argument. This suggests that Neely may be the murder and strengthens the argument that Wilkinson had Neely kill Lewis in order to save his and his colleagues reputations, since he does not have a solid...
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...In A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle puts a huge stress on Jefferson Hope’s motive for killing Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson. This is true and the reader sees that this motive behind Hope’s action clarifies the action without justifying it. We also see examples of this in the Bible and in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Motivation can explain a man's behavior and clarify or even justify his action; motives can also explain why we as humans do what we do subconsciously or consciously. Jeferson Hope’s motive for killing Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson was revenge and love. His motive for hunting down Drebber and Stangerson was to avenge his late wife, Lucy, because Drebber and Stangerson both took part in her death. When Jefferson...
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...serial killers is a tricky task, a couple questions to start with are questions such as what is a Serial killer? According to the FBI’s version of the definition, a serial killer is conventionally defined as a person who murders three or more people in a period of over a month, with “cooling down” time between murders. “For a serial killer, the murders must be separate events, which are most often driven by a psychological thrill or pleasure. Serial killers often lack empathy and guilt, and most often become egocentric individuals; these characteristics classify certain serial killers as psychopaths.” (crime museum editors, 2017). Xxx explain quote Even though the definition seems straightforward, multiple others...
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...you are considered to be a teenager. The crimes committed like murder rape grand theft auto, molestation. Should age play a role if they were premeditated? If the teenagers today feel they are adult enough to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, do drugs drive bys, run the streets and do gang related felonies like adults then they should be tied as adults depending on the seriousness and motive of the crimes. The environment out brain develops in has a lot to do with our personal morals and how we handle situations. Our brain is constantly growing and absorbing information. “The brain is like a puzzle.” (Thompson 1) A puzzle we still don’t have the pieces to. We still don’t know much about the human brain and its logic. Some of what is known is that what teens do during there adolescent years will affect how their brain develops. Studies show that there is a “massive loss of brain tissue that occurs in the teenage years” (Thompson 1). The areas of the brain were tissue is lost is controlling the impulse, risk taking, and self control. And in frontal lobes contains our violent passion, sudden actions and circling emotions. The studies show the amount of brain tissue lost and the result of the teenagers’ that’s lost it. What’s not said is how much is lost because of stupidity, like drugs. As states in California’s proposition 21 “juveniles 14 years of age or older charged with committing certain types of murder or a serious sex offence are no longer eligible for juvenile court”...
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...the thrilling investigation of the cold blooded murders of the Clutter family during the 1950s. Without an apparent motive, the conviction of the killers was like a wild goose chase. Capote, as a writer, uses many writing tactics and multiple points of view in order to handle the actual murder of the Clutters. Throughout the book Capote slowly, but surely, reveals the key details and events that took place on November 15th. In the beginning of the book it opens with the description of every member of the Clutter family. Even though Capote is writing the book after the murders had actually happened, he somehow manages to describe the Clutter family on a personal level. By using other people's encounters with the family before their deaths, the reader feels as if they are reading direct encounters with the Clutters. The author uses elements of suspense...
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...of the most common motives for murder is anger and vengeance. In the short stories “A Rose for Emily” and “Killers,” the main characters exhibit similar motives for the murders they commit. Both people were pushed over the edge by the loss of someone close to them. They were pushed to the point of taking a human life. In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Emily, a scorned and lonely woman murdered her lover because the thought of being alone was too much to handle. Emily also kept the body of her dead lover locked in a room for forty years. Not only did she kill her lover Homer, she stored his dead body in bed so she could lay with him every night. Why would a woman kill the man she loves? In the story, her lover was about to leave her and he was the only person in Emily’s life. Her controlling father was already dead, she had no family, and the town constantly gossiped about her. When her lover, Homer Barron, was going to leave her she felt betrayed. If he really loved her, why would he leave? Who was he leaving her for? He wanted to be free from her, and the best way to get back at someone who wants their freedom is to trap them. However, Emily took it one step to far. The revenge she was seeking was lost by her obsession for Homer. She couldn’t let him go—she finally had control over the man in her life Lizza 2 and that was not going to change. Homer remained at her beckon call for the rest of her life and never talked back. Murder for revenge is not an...
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...30th, 1593, in South-East London, Christopher Marlowe, a 29 year-old, well-known playwright (and sometimes spy) was viciously stabbed to death. The details surrounding this murder are shrouded with talk of espionage, heresy, and power (picture: James Bond, Elizabethan Theatre style). It is well-known that Christopher Marlowe was a government spy under Sir Francis Walsingham and that two witnesses to his death were also spies under the same man (with the murderer himself being Walsingham’s business consultant, hmm), but most information surrounding Marlowe’s death is completely unknown. In fact, all that’s actually known are these specific details: 1) Christopher Marlowe received a fatal dagger wound just above...
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...accident or a murder? After a fight with her husband Arthur, Queenie Volupides left her house to go to the club with her friends. She arrived home a few hours later to find Arthur lying dead at the bottom of the stairs. Queenie claims he was coming down for another drink when he slipped and fell. Looking at the crime scene, it is easy to tell that Mrs. Volupides was lying. The fact that she lied makes her even more guilty and gives us reason to further investigate. The position of Arthur’s body, the hors d’oeuvres cooking in the background, and the opportunity and motive she had make her the prime suspect in this investigation. Queenie’s story explaining how Arthur fell down the stairs, coming...
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...In Flannery O' Connor's short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," a character who calls himself The Misfit murders random, innocent people. When he crosses paths with the protagonist of the story, an overbearing grandmother, he attempts to justify his murders, claiming that there is "no pleasure but meanness" before he murders her as well (O'Connor 1295). At this point, a reader must question why The Misfit finds pleasure in killing and punishing people. The true answer to this question, while contradictory to his previous statements, is that he does not truly find pleasure in killing people; rather, he feels that his murders provide a form of justice and equality in a world that lacks these attributes. The actions of Matt Fowler, the vengeful...
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...amount of evidence that proves that he did. He had a motive, but not a solid alibi. There are lab results dealing with blood, DNA, and fibers that place him at the scene of the murders. If that is not enough to prove him guilty, then there are also the witnesses that can place O.J. Simpson going in and out of the Rockingham estate on the day and around the time of the murders. Others have testified of threatening remarks they heard O.J. Simpson say against Nicole and police reports of violent actions he committed against her. Evidence proves that O.J. Simpson is guilty of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. O. J. Simpson had motive for killing Nicole Brown Simpson. He and his wife were having severe marital problems. There is proof of how bad their relationship was. She had her sister take pictures of her bruised body and lock them in a safe for future evidence if needed. Also, there were recorded 911 phone calls in 1989 and 1993 from Nicole during brutal attacks by O.J. When the police responded to...
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...furthermore that Hamlet is crazy, it is in the final interaction between Hamlet and Claudius that all can see Claudius’ guilt. It is a natural response for some to react in fear with violence, as it is part of our human nature which can be seen through Hamlet’s driving desire to kill Claudius, his impulsive, accidental murder of Polonius, and in Claudius’ initial murder of Hamlet’s father. In the start of this play, Hamlet’s father comes to him as a ghostly figure and explains his unfortunate murder. After further explaining to Hamlet that he must avenge his unrighteous death, the ghostly fallen father fades into the darkness of the night. Hamlet’s storms away from the scene shocked, enraged and confused about the news he has just heard. His first instinct is to kill Claudius, to avenge his father’s death, as he has just been instructed to do. His father’s ghost says, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murther. murther most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.” Although death is most obviously frowned upon, his loyalty and honor to his father is something to also look at here. His first instinct is to react in violence, however his motives seem to be more pure than what is acted on. Hamlet feels that if he does this, it will leave his father to rest peacefully, knowing his death has been justified. Hamlet feels that avenging his father’s death means that Claudius must pay the ultimate price; death. The ghost of...
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...In an article I found by the staff of Windspeaker, a magazine producer, titled “Mental Illness, Access To Guns Drive Murder-Suicides By Men: UBC Study” (2016) suggests that murder-suicides are more common among males and can be directly linked to bullying, access to guns and mental illness. They support this claim by first saying, “our research suggested that masculine identities and how they are informed by society and taken up by some men plays an important part in these violent acts” then by saying, “in a lot of cases there wasn’t an established pattern of mental illness. And that might be because the men weren’t really seeing a doctor or formally diagnosed and being treated” and finally by saying,“research across different countries shows...
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...describes a mass murder during the late 1950s within in a small town known as Holcomb, Kansas. Capote throughout the novel elaborates on the advances the police make towards finding the suspects and the journey the criminals on the run from the law take by granting numerous accounts of evidence to the reader. The author also takes high focus on the two culprits Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. Leading all the way up to the execution, Capote displays how after six painstaking years, the head of the Clutter investigation Mr. Al Dewey, finally closes the Clutter case. In Cold Blood achieved its renowned success by supplying plenty of factual, supporting evidence and the portrayal...
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...Amber Felton December 13, 2012 ENGI1020-Robbins In The Year 1977 Murder is the most vindictive crime society can commit, it happens everywhere and at least one murder takes place every day. In 1977 the estimated murders and no negligent manslaughter was 19,120. In general a case that involves a murder usually contains a motive, however the 1977 serial killings of ‘Son of Sam, the “Girl Scout Murder, and the ‘Hillside Strangler’ had no motive and no respect for human life that’s what makes the theme of the year for 1977 ‘thirst for blood.’ On the day of August 11, 1977 the people of New York City had one less concern as they went about their busy day. That morning the headline of The New York Times paper read “Suspect in ‘Son of Sam’ Murders Arrested in Yonkers; Police Say .44 caliber weapon is recovered.” The suspect is a man named David Berkowitz. He terrorized New York City for over a year, murdering six people and wounding seven others. The ‘Son of Sam’ crimes haunted New Yorkers in a big way not only because the crimes were random and the killer had no motive but mostly because he would leave messages through the letters he wrote. This letter was written to Captain Borrelli, It was left inside the car at the scene of the crime where the bodies of Valentina Surian and Alexander Esay were found. It read: Dear Captain Joseph Borrelli, I am deeply hurt by your calling me a wemon hater. I am not. But I am a monster. I am the 'Son of Sam.' I am a little brat.When father...
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