“Missing Women” “Missing Women” by. June Spence is told from the perspective of a town where three women, a mother, her daughter, and her daughter’s friend. They left everything purses, cars, and even their medicine. The next door neighbors cleaned up the mess. The entire town has its own idea of what happened to the three girls. Some speculate that they ran away for their own reasons, others suggest who may have kidnapped them. The story is best told from the town’s perspective, because it creates more suspense. If this story was written from the cleaning neighbor’s point of view the story would be completely different. The cleaning neighbors would have left out vital parts of the story. They wouldn’t have thought it was important to include that they cleaned up the mess, or maybe even that they were once considered suspects. The town emphasizes their astonishment with the friends, “We’re aghast at all the friends who tidied up. No alarm in broken glass?” (Spence 255). If the cleaners would have written this, they evidently wouldn’t have found this information vital enough to note. …show more content…
We would know exactly what happened, and there would be no reason to continue reading the story. The girls would be able to say exactly who did it, what happened, and where they were. The reader wouldn’t have anything at all to wonder about. The girls would have no idea what was going on around town. The writer comments on the town’s actions, “Still church attendance remains up. Moonlight strolls are kept to a minimum. Locksmiths can’t install deadbolts quickly enough.” (Spence 259). If the girls wrote the story they wouldn’t have known these events were
The feeling of betrayal can destroy one's trust forever. In this novel, Colleen Hoover descriptively and honestly writes how an abusive relationship truly is. This novel shows how manipulation and abuse can quickly be fallen into. The story follows a girl named Lily Bloom, who meets a boy named Ryle Kincaid. Lily falls in love with Ryle, and Ryle falls in love with the control of Lily.
In the featured article “Through the fragments of 9/11” written by Megan Boehnke, describes how Amy Mundorff became New York’s first Forensic Anthropologist. However, the story she tells about her journey is not how typically one would think. Mundorff was personally affected by the 9/11 tragedy that happened in New York 2001. It was her job to identify the remains that were left behind. Amy Mundorff is a mother, a wife, and most importantly New York's first forensic anthropologist.
All the Rage by Courtney Summers is a novel about a rape victim named Romy that lost her respect because no one wanted to believe that the town’s golden boy Kellan Turner raped her. The night after she attended a party, she woke up with no memory of the previous night and news that her former best friend Penny Young was missing. There is a huge mystery to solve with Penny Young that raises many questions about date rape drugs, rape and death. All the Rage shows readers that society doesn’t allow rape victims a chance for rightful justice portrayed by the preconceived notions that surround the main Character Romy, the setting of the novel and the theme.
The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan is a book about the young girls that helped win World War Two. The book is based in 1942 in a rural area in east Tennessee. This city that was picked was rid of all of its current residents when the US government purchased all of that land. The town “Atomic City” was named Oak Ridge. The town of Oak Ridge stretched for a total of 59,000 acres.
Then the town wouldn’t care of what could have happened so they decide to ruin the next life that comes to their town. The ending of the film came down to either trying to help these people or get rid of them entirely. But
They then either would confess, or hang. If they confess, they then admit to the crime, live, and generally have to accuse someone else that they saw with the devil. If they refuse to confess, they hang and thus had to have been guilty anyways. This had a snowball effect, as there is a plot within the town’s youth. This system of trial allows them to accuse and endless amount of people.
This tells us that the people are probably old or inactive. Would you think you could live happily in such a boring town? Sammy’s community really motivated him to get out of the town and explore the new world beyond his daily life. All this nuisance happening in sammy’s town proves that he wanted to find freedom. Every time new customers from out of town come into his store, sammy really admired them and wishes he sees them everyday but there’s only old people in his town.
The girls are now in complete control of the town and have got people going to whomever they point their finger out. This is empowerment. The girls have complete control over who lives and who dies and it all benefits them, and if someone does say the devil was inside them then it just makes the power of the girls stronger. The girls did all this for empowerment and personal gain or revenge and it's all working out for them. Thomas E. Porter puts up the argument on the side of law and says “One of the most persistent attitudes embodied in the myth of the Law is the notion of a "fair trial”.
In the article, “Shattered Lives” by Kristin Lewis, Dania faces many challenges. One challenge that she faced was that she was part of a war and had to leave all of the things she loved behind. On page 6 the author states “They faced a devastating choice: Stay and risk death, or leave everything behind…” Another piece of text evidence is “ In september, their choice became clear. They fled.”
No one lives alone in the world. From the beginning of life, we have someone around us. Watching and talking with our surroundings, we learn many important life lessons. Depending on the people who are around us, we will grow up differently because we interact each other and influence one’s personality. The Pulitzer Prize – winning author Junot Diaz depicts the pattern of human involvement in them in his novel, “This Is How You Lose Her”, shows the readers specific examples of their relationships.
The Women’s Brains essay was first published in Natural History in 1980 by Stephen Jay Gould, a geology and zoology professor at Harvard University. In this essay, Paul Broca, a respectable and influential professor of clinical surgery at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, concluded from his research on brain sizes that women “could not equal them [men] in intelligence”. Despite the prevalent acceptance of this conclusion in the nineteenth century, Gould refused to concede and argued against Broca’s claim through a scientific filter, where historical information, quantitative numbers and experts’ opinions were used to present an objective and credible counterargument. The clever manipulation and usage of the evidences effectively substantiated
Don’t believe everything you hear The people in the town were so quick to believe everything that came out of the girls mouths The town’s people started to point fingers at neighbors and even friends just in confusion from the lies The girls were putting on such a convincing act that they had almost everyone fooled The people that were accused had to admit to working with the devil even though they weren’t, in order to save themselves from death.
Her town is running out of food and water, and the electricity is out. Miranda’s mother and two brothers must figure out a way to survive, but also keep life normal. It’s hard to go to school with no electricity or swim in the cold. The main character is a 16 year old girl named Miranda.
With no medical or logical explanation of their actions doctors concluded it was the girls being bewitched. This was the beginning of the witch hunts trails and the unjustifiable acts of the towns people. In perspective witch hunts aren’t justified and they were
Ariel Dorfman’s story, Widows challenges the idea of nationalism in his story of European widows challenging the government in protest for their extermination of their village’s husbands, fathers and sons. Anti-nationalism is defined as the view against identifying yourself by only a single community, whether it is a town, a province, though most of the time a nation; encouraging a peaceful outlook onto the world where all humans do not divide themselves against each other and look at humanity as a singular unit. It is an idealist view which sponsors against classism and sexism, being in contradiction of the use of military aggression and chauvinism. This message is encouraged throughout the novel, from the expository preface to the ambiguous ending. It is not just to the story and the characters, it is even the disjointed narrative style which encourages the principles Anti-nationalism.